Floral Design
“Earth Laughs in Flowers”
-Ralph Waldo Emersin
Floral Design has become one of my loves in life. In June of 2021 I was hired at a local farm in my home town, Hadley ma. Not just any farm, a flower farm, they also did weddings and sold bouquets at local farmers markets. My first summer working there I worked part-time on the farm crew, it was a very intense farm job, 6am mornings jumping right into farm work. My favorite part of the job was Fridays when I got to make bouquets for the farmers market. Come fall of 2021 the fresh flower season was coming to an end and dried flower season was beginning. This meant dried flower bouquets, dried flower cloches, and dried flower wreaths. I love making these, it was a whole new level of design that I fell in love with. This past summer I worked full time splitting my hours between wedding work and working on the farm crew, it was exhausting but also amazing. I fell deeper in love with floral design and learned so much. It is, truly, such a beautiful art form that combines my love of nature and design.
The perfect Thanksgiving table florals!
A hair piece I made of dried flowers, for a bride to wear walking down the isle. Using strawflower, red eucalyptus, Sweet Annie, explosion grass, babies breath, and yellow buttons.
This boutonniere is made out of dried flowers, for a groomsman. Made with strawflower, red eucalyptus, bunny tail grass, other assorted dried grasses, and dried mini spray rose.
A chuppah I assisted on at a wedding at the Mount in Lenox Ma.
Bud vases on the reception dinning tables I made from the same wedding at the Mount.
A triangle arbor I assisted on for a wedding in the Berkshires.
Table centerpieces I assisted in creating for another wedding at the Mount in the Berkshires.
A boutonniere I made for a groomsman.
A arbor using a tree I helped make the flower garlands for.
Composed of smoke bush, lisianthus, dahlias, rudbeckia, celosia, jewels of opar, zinnias, flowering fennel, and black eyed Susans.
Two small compote vases I made for a wedding table centerpiece.
Composed of willow branches, amaranth, chrysanthemums, celosia, starlight dance nicosiana and flowering wild carrot.
Two Medium compotes I created for bar tables at a wedding reception.
These are two dried flower crowns I made from scratch.
Dried flower wreath made with eucalyptus, dried grasses, strawflower, amaranth, delphinium, and lisianthus.
Dried flower wreath made with, amaranth, lowlander grass, and a hand dyed velvet ribbon.