flower extravaganza (watch the manicure, please)
Friday morning. The day before the wedding. Wow! That day snuck up quickly. I had estimated that the flowers should only take us a few hours. After all, we had prepped the flowers the day before, the oasis was soaked, the vases that could have ribbons around them, did have ribbons around them and there were 5 of us doing them. I had figured out that we had 24 arrangements to do, but it really wasn’t that bad. Twelve of the arrangements couldn’t be done until the ceremony (they were just vases filled with water with flowers in them). That left 12. Six of those were only tricky because we had to float some oasis without having the water spill over. Once that was figured out, the arrangements themselves were pretty simple. That left 6 more arrangements. They were big arrangements, but we already had a prototype in pictures from the trial run. A few hours tops.
We got the flowers from the coffee shop (and coffee and bagels) at around 7:30am. We had a nice relaxed breakfast, chatting and talking about the arrangements (we had plenty of time after all.) The moms took care of the floating oasis arrangements and the other 3 of us took on the big arrangements. We decided that we would tackle the big arrangements by using the assembly line method.
By about 12:00, we had the floating oasis arrangements done and we had to do the big arrangements. No problem right? Well, first a model arrangement had to be done. We had pictures from the trial run. My best friend worked on it for a while and pretty soon the model arrangement was done and we had 5 more to do. But the clock was ticking. Ahead of me on the schedule was picking up the dress, checking into the hotel and rehearsal at 3pm, so I was watching the clock. We all pulled together to crank out the last 5 arrangements. I have to admit though, it was pretty stressful.
My mom and I had to run out at 2pm to get the dress. My friends took care of getting all of the arrangements back to the coffee shop and gathering all of the extra flowers, which was a huge job. They had to figure the schedule the for the next day, how and when to get the flowers from the shop to the reception hall and who was going to help.
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