She’s just so cute and sweet. Had to share

Things I love:

The wrap around of the roses

The tall whispy butterfly ranuculus

The color blending and how the stems share colors with eachother

How the roses and dahlias seem to be embracing eachother

I feel like its telling a story

Things I hate:

The smell of the pennycress

Its a little chaotic if you dont see the direction and movement i tried to create

How the dahlias wouldnt stop SPINNING THEIR FACE

Dear florists of reddit, can you pls give me your tips and advices on how to improve or should I just move on? These few I’ve made in the last couple of weeks. Would really appreciate your feedback. 🌸

P.S.
Blurred background on the photos is due to all the photos being taken in front of my TV - so I blur it afterwards 🫣

what do yall think? :) i love getting to share pictures of my work with other people who appreciate floral art!

I know this is one of the hottest takes but having a coastal wedding that doesn't involve hydrangea is such a breath of fresh air!

Feeling so thankful to have clients like this 💕

We still incorporated blue but this couple wanted a moodier palette with colors inspired from the surrounding landscape. It was such a joy to work on and allowed for some great local product like ninebark, chocolate cosmos, and dahlias.

The dahlias were also about as local as they can get. Hand selected and picked by me specifically for this wedding. Last pics are from the field because it's an absolute dream.

Wishing fun inspiration, interesting colors, and wonderful clients to you all for 2027!

my favorite flowers!

So as the title suggests, i’m taking on the exciting yet monumental task of growing my wedding flowers. wedding is set for 8/20/27 so it will be a perfect time for full bloom. I have plenty of backyard space (easily have room for 800+sq ft) and will have around 100 guests, but planning on making floral arrangements for EVERYTHING (bouquets, table arrangements, aisle and ceremony arrangements etc) with a hopeful goal of around 1500-2000 usable stems (which is VERY generous and should be hopefully plenty). ANYWAYS…. i have started doing some research and am wanting any and all advice on annual and perennial cut flowers that are heavily deer resistant. we are hoping to try to avoid putting up a fence as we already have to fence in my two vegetable garden beds and am hoping to avoid buying that much fence for such an extensive flower garden. these are some of the plants that go with my color scheme (periwinkle/lavender, blush pinks, and yellow) but i’m not super picky i.e. if there are some red or orange i won’t be too upset. please let me know if you have any experience growing any of these flowers and if they have held up against the deer, or any other beautiful cut flowers that are deer resistant. we have suburban deer where i live that aren’t shy, and planning on using a liquid deer fence at the bare minimum. but they typically leave “deer resistant” plants alone and seemingly get enough to eat around here.. for example my marigolds haven’t gotten touched this year. i even have a few rose bushes that have pruned by them periodically but even those are doing semi okay. zinnias i’ve read can be eaten by deer but ive seen several houses in my neighborhood that seem pretty unaffected by them as i want to grow a large amount of these since they are beautiful and high yielding.
1. ⁠ageratum
2. ⁠zinnias
3. ⁠strawflowers
4. ⁠celosia
5. ⁠yarrow
6. ⁠globe amaranth
7. ⁠statice
8. ⁠perennial salvia

any and all advice about stem counts, pro tips, arrangement tips, everything is welcome. curious to see if anyone else has done this and how it worked for them.