Hearts galore, flowers and more
Feb 15th, 2009 by Sam
Well, I just spent the day with my friend who is going to be doing my flowers for me.
It was so exciting although the rest of the family got a bit bored by us poring over various websites to get ideas.
The plan so far is to use flowers that various members of the family have grown, but I’ve a feeling these will have to be supplemented by some bought in ones. I spend as much of life outdoors as possible, which generally means my garden so this is a really important part of the planning for me.
Flower power?
As hard as I tried it proved difficult to find things that will be in flower at the end of May – it’s kind of in between Spring and Summer as far as flowers go… Anyway, we’ll keep our fingers crossed with what we’ve got (late tulips, camassias, alliums, foxgloves if you’re interested).
Our venue will let us use any greenery from the woods, so that’s great. We are visiting the local town in a few weeks, and are planning on checking out the florists, to see how helpful they are. I had a look into other ethical flower suppliers, but the costs just added up (Graham said “Do we actually need flowers?” I said “!!!!!!” I’m beginning to think he doesn’t know me so well after all…).
So, it may be that we end up with a lot of greenery, which is fine with me – I want things as natural as possible, and the place itself was smothered with wild flowers when we visited last year.
Episode list for Desperate Housewives film I do want a bouquet and flowers in my hair (I’m a bit of a hippy at heart) – not sure how foxgloves might do for those. I’m trying now to relinquish control to my friend, but it’s hard!
Fair of heart
While we were visiting we took a little walk down to a marina development near them and stumbled across a Fairtrade gift shop. Valentine’s Day! How great! It was full of hearts – some wicker ones and some tin ones, which I snapped up. We seem to have found ourselves a “theme” without really meaning too. Decorations are about as far as it will go though.
I have also found the fantastic Eco My Party where I have bought some paper heart garlands and wicker stars. Check it out!
A DIY wedding
While at my friend’s house, we had a rummage in her workshop (she is an upholsterer) and she gave me some fantastic material offcuts. Another very talented friend is going to make me some bunting, and now I don’t have to buy the material! It was such a great day!
We did originally think we would make it ourselves, making it very roughly with a staple gun to attach the triangles, but my friend decided she would make it for our wedding present. (My daughter will love it in her room afterwards)
Sorry about the proliferation of exclamation marks in this post – I think you can tell how much I am enjoying the DIY. In fact, while walking into work this morning I thought “Hmmm, maybe I should become an ethical wedding planner” – let’s see how I feel when it’s all over. At the moment my brain is in overdrive and I may have blown a gasket before the big day.
Unfortunately, neither of my lovely friends have offered to make the dress, but I’ll leave that story until another day.
Thanks for the tip about eco-my-party! Finally a shop that sells fairtrade balloons in single colours! Yey!
Our venue will look very happy indeed with those all over it! 
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I loved your post. You sound so excited; I’m sure the flowers or greenery will be beautiful. My mom is growing our flowers, I’m a little luckier in getting married the end of June. Do you know how you are going to put flowers in your hair? I want to do the same and am looking for some samples. I don’t want anything too fakey looking but I’d like them to stay in place and not have to worry about them.