Just found the funniest and craziest boutonnière idea while checking out Style Me Pretty’s Blog!
This soooo reminds me of my childhood, I was obsessed with arts & crafts and always used tones of those colorful pipe cleaners.
What a creative, and mostly, appropriate idea for a candy themed wedding, love it! Can’t stop smiling, these people are so cool!
I came across this wooden carpet and thought a carpet made of wood seems really uncomfortable! Elisa Strozyk the young designer behind this carpet found a new textile. She combines wood and fabric. Elisa is known for using wooden textiles and creating lamps, chairs and carpets. If your wondering the carpet is created with pieces of laser cut veneer that is bonded onto fabric, making the carpet easy to transport. Elisa has found a new look at material!
Credits
www.designboom.com
www.elisastrozyk.de
What an honor it was to work with the best of the best on this Style me pretty photoshoot!
When our dear friend Azar from Principal Planner approached us to create the floral designs for this awesome photoshoot, we screamed YES! It is not every day you get the opportunity to be featured on one of the best wedding blogs out there … what an achievement for us, we are so proud.
The whole process started with an inspiration board we had to portray in our designs, the colors being white, black and light blue with a vintage flare. After hours of brainstorming and shopping with Azar, ”From Paris With Love” came to life! We used white and blue hydrangeas, stunning white roses, white dahlias, white peonies, black callas and white astilbe. Along with Azar’s breathtaking design of the room, the result is amazing and Davina + Daniel were there to capture all this greatness!
Thank you again Azar for choosing us amongst all the sensational vendors you picked, working with you is always crazy fun!
For more pics and to read the great article see www.stylemepretty.com
Boutonnieres and corsages
Attention to details is one of our most precious vertues, we definitely bring it when it comes to boutonnières and corsages!
These tiny flower arrangements need to blend in perfectly with the rest of the wedding flowers and every touch counts. Whether it is the use of the correct flowers (some flowers cannot be used as boutonnières or corsages because of their longevity out of water) or the finishing using proper colored ribbons or other accents repeated elsewhere (like pearls, crystals or specific leaves) the finished product will always look fabulous!
Boutonnieres and corsages
A little history:
A boutonnière is a floral decoration worn by men, typically a single flower or bud. The word comes from the French boutonnière, or buttonhole, which is the British term.
Traditionally, a boutonnière was worn pushed through the lapel buttonhole (on the left, the same side as a pocket handkerchief). However, on many recently made coats and jackets, the lapel is made without the stem loop required, which would normally sit on the reverse of the lapel, beneath the buttonhole. Sometimes, the lapel buttonhole is in the ‘keyhole’ shape, as opposed to the traditional straight cut, or is not even pierced through, in which case the boutonnière may be pinned onto the jacket lapel, although this is considered unsightly by many.
A corsage is an assembly of flowers worn on a woman’s dress or worn around her wrist. Corsages are often worn by the mothers and grandmothers of the bride and groom at a wedding ceremony.
Girly bouquets for Billie Boutique Bloggers Event
On Wednesday December 2nd, I was invited to a wonderful girly cocktail party at Billie Boutique in Montreal on Laurier street.We were served champagne and cupcakes and even got professional pictures taken of our look that evening!
We were asked to design a couple of little arrangements to decorate the store and we came up with these stunning little couture pieces, so I like to call them. We made a tight ball of light pink roses a finished off the bottom with none other than a light pink cybidium skirt. It was important to add chocolate brown to the arrangements as this colour is important in their visual identity. We found these adorable chocolate brown ceramic vases on foot that we paired with ribbon bows of various pink and brown motifs.
These arrangements are so girly and look like candy, but they certainly don’t taste as good as the lovely treats we got in our gift bags from Kréavie!
The progress of an Amaryllis flower blooming
A few weeks ago, I got assigned a very important task, babysit some amaryllis flowers until they were fully bloomed and ready for a photoshoot! It was so much fun to observe the evolution, each stem usually has four blooms, and gradually they all started to pop one by one.
The amaryllis is definately a flower that I love, I like how juicy and big it gets once in bloom, but be carefull, these are very delicate flowers to play with! It was important for me not to touch them too much, and mostly to cut the stem shorter as the flowers started to open, creating weight on the fragile thick but hollow stem which could simply break in front of my eyes if it decided to.
Nothing beat having to transport these flowers from my house to our workshop … ouff … I made it with the amaryllis in one piece! I couldn’t wait to finally poke the flower inside the arrangements and call in truce, at that point the amaryllis is safe and you don’t need to worry about it anymore. What a journey with my friends the amaryllis, just like babies, they kept me busy for a couple days!
We have been waiting so long for this opportunity, and it is finally here, we are so proud to introduce you to our brand new Holidays online store!
How much fun is it to be able to shop for your Holiday flowers in the comfort of your own home or office! With our new service, you are now able to choose modern and elegant arrangements to decorate your home or simply to offer as a gift for a loved one. With our detailed pictures and precise description of the arrangements, you know that what you see is what you get, no disappointments, only magical flowers for this very special time of year!
The store will be opened for a limited time, so start shopping today!
Arrangement pour Amélie Cousineau, notre photographe
Quand notre chère photographe favorite Amélie Cousineau nous a demandé de créer des arrangements permanents pour décorer son bureau nous étions si heureuse!
Nous savions que nous devions lui offrir un design digne de son travail, quelque chose de féminin, travaillé, minutieux et magnifique. Nous avons alors opté pour des boules d’anémones artificielles rouges avec rubans rouges, sur une boule disco, sur un chandelier en verre, sur un pot couleur rose bébé, oufff! Complètement fou et nous adorons!
Nous espérons que ces arrangement lui apportent style et inspiration car nous avons besoin de sa créativité et son talent! On t’adore Amélie!
Wedding Ceremony Flower Decoration
As I promised last week, I am sharing with you the arrangements which decorated the ceremony area for Annick and Martin’s wedding in Montreal.
They were looking for a very clean, simple and modern look, using white callas. We combined these callas with big accordeon leaves and earth toned river rocks in tall clear vases to create this minimalist, yet compelling look. Sometimes little touches can go a long way, remember … it’s all about the details!
All the best to the happy couple!
Annick and Martin Wedding Flower Decoration
Some sketches
Decorating a Rectangular Table
Design is all about balance!
When trying to dress a rectangular diner table on a budget, always keep in mind that you are better off having more smaller arrangements and accessories than only a couple big more expensive pieces. Yes some may say less is more, however in this case we are trying to dress a festive table from one end to the other. Use floating flowers in small vases, you can even use those same vases to float a colorful candle (depending on your color scheme), alternate these arrangements to create a dynamic and modern dinner table.
Go crazy with colors and shapes with all your table settings, don’t be shy, you’ll have so much fun doing it!
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