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I️ love that glass bud vase photo. Superb lighting.
Thanks! I love it too, though as I was looking at it, it’s not exactly a great advertisement for the kind of arrangements we can do.
But this wedding, man– we’d made like, five dozen bouquets, and we show up, “the bride has her own vases”, we’re like no problem, and we get there and the tables are set and they all have… like… six or seven… vases on them, and some of them have neck openings like… well, the vase in that picture…
I’m gonna post it again because I like it so much.
That’s not a vase, though. That’s a motherfucking… oil cruet. There’s room for like five stems in there. We’ve made twenty-stem bouquets, mostly.
So we had to lay out all the bouquets, take them apart, and put them back together to spread them out among all the vases on these tables.
We did, and it was fun, but it was also hours of work, and hours of work the previous day wasted, and from that we learned. If “the bride has her own vases” she has to BRING THEM TO US and we will arrange into them, assign them numbers, pull the bouquets back out to store in buckets with numbers attached, and then send them back to the site. We can’t do that kind of thing sight unseen. (And in fact, the next wedding, that’s just what we did.)
Here’s what one of the tables looked like, and if you really look, there’s a big vase, a bottle, a little vase, a bud vase, a Mason jar, it’s like– I don’t know how that was gonna work with premade bouquets.
The other thing my sister’s had great luck with is DIY Flower Buckets, where she’ll harvest you a couple of buckets, so many stems of flowers and so many stems of fillers, and it’s a flat fee and you just come get the buckets and then go arrange your own damn bouquets. (If you want to get into flower arranging, that’s your like #1 rule: you need fillers, which sounds like they’re not cool, but those are your green stuff and your cool shapes and they make your flowers stand out way more than other flowers would. We love using herbs for filler; lemon basil, for example, makes your bouquets wonderfully fragrant.)
A lot of her clients’ aesthetic is pretty openly “make this look like I feasibly could have done this myself”, which is literally what one lady said– she wasn’t going to try to fool anybody, she just didn’t want a table full of hothouse flowers clearly flown in from Bolivia– and sometimes people love to call this aesthetic “wildflowers” but my sister can’t help growlingly pointing out that there is nowhere in this climate zone where zinnias are going to spontaneously erupt beside the road. Some of the fillers, yeah, we collect from the meadows on the farm, but every one of those damn flowers was started from seed and almost certainly transplanted out and trimmed at least weekly and weeded and staked and so on.
I think she *should* maybe branch out and grow some more exotic flowers; I want her to take over part of the greenhouse and do some super-early starts, do some wildly out of zone fancy flowers, and such. But that’s just because I want them, not because it makes financial or aesthetic sense. She’s not going to do that, though her long-term goal is to get her own hoophouse (not shared with veggies) and move her season forward enough to have bouquets at market for Mother’s Day. (Valentine’s Day is a pipe dream.)
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replied to your photoset “Apropos of nothing in particular– I’m printing out a portfolio of…”
I️ love that glass bud vase photo. Superb lighting.
Thanks! I love it too, though as I was looking at it, it’s not exactly a great advertisement for the kind of arrangements we can do.
But this wedding, man– we’d made like, five dozen bouquets, and we show up, “the bride has her own vases”, we’re like no problem, and we get there and the tables are set and they all have… like… six or seven… vases on them, and some of them have neck openings like… well, the vase in that picture…
I’m gonna post it again because I like it so much.
That’s not a vase, though. That’s a motherfucking… oil cruet. There’s room for like five stems in there. We’ve made twenty-stem bouquets, mostly.
So we had to lay out all the bouquets, take them apart, and put them back together to spread them out among all the vases on these tables.
We did, and it was fun, but it was also hours of work, and hours of work the previous day wasted, and from that we learned. If “the bride has her own vases” she has to BRING THEM TO US and we will arrange into them, assign them numbers, pull the bouquets back out to store in buckets with numbers attached, and then send them back to the site. We can’t do that kind of thing sight unseen. (And in fact, the next wedding, that’s just what we did.)
Here’s what one of the tables looked like, and if you really look, there’s a big vase, a bottle, a little vase, a bud vase, a Mason jar, it’s like– I don’t know how that was gonna work with premade bouquets.
The other thing my sister’s had great luck with is DIY Flower Buckets, where she’ll harvest you a couple of buckets, so many stems of flowers and so many stems of fillers, and it’s a flat fee and you just come get the buckets and then go arrange your own damn bouquets. (If you want to get into flower arranging, that’s your like #1 rule: you need fillers, which sounds like they’re not cool, but those are your green stuff and your cool shapes and they make your flowers stand out way more than other flowers would. We love using herbs for filler; lemon basil, for example, makes your bouquets wonderfully fragrant.)
A lot of her clients’ aesthetic is pretty openly “make this look like I feasibly could have done this myself”, which is literally what one lady said– she wasn’t going to try to fool anybody, she just didn’t want a table full of hothouse flowers clearly flown in from Bolivia– and sometimes people love to call this aesthetic “wildflowers” but my sister can’t help growlingly pointing out that there is nowhere in this climate zone where zinnias are going to spontaneously erupt beside the road. Some of the fillers, yeah, we collect from the meadows on the farm, but every one of those damn flowers was started from seed and almost certainly transplanted out and trimmed at least weekly and weeded and staked and so on.
I think she *should* maybe branch out and grow some more exotic flowers; I want her to take over part of the greenhouse and do some super-early starts, do some wildly out of zone fancy flowers, and such. But that’s just because I want them, not because it makes financial or aesthetic sense. She’s not going to do that, though her long-term goal is to get her own hoophouse (not shared with veggies) and move her season forward enough to have bouquets at market for Mother’s Day. (Valentine’s Day is a pipe dream.)
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