Flowers - Flowers - Flowers

Last year was a hudge year for our family.  

Our daughter said 'Yes' to the love of her life when he asked her to marry him.  

The biggest part of the whole build up to the Wedding was that they both decided that they would get married in a 200 year old church in his home town.  The whole family were excited as we had to travel from Australia to England to be part of the happy event.  This was going to be a 'First' for both my husband and myself as we had never been to England or Europe so decided to make a big holiday of it. 

The part that I thought would be hardest was organising a wedding from so far away but my daughter is so well organised she achieved it making it look so easy. 

However, she did decide that she wanted Mummy made flowers

 - so started a year of flowers - flowers - flowers. 

To begin with we had to find the design of the flower that she wanted, then the type of paper and finally the size of the flowers. 

Needless to say I spent a year cutting little bits of paper up, folding them, gluing each petal together and then putting the five petals together on a piece of florist wire.  

My craft room looked as though a flower explosion had occurred.

I ended up making little flowers to put on the back of every chair, flowers that went on the cake, flowers for the church, little flowers that where scattered on the sweet table, across the fireplace mantel and of course not forgetting the bridesmaids, flower girls, men's buttonholes and the most important the 
Bridal Bouquet. 

Of course the part of the fun was getting all the flowers from Australia to England - they went into each and every bag that flew to England including many of the little ones in the Tardis which was used as a card holder. 
The bouquets all went into boxes and were distributed to everyone who was flying to England to take with care. 

To learn more about the cake please visit Tara's Sweet Surprise to find out how she made her cake in a strange house with borrowed equipment.