Part 2: Some of the Wedding Flowers

Let it be known that working with flowers for a living, and especially providing them for large events is simply a lot of hard physical work. When people have an image of a florist working with flowers, perhaps they have a picture of someone working at a bench, thoughtfully and artfully adding this or that to the subject at hand. Ah yes, yes, maybe a few more roses here and a dash of ornamental grass there…. There is so fricking much time and effort leading up to that moment and what lies ahead; the bleary early hours at the flower mart, heavy buckets of water, thorns that want to bite your flesh, endless flowers to recut and strip. Are the vases going to be delivered in time? Things will go wrong, solutions need to be improvised. Flowers will wilt in the sun – or in this case of this wedding, the ferocious wind. But it does get you to the moment when you ponder the curl of a leaf, the gesture of a branch and it’s so worth it. You're caught in flower fever and keep coming back for more. The seduction of flowers….

I’ve done most events by myself and it’s particularly intense. What was wonderful about this experience was the comradery of a group of talented people working together to create something amazing; and working to do it in Ariella’s style. We had an overabundance of amazing food to snack on as we worked through all the wedding components. Plus we got to forage a lot of flowers and botanicals at the farm. Need some more olive branches? Just walk on over to that tree and start cutting. We also foraged exquisite garden roses and more clematis. I learned so much being there and was so very grateful to be there. Thank you, Ariella for your generosity of spirit and softly singing for us that one afternoon.