Hosting a Successful Flower Arranging Gathering: Insights from Industry Experts
Party like a pro this spring and summer with a flower arranging soirée! Gather friends for a contemporary take on traditional entertainment, where crafting your own floral bouquet serves as both activity and decor.
A flower bar is the heart of this exquisite event, empowering guests to become their own florists for the day. Source a diverse range of flowers (at least three stems per type, including greenery and filler) from providers, local farmers markets, or your very own garden.
Rosalyn Phipps, founder of Root + Petal, suggests fashioning the flower bar as a farmers market stand, where guests can easily peruse and procure their chosen blooms. Utilize cute scissors, colorful ribbons, and baskets or wooden crates for an irresistible photo backdrop.
For a cohesive and visually stunning atmosphere, Phipps advises sticking to a minimal color palette. To help guests wrap and take home their creations, provide brown kraft paper and twine.
Of course, no flower arranging party is complete without additional features that harmonize with nature's beauty. Consider:
- Scented Floral Soirée: Organize a flower-smelling game where guests try to guess a variety of floral scents, such as rose, lavender, and jasmine. Provide palette cleansers and reveal answers at the end, which can be fun and engaging for attendees while showcasing your floral expertise.
Orchid Potting and Drinks: Accentuate the sophistication of your event by incorporating an orchid potting station. Equip guests with plants, orchid bark, and a beverage of choice for a relaxed, stunning evening with a personalized party favor to take home.
Botanical Tea Making: Embrace the edible side of flowers by providing a selection of loose-leaf teas and flowers for your guests to create their own infusions. Supply dainty china teacups, mismatched glassware, and extras like honey, sugar, and lemon wedges for an elegant touch.
Flower Crown Party: Fashionable flower crowns are sure to elevate spirits. Gather mini carnations, waxflower, baby's breath, chrysanthemum sprays, spray roses, daisies, and pre-cut flowers for easy access. Offer grapevine wire as a base for guests to craft their own custom crowns.
Bring a Flower Party: Pique the anticipation for your event by asking each attendee to bring one type of flower to share. Compile these blossoms and arrange them for guests to swap and curate their own correlating bouquets.
Floral Crafts: Encourage creativity with projects like pressed flower art. Provide materials for your guests to design bookmarks, coasters, phone cases, or framed artwork using proper, pressed flowers, leaves, petals, glue, resin, scissors, and tape.
Floral Cocktails and Mocktails: Elevate your guests' experience by offering DIY floral-inspired beverages. At the bar, include a selection of floral-forward libations, such as lavender lemonade, rosewater spritzers, and edible floral petals in ice cubes.
Creating an exceptional, unique, and unforgettable experience is simple when you immerse your guests in the beauty of nature through flower arranging parties, floral-themed activities, and enchanting beverages.
- Martha Stewart recommends hosting an entertaining flower arranging party this spring and summer, creating a contemporary take on traditional entertainment.
- For a flower arranging soirée, set up a flower bar as the heart of the event, offering diverse flower choices for guests to create their own bouquets.
- Rosalyn Phipps advises sticking to a minimal color palette for a visually stunning atmosphere, providing brown kraft paper and twine for guests to wrap and take home their creations.
- Elevate your guests' experience by offering DIY floral-inspired beverages, such as lavender lemonade, rosewater spritzers, and floral petals in ice cubes.
- Encourage creativity with DIY floral crafts, like pressed flower art, using materials like flowers, leaves, petals, glue, resin, scissors, and tape.
- Pique the anticipation for your event by asking each attendee to bring one type of flower, then compile them for guests to swap and curate their own bloom-themed party favors.
- Fashionable flower crowns are sure to elevate spirits at the party, offering mini carnations, waxflower, baby's breath, chrysanthemum sprays, spray roses, daisies, and pre-cut flowers for guests to craft their own custom crowns.
- For an exceptional, unique, and unforgettable experience, consider incorporating activities like botanical tea making, orchid potting, scented floral soirées, and themed parties for food, fashion, relationships, pets, travel, cars, and shopping - all showcasing the beauty and joys of floral themes and lifestyles. (ISBN: 9780307954442)
