Maple vine doesn’t do well out of water so we needed to make sure they were designed into water in the cemetery vases. Everything was brought to the venue in buckets of water fully conditioned and hydrated. Greenery: Salal, Italian ruscus, oak leaves, leather leaf, Baby Blue eucalyptus, maple vine, myrtle, olive branches, cotinus (smoke bush)Īny special care and conditioning instructions?Īll of the flowers and foliage were conditioned the day before in our studio.Antique Pink hydrangea ( Hydrangea macrophylla).The chicken wire and cemetery vases were zip tied to the arch frame. We also used the cemetery vases as previously mentioned 6 per side. Next, we built out the sides and top curve of the arch with ½ a roll of coated chicken wire (12” wide). We set the arch rental in place and weighted the bottom with weights. The bride had previously sent us measurements of the doorway of the church so I secured this arch afterwards knowing it would fit. Once flowers and greenery were added it measured closer to 7ft wide by 9ft tall. So basically the arch was 5ft by 8ft tall. The side pieces were 69″ tall and the arch that then gets placed on top is another 28″ at the highest point of the archway. We rented a wrought iron arch from a local Calgary rental company. The evening of the wedding the couple stayed in Banff and two designers from our team went to the Fairmont Banff Springs to set up a garland style table centerpiece and dropped off the repurposed flowers. It took 2 hours to disassemble the arch and repurpose the flowers into about 20 different vases (supplied by the bride) so that she could have them at their home the following day for a family dinner. She was also sweeping up and cleaning up after the 3 of us to keep things tidy and to limit clean up at the very end. Three of us were setting up the arch, mechanics and doing the actual designing and one of our team members was water tubing the flowers that needed to have a water source. Including drive time, loading and unloading, it was a 12 hour day for all of us and took 2 vehicles.įrom the time we arrived at the venue it took 4 designers 4 hours to fully install this arch. IPhone images How many people worked on it?Ĥ of us. It was a second wedding with only 11 guests so they wanted a grand entrance but didn’t need to go too over the top. Due to budget constraints we scaled down the look. The bride’s inspiration came from this wedding with flowers designed by All For Love London. I’ve used them multiple times in large installations on stairs and in archways since then. I was first enlightened to these as a mechanic in wedding work at the Chapel Designers workshop in London in 2015 when Shane Connelly did a large urn demonstration using them. Knowing I wanted the arch to be 100% foam free, I drew on mechanics I’d previously used for other installations such as the cemetery vase (funeral cones). I didn’t have a drawing but I had inspiration images that the bride had provided. IPhone image Did you have a drawing prior to the execution? We’re excited for you to learn a bit about her process. Janie is always generous with her time and knowledge, so she offered to share a behind-the-scenes look at the process with the BB Community. Because it was designed by floral artist and flower friend, Janelle Gerestein (Janie) at Flowers by Janie, we reached out to ask her about the mechanics and process she used to design and install the stunning arch. Recently, an image of a floral arch caught our attention.
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