Another FairyTale comes true...

I was just asked by another of my girlfriends if I would do the flowers for her wedding.

I love weddings. I love everything they represent. I love the hopes and the dreams. I love watching someone, two people become one in the covenant relationship that God the Father ordained and set in motion. I love my friend, Karissa. So yeah. No brainer. I am doing the flowers for her wedding.

We are still in the beginning stages. Although she has chosen colors, I don't even know the date yet, but I have already an idea of what she is going to like. Karissa and I have been through a lot. She deserves the best and I hope with all my heart, this marriage will be the end of an era of sorrow and loss and be the beginning of the fulfillment of those hopes and dreams that were so cruelly snatched from her. I look forward to seeing more into her heart and creating bouquets that reflect her heart.

So while I was looking in my floral files on the computer, I thought I would share a couple of my  favorite wedding bouquets I have been honored to make for friends...

This is Lacey. Lacey and I met just as she was turning 14 and came to my riding and boarding stables. She was a junior riding instructor for me and I consider her a daughter of my heart...

 

I loved the colors she chose...purple and turquoise! I had so much fun putting these together and the best compliment I received was hearing her tell someone at the wedding, "The flowers were EXACTLY what I wanted!" I used Antique Dutch Hydrangeas, deep purple lysianthus and lavender Ecuadorian roses. I placed Swarovski crystal brooches in her bouquet and finished it with peacock feathers. I also used peacock feathers in the boutonnieres and corsages. I got to do all her bridesmaids bouquets as well! I had SO much fun as I don't always get to work with REAL flowers. Such a treat!

 

 

My friend, Laura, chose to have me craft her bouquet from her wedding dress from her first wedding. Her husband passed away, and she raised her children on her own. When her kids were raised, Laura met the love of her life and began again, so it seemed fitting that we should use her first wedding dress because we knew that her first husband would not only approve of this marriage, but be with her as she walked down the aisle...

 

 

 

I used so many vintage fabrics in her bouquet. Many years ago, I had been to an estate auction where I had found an old tattered box of laces. Some were wound on old postcards, others preserved between tissue paper. Some of those postcards were dated back to the late 1800s! I also snagged some brocades at that same auction and incorporated those as well. The brooches were sent to me by Laura and each had some special meaning for her and her daughter, who served as her Maid of Honor. They called me when the bouquets arrived at her home and I could hardly understand what they were saying between the tears... I am glad Laura was happy with these, because many prayers and good thoughts went into each stitch I sewed.

 

 

I look forward to what I can create for Karissa. And I guess I have to admit that I am a tad envious. Like the song says, "I guess I must be wishing on someone else's star. It seems that someone else keeps getting what I'm wishing for"...

 

I did a stupid thing a while back. I was feeling lonely, a new town, a new job...so I joined one of those dating sites for mature people. I just thought it would be nice to find someone who wanted to hit the trails on horseback, but HOLY GUACAMOLE! Do NOT believe it when they say mature men...that was just plain SCARY.

 



 

I paid for a month, but ended up deleting my profile a week in and wasted that money because I simply got scared. Dating is not what it used to be. Apparently, I am too old fashioned for that sort of venue. I was spoken to in the most ungentlemanly like manner, pressured to meet guys before I even got to know their last names, propositioned for....well anyways, it was TOTALLY not for me!

 

Unfortunately, the one man I met that was a true possibility of becoming something more, got left behind in my haste to get the heck out of there. (HOWEVER, I have noticed that he has found my website and business FaceBook page, so I am hopeful that we can begin a friendship and see what transpires. We shall see, eh?)

 

In the meantime, I will dream of making Karissa's bouquets and live vicariously. It is a lot safer that way.