kimmie nguyen:

with my own garden shears

Preparing flowers in the dirt, in my fancy dress no less. Now that's dedication. Look ma, I'm a real florist. You can't tell by the picture but I really was super stressed. =) And no, the flowers were not from Walgreens.

September Weddings

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 I finally slept a full 8 hours last night. What an exhausting weekend! It was a great experience to do the floral arrangements for Tyee and Steve's wedding. An immense amount of work that I kind of underestimated, but I got a ton of help from the maid of honor and close friends of ours. The couple was married at Queen Wilhelmina Tulip Garden in Golden Gate park. The ceremony site was absolutely beautiful and despite the gray skies, not that cold. After the short but sweet exchanging of vows, I had to haul ass to get from the outer avenues to the hotel (for more flowers) and then to Chinatown for the reception. On top of that, there was a street festival on Grant Street that blocked the main route to the restaurant. Thankfully I had friends to help carry the flowers and get the centerpieces ready in just under an hour.

Oy, is right. This is probably the last time that I'll be doing floral arrangements as a wedding gift. :)

Autumn Blooms

I picked up dahlias and calla lilies at the FlowerMart last week to work on a practice bridal bouquet. I found this bouquet much easier than the bridesmaid bouquets. Less flower types to arrange. Tyee hates calla lilies though so I'm at a loss as to what other flowers would work given the dark purple, red combination that she wants. I'll likely have to work in some other green or true purple buds to break up the contrast if I can't use the calla lilies. And crazily enough I've also offered to make flower balls for the ceremony chairs, this in addition to the 13 centerpieces at the reception.