Wedding flowers for the wild at heart
Join Lauren and Louisina in their bright, flower filled studio for an in-depth, two-day sustainable floristry course in designing naturalistic, garden-inspired wedding flowers. In our relaxed studio environment, we will introduce you to our creative approach to designing flowers for weddings. Learn how to select seasonal, botanical materials and create arrangements in a garden-gathered style using sustainable 'foam-free' techniques. The course will include creative and practical tips on creating floral designs for weddings, sourcing local ingredients, communicating seasonality and sustainability with clients, making and transporting arrangements, along with lots of inspirational designs, colour palettes and recipes. Learn how to design detailed and romantic wedding party florals, showstopping ceremony installations, and luxurious table flowers and centrepieces.
Day 1
Bouquets and Floral Accessories
Master the garden-style bouquet making technique using the ‘twist’ to create effortlessly beautiful, bridal bouquets in all sorts of shapes and sizes. Learn how to create intricate and detailed boutonnieres and hair combs including how to keep accessory florals fresh out of water for up to 72 hours.
Day 2
Ceremonies and Dinners
Learn how to create a floral pillar and wildflower meadow covering the essential building blocks in creating large-scale, naturalistic installations with seasonal materials and foam-free mechanics. Learn how to make a vessel-less wedding table centrepiece where the flowers appear to have grown from where they are placed. Pair your centrepiece with other tableware, candles and silks and play with tablescaping using our beautiful wedding prop collection.
Surrounded by the most beautiful flowers of our farm season, you will immerse yourself in the exciting world of wedding flowers, building up a rich repertoire that stretches from delicate accessories to building showstopping ceremonies.
Days of Dahlia’s tutor and founder Louisina has been creating beautiful and memorable wedding flowers for forty five years. Lauren and Louisina have successfully delivered 100s of weddings together using their own farm grown flowers over the past 8 years. Join us in our beautiful studio and flower school near Glasgow for a blissful two days dedicated to mastering the craft and skill of wedding floristry. This course is suited to a wide variety of flower arrangers - from floristry professionals keen to take their wedding flower business in a more sustainable and seasonal direction, to those who are learning and keen to break into the industry, or for those preparing florals for their own wedding or for a loved one. This comprehensive, high-energy workshop will immerse you in a busy floristry environment with a view to develop a sustainable approach to your existing floristry practice or to explore whether flowers might take you on a new career journey!
Each class will include a demonstration and walk through on the techniques. Support and guidance will be given on the construction of the design with plenty of opportunity to ask questions.
Develop your floristry skills and confidence in a beautiful setting and inspiring environment. Lauren and Louisina are two highly experienced floral artists eager to share their wisdom and passion for crafting exquisite, garden-gathered arrangements. Learn how to transform your floristry with seasonality, sustainability and beauty at the forefront.
There will be a seasonal selection of our farm-grown flowers and foliage to work with. Our workshops always use our own farm-grown flowers. We never use imported flowers, floral foam or plastic in any of our work or teaching.
Professional wedding photographs from real weddings:
Images 1, 2, 3 by Billow & Mull
Images 6 & 7 by Claire Fleck
Image 9 by Caro Weiss
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