Make Your Romance Gentle.

Ever wonder what actually goes into making a floral arrangement? I hope your answer is "yes," otherwise the rest of this post is going to bore you (and I don't want that)! The majority of my day is spent arranging and designing wonderful flower arrangements. This usually means standing in the corner at a table for 8 hours a day, walking in and out of the cooler multiple times an hour, or pausing a moment to tweet a photo of a floral arrangement I just created, until I'm finally lucky enough to take a break in the office to write a blog about how awesome Ben White Florist is. This is obviously one of those times.

Gentle Romance is one of the first custom arrangements Mari ever created for our website. Mini green hydrangea, stargazer lilies, and an assortment of greenery make up an arrangement anyone would love! In an effort to be more of a custom, local-products only kind of shop, we have been making tons of custom arrangements for sale on our website over the last several years. This is how we do it (this is how we do it, it's Friday night...yea).

To begin: Get your supplies ready! Vase, water, clippers, knife, greens; all necessary tools in the realm of floral design.

knife, clippers, vase, greens.

The next step is to green the vase using a variety of greenery. If you're a pro, this should take about 30 seconds:

Viola! Lemon leaf, myrtle, seeded eucalyptus.

Wow, that was fast! Now comes the trickier part: arranging the flowers in the vase you just greened. Because this is a BWF-created design, it actually has a recipe in our amazing Ben White Florist recipe book. It's a cookbook for flowers. In this case, I am using three mini green hydrangea and three stargazer lilies.

Gentle Romance!

Lovely.