Weddingbells Magazine 2010 /2011

WOW its been a busy 2010
Don't worry we have taken a million photos and some wicked videos of all our weddings and will be posting them up more regularly in the next few weeks
Heres one of our recent boquets featured in Weddingbells Magazine.

NICE STEMS - www.nicestems.com

Nice Stems is located at 102 Hallam Street, Toronto Ontario M6H 1W8.

We are the only shop in Toronto exclusively providing Wedding Flowers. This means that all our attention is on our couple and their wedding. We are so detail oriented and love being apart of such a special day, we can provide you with bouquets, corsages and boutonnieres, aisle decor, swags, aisle runner, ceremony arrangements, chuppah, candles, centerpieces, headtable arrangements and more. If you would like to book a consultation with Nice Stems please do so by filling out our online questionnaire (this helps us check for availability and zone in on the details for your wedding), we are "By Appointment Only" as that allows us to give you our undivided attention. The consultation is about an hour long and you will be able to view our portfolio (images that we have photographed ourselves) and ask any questions you see fit.

Here's the link to the online questionnaire.

http://www.nicestems.ca/Toronto%20Wedding%20Florist%20Nice%20Stems%20Consultation.htm

http://www.nicestems.com/

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