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Designing your own centerpieces is a wonderful way to schedule an evening with the girls and truly personalize your wedding day. It’s also, however, a stressful prospect: How many flowers do I need to order? If I’m using bud vases, how many should I include on each table?

This workshop will take you through the basics of choosing the right centerpiece style for your budget, how to maximize the impact of flowers with varied centerpiece styles, and give you a visualization of what tablescapes can look like with elements added for extra impact.

Also covered will be:

• Design basics for floral centerpieces, including height, focal floral placement, color blocking, and more
• Mechanics for designing your centerpieces in floral foam
• Foam-free design mechanics for eco-friendly brides
• Building floral domes for elevated centerpieces
• How to maximize the imapact of bud vase centerpieces

What You’ll Need To Join Our Class:

You can absolutely opt to join us and take notes on the presentation, but it’s often helpful to have your own stems to practice with. For the sake of learning, it’s often best to start with some inexpensive, grocery store flowers that have varying stem weights and styles. We recommend:

An assortment of florals in varying sizes, textures, and styles, including:

– One package of stiff-stemmed blooms, such as roses or carnations
– One to two packages of greenery, such as eucalyptus or ruscus
– One package of smaller blooms, such as spray roses, chamomile, baby’s breath, or other filler
– One package of hollow-stemmed flowers, such as ranunculus, to practice wiring stems

You’ll also want to have:

– A vase (bonus if it’s the vase you’ll be using in your wedding designs!)
– Wet foam bricks, as well as a full bowl of water (don’t pre-soak your brick)
– Clean, sharp shears
– Floral Tape
– Thin floral wire

Want to stage a virtual bouquet workshop for your bridal shower or special event? Interested in hosting a live bouquet workshop in South Florida? Email us for details!