Preview of Cara & Patrick’s Mont-Tremblant Wedding

Flower selections for a winter wedding

This weekend is very exciting as it is our first wedding of the season: Cara & Patrick’s wedding in Mont-Tremblant!

With an elegant wintery chic look, we are here to give you a taste of the color scheme. Dusty pinks, greys, silvery greeneries and fluffy feathers for soft vintage style!

With Gen leaving for set-up Friday, we will have tones of pictures for you beginning of next week, looking forward to sharing this great project with all of you!

A Dream Wedding with Principal Planner

FLower arrangement for Principal Planner

Working with Azar at Principal Planner this year has been nothing but a charm and we are so happy she approched us with this colorful and luxurious wedding. To dream of a contract like this would be an understatement, Gen and I are so thrilled to be a part of this stunning project!

The indications were simple: the bride LOVES flowers, quality before quantity, an arabian night color scheme and the incorporation of the national flowers of Egypt for the groom (we used papyrus) and Russia for the bride (since camomille isn’t in our color pallett but it is in the chrysanthemum family, we chose to use green santinis instead).

Here is a preview of the wedding flowers in sketches, we can’t wait to show you pictures, but you’ll have to be patient … the wedding is only in August! Stay posted!

FLower arrangement for Principal Planner

FLower arrangement for Principal Planner

Flower arrangement for Principal Planner

Hockey theme Bar Mitzvah Part 2

Centerpiece for a Bar Mitzvah

Like we promised on wednesday, here is the second part of our hockey themed Bar Mitzvah!

It is often a dilemma, when talking centerpieces for a party, to chose between tall or low centerpieces. Some may love the impact a tall centerpiece will give to a room, while others are scarred it will block the view and prevent the two guests facing each other from making good conversation.

This situation actually applied to this project, as the boy’s mother prefered tall, and the father, low! The solution: to do half and half. It was important for the two centerpieces to stay in the same line, again using an arrangement of big monstera leaves and salal leaves inside a round low vase containing green apples and hockey pucks.

We love to mix and match height for events, it always looks so chic and dynamic!

Centerpiece for a Bar Mitzvah

Hockey theme Bar Mitzvah Part 1

Hockey theme Bar Mitzvah arrangement

Last weekend was a boy’s Bar Mitzvah who simply loves hockey! Our challenge was to incorporate that theme in our centerpieces, a hard task to keep elegant and not tacky look …

We used tall cylinder vases with an arrangement of monstera leaves, accordeon leaves and salal leaves on top. The inside of the vase was filled by a branch of curly willow, and at the bottom … hockey pucks and green apples! What a suttle, fun and modern way to give a hockey twist to a masculine floral arrangement.

To create a more dynamic design, we decided to play with heights and to do half the centerpieces tall and the rest low, stay tuned for our ’’Hockey Themed Bar Mitzvah Part 2’’ low centerpiece design!

Hockey theme Bar Mitzvah arrangement

Hockey theme Bar Mitzvah arrangement

Bouquet-soleil pour les 50 ans de ma Tante

Tulipes, craspedias et pincushions jaunes

Ma chère tante fêtait ses 50 ans la semaine dernière et quoi de mieux qu’un bouquet ensoleillé pour célébrer!

Tulipes, craspedias et pincushions jaunes accompagnés d’ornithogalum orangés et d’une jupe de feuilles de xanadus ont servis à créer un bouquet festif pour l’occasion. Le fait de regrouper les fleurs serrées donne une certaine richesse au bouquet.

Espérons que ce bouquet aux couleurs éclatantes nous aidera à attirer le printemps!

Le Bouquet Olympique

Le bouquet Olympique aux Jeux de Vancouver 2010

Les Olympiques de 2010 étant presque terminées, je croyais approprié de discuter du fameux bouquet Olympique et du méga-contrat que 2 femmes comptant ensemble 100 années d’expérience et ayant décidé d’unir leur forces, Margitta Schultz et June Strandberg, ont réussi à obtenir!

Mme Strandberg est directrice générale de Just Beginnings Non-Profit Society, un magasin de fleurs et une école de conception florale qui offre une formation aux femmes ayant de la difficulté à intégrer le marché du travail. Bon nombre d’élèves se réhabilitent d’une dépendance, rentrent de prison, tentent de quitter le milieu du commerce du sexe ou sont victimes de violence. Mme Schultz, elle, propriétaire de Margitta’s Flower Boutique à Lonsdale Quay, North Vancouver.

Un grand défi attendait les partenaires, soit la satisfaction des critères de durabilité pour les fleurs : production certifiée biologique, choix d’une espèce non-invasive et d’une espèce indigène au Canada. La satisfaction de ce critère posait un problème. Presque toutes les fleurs qui composent le bouquet poussent ici pendant l’été, mais pas en février. De plus, les bouquets devaient répondre aux attentes en matière de conception et de durabilité de l’équipe de conception du COVAN.

À l’issue de trois mois de discussions avec le COVAN et de recherches exhaustives sur la conception, le groupe a choisi d’utiliser des fleurs cultivées localement sous serre et des feuillages provenant d’exploitations agricoles durables en Équateur. Le programme de gestion du carbone du COVAN permettra de neutraliser les effets du transport aérien nécessaire à l’importation des fleurs. Même l’emballage et les rubans respectent certains principes de durabilité.

L’utilisation de chrysanthèmes fujii verts et de baies d’hypericum vertes accompagnés d’une finition de feuilles d’aspidistra vertes, de fougère et de de bear grass, fait de ces bouquets une grande réussite considérant la liste infinie de contraintes pour la conception.

Le contrat d’une vie! Bonne chance à toute l’équîpe de fleuristes qui auront travaillé sur 1800 bouquets offerts aux athlètes, un défi Olympique en lui même!

Free Flowers Set-Up & Delivery For 2010 Weddings

Free Flower Delivery & Set-Up Promo for 2010 Weddings

We want to thank all the brides that contacted us for this promo, as well as the ones that contacted for this one too!

We are closing the season with one last promo that we hope you will enjoy as much as the other ones!

Contact-us before March 3rd 2010 for a free consultation. If you decide to hire our services for the design and production of your 2010 wedding flowers, we will offer you free delivery & set-up A value of 100$ +.

Some rules apply:

• To be eligible, you have to contact-us for a free consultation between February 24th and March 3rd, 2010
• This offer is valid for new brides only that did not contact us yet.
• Offer cannot be combined with any other promotion.
• Only applicable for weddings in Montreal and its surroundings.

Sketching away!

Les sketches de Stephanie { O.xide, Floriste, Montreal }

I can tell you that my markers have been going at it the past few weeks! I have been sketching away, creating proposals for many brides and grooms to be and the creative juices are flowing!

We have been receiving lots of requests for purples and blues, here is a tiny sneek peak at some of these wedding flower designs.

From projects being quite simple to others more intricate, 2010 is looking good and Gen can’t wait to bring my drawings to life, we also of course can’t wait to share these projects with you guys! Got to get back to my sketches!

Les sketches de Stephanie { O.xide, Floriste, Montreal }

Les sketches de Stephanie { O.xide, Floriste, Montreal }

Soirée Corpo pour l’agence Bleublancrouge à l’Auberge St-Gabriel

Soirée pour Bleublancrouge à la " eyes wide shut "

L’agence de publicité Bleublancrouge récompensait ses employée le 10 février dernier avec un party hyper extravagant à l’Auberge St-Gabriel. Le thème de la soirée étant le film ’’Eyes Wide Shut’’, l’ambiance était exceptionnellement étrange et sexy!

Les salles étaient divisées par couleur et thème, la première étant la ’’messe noire’’ où nous devions utliliser des fleurs blanches et créer un ambiance, je dirais, traditionnel-catholique et bizarre! Nous avons tout de suite pensé à une grosse boule d’hydrangées blancs et de boas blancs sur un grand vase ayant une branche blanche à l’intérieur.

Pour ce qui est de la seconde salle, celle des ’’sacrifices’’, l’utilisation du rouge était de mise. Gardant encore une fois un look traditionnel et étrange, nous avons simplement accroché des boulet de mini-oeillets rouges et bourgognes à l’intérieur de vases cylindriques haut et avons ajouté de l’eau rouge au fond du vase, en guise de sang!

Soirée magnifique et d’une créativité hors-pair, notre genre quoi!

Soirée pour Bleublancrouge à la " eyes wide shut "

Soirée pour Bleublancrouge à la " eyes wide shut "

Soirée pour Bleublancrouge à la " eyes wide shut "

Why The Red Rose for Valentine ?

Why Red Roses For Valentine?

On Valentine’s Day, what else to talk about in the flower world than red roses! The flower of love! Here is a little history:

Evidence suggests that the red rose is nearly 35 million years old. The most commonly available roses belong to two broad categories:

• the Oriental species and their hybrids,
• the European or Mediterranean species and their hybrids.

It is possible to grow a red rose anywhere in the world, if the species to which it belongs is selected according to climatic conditions.

Not surprisingly, therefore, ancient civilizations such as those of the Egyptians, the Greeks and the Romans seemed to have given the red rose a place of pride.
Rose fossils have been found near ancient Egyptian tombs. Greek mythology is replete with references to the red rose being sacred to Bacchus, the Greek god of wine, and Venus, the Greek goddess of love. Cupid, of course, is inextricably linked to the red rose.

• The Romans seem to have been rather preoccupied with the red rose. Their preoccupation was not just the result of their appreciation for its beauty and fragrance. They had discovered the medicinal properties of the red rose, and also found ways of capturing its fragrance in perfumes. In fact, there is evidence which suggests that they experimented with cultivation techniques and found ways to make red roses blossom beyond their natural peripheries.

• The beauty of the red rose has always driven rose lovers to find ways and means of collecting them, displaying them and growing them. French Empress Josephine, particularly after her divorce with Emperor Napoleon, took to roses and dedicated a large space and resources to the cultivation and hybridization of roses. The palace of Malmaison became home to rose gardens with old and new species. Among these, the red rose received plenty of attention.

• The red rose also has an interesting place in the history of England. Opposing factions in York and Lancaster fought for control over England in the 15th century. York was synonymous with the white rose and Lancaster with the red rose. In fact, the friction between these warring factions led to the coining of the term ‘War of the Roses’. Lancaster emerged victorious, but this victory did not spell defeat for York. Tudor Henry VII and his bride from York facilitated the symbolic union of red rose and the white rose, and gave England ‘the Rose of England’.

• Whether it’s red roses in England, or in any other part of the world, botanists credit China with the ‘ever-blooming’ variety. In the late 18th century, botanists succeeded in bringing these to Europe, and then the rest of the world. Today, including hybrids, there are over 150 species of roses. Several of these are red. There are different shades of red roses available today, and they are of different sizes.

Much love to our readers, happy Valentine’s Day!

Article source: http://ezinearticles.com/?Red-Rose-History&id=144236