Seasonal Design Highlight: A Unique Twist on a Classic White Bouquet
In this Team Flower Seasonal Design Highlight, we're featuring a bouquet design by The Floral Coach, a wedding and event florist turned educator who offers online educational classes and one-on-one workshops. The Floral Coach can be found online at www.thefloralcoach.com or on social media @thefloralcoach_.
During a hands-on bouquet workshop in Dallas, Amy designed this demo bridal bouquet and walked students through creating lightweight, airy, and lush bouquets while keeping clean, small handles for the bride to hold.
She chose to demonstrate a twist on how to create interest in an all white and green palette by adding subtle touches of reds and tonal purples for contrast—and this could be adapted for any season of the year.
The class focused on the technique first, which is the use of the spiral. It is commonly misunderstood that a spiral approach can only achieve a round bouquet. During the class, Amy demonstrates that any form can be achieved using the spiral, including one-sided bouquets, cascade, market bouquets, and loose and airy designs.
This bouquet was made using the spiral technique!
Common Bouquet Missteps
In terms of mechanics, it’s common for designers to struggle with bouquets. Some common missteps are:
Over-greening to keep flowers in place.
Overstuffing to fix design issues.
Threading flowers through fingers or making a “claw hand” which can lead to bulky, messy handles and broken stems.
Overfilling armatures and needing to add more greens to cover the mechanics.
Overworking bouquets and breaking stems.
Taking far too long in the design process—which cuts into profit.
Not designing all around (the client may accidentally hold the back of the bouquet forward).
If any of these sound familiar, Amy addresses these issues and more in Bouquet Bootcamp, a one-day bouquet intensive to help break bad bouquet habits and teach mechanics and design techniques that work every time, saving you time and money and lots of bouquet frustration.
If you struggle with making bouquets, remember practice makes perfect. Identify your pain points and work diligently and intentionally to improve!
Pro Bouquet Tip
Choose flowers and foliages with movement in various sizes to help create visual lines and pathways (implied lines) for the eye to travel!
When working with a monochromatic color scheme, choosing flowers with lots of movement and various shapes.
Ingredients & Stem Counts
Cappuccino Ranunculus - 5
Pieris Japonica (Andromeda) - 4
White Anemone - 1
White Campanula - 2
Brownie Sweet Peas - 4
Brownie Tulips - 2
White Freesia - 3
Gardenia - 2 wired bloom heads
Quicksand Roses - 2
Carnation - 2
Brown Lisianthus - 2
Amaryllis - 2 wired bloom heads
Jasmine Vine - 5
Ruscus - 2
Fern- 3
White Majolica - 2
Dried Pepperberry -3
All photography by Kata Panza Photography.