Showing posts with label flowers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label flowers. Show all posts

Wednesday, June 1, 2011

Playing Florist

Two days before the wedding, and just a few short hours before my bachelorette party, Mama Goodlaff, Sister Goodlaff, BM TCollins, The Enforcer, Mama Goodlaff's Boss' wife, Cee, and I got to play florist.  The Goodlaffs spent months and months hunting and sussing out vases, and finally, here was their moment in the sun!  Mama Goodlaff and I transported our vases over to the Grass Valley Florist, where Ingrid was waiting for us, ready to teach us her wise ways of floral arrangement.

We were working with simple, fun flowers: white hydrangeas, green spider mums, a few orange gerbera daisies. To our flora, we added fruit: lemons! We learned how to lay a base for the flowers, how to arrange, and what made the arrangements look the best, then off we went!

Let the arranging begin:

Sister Goodlaff is surprised, while TCollins hides...

Monday, January 24, 2011

Everything's Coming Up Ranunculus

I have a floral confession: the only roses present at our wedding will be the single, long-stem roses we are giving to our mothers.   Yes, you heard right.  No. Roses.




Am I a bad bride for not including such an iconic flower of romance in the wedding flowers?  Maybe, but my floral budget sure is happier for it. It's not that Mr. Goodlaff and I don't like roses, or that we are allergic to them; it's just that when my wedding vision (use your mystical voice there) arose, there was nary a rose in sight. 

Let me present to you the flowers that will be in attendance at our wedding: