Glad to see wiring. It's an art that some people have forgotten. We prefer to wire ours as well. Took a design course in the Netherlands 2 years ago and they taught wiring and taping corsages .... think I was the fastest one to do it ..... the rest hadn't used the techniques in ages. I also remember going to Ontario to take design courses ..... just when the oasis wedding bouquet holders were coming in. Had this girl across from my table (whom I clashed with) and we were being trained in using this "new invention" a bouquet holder. She snapped at the rest of us, thinking she was heaven's gift to the designing world, that "Anyone who would still wire and tape bouquets did not know what they were doing. It was a stupid thing to know!" It wasn't 5 minutes later that the instructor said "First we are showing you how to use oasis holders ... then we will spend time on wiring and taping, because if you don't know how to do it, then you aren't much good to a flower shop." Wish you could have seen her face./QUOTE]
Hmmmm..... she must have had a clone in the class I took at Flowers Canada in Guelph.
Like everything worth doing right, it's good to know the theory behind it. Someday wired bouquets will make a comeback, and we'll know what to do.
Mark, the corsages and bouts are lovely and creative and thanks for the ideas!
V
