La Coquette's Breakfast Television Debut!

When my friend Andra from http://iloveweddings.blogspot.com/ contacted me about using some of my floral designs for her segment on BT tomorrow morning I jumped at the chance! She will be speaking about 5 things that brides can do to make their wedding unique and one of them is using silk flowers mixed with fresh for a vibrant and hardy bouquet.
I decided to do one modern and funky bouquet (featuring purple tulips, oxalis and dragon fern with red roses) and a more traditional and feminine bouquet (featuring fresh roses and alstromeria, and silk snowball flower, snowberries and pearls). I am so excited to see them on the small screen tomorrow morning!

A couple notes about why the mixture of silk and fresh is a recipe for success:

Using silk flowers is a fabulous way to incorporate flowers that:
- may be out of season at the time of your wedding
- are difficult to find or very expensive to buy fresh
- are vibrant and unique colours (made to match the rest of your wedding decor!)
- wilt easily in the sun or cold

La Coquette Floral Design works with fresh, silk or a combination of the two to produce artistic and unique floral arrangements for the modern bride. Mixing fresh flowers in with silks blends them into a beautiful fragrant bouquet and most will be surprised to find that silks are present in the bouquet.

La Coquette sources only the highest quality silks (most definitely not the ones you would see in Wal-Mart or the dollar store) and can help you in making the decision to go with silk, fresh or both for your big day. We also offer a silk buy-back system that can save you money! If you return the silk flowers after your wedding, we can offer a portion of your floral cost back to you. Please contact me at fleurscoquettes@gmail.com for more information.

Fresh Fall Wedding - 2008 pricing example

I get a lot of brides asking about my pricing, so I thought I would use today's fresh fall wedding as an example.

The colours - cream, green and vintage pink. The flowers - fresh hydrangea, roses, lisianthus, hypericum and Israeli Ruscus.

Of course, prices vary depending on flowers, time of year and type of arrangements.....but hopefully this gives you a good idea of what a La Coquette wedding costs.

xoxo Morgan

Brides Bouquet - $125.


Bridesmaid's bouquets - $60 each. Eskimo Roses, hypericum, Israeli Ruscus.



Peas in a pod ringbearer bout $5. Hypericum and Ruscus leaf.

Mother and Grandmother pin-on corsages $12/each. Lisianthus, mini hydrangea, alstromeria, hypericum and Israeli Ruscus.

Men's bouts (middle row) - $8 each. Lisianthus, hypericum and Israeli Ruscus.

Warm Pastel Bouquets

I love this colour combination of orange silk ranunculus, pale yellow silk peonies, and fresh ivory roses, mini green hydrangea and alstromeria. And I am in floral design love with pearl bracelets as corsages! What a wonderful idea! I need to order oodles more of these!

To the bride-to-be - Have a great wedding day, enjoy every minute!

Peonies, Hydrangea, Ranunculus Oh My!

This weekend's wedding incorporated my favourite summer flowers - fresh peonies. Their scent is gorgeous (I wish I could make the pictures scratch and sniff!) and when mixed with fresh roses, silk ranunculus and hydrangea the bouquets were both fragrant and beautiful. I have to say my favourite bouquet for this event was the babies breath flowergirl bouquet in a full ribbon wrap. It was so sweet and innocent and turned out beautifully. The bouts incorporated salal leaves, alstromeria, waxflower and twigs, and a rose for the groom. The mother's corsages were silk orchids and sprigs of heather - a dramatic look on a ribbon bracelet. Congratulations to the bride - it was a beautiful day for a wedding!