
FORAGE AND CREATE WORKSHOP
You've been waiting... at long last, here are the details of our next workshop! FORAGE AND CREATE: THE BRIDAL BOUQUET May 20th, 2018, 10am-6pm at Wildshoot Forest and Farm Energize your creative spirit with a day of foraging and bouquet creation! We will gather at Wildshoot Forest and Farm, a beautiful, northwest gem of a place about an hour outside of Seattle. Armed with clippers and a foraging tote, you will be invited to harvest woodland treasures, blooming branches, gorge

SPRING WEDDING AT CHATEAU LILL
While I won't be moving all the content from the old Botanique Blog over to this new journal, I will be sharing some recent highlights! This wedding from last spring at Chateau Lill was such a favorite- it is so hard to say when the "best" season is for flowers... but late May is definitely up towards the top. Peonies, ranunculus, poppies, all kinds of blooming branches.... so many beautiful things! This wedding was featured on Style Me Pretty, you can see the full feature he

MOVEMENT STUDY WORKSHOP, PART 2
As promised, here's the follow-up to the previous post! Some images from the second part of our Movement Study Workshop, taken during a photoshoot with Anna Peters. Anna and I had been talking for a while about collaborating on a shoot involving movement and flowers... and we decided we would open it up to participants from the workshop as well! Most of the ladies who attended the morning session came to the photoshoot too, and assisted with setting up a simple hanging instal

MOVEMENT STUDY WORKSHOP, PART 1
Last April, we hosted a floral design workshop centered around the idea of movement- how it relates to floral design, and how to create natural, unexpected, and fluid movement that draws the eye through a design. The first part of the day was spent in the Botanique studio, creating vased arrangements and learning techniques and mechanics to get those stems going in whatever direction you want! The second half of the day was optional, as we moved into a photography studio sett