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| Photo by Jon Jarvela |
Sometimes, I am asked to provide the simplest of wedding flower orders - a bride's bouquet and a groom's boutonniere. I find that these weddings are really memorable, because so much effort goes into making the one bouquet and buttonhole just right. In Autumn 2016, I was asked to do a simple bouquet and boutonniere for a couple who were getting married in the Huon Valley.
The bride provided some pictures of the styles and colours she loved. The inspiration came when I saw what the groom had picked out to wear.
I loved the sage green in the tie, and the golden yellow and apricot too. I decided to go for a bouquet with plenty of creamy white and green, with touches of apricot and bronzy gold.
For the bridal bouquet I used a Protea White Ice, two types of banksia - Banksia Baxterii, the Birdsnest Banksia, and Banksia Marginata, a local native. Brunia Albiflora in full flower was used along with flowering Eucalyptus Cordata, usually used as a cut foliage. The apricot came with the use of Fountain Pincushion and Leucadendron Safari Goldstrike whose new growth is tinged with a pinkish bronze.
The foliage I used includes Grevillea, again with a bronze new growth tips, flowering lemon-scented Leptospermum and the shimmering Leucadedron Argenteum or Silver Tree. You can also see, peeping out on the left of the above photo, some creamy Leucadendron Pisa cones with their outer bracts removed.
Other foliage included Eucalyptus Cordata, and some Cootamundra wattle in bud.
For the groom, I used a small Banksia Marginata in creamy yellow, Grevillea foliage with an orange bud, Cootamundra Wattle with its little buds, tea tree (Leptospermum) and Eucalyptus foliage.
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| Photo by Jon Jarvela |
Autumn weddings in Tasmania really are special!
