Getting married? You’ll enjoy my day at Toronto Botanical Gardensby Erin McLaughlin |
I spent the day at the Toronto Botanical Gardens today (check out www.torontobotanicalgarden.ca) to help brides, grooms AND their friends and families come up with cheap and cheerful - not to mention stylish - ideas for their weddings.
Outside the weather was brutally freezing, but inside the TBG, the room was set up to give everyone an idea about how beautiful their event could be. I did a couple of different demos, but specifically focused on arranging flowers for your big day… I showed a couple of different techniques for making your own bridal bouquet as well as some fun ideas for tabletop flowers. One thing that I try to demonstrate to people is to be spontaneous with your ideas and forget about following “rules.” For example, we had these fabulous tall white lanterns from TAG and I pointed out that it could be used as an impromptu vase. “Really?” was the general response. I grabbed a wine glass from a table nearby, clipped a few lilies and stuck them in the wine glass, then tucked the wine glass “vase” in the lantern. Simple but effective.
I promise to post some pictures of the flowers I demo’d early next week, but encourage any prospective brides to check out the Toronto Botanical Garden website - it is a spectacular venue for a wedding (or any other kind of party!)
Please send me a note if you have any questions or requests for floral ideas for your wedding!
Tags: flower arrangements, Toronto Botanical Garden, wedding, wedding bouquet, wedding flowers
As a bride-to-be (if that is the correct term?) the show at TBG was both inspiring and stress relieving.
I realized that we can be creative, have fun and save money all at the same time.
Thanks Home and Country!