Collecting the Flowers

My colleague used to be a florist, and she's been great with negotiating a good rate with the local florist. We collected the flowers this afternoon, which you may think is really early, considering that the wedding isn't until next week; but apparently cut flowers are already over 10 days old by the time the customer purchases them (which is probably why they only last about 4 days in our vases at home!).

Anyway, the lady that's helping me is going to take them home this evening and store them away for the week. But for now, I've managed to get a quick photo. On the left is eucalyptus, then cream roses, then on the right are the red Grand Prix roses. Between the two bunches of Grand Prix's is a small bunch of red spray roses:



And here are a couple of the blooms themselves:



I absolutely love them. It's a shame that the camera didn't pick up the fantastic red of the roses, but you get the idea. The man didn't manage to get hold of any cream hydrangea, so we're going to look around locally to see if we can find a potted hydrangea...

If you missed my post about how they're going to be used, click here to see my ideas.