Meaningful and Beautiful Bouquets

I love Christmas break because it means I can spend some time meeting with clients and planning for the upcoming wedding season. I also have time to browse the web for inspiration! I hope you enjoy these bouquet pictures I found and loved!

I love The Knot for their oodles of pictures and endless inspiration.

But, I am always on the lookout for the newest sites and magazines. My friend Lisa at Blush Events told me about Bride and Bloom this summer and I have been hooked ever since. They feature really high-end, interesting and unique flowers and  their website does not disappoint. Check it out for gorgeous floral inspiration and fantastic articles to help you plan your wedding.

They have a fabulous selection of bouquet pictures to browse and some particularly inventive boutonnieres and corsages. 

I loved this comprehensive list of flowers and their meanings. What will your bouquet mean? I was glad to read that my wedding bouquet of roses meant Love, magic, ultimate beauty, and perfection.

Roses are one of my favourite flowers to work with because they can be mixed with many non-floral elements (like feathers or pearls) to create a unique bouquet at a very reasonable price. They are hardy and hold up well in cold or hot weather, and they make a beautifully shaped bouquet. Which reminds me, I need to slip out and get some roses for my Christmas centrepieces! So much to do! Happy Holidays!

x0x0 Morgan

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!

Pretty Peonies

Here are some pictures of the part silk, part fresh bouquet I created as a sample for a July 12th bride. The fresh peonies have filled my house with their beautiful, intoxicating smell, and the roses left over from last weeks wedding worked well with the silk hydrangea and ranunculus to give this bride an idea of what I will create for her big day.

The baby's breath bouquet picture is courtesy of http://www.realsimple.com/ and is such a sweet and innocent bouquet for a flowergirl to carry (and very economical too!)

I am looking forward to posting pictures of the real bouquets in two weeks!