The past weekend we did flowers for a bride who was married at The Williamsburg Lodge. Since it was a holiday week, we had to get the flowers in on Wednesday. They arrive in large, flat cardboard boxes, usually with exotic labels from places like Columbia or Nicaragua. I had a picture of the boxes all stacked but didn’t have memory card in camera—still trying to remember these little details necessary for blogging!
It takes several hours to open, re-cut, and condition the flowers. Here is a photo of them all in buckets waiting their turn to be used.
However, they had to wait until Friday because we all had to celebrate the Fourth! It is a big deal in our neighborhoods with lots of kids, dogs, strollers, bikes—-and whatever else creative folks come up with.
On Friday, we started working on the flowers. We worked on the juleps cups first. There were 75 of them. Packed them up and put them in the storage bathroom—the coolest place in the shop. (I know you are thinking “Storage bathroom”? It is an extra bathroom that we turned in to a storage space because WE DON’T HAVE ENOUGH!)
Next up were the bouquets, boutonnieres and corsages. They always get a special space in the fridge—we put the wine down in the bins!
Saturday morning we finished everything and loaded up ready to head to Williamsburg, BUT my battery was dead.
