My Best Friend's Wedding

I had the honor of doing my best friend, Mallory Coulson Sheard's wedding flowers. She loves hot pink and gerbera daisies. She gave me free reign to do whatever I wanted. She looked stunning and everything turned out beautifully!
Bridesmaid's Clutch
The bouquet was filled with 'Hot Lady' Roses, 'Malibu' Gerbera Daisies, Nerine Lilies, green hypericum berries, and fiddle head fern curls.
Mallory loves sparkles, so I incorporated rhinestones throughout the wedding flowers.
Groom's Boutonniere

The Finished Wedding

Before the Pretty In Pink Wedding

Here are some before shots of a wedding I helped a friend with on July 17, 2010.


The garland was so hard to hang!

Glowstick- Mystery Arrangement

In my Competitive Design class, I was given the challenge of designing an arrangement with Glowsticks. This is what I came up with. I love how the different light settings totally change the look of the arrangement.

BYU-I Wedding Show- Trend meets Tradition

I was one of the Co-Chairs in charge of the 2010 Flower Show. It was such an amazing experience to plan for a couple months and then to see it all come together. This was a group project I helped with for the show. I designed the initial structure and then we had the welding department create it. There was a mirror image of this on the other side that made a nice archway.
Since I was "in charge" I didn't have the opportunity to design much, when I discovered a place in need of an arrangement I took the opportunity and made this...

This was my interpretive piece. I interpreted the painting "An Act of Compassion" by Don Stivers. If you look closely you can see three circles created by the twigs, these represent two men and a canteen.

Every year in the program brings a new challenge for bouquet design. This year my challenge was to make a structure. I made this structure by stringing crochet thread, that had been soaked in sugar water, on a balloon. Each flower was then inserted through the bottom to make the bouquet. It was made of beautiful hot pink garden roses, plum hyacinth, and deep purple sweet peas. It smelled amazing.
This was the whole group that participated.
Romney is be best professor ever! He did so much to help us get the show running, so we got him a tie in each of the 6 color trends that we represented during the show.

Funeral Work

My Advanced Design Class practiced funeral work this week, all of us did a casket spray, an easel, and a mache.

Advanced Design Presentation

I had to give an oral presentation in my Advanced Design class and bid a proposal for an upcoming event in a professional organization. I chose to present to the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics. I found some fun-looking vintage books and created a Garden feel buffet piece with red rose, blue eryngium, blue Irises, and purple tulips. I also designed a corsage, boutonniere, entrance piece, and centerpieces.

Valentine's Gift

After Valentine's Day, our cooler had a lot of left over flowers, my professor gave us an assignment to make a nice wrap to take to a friend. I made this arrangement for a good friend who was in need of a good pick-me-up :).

Valentines Day Wraps

Valentine's Day 2010

A Dozen Roses

High-Style Design

In my Advanced Design Class we had an assignment to make high-style arrangements, I used Paper-White Narcissus flowers that were still on the bulb and some Kiwi Vine.
Then I had to use the same flowers and create a new design.

Bayer Advanced Float

The arrangements on this float were difficult because we had to climb up three layers of scaffolding to get to them. The arrangement on the top right I did as they were taking the scaffolding out from under me... Scary.

These murals were entirely made-up of seeds.