First Wedding of the Summer Season!

Here are the pieces to the puzzle of tomorrow's wedding in Lake Louise. J is going to be beautiful bride and I love the palette of yellows and whites. Clockwise from top left, white dwarf callas, white cymbidium orchids, yellow roses (aalsmer gold), white dwarf callas, yellow freesia, mokaras and cymbids again, white hydrangea, and yellow mokaras.

Can't wait to post the final bouquets and bouts tomorrow!

La Coquette Pricing - 2009

As a Bride, I was always confused by the floral costs when I researched florists. For my clients I decided to be more transparent about the process.

I will source beautiful blooms from my wonderful wholesaler in Victoria, BC, and then arrange them for you in my home. My flat rate arranging fee reflects the average wedding. You can accessorize the plan by adding on any additional arrangements that you will require.

If you are looking to keep your floral costs down, I would love to help you choose flowers that will allow you to have the flowers of your dreams at a price you can afford. Just contact me at fleurscoquettes {at} gmail {dot} com.

The Diamond Plan - $250 ( + wholesale flower costs )

1 in-person consultation in Calgary
1 Bride’s Bouquet
1 Bride's Throw Bouquet
3 Bridesmaids Bouquets
1 Groom’s Boutonniere
3 Groomsmen Boutonnieres
2 Mother’s Corsages
2 Father’s Boutonnieres
1 Flower Girl Pomander or Posy Bouquet
1 Ring Bearer Mini-Bout

Accessorize:

· Each additional Bridesmaid’s Bouquet $25
· Each additional Bouttoniere $5
· Each additional Corsage $10
· Pearl Bracelets for Corsages $5/each
· Delivery to your home in Calgary $40
· Centrepiece arrangements - negotiable

I look forward to working with you this wedding season!

Hawaiian At-Home Reception Flowers

It is always a joy to design flowers for close friends, and when our friends B & N got married in Hawaii, we could not wait to celebrate with them back home! I created these tropical arrangements to reflect the beautiful area where they shared a small, intimate ceremony. It was so much fun to work with tropicals. Congratulations to the lovely couple!

Wedding season is coming!

December is prime engagement season. Many people get engaged at Christmas.... like moi! Thus, wedding vendors start booking up quickly for prime wedding season (summer) in the beginning of the year. I already have many weekends booked up for this summer and I am looking forward to adding more brides to my calendar. If you are looking for a wedding floral designer, email me with your date and hopefully I will be available for you!

I am so excited about the colour schemes of my weddings this year! I have a gorgeous yellow calla themed wedding, a tangerine and fuschia wedding and an elegant purple wedding. I am really enjoying working with my creative brides on beautiful arrangements for their big day. Here are some of the inspiration pictures I am working with. Feel free to send along your inspiration pictures when you drop me a line!

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

Christmas Centrepieces 2008

I am providing the centrepieces for my school Christmas party this year and I am excited about the two types we will have! Half the tables will have this branchy mirrored candleholder with tealights (found at Jysk - love that store), and half the tables will have this rose, hypericum and pinecone arrangement. They are doubling as doorprizes and I think people will be happy to take them home! Joyeux Noel!

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.