I've quite forgotten that I had 2 holidays in the last 12 months, it's always so busy once the year starts... Valentine's Day is upon one before one knows it, and the general stress level for that is pretty high. February, being peak summer, is also very popular for weddings, in fact I am providing flowers for weddings every weekend from January 31 until February 27.
February is also peak heat season - very stressful for florists - and last week was no exception: it was 38degrees and blowing a gale. It was very tricky thing to decoratively tie 15 metres of tulle to the Amora Hotel's riverside gazebo where the wedding was to take place, and I was quite concerned that the flowers on the posts would be air-dried before the ceremony even began. But they survived, as did I.
The flowers were roses with 'floating' Singapore orchids in a beautiful amethyst colour. I really like this style of posy, because you can introduce as much colour as you want and /or need to . For this wedding, the bride and her 3 bridesmaids all had the same style - the bride's was bigger than the others.
I also made a pretty wrist corsage for the mother of the bride.
(Next holiday is March 8 !)
