Behind the scenes at Confetti..

When Amy Furlong, Senior Advertising Executive at Confetti Magazine called me at 6pm on a Tuesday evening to ask me for an emergency bouquet, I knew I couldn’t let her down! 5 minutes after the call the inspirational pictures were emailed to me and plans were made to be in the Smithfield Market at 6am in the hopes that I could fill the brief!

Luckily, I was able to purchase just what we needed and I got back to the house in time to let my husband go to work, via a stop off to the workshop to collect tools and ribbon to make up the bouquet in my kitchen (just like old times!). As Lorraine and I work from home from Monday to Wednesday, last minute orders can sometimes cause a problem with childminding, luckily Amy being as lovely as she is, said to bring the boss along!

The bouquet was a hand tied posy of sweet unique roses, a gorgeous pale pink rose with a vintage feel, mixed through with pale green hydrangea and white hypericum berries.

Jnr was much admired in the Studio although I was a nervous wreck, as you can see from the images, a white backdrop, white gowns…beads and shiny things – not the ideal mix with a 2 year old! So, a quick picture while he was distracted with a fab beaded bouquet (thanks Alexia!!) and we were off, with a coffee from the cafe next door to refresh us (ok, he gets frothed milk but demands Coffee as soon as we step foot into a coffee shop, I still have him fooled!)

Looking forward to seeing the bouquet in print in the August issue!

Filed under: confetti — Tags: bridal bouquet, confetti, photoshoot, pink rose bouquet, wedding dress — Sinead @ 11:52 am on May 10, 2010

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Floral Fashionista!!

Lorraine and I were invited by Confetti Magazine to take part in our 2nd Fashion Feature with the magazine, this time – the Summer Edition. The theme for the shoot – “Feeling Floral”.

The Stylist – Alexia McInerney, contacted me with the brief – vibrant colours! Fresh clean lines and a summery feel! So we got to work! We were asked to create an unusual hair piece, a corsage for wrist and lapel, 3 bouquets and a centrepiece arrangement.

The shoot took place in the Seafield Hotel in Gorey – a really beautiful Hotel with amazing Spa and Thermal Suite – I got to enjoy a blissful 2 hours alone in the pool, sauna, steam room and hot tub! The food is fab and I’m keeping the hotel in mind for a mini-break during the summer!

The roses we used were a beautiful summery orange “Marie Claire” – a stunning two-toned deep yellow/orange rose that opened in near to a star shape. Buttery Yellow “Ilios” and 3 different pink tones – Deep pink two toned “Amalia”, Bright Pink “Aqua” and pale pink “Barbie”. I also used pink, green, yellow and white cymbidium orchids to create an amazingly colourful teardrop bouquet.

For the centrepieces, we used mixed orange and red toned Germinis for a topiary arrangement and for the candelabra centrepiece, a mix of the 3 pink roses and creamy vendella roses.

The hair piece was created using an open “Barbie” rose and surrounded by deep purple lisianthus, individually wired in place. We also designed an over the shoulder corsage using a mix of the yellow and orange roses.

Amy got a quick lesson in how to wire gerberas when an emergency bouquet was needed at the end of the shoot and we had to disassemble the gerbera centrepiece arrangement!! And I’m still traumatised over letting the “Bride” balloon go – I wonder if they managed to get it down from the Foyer Ceiling yet!!

I have below some of my own shots from the day – we will publish the “official” shots when the magazine goes to print!!

Special thanks to Amy Furlong, Photo Shoot Co-ordinator, as welcoming as always and thanks for the night away in the fabulous Seafield Hotel! Thanks to Kip Carroll, Photographer, a pleasure to work with again, to Dara in Frilly Frocks Drogheda and the hair and make up girls – Changing Faces and Bridget’s Hair Salon – lovely to work with you all!!