This week is my last week until January! I can’t believe my
internship went by this fast!
For my last week we spent most of the time preparing for our
weddings in Boca and in St. Petersburg.
We spent the beginning of the week by getting in a ton of
flowers for the weddings. We got about 40 boxes of antique hydrangea in for our
weddings, which filled up a good part of the cooler! We also got in some other fun
flowers like pincushion proteas, spray roses, and some green little balls that
I can’t ever remember the name of.
Assorted Flowers:
Later in the week we started putting all of the centerpieces
together for the feasting and round tables. I got to help make the large arrangements,
which are getting easier to make the more I practice.
We start by putting in the hydrangea stems to get a good
base and shape going. This is really the most important part for the arrangements.
The first one or two I made looked a little lopsided but I finally figured out
a method so I could if my round shape was coming together or not. Everyone
seems to have their own method of designing and building arrangements but it
really just comes down to finding out what will work best for me. I love that
there isn't just one right way to design. Janet and I spent most of the day
just working on all of the round table arrangements. The next day we moved on
to working on touch ups for the rest of the arrangements and got them ready to
move out into the trucks for Saturday.
Sylvia and Tiffany worked on Manzanita tree arrangements for
our second wedding and on some beautiful centerpieces for the second wedding. We
finally used all of those hanging votives that I made for the kings dinner a
few weeks back! I was glad to see them get used on the Manzanita trees.
Saturday I came into the studio early and started working on
getting arrangements into the trucks and got ready to head out to Boca again!
We arrived at the main tent area first and started placing arrangements onto
the tables. Once we were done placing arrangements Ian had me set out large
ferns onto the front stage area. To finish off the stage Athena and I did some
draping across the back of the stage area to cover up some of the mechanics of
the tent setup. I really love the impact that just a few plants can give to an
empty space. Once we finished setting up the last little pieces for all the
tables drove over to the beach to setup the area for the ceremony.
We had two large centerpieces for the ceremony and a little
bit of draping to dress up the musicians and singers area. Once we placed the
centerpieces we covered the aisle in burlap and sprinkled rose petals down the
aisle just before the bride and groom were scheduled to come out. In the heat
and humidity you have to wait just before the ceremony starts otherwise the
petals will all blow away or wilt. My job was helping Athena with all the
draping. We had to find an area to be able to secure the draping so that it wouldn't all blow away in the middle of the ceremony. We ended up using a lot of zip
ties and corsage pins to get everything to stay in place where we wanted it to
but in the end it all looked amazing as usual. Once the ceremony area was finished
we had to go back to the tent again so that we could place an aisle of hurricanes
down the field to direct the bride and groom into the reception. Once we had
the hurricanes placed I helped light all of them and make sure we had
everything in place.
I loved the color scheme of this wedding all the colors
really played on each other very well and created a very fun, warm atmosphere.
Boca Wedding:
As I mentioned before this week will be my last week until January.
School will be starting up again then and I will be back for another semester
of adventure in the wedding and flower industry. I am so thankful for everyone
at Botanica to give me the opportunity to stay longer and gain even more
experience in addition to my education. I am so excited to come back soon.
Until then I will be in Utah and in Montana!
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