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I need some inspiration, so I came to the experts. I have been asked to make a white cascading bridal bouquet for a magazine. This is a great opportunity, I did it last year and got wonderful feedback from the article and photos. This year they want all white cascading ......hmmm
Maybe I'm thinking too much...maybe I'm letting the pressure get to me.
The magazine picks 5 florists and each has a page, so it's not just me, I will be compared to the others..
I've done tons of all white bridal bouquets.....but I am having difficulty coming up with something "exciting" .... Maybe I've just seen it all before.
I don't want to look LAME !
I know this sounds elementary....Of course I can do this.
Every idea I come up with feels Boring ....

Jennifer
 
If they want cascading then go over the top..longgggg trailing cascade. Use an armature of maybe honeysuckle ( or even something faux) interwine flowers on this then attach it securely to the bouquet holder. I did something like this years ago for an outdoor wedding...it was stunning. ( god I can't believe I never took pictures of the stuff I did!)
 
For me, the contempo would come from using a different type of cascading portion of the bouquet - that's the part that gets so tired and dated looking. I love the ideas I've seen lately with cascading grasses & dendros .... instead of a wired cascade (typical), glue orchid florets to cascading bear/lily grass. Or Shannon's caged cascade - still a cascade, right? I can't find the thread with the Flowers& design contest pics, but the one with the purple dendro & grasses is the idea I'm thinking of for the grass cascade. Or those strands of threaded orchids I posted a while ago from a Hitomi design show at Sieck.


good luck - what a good opportunity!
 
Tracy the pic didn't show up. I am interested in seeing it also, I am doing a cascade this weekend and kinda need some inspiration. I have tried searching but can't find what I am looking for either.
 
Tracy you beat me to it. I was going to suggest dendrobians white all over with bursts of grasses coming out like waterfall. You could thread pearl beads on the grasses and then on some thread the head of a dendro. This will photograph really well. Good luck and what a great opportunity!!
 
Transflora here at SAf has some awesome white garden spray roses that are being shipped specifically to the russians because of their natural "droop". They are really stunning but definately for party/wedding work only. Maybe call Bill S for some info....here is here now and I will pm you his cell...transflora product was awesome...the size of hydranga with long laterals was inspiring and some varieties are bigger than a dinner plate with laterals...and the sprays have a fragrance as well...pm me your email and I will see if he can send you a picture. Good luck...we did the National shoot for Premier Bride mag last year but we got lucky as they wanted tropical bouquets...a walk in the park !
Good luck
Sher
 
Has anyone found the pic Tracy is talking about. I was going to do a cascade of green dendrobium, blue delph, escimo rose and wanted to look at that pic. The delp came in 4 foot tall and I was thinkin of cutting the tops out of it and using the bottom of the stem that is covered in bloom by inserting a rose in through the stem to hide the cut end. I hate to waste that much delp, do you think that would work? Really wanted to look at that pic again to see how the grass and dendrobium looked.
 
long cascade

I did one to the floor this summer, with dendros and stephanotis - she did not want any green, so no grass.

I like to use mini callas to trail, they have a nice shape

and how about something beefier - like some cymbs or catlayas?
 
Hi Jennifer,

I know what you're going through. I have just been asked to do 3 to 5 bouquets of different styles using bouquet jewels for the spring 2009 issue of a Canadian Bridal magazine. It is going to be the feature in the magazine and the photo shoot is Oct 4 so I don't have much time to come up with some trendy ideas and order the flowers. I never have trouble coming up with ideas but this time I feel the pressure especially since they want it to look like spring flowers and it's not the right season .I wish they would have asked me last spring and then I could have used some gorgeous spring flowers.
Good luck with your bouquet.
Dianne
 
Way back in the mid-eighties, back when cascades were popular, I once did a floor length cascade. I took extra long bear grass, threaded dendrobium florets on to the tips......then inserted at different lengths......and for the main bouquet part, I used catteleya orchids and boston fern. I remember the price of this bouquet back then was 500.00......IIRC - I think I used about 3 bunches of dendros and 9 or 10 catteleyas. It would probably be close to 1500 dollars now.
 
Thanks for the ideas and suggestions everyone. The wheels are starting to turn.

Jennifer
 
Yes, I was going to suggest cattleya orchids as well, man they are showy and making a comeback from all of the design mags I've looked at. Also isn't something typical. Then work the other suggested eliments through it. It would be a smash, I think.
 
Tracy D'Amico said:
For me, the contempo would come from using a different type of cascading portion of the bouquet - that's the part that gets so tired and dated looking. I love the ideas I've seen lately with cascading grasses & dendros .... instead of a wired cascade (typical), glue orchid florets to cascading bear/lily grass. Or Shannon's caged cascade - still a cascade, right? I can't find the thread with the Flowers& design contest pics, but the one with the purple dendro & grasses is the idea I'm thinking of for the grass cascade. Or those strands of threaded orchids I posted a while ago from a Hitomi design show at Sieck.


good luck - what a good opportunity!
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^^^^^^^I fixed the link in this quoted post above - too late to edit the original post. Sorry, I was OFF for THREE WHOLE DAYS. Woo hoo!

It's the cool white bouquet with dendros & roses .... sorry for the confusion!
tracy
 
Thank you so much for posting those pics ! This one is intriguing.. Are the dendros wired or threaded? Curious on the longevity of this one. It might be interesting to incorporate these "dreadlocks" into a cascade, but then again I LOVE that this is a "cascading handtied" wow ! Ok, now my mind is spinning with ideas.... You're AWESOME !! THANK YOU !




Sometimes you just need a little push or in my case a shove.

Jennifer
 
A very talented designer and friend of mine vased out of Pawley's Island, SC does a hand-tied cascade as well. Dana Ard AIFD did one for a show, This thing was GORGEOUS. If you can imagine a hand-tied cascade bouquet being as large as the weddiing bouquet that the late Princess Diana carried when she married Prince Charles.
 
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