Simple Flower Arranging helps you create flower arrangements with style and flair, be it flowers for the home, a gift, or wedding flowers. Love having flowers in your house or making blooming bouquets? Be inspired by more than 60 stylish flower arrangements made simple, from vase arrangements to wedding creations. Owners of destination florist, Bloomsbury Flowers, Mark Welford and Stephen Wicks guide you through designs and techniques that allow you to create your own incredible arrangements. Key sequences are shown through step-by-steps and sumptuous photography so you can easily see how to take a simple bunch of blooms and present them with a professional touch, encouraging you to experiment with hand-tying, wire, papers and ribbons. Organized by flower type, it's easy to find flowers that you can buy in the supermarket, such as roses, lilies and sweetpeas and turn them into amazing arrangements. Simple Flower Arranging helps you to make beautiful bouquets and arrangements for every occasion, from baby celebrations to Valentine's Day and Mother's Day.

Imagine your vision of a beautiful wedding becoming reality! Create your very own floral arrangements for priceless wedding memories with a personal touch. Terry Rye, a professional florist with twenty years of experience, will teach you step-by-step how to design more than 20 stunning floral arrangements. You'll find something for every part of your wedding - from the bride's bouquet to boutonnieres, from pew decorations to table centerpieces and wedding cake toppers. Whether you are the bride-to-be, a member of the wedding party, a friend or an aspiring floral designer, this book is your guide to easily creating beautiful wedding florals with striking results. Plenty of tips and ideas make the experience rewarding and enjoyable, including: Wedding Flower Planning: Learn to select the flowers that will reflect your personal style, coordinate with your overall color scheme and stay within your budget Basic Floral Arranging Techniques: Discover the best way to cut, arrange and preserve flowers, with suggestions for using alternate color schemes or silk flowers Bow Making 101: Find out how to make the right bow to complement any bouquet

RusticWeddingChic.com is the number one online resource for rustic & country weddings. Rustic weddings are the hottest alternative to the traditional hotel ballroom, allowing couples to make their day more personal. Maggie Lord, founder of RusticWeddingChic.com shares inspiration, ideas and advice on planning a rustic and country wedding. Get an insider’s look at real weddings set in rustic locations, country and farm destinations, and backyard venues, all with an independent, eco-friendly and creative approach. Rustic Wedding Chic is also the inspiration for a collection of rustic wedding favors and goods from Whispering Pines.

With 30 projects and an introduction to both crafting paper flowers and working with crepe paper, this book is full of inspiration and expert advice for beginners. If you have a Cricut Maker, you can download the templates to your machine so you can enjoy your own homemade bouquets in no time. Crepe paper is the best material for creating paper flowers, especially for beginners. It's forgiving and malleable--easy to cut, bend, curl, and shape into peony petals, daffodil trumpets, chrysanthemum blooms, and more. And if you have a Cricut Maker, you can easily cut out the shapes from templates you download for free on Lia Griffith's website using a code. Then, follow instructions for crafting the flowers to arrange and display in vases and pots and as bouquets and wreaths.

Make your wedding extraordinary with these inspired floral creations! For years to come, the colors and fragrances of your wedding flowers will be potent reminders of the big event. Now you can make those memories last forever with New Inspirations in Wedding Florals - a completely illustrated guide to making unique, innovative and exciting floral designs. Terry Rye provides step-by-step guidelines and expert advice for creating beautiful floral arrangements that reflect your taste and personality, look professional and are sure to make the big day unforgettable. It's like having your very own wedding floral consultant! You'll find 28 unique, beautiful projects with variations and clear instructions that will help make your wedding more special than you ever imagined. Projects include something for every aspect of your wedding: • Bridal and bridesmaids' bouquets • Corsages, boutonnieres and flower girl accessories • Arrangements for the ceremony including pew decorations • Table centerpieces and wedding cake tops for the reception and more! Also included are planning tips, budgeting ideas and the best ways to choose a theme to create elegance and add a creative, personal touch. Bouquet projects include: • Pearl and Ribbon Bouquet • Gardenia Tassel Bouquet • Ivy Collar Clutch Bouquet • Victorian Holiday Bouquet • Cascade Nouveau Bouquet • Exotic Calla Lily Bouquet • Rosy Biedermeier Bouquet • Autumn Daisy Bouquet • Trailing Orchid Bouquet • Garden-Inspired Bouquet

A companion to the popular website APracticalWedding.com and A Practical Wedding Planner, A Practical Wedding helps you sort through the basics to create the wedding you want -- without going broke or crazy in the process. After all, what really matters on your wedding day is not so much how it looked as how it felt. In this refreshing guide, expert Meg Keene shares her secrets to planning a beautiful celebration that reflects your taste and your relationship. You'll discover: The real purpose of engagement (hint: it's not just about the planning) How to pinpoint what matters most to you and your partner DIY-ing your wedding: brilliant or crazy? How to communicate decisions to your family Why that color-coded spreadsheet is actually worth it Wedding Zen can be yours. Meg walks you through everything from choosing a venue to writing vows, complete with stories and advice from women who have been in the trenches: the Team Practical brides. So here's to the joyful wedding, the sensible wedding, the unbelievably fun wedding! A Practical Wedding is your complete guide to getting married with grace.

The ultimate guidebook to creating a dazzling one-of-a-kind bouquet and other wedding floral arrangements. Whether seeking to create your own unique bouquet or plan the entire floral arrangement for your wedding, Bridal Bouquets is full of tips and useful information to help you make your wedding exactly as you want it to be. Don't settle for cookie cutter designs. Be extraordinary. * A comprehensive guide to planning your flowers, including ordering, storage, delivery and set up* Use your colors, themes and more in the right place for the perfect lookInspirational and instructional, Bridal Bouquets helps you to plan your flowers with care.