The Wedding Day started very early, 5:00AM here with a nice brisk walk. The weather is nice and warm, overcast, no wind. Great day for Emily and Ross to be married.
After my walk, I cleaned up and went to Deborah's house. We had wired and taped beautiful cymbidium orchids for bridesmaids and several table "decks" as they say, decorations.I also made Emily's bridal bouquet of gloriosa. WE were anxious about the lilies holding up. Some were in a bouquet holder but many others were glued into the frame. I glued lily leaves on the back of the bouquet holder. Then I made an armature of silver aluminum wire to wrap around the holder and down almost to the floor for the plumosus and gloriosa support. Tying the armature at intervals with silver metallic wire. With this structure the bouquet may as well been several feet long and it would have been sturdy. The armature was positioned , then held in place by cuttings of the fern for greening and shape. The stems of plumosus were very long and beautiful. 10 nice long stems, from my hip to the floor were 18 pounds, wholesale, a pound is worth $1.60. That is wholesale!!!I glued many pieces of the fern along the frame with the cold glue. The gloriosa lilies were purchased on the stem, also from my hip to the floor in sealed packages of 15 flowers in a package. The flowers were beautiful. Some of the 15 were buds, new green blossoms, but most were the perfect flower. We were concerned at how they will hold up over night. Some stems I put in the foam bouquet holder, many, a lot were glued in the bouquet, on the armature and the fern, no water source. There were 100 blossoms in the bridal bouquet and 8 stems of the plumosus fern. It is the first all lily bouquet that I have ever made. Thank you Emily for an exceptional experience, and knowing it was especially chosen by you was amazing. So I covered it, put it in a cool place.
The flowers were all white for the church with English Lavender, eucalyptus and hearts for the pews,white cyclamen plants with trailing English ivy, white roses,white spray roses, white gerbera,Italian ruscus. Simple, organic and classy.
The flowers for the reception were stunning red roses, hypericum,pinkish calla,pink cymbidium orchids, viburnum,red berries,red spray roses.
Back yo this morning,the cymbidiums had all gone down, every wired one was soft. We took them out, put them in a bath to harden them, which they did harden off, after I cut them all off of the wire. The last flower we ever thought may be sensative was, the gloriosa were perfect, in the bouquet I cut 3 flowers out and glued three in. At the ebd of the night they all looked brilliant!!!! fresh and new in the holder and in the glue. The other flowers were truly perfect.
We decorated the urnails which was a big hit, or miss?? Emily gave Ann, Db and I creative freedom, we took it.
The " Button Holes" for the men were delivered to their prospective homes, the bridal bouquet and bridesmaids were delivered to the brides home. The Best man is in charge of making sure everyone has one. Parents flowers were delivered to their homes. The Town Cars picked up the bride, groom and wedding party, 6 maids and 2 Best men.They had pictures taken at their homes, then came to the church. Everyone was in the church, the groom and Best Men were in the front of the church, Emily came in with her father who stayed with her the entire time. The maids sat in the front pew during the ceremony. They were pronounced man and wife, then went to the main alter with the vicar, then to the side where they signed the papers. The mother of the bride and mother of the groom were the witnesses. We left the church, many photographs, throwing of biodegradable rose petal looking confetti. The town cars took them away to the reception site. We arrived to a line of servers with trays of wine, and appitizers, stood outside on a nice patio area by the golf coarse, more pictures, then into the reception, great set down service meal, speeches, and a really great band, photo booth, everything.Unique to the bride and groom
Tomorrow ( Sunday ) I will head home, good feelings about my experience, and looking forward to coming home. The best of the best.
I will add pictures when I learn how, promise.
Thank you for sharing my trip with me. The shoes were perfect Marge.
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