The Last Wedding of Summer....

It seems like only yesterday that I was putting together these flowers for the lovely Ms H's wedding. In fact, it was the last one of summer, way back in Easter.

Mind you, the bride only received the photos in August, so I'm showing you as soon as I could !

Ms H lives in Queensland, which is about a 3-4 hour flight from Calypso Flowers here in Melbourne, so there was much sending of emails and photos. But she knew what she wanted, which on this occasion, made it very straightforward.

Ms H and Mr T were getting married at Garden House, part of the botanic gardens, and wanted the beautiful trees and shrubs to provide the colour. Ms H wanted a natural, rustic hand-tied posy, in the colours of autumn, and her bridesmaids were to have big, full, floaty bouquets of gypsophlia, to match their floaty dresses.

The bride's bouquet had a delicious combination of peachy dahlias, mini-gerberas, red leucadendron, calendula, sweetly perfumed bouvardia, veronica, fragrant freesias, hypericum berries and alstromeria.

The flowers are by Calypso Flowers. Have a look at other recent weddings there.

The photos by loveissweetphotography.com.au , and they speak for themselves:

The charming Mr T

Beach Weddings (Part 1)

Even though autumn has definitely arrived here in Melbourne, at Calypso Flowers we are already starting to discuss weddings for next spring and summer !

I've started to collect some images for a beach wedding, and there are so many options...

from www.stylemepretty.com

I love this idea for a seaside location...one that's not actually ON the beach, but where you can see the sea.

You could mark the ends of the rows with buckets of gypsophilia, otherwise known as Baby's Breath...

From weddings.theknot.com

or hang little bottles of flowers from shepherd's crooks...

I don't know whose beautiful flowers these are

and just imagine the scene if you had the ceremony at dusk, and had all the candles pre-set and ready to go....

from suncoastbeachweddings.com

I would recommend using lanterns instead of candles, though. I've spent too much time at wedding ceremonies battling that gentle evening summer breeze that becomes a gale once you take out a box of matches !

What sort or dress would you wear ?

Indian Wedding

I'm getting very excited at the prospect of an Indian wedding for which I am doing the flowers. There will be 2 ceremonies, a Hindu one and a civil one, and at this stage I am more involved with the civil one, as the Hindu one involves traditional arrangements. I would, however, love to learn about making the hair decorations, and the garlands that are exchanged as part of the ceremony.

What is exciting me is the prospect of using colour !!. I'm rather hoping that the groom will be wearing something like the man in the photo is wearing (but I'm not getting my hopes up too much about that !). The bride's mum saw a beautifully coloured carnation in my shop, and she said that she would look out for a sari in that colour to be the wedding dress. It was a deep rose-pink, but with a tinge of tangerine around the edges.

The bride-to-be has chosen table centres like the one in the photo, with different coloured Singapore orchids. It should look fabulous. It's not until next year, so I've plenty of time to research.
(photo of gorgeous man is from Asiana International Wedding magazine)