Tall White Feather Floral Arrangement For Weddings

Hello and welcome to my blog. There is nothing more elegant than tables for your wedding adorned with tall beautiful floral arrangements. Now don’t get worried that it could cost you a fortune because really there are ways to make a statement with out the extreme cost. Now the point is the taller the arrangement the easier for people to see each other across the table, you don’t want something that is going to be eye level where it could be very distracting. I like the really tall arrangements myself because I just think they stand out more, especially if the ceilings are tall. Glass containers are wonderful, pretty much anything looks good in them. If you think you want to try one of my arrangements in this post and you haven’t any floral experience I will show you how to step by step, I understand that you may just be starting out doing this but I will try to explain as if I myself did not know anything about floral, and believe me I understand how difficult first time doing things can be very frustrating. This post will be longer than any other post because I really want to help you, and not just post a lot of pictures that are going to confuse you. We will start out with products you will need

1   White floral garland (6' long) (purchased at Michaels Arts  & Crafts)

2.  Glue gun and glue sticks
3.  Wide clear tape, (like packing tape)
4.  Wire cutters
5.  White foam ball 6"
7.  6 tall white calla lilies
8.  7 large white feathers
9.  1 tall vase (opening at top of vase is about 7" wide)
10. One box of white rose pedals
11. 2 bags of clear marbles

Now before you go out and buy your materials remember that checking your paper for coupons and sales will drastically bring down cost. Example (you can go to Michael's Arts and Crafts or other crafts stores that have coupons for up to 50% in either the weekend paper or on there web site. To be able to get the coupons on line you will have to register with Michael's and then they will send you coupons, and information on special offers. Watch for there 50% off sales on spring stems.

        
Step 1 is to fill the vase with marbles and then top with white rose pedals. The marbles will help weigh the vase down just in case it gets top heavy, and the rose pedals are just to give a soft texture for inside the vase
                                      
                                    

Step 2 is to insert your 6" white Styrofoam ball into the vase and hot glue it by adding glue around the top of vase.  If your vase at the top is wider than 7" wide than you will have to buy a larger styrofoam ball. 

                                                           

            
                       

Step 3 is to wrap wide clear tape around the top of the vase including about an inch of the styrofoam ball to make sure that the Styrofoam ball is secure. It is always safe to make sure that everything will stay in place.  I always do this because glue by itself sometimes doesn't hold well on glass surfaces.

                                    
                                               
Step 4 is to cut your calla lily stems the length that you want them, usually around 24" tall and insert them into the top of the white ball. Make sure they are all the same length.


                                         
Step 5  After you had added all 6 of your calla lily stems you are now ready to wrap the white ball with your 6 foot white floral garland. You start at the top and keep wrapping the ball until it's covered using floral pins to keep it in place, Floral pins can be found in any craft store. 





Step 6 After you've wrapped all the garland around the Styrofoam ball it should look like this.

 
Step 7 is to cut your large white feathers so that there not too long before inserting them into the Styrofoam ball. You can begin by placing them into the top around the base of the calla lily stems.





AS you can see in the picture the feathers were inserted all at the top of the arrangement .                                

              

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Flowers Are Musical Notes to Gods Melody

The beauty of flowers is everywhere you go.  Like music they spread joy and help us to heal.  Some speak louder than others like a sounding trumpet, while others speak softly like a distant violin.  It Doesn't matter how loud or faint they are heard as long as the heart can hear them they will spread happiness. Each  pedal plays out a note from a classical masterpiece.  They are the song writers of earths musical garden in which we live.  Look at the flowers as children do, hear them with your eyes and see with your hearing.  Find the flower that you keep inside and make them known.  

It's not hard to see why children are drawn to the vibrant colors of flowers.  Every flower has it's own meaning and  it's own sound.  Each one is different, not all the same as in every child, not all heard with the same voice.  Flowers play out a beautiful song when taken the time to listen.  There are symphonies playing in every garden, ask the children they know, they hear them, they remember their song.

If you click on this link you will see a video created with spring flowers, and a recent release of Mike Fisher's song  "A Quiet Ride Home". 

Wedding Cakes That Won't Make You Gain Weight

                 

Anybody that knows me knows that I love wedding cake.  The more frosting the better.  If you are planning a wedding and really would like to have something different for table centerpieces you may like the idea of making a glass cake.  They are very easy to make and you can buy most of the supplies at Michael's Arts and Crafts.  In this post I have created several different versions of the cake.  Some with orchids, some with roses.  Combining the concept of an ice sculpture and a wedding cake was the inspiration to this design.   

 

Turn the vases upside down first,  For this black and white cake you will need 2 different kinds of ribbon, brand name (Celebrate It) from Michael's Arts and Crafts., 3 glass square vases (sizes 7", for bottom layer), (4", for middle layer), (3" for top),  1-Classic Traditions white garland.  I removed some of the leaves from the garland to put around the cake and some of the roses for the top and corners.  I also added some cream  roses to give a more realistic look.  The diamond like stones were then hot glued onto the white leaves.  They can be purchased at Michael's in with the stickers.  The product name was Crystal Stickers.  If you register with Michael's they will send you coupons.     

Above is shown another version of the cake arrangement using orchids cut into sections, adding a flower to each corner and a spray at the top with white satin ribbon added around the base of each layer.  Shown below are the vases separated and used as vases for small table top arrangements.