While the winter is certainly not the peak time for a wedding, there are those who choose this time of year to get married.

Maybe it’s the idea of creating the perfect indoor theme to match the winter white themed created by Mother Nature.

If you are planning a white wedding, here are a few tips to create the greatest effect:

1.   Consider a cooler type of LED lighting available instead of the warmer lighting that candlelight provides

2.   Branches in their natural state or sprayed white with glitter are always a nice touch

3.   Winter greens such as cedar and pine will not only add to the feeling of winter, but will add that unmistakable sent too!

After a couple of weeks of warm weather tease and with the imminent of more seasonal temperatures, I thought I’d add post a little burst of colour.

This was a bouquet that I created for Noula’s marriage to George at the end of October. No typical fall tones for this bride who opted for romantic bouquet of roses only shades of pink and purple for her autumn wedding, complete with a little bling.

Ocean Of Purple Hydrangea Wedding Flowers | Floret.ca

It’s still one of a client’s all time favourite flowers. And when I’m preparing for a wedding that’s using them as the primary flower it’s looks like a ocean of puffy clouds.

Full and voluminous spheres of tiny blooms perfect to be used on their own or in combination with other flowers. It’s especially stunning in an imported designer shade of amethyst.

I love the fall!

Burnt oranges, golden yellows, lavish burgundies – all the colours that signify the turning of the leaves. The last hurrah before the winter and the snow.

Mixed with berries and varied blooms for texture. There’s nothing quite like it.

What better way to feel like a princess on your wedding day than to get married in a castle?

Fiona and Alfred’s wedding Casa Loma last month was an elegant cream dn light amethyst themed affair.

Complete with backdrop and crystal accented tall centerpiece with a regal affair.

Elegant Wedding Reception At Casa Loma

Elegant Bridal Bouquet | Floret.ca

Every wonder what a bouquet fit for a princess looks like?

Having created many a bouquet this season, I am convinced time and time again that each bouquet is meant for the bride who carries it on her wedding day.

If someone had told me that when I started I would have doubted the thought, but I know it to be absolutely true.

This bouquet of exquisite ivory and light amethyst floral was create for Fiona’s marriage to Alfred at Casa Loma.

I’ll show you the rest of the pictures from the castle one I’ve sorted them out.

Sometimes I can’t help but feel that everything in life and in business always works out the way it’s supposed to.

When I met Judith and Adam, it was only one month until their wedding. There wasn’t any mishap with another vendor or any other drama to speak of, they were just getting to the flowers and I understood why.

It was going to be in their brother’s backyard. Tented, catered, simple but elegant.

A lovely garden wedding and that it was. Classic garden chairs, crisp white linens and amethyst and pale yellow flowers to complement the lilac napkins.

Centerpiece For An Elegant Garden Wedding | Floret.ca

With back to school right around the corner and with the weather not yet having yet made it’s mind about fall or summer, it got me thinking about finding ways to keep up my skills and to be always getting better at what I do the couples that I work to bring their flowers together for.

I was asked recently where I get my inspiration from. It’s such a great question – one that you hear asked of anyone involved in a creative endeavour and the answers are as varied as there are people.

While there isn’t one singular thing on my list. I’d have to say that my single greatest inspiration is my clients.  I love to hear about how they met, their favourite things and places – their inspirations.

It’s what makes every wedding I have the privilege of being a part special because it’s a reflection of a unique couple at the happiest (and sometimes stressful) time in their lives.

Every wedding has its own twist and this one included a boat ride to an island.

Cynthia and Adam’s August wedding took place at the Royal Canadian Yacht club and having their wedding there meant that the flowers would have to be transported by ferry from the launch on the mainland to the dock over at the Toronto Island.

It’s not every day that your weddings need to a boat ride or end up at a dock with the Toronto landscape in the background.

Wedding Flowers On Their Way To The Royal Canadian Yacht Club Ferry

Wedding Flowers At The RCYC Dock | Floret.ca

Once we got into the main hall your could feel the tradition that this place was steeped in. Speaking from the perspective of someone whose last boat ride was probably when I was 10, it felt like a step back in time to a more genteel era where ladies and gentlemen relaxed while playing cricket.

Elegant Centerpiece At The Royal Canadian Yacht Club

It’s probably quirk that comes with what I do, but wherever I go whether it’s a restaurant or a museum, my first thoughts are what it would be like to have a wedding there.

I took a little break in Chicago (one of my favourite cities) recently and did the usual tourist activities like visit the museums and try out some of the more notable places for gourmet food (amazing BTW) and everywhere I went, I thought about what a wedding might look like in there.

One of the places that found particular stunning was the Field Museum in Chicago. Not even sure if that have weddings there (I cannot imagine not), but the main hall is beyond stunning especially considering how coveted our own Royal Ontario Museum as a wedding venue.

The classical architecture has not parallel. A true magnificent place to consider having a wedding in the Windy City.