Pretty Pretty Petals
Lest you fear that I don’t have serious love for flowers of ALL stripes, I give you… The Tale of our Trip to The LA Flower Mart!
So one day last September, the obsessive planner/crazy-bride-to-be in me had a brilliant idea- we should go to the flower mart to scout the types of flowers that would be available next year! (Did I say brilliant? I may have meant cuckoo…) But I didn’t stop there! Nope! I figured we could even make a few arrangements to test drive the milk glass that was already taking over our kitchen island. Yay! So I quickly threw together a flower inspiration board to guide our journey:
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The following day, in honor of our wedding being less than one year away and both of us having a surprise day off today, we headed down to the LA Flower Mart to check out what’s available. It’s a pretty quick walk from our house, and thank god, because the day was seriously TOASTY. The kind of TOASTY that LA could use right. about. now. You hear that rain? Anyhoo.
It was nice and cool in the Flower Mart. We made a big loop and then headed back to the stalls we liked to grab flowers for our test centerpieces.
Here’s a few shots of us with all our loot:
We made it back home, downed some water, and started stripping leaves, and cutting the flowers down to create these:
**Note: if you’re allergic to pollen/flowers/all-that’s-pretty, suck back the claritin/zyrtec/benadryl BEFORE you start this project. These beauties caused a full scale allergy fiasco for F Stripes and we’ll (I’ll) definitely be doing the pre-wedding arranging elsewhere. (Hint. Hint. J Stripe)
Allergies aside, it was pretty easy and only took about an hour or so. And the best part? All those beautiful flowers only cost $40. Yup. Serious pretty, serious cheap.
Next time I want to incorporate succulents/billy buttons into the arrangements, but all-in-all I’m pretty happy with the way they turned out! Now because it was so much fun the first time around and because we live crazy close to the Flower Mart, I’m thinking of doing another test drive some day soon….
Any words of advice or are you leaving flowers up to a professional/enthusiastic friend or relative?
Hey there, found your blog from your wedding bee post…I just wanted to let you know I love, love, love the flower arrangements! I am also thinking of doing my own, but haven’t decided yet since the days leading up to the wedding will already be nuts. I am going to add you to my blog list and hope that you will stop by my and check mine out!
Just discovered your blog. Pretty flowers? Awesome style? Short, girly dresses? I’m so there. Can’t wait to read what’s next.
oh my god. these are effing gorgeous. i can’t even stand it. pink snapdragons are my favorite. you want to come to massachusetts in july and whip some of these bad boys up for me!??
hell yes i want to come to massachusetts and whip up some flowers! just tell me when! lol.