What I Did This Week

I used to manage a floral shop, but quit when I got married.  I loved my job.  It was absolutely the best.  But life does take us down different paths, and it was time for me to do something else.  I do still, though, make flowers for the occasional wedding.  You can see the pictures from my niece's wedding here, and I'm now going to show you the pretties I made on Friday.

Andrea Pearson (now Andrea Skinner) has been a good friend of mine for the last year, and when she started planning her wedding, I browbeat her into letting me volunteered to do her flowers.  Here's what we did:

Here is her beautiful bouquet of roses, daisies, ivy, babies' breath, and tree fern. 

You can also see the groom's flowers in the background.

Closeup of bouquet - with smooching lovebirds in background.

Here are the parents' flowers.  Oh, and the parents, too ...

Here is a group shot of the flowers together,

with their matching people.

Here is a close-up of the cake.  Man, a good photographer makes

all the difference in the world.

Here's a full shot of the cake.  Disclaimer: I did not make

the cake.  I just put the flowers on it.

Yep, it was a lot of fun.  But I'm glad I don't do weddings often - there's a lot of stress.  What if it doesn't turn out right?  What if ... oh, I don't know ... the bride is walking out of the temple and all the roses start to fall out of the bouquet?

Don't believe such a thing could happen? Well ...

This would be the picture taken right after two of the trailing roses fell out onto the pavement outside the temple.  Yeah.  I was standing right there and was able to make some repairs, and then later in the evening, made some more repairs ... there was a foam vs. rose stem thing happening, over which I had no control, but we all survived, and I do believe Andrea and Nolan will live happily ever after anyway.

My thanks to Glenn Pearson for letting me use his amazing pictures - seriously, if you need a photographer in the Utah Valley area, you should look Glenn up.