I'm Kally Ellis and I owned the McQueens flowers, it started 18 years ago and were well-known for our contemporary designs primarily although we do everything across the board. we don’t pitch hard on our selves we cover all aspects of floweriest including weddings, all events, contracts and retail floristries as well. The most common problem you might find with whether lots of our brides coming to see us is that they really don’t have a clue on what they want, my advice to them usually when I initially take the phone call from them is to bring anything they have to hand that would help me help them. For instance if they’d be inflicting through the magazines, if they can bring the tear sheets with them. If know what they're wearing that always helps, the shape of the dress particularly that’s incredibly useful in terms of deciding on the shape and style of the bouquet and then we just run promoting ideas.
I might ask what they're favorite color is or they're favorite flower or perhaps what's the bridesmaids are wearing to perhaps the start of theme going I think its really important to have a theme for your wedding flowers, so its not hildy bildy so it all just runs smoothly together. Here at McQueens were well-known for a lot of our signature designs where well-known for being obviously contemporary and lot of our designs tend to be very simple with a twist for instance some will use monochrome colors. We try not to mixed varieties, flower varieties and we always like to add a little twist what be it a twist of a leaf, a flex of a piece of grass or an angle of a flower. These are small details really for us that make a huge difference.
The worst possible thing for me is to make flowers do something unnatural I hate using wire in our wedding work I think it makes it stiff, it doesn’t allow to move freely. For instance in wedding bouquets mean for me the wide bouquet is that a thing of history. There is no real time scale as when a bride should come and see us about their wedding flowers but generally flowers is one of the last things they’ll do, they're generally put the church, put the venue, choose their dress and then come to us. I think probably the only thing after us would be the cake.
Obviously today everybody is very budget conscious and my advice would be to keep it simple and stick to seasoned flowers and whatever possible British flowers. A typical quest from a bride would be starting from her bridal bouquet, the buttonholes of the sleeve for the groom, for the ushers, bridesmaid’s bouquets. These days headdresses are sort of a thing of the past. Moving on to the church definitely something up with the alter and appearance. Just give it that romantic feel and that’s of ceremonial feel. And then into the venue for the reception, the table center is definitely a masterpiece this days. It was very popular of very height table centers. We do love a lot of candelabra arrangements as well as on contemporary glass vesicles as well. And certainly the—not bare minimum but the absolute must have.
Here we have a really typical bridal bouquet its simple, its dome shaped, its very neat, its got a lovely detail at the binding point here with the pearl pen. And in my other hand is here is a much smaller bouquet which we would normally use as a bridesmaids bouquet again very simple, very pure and again with the small detail the two small pins.
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