In April this year my friends Jessie and Paul got married, and I made decorations!
As usual, paper was 100% recycled, glue was cornflour, yarn for stringing was from Reverse Garbage. The only new materials used in the whole thing was the paint I used to dip dye the paper.
The flowers on the garland are: roses (small and large, cream and yellow), Mt Cook lilies (white with yellow centers), daisies, and poppies (cream and yellow), with some leaves as well.
Roses and poppies:
Lillies and daisies:
Here are the tutorials I used for the roses and poppies (including templates! I simplified the poppies, because those ones took too long). I made up the Mt Cook lilies and daisies from a calendar that the bride gave me, of New Zealand flowers (coz she’s a kiwi).
The paper came from used office paper, out of date environmental campaign materials, and op shop books that either had pages missing or were ridiculously unscientific self help books that I found offensive. They were fun to cut up!
For the wedding ceremony I made a bower, with 5 strands of tightly bunched flowers hanging from a bamboo frame – the strands are about 1.2 – 1.5 meters long, starting shorter at the edges, with the longest in the middle. The frame is just over 2m tall. The bower is free standing, with the frame sticking out of heavy market umbrella bases, so it can be used inside or outside, even in parks where you can’t stick anything in the ground. For the reception I made 150 meters (!) of garlands with the flowers spaced out, to hang across and around the party space.
I am offering the bower for hire for weddings, so if you live in Brisbane and are getting married (or know someone who is), contact me at annancooke(at)gmail(dot)com for more info!
I’ll have to put some conditions on this, like they cannot be used outside if it is raining! I might also ask for a bond on them. And still have to settle on a price… they did take me a LONG time to make.
I also have some garlands for sale, with flowers spaced out about 20cms apart. I have three 5 meter garlands at Reverse Garbage at the moment, and am going to make some more for other markets soon!
Oh! and the photography on the day was by the wonderful Carmen and Matt from Chaordic Creative photography, follow the link for some photos from the day! (note, garlands for sale are twice as dense as the ones in the photos).
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