Fall Floral

Just a couple weeks ago I had the opportunity to do the flowers for for a beautiful rustic wedding that was held up at Sundance. It was only my second time doing flowers for a wedding so I was pretty nervous but so excited at the same time! Like I said... I have only done the flowers for two weddings now so I am far from an expert! Through my experiences thus far I have figured out a couple tricks that made my life much easier and hopefully they will do the same for you!

1. Make sure the flowers you want to use are in season. Call a floral shop or wholesale floral company if you need to, but make sure you will be able to get the flowers you want. Finding this out not long before an event can change everything and cause a lot extra stress and re-planning at last minute.

2. Make sure you have the tools and supplies you need. Here are 5 basic supplies you will definitely need are:

3. Ribbon for around vases, bridal bouquet, bridesmaids bouquets, and I like to put a thin ribbon about the boutonnieres as well.

• Floral tape. 
• Wire (for boutonnieres).
• Pins (for boutonnieres and bouquets).
• A flower de-thorner for those flowers that have thorns. 

There are fancy de-thorners but I bought this basic one and it worked great! Much better than trying to de-thorn all those flowers by hand!

4. Get your flowers from a reliable wholesaler. The first wedding I did I made the mistake of ordering my flowers from samsclub.com don't make the same mistake as me! For this last wedding I did, I ordered the flowers from DWF and will most likely use them again.

5. Give yourself plenty of time to get the arrangements put together, it takes longer than you think, especially while you are learning. 

6. Have a place to store them. If you do not have a floral refrigerator you will want to make sure there is a chill room you can keep them in. 

7. Plan out how you are going to transport them. I got boxes and filled them full with the flower filled vases so that the vases were secure together and would not spill over. I always make sure the bridal bouquet is held either by myself or by someone riding with me, treat that bouquet like gold!

Flowers can be arranged in so many ways so be creative! Here are a few pictures of the ones I put together.