The Most Exquisite Wedding Cake Artists Today
Many of us, when we were girls, dreamed at some point of opening a bakery. The bakery of my girlhood dreams was part flower shop—surprise, surprise—a Swiss chalet style building with flowers hand-painted on shutters, and great window boxes overflowing with flora. The doors would open to a space fragrant with fresh flowers and baking bread (how would those comforting fragrances combine? Unclear.). Daily, this bakery would offer be-ribboned boxes of pastries and bundles of flowers, little things to uplift an ordinary moment. It was a bit like Holly Golightly nibbling a Danish outside the Tiffany’s window, only in my version, the heroine longed for flowers with her breakfast pastry, not diamonds.
The Ultimate Floral Glossary: Demystifying Every Essential Floral Term & Type of Installation
Having spent nearly a decade as a floral designer, one of the best pieces of advice I can offer couples is this: leave room in your floral budget for one outstanding installation. Give yourself clemency, even, to skip small floral pieces (like boutonnières) and let go of high-volume pieces, like arrangements for every table. Instead, dedicate your budget to an exquisite floral installation. Encourage your floral designer to create a masterpiece of beauty that translates the very essence of your wedding design. Guests will return to this piece of artwork, remember it, talk about it. A piece like this promotes conversation, and it inspires memories, reveries, dreams. It does so much more than twelve boutonnières or fifty small arrangements can. When expertly executed, a floral installation can embody the very heart of a wedding’s design.