ROSEWATER SUPPER CLUB - REVIEW

"All I can say is AMAZING! We had an idea of what we wanted as far as centerpieces, but were open to suggestions, and one I told her what our venue was she began sketching and had me sold. She designed for us exactly what we wanted but could not describe. The floral designs from Nice Stems were gorgeous, and affordable, when we mentioned a budget she did not go over it, and did as much as she could with what we had to work with. All of our guests loved the centerpieces, and Yancy and I could not have been more happy with her service and design skills. This was certainly one of our favourite vendors…we give her + Nice Stems two thumbs up…5 stars, etc!"

Wedding Tradition - Tossing the Bouquet

The bridal bouquet toss tradition goes back to 14th century France where it was believed that a bride was especially lucky on her wedding day. After the ceremony guests would try to tear a piece of fabric from the brides dress for luck. For a brief time, in an effort to stop the attacks on the bride, the bride would throw her stockings or garter. Eventually tossing the bouquet became widely used. It is said that the person who catches the bouquet is next to marry.

Most brides choose to keep their own bouquet and have a smaller one as the toss bouquet.

Some brides completely opt out of this tradition,

while others prefer to hand the bouquet to a honoured guest.

On Stage

I had the best time being on stage at Canada Blooms doing what I love most - designing with flowers. We were given a bucket filled with flowers and foliage from "Pick Ontario" growers and surprise containers to work with. With fresh tulips, gerbera daisies, green spider mums, freesia, lisianthus, aspidistra leaves, anthrium leaves and palms I created 4 unique bouquets including a tuzzy mussie I had in my tool kit. These bouquets were than offered to the audience who absolutely loved them.

CANADA IS BLOOMING...

Every year we are proud to be apart of Canada Blooms(http://www.canadablooms.com/)

This year the theme is PASSIONS. As a professional florist we are asked to create a large piece that is made of fresh product. Here is a sneak peak of our design.

If you to take a picture with our version of the Eiffel Tower send it to us at nicestems@nicestems.ca as we would love to post them on our blog.

I also had the pleasure of meeting Frankie Flowers (Frank Ferragine).

P.S - will be on stage on Saturday March 20 2010 at 4:30pm

FLORAL SUPERSTAR - CANADA BLOOMS

Weddingbells Magazine 2010

I have complied all the pages that have flowers designed by Nice Stems in Weddingbells Magazine Spring / Summer 2010.

Roses, Orchids Berries, oh my!

OLIVER & BONACINI even used one of our centerpiece we did at Canoe in their advertisment.

Weddingbells Magazine 25th Anniversary

We are so excited, we had the wonderful opportunity of having some of our florals featured in the newest issue of

Weddingbells Magazine Spring/Summer 2010.

Pick up your issue and see how many times you can spot Nice Stems.

We will be posting all the images shortly