1st May 2010.
2 Brides – Maeve and Fiona, 2 Grooms, Mark and Anthony, 2 Florists Lorraine and Sinead, 1 Van, 40 Grand Prix Red Roses, 120 Vendella Roses, 60 Sweet Avalanche Roses, 40 AValanche Roses, 200 stems of Hard Ruscus, 5 bunches soft ruscus, 2 flowergirl baskets, 2 Grand Candelabra, 2 unity arrangements, 2 sets of unity candles, 48 ivory tulle pew end bows, 4 Bay Trees, 4 Lanterns, 3 Pedestal Arrangements, 3 Flowergirl posies, 24 Buttonholes, 6 Corsages, 50 Diamonte Pins, 4 Paracetomol (2 for Lorraine, 2 for Sinead), 2 Plasters (for Sinead), 5 Bunches of Hypericum Berries, 2 metres of Satin Ribbon, 2 Marks and Spencer Cafe Afternoon Teas, 2 pairs of clean dry socks, 2 Church Set ups and 2 bouquet deliveries, 2 Happy Brides, 2 Church Clean ups, 1 Van Unloaded, 1 Workshop swept, 20 buckets washed and stacked, 3 Sacks of Rubbish, 2 tired florists, 2 LARGE glasses of White Wine.
10th April 2010, and our second Sarah of the weekend! I can tell you, things got a little confusing with a Sarah getting married on Friday 9th and a Sarah on Saturday 10th – and with 2 totally different themes! Yesterday was Sarah in Foxrock (remember the last blog entry, Lorraine had robbed the Sat Nav and was blissfully “unlost” in Foxrock!) Today though, it was the wedding of Sarah & Geoff who were married in Bayside in Sutton on a gloriously sunny day. Driving along the coast road in the van with Lorraine, spanish guitar music on, you would be forgiven for thinking that you were in sunny spain!
Sarah decided on the beautiful vintage style Leonidas Rose for her bouquet, we tied these with creamy vendella roses and finished with deep green ruscus collar. We wrapped the stems in lace with pearl detail.
The bridesmaids wore gorgeous two toned dresses and carried simple posies of vendella roses with diamonte detailing and the flowergirl carried a pomander of gypsolphilia with roses.In the church, we provided a unity arrangement, 2 Large Traditional Pedestal arrangements and pew end decoration of a lily, rose, gyp and greenery with organza tulle. Finally, a pair of Bay Trees framed the front entrance. I can’t swear we did not stop for 99’s on the way home 
‘The Best Day to Marry’
(Traditional Rhyme UK)
‘Monday for wealth,
Tuesday for health,
Wednesday best day of all,
Thursday for losses,
Friday for crosses,
And Saturday no luck at all.’
Congrats to Jennifer Clarke who got married today in Kilbride Church, Co. Meath – Tuesday for Health according to the old rhyme (although as a 4 years married Saturday Bride I do wonder how accurate the rhyme is!). A first for RosieDays with a Tuesday wedding (and fun trying to arrange childcare for 2 working mummies who’s boys go to creche on Thursdays and Fridays – Jnr. came along for the spin to the wholesalers yesterday to collect our flowers and today my inlaws stepped in this morning while I delivered the bouquets and arrangements!)
We are seeing a real trend in pink bouquets this Spring, from pale pink and ivories to a bouquet like Jennifer’s today with mixed pink tones. A really lovely choice and so vibrant and cheerful. Here we used the gorgeous deep pink two-toned Amalia Rose, lighter pink Aqua rose and beautiful creamy vendella roses. With pearl pin detail and a ruscus collar, the stems were wrapped with ivory satin and finished with a bow detail.
The 3 bridesmaids carried posies to complement the bride’s using vendella and aqua roses and the stems were wrapped with smokey grey satin ribbon to complement their charcoal grey dresses. We also made a cute gypsophilia pomander with pale pink rose detail for the flowergirl.
Mums were given corsages of pink and white lisianthus with a deep pink rose and all the boys wore double vendella rose buttonholes.
Our final orders were 2 Large arrangements for the rear of the alter in Kilbride church.
Did I tell you, that we finally got our worktops organised in the workshop? A chance mention by a visiting Groom-to-be and 1 week later we are happily working at waist-height counters – so much better for our poor ould backs!
Olive’s Wedding, in Ardagh, Longford on the 27th February was the first wedding we got to test run the new benches on! Such a pleasure to have SO Much space to work with, sure beats the days of getting 3 weddings in a weekend prepared in my not very sizeable kitchen – not to mention the toddler “helping”!
Olives’ bridesmaids wore deep red and she had requested one of our most popular bouquets – the fabulous Grand Prix Rose Posy Bouquet – timelessly elegant and velvety rich textured roses. The Bridesmaids carried white avalanche roses, interspersed with large round hypericum berries and all of the bouquets were wrapped in luxurious red velvet embossed satin ribbon.
We also arranged a Unity Candle piece for the Alter and 2 Large Traditional Style pedestal arrangement for the rear of the Alter and Lorraine delivered the bouquets to another happy RosieDays Bride!
