Clustered French Flower Market Bucket For A Baby Shower, Gift Or Wedding Reception

The inspiration for this design came from a French hotel ice bucket that I found at a local discount home store.  You could distress and paint your own in shades of whites, pinks, greens or black.  The design looks like a clustered collection of flowers and grapes after an afternoon of shopping at a flower market.  This easy how to do it yourself design is suitable for a girl's baby shower, bridal shower, to give as a gift to a friend, wedding reception centerpiece or to keep for yourself!

Photo:  French hotel ice bucket filled with flowers and fruit by Brandy Spears

Photo:  Back view of the cluster  floral design by Brandy Spears.

Photo:  Bird's eye view of orchids, roses, hydrangea, grapes, peonies, tulips - design by Brandy Spears.

Photo:  Inspiration came from the detail on this vintage style Paris hotel ice bucket - design by Brandy Spears.

Florist supplies and mechanics needed:

• Waterproof metal bucket with  6-8" opening  (here is a cute one in pink!)
• Florist knife
• 2 bricks of florist foam
• Several used grocery store bags or cellophane
• Florist wire
• Wire Cutters
• Florist tape
• Florist water tubes
• 2 florist picks or chopsticks

Flowers needed to make 1 arrangement:

• 2 large heads of white hydrangea
• 3 fully bloomed hot pink peonies
• 1 large cluster of green grapes cut into 2  pieces and wired
• 6 blushed pink cymbidium orchids blooms
• 9 light pink Ecuadorian roses (Esperance variety) opened
• Growers package of green double bloomed local tulips
• 3 stems of miniature green hydrangea

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Thanks for visiting my how to flowers blog.  Have fun designing!
Brandy

Tall Wedding Centerpiece With Green Grapes And Pink Flowers

Tall wedding centerpieces push the eye upwards and gives a WOW effect when when your guests enter the reception venue. This creation gives a high perception value of cost BUT is half the price of the previous arrangement I did with the same flowers in the previous how to do it yourself wedding centerpiece video.

Green grapes and pink flowers crown this empty vase.  Wedding centerpiece design by Brandy Spears


To create this centerpiece I used a 24" glass vase with a 4.5" opening at the top. Using a caged florist foam resting on top of the empty vase, I hung hanging green amaranthus, wired in hanging green grapes, inserted a few stems of green with burgundy center dendrobium orchids. The top of the arrangement was done in shades of pink and hot pink peonies, roses, green tulips, blushed pink cybidium orchids over a foundation of hot pink hydrangea. When placed on a dinner table, measuring from the floor the top of the arrangement will be from 66" to 72" tall!

Photo detail of flowers designed by Brandy Spears.

I intentionally chose to leave the vase empty and instead placed a cluster of green grapes with a cybidium orchid resting on top.  This allows the arrangements to have a visual perception of floating in air.  If you would like a more anchored to the table look, you could fill the vase with rose petals, orchid blooms or stems or perhaps some decorative wire.

Photo detail of floral design by Brandy Spears

Floral supplies and mechanics needed for this design:

• Green florist tape
• Florist wire
• Florist knife 
• Wire cutters
• 20" tall clear vase with 3.5" to 4.5" opening
• 4.5"  caged round florist foam
• Plumber's putty

Flowers needed to create 1 centerpiece:

• 2 large stems of hot pink hydrangea (see photos and video for color)
• 6 Esperance roses
• 1 growers package of 10 green with burgundy center dendrobium orchids
• 6 blooms of blushed pink cymbidium orchids
• 1 growers package of 9 green double bloomed tulips (local variety)
• 2 large clusters of green grapes from supermarket
• 1 growers bunch of green hanging amaranthus
• 3 hot pink peonies fully bloomed

How to do it yourself video tutorials -
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Hope you enjoyed and have fun designing!
Brandy