Daniel Ost

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Wedding in Dijon, France

Please enjoy the following pictures from a typical wedding in France:

These are their wedding cakes. They are made out of cream puffs! And built into a very tall tower. The bride and groom do not take anything home, the guests eat everything.
This week I am working for Christelle Rousselet at 'Ca Sent Beau' in Dijon, France

The bride asked for us to decorate a backdrop and some drapery above too.

She had a fairly simple arrangement for her buffet and for her centerpieces.

I loved the headtable with the freshcut ivy and david austin roses mixed throughout the ivy.

The chandelier was made by Christelle using paper-mache. Perfect addition to the room with the suspended roses!
Another European tradition to make a beautiful arrangement on the car.
This is a picture of one of the sweet little flower girls! I loved the way it turned out!

Orchid farm

While in England I participated in a little bit of Orchid paradise!

Me, Al, Brenda, Susan and Tiffany all went together! Enjoy!


This one was huge!!
Hanging orchids are darling!
This one looks more like a spider than an orchid.
Growing vertically out of bark, that's an idea.
These look just like a star!
Touching this one felt like a very hard plastic bowl. Very interesting experience.
Get a close look! These are little tiny baby orchids! I could hardly believe my eyes!

Floral supplies in Torquay, England

So many more selections of beads and sands!
Check out the variety of colored wire and the sizes, flat and round.
Even the bouillon wire, lots more to choose from than I normally have access to.
The design pins that they have there are also massive. I love them!
Isn't that interesting...a corsage badge for gluing your corsage flowers.
They even sold jewelry that was ready to adorn with flowers!
This is something that is becoming popular out there, the meshed/woven ribbon. Lots of fun new things to be done with that!

Wedding Bouquet

In Europe one of the techniques is to wire every single individual flower before they put it in the bouquet. Kind of crazy! So we practiced that technique and it ended up really cute!

What do you think of the wrap? I did it with a aubergine rope, tapering down to a point and finishing it off with a pearl pin.

1st stop Danae Fleur

These are just a couple of the hand-tied bouquets that we started off with in France!

They use Peonies in everything!! If only that were the same in the states!

I am in France!!

I am in France and do not have access to the internet so I will not be able to post pictures for a little while. But I am learning a lot about the design out here!! I can not wait to tell you more!!

Brussels with Thierry Boutemy

Here are a few of the hand tied bouquets that I made today. I will try to come back and give you more details! Gorgeous flowers!!

Floral design in Europe!!

In just a few days I will be half way across the world studying floral design at 7 different flower shops! I leave for a 2 month long trip to travel all around Europe on May 2nd, 2011! I have been connected with a wonderful lady who lives in Brussels and has coordinated the whole thing for me to study with the top floral designers out there. We will spend a week in each city/country!

Starting in Brussels then to Lyon, France for 2 weeks, afterwards to Paris, London, then Torquay, England, back to Paris and around France, last stop back in Brussels!
I can hardly believe it! It seems to be a dream to me! I have been trying to learn french but it's not coming super easy. Lol! So we will see how everything goes.So I'm super excited! I'm just going with the flow of life wherever it takes me. It's tons of fun! I really do love my life! I will do my best to blog once a week so that you can all see how it's going! So stay tuned!! Spread the word, you will get to see some new trends coming from Europe! I can't wait to share my experience with you!!