We've combined two of our popular online wedding demos, to offer you the opportunity to book them both at a reduced cost.
This is an ideal combination of sessions for people planning to do their own wedding flowers, and farmer florists who are beginning to find a market for their flowers at weddings and events and would like top tips from someone who’s been cutting and designing with their own back yard farmed flowers for many years.
The demos included in this package and dates are as follows. Please click the workshop name for full details of each workshop.
The Bridal Party Flowers Demo
Tuesday 29th April 5pm (BST)
The Bridal Party Flowers Demo is a detailed online session for people planning to create their own bridal party flowers.
Florist Georgie Newbery will talk you through cutting and creating a handtied bride’s bouquet, a bridesmaid’s posy, and a buttonhole (bouttoniere) in this demo
Using flowers and foliage she’s cut from her own flower farm she’ll give you top tips for stem counts, design balance, conditioning, and timing as well as how to make the most of the flowers on the wedding day itself.
The Prepping Wedding Flowers Demo
Wednesday 30th April 5pm (BST)
If you’re planning to cut and arrange your own wedding flowers from your garden join flower farmer and florist Georgie Newbery for this session showing you how you can work out your stem count for cutting, your timings for conditioning and floristry, and give you top tips for getting the flowers done in plenty of time before the wedding.
You will save yourself a small fortune by doing wedding flowers yourself: this session will manage your expectations, inspire and enable you to make a success of wedding flowers cut from your own garden.
Suitable for:
All floral design enthusiasts, especially those planning to do their own wedding flowers, or the flowers of a friend or family member.
Why do a workshop or demo with Common Farm Flowers?
Georgie Newbery has been building her small business growing flowers for sale and creating floristry with material she’s grown on the farm since 2010. She is a Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) Floristry Judge, RHS dahlia trials committee member, and Garden Media Guild New Talent Award Judge.
Georgie does not see other flower farmers and florists as competition, but rather as potential colleagues and collaborators. Georgie knows that it is in her interest to teach her students everything she knows. And she spends a great deal of time talking to other flower farmers and small business owners and learning as much as she can around the subject of running small businesses and farming gardens and small acreage.
There are no secrets held back from you at a Common Farm Flowers workshop.
Information about all our online workshops and demos:
You are welcome to join our workshops and demos whether you grow for pleasure or profit, and wherever you are in the world.
All our online workshops and demos take place via Zoom at 5.00pm (UK time.)
Workshops last approximately two hours and demos are around one hour.
Online workshop numbers are generally restricted to a maximum of 20 students.
We will be in touch a few days before the workshop with your joining instructions. This email will come from nicola@commonfarmflowers.com. If you’ve not heard from Nicola 48 hours before the session takes place please email nicola@commonfarmflowers.com but do please first check your junk / spam items and make sure you are checking the inbox of the email address you used to book your place.
We record all our sessions, which means you don’t miss out if, for example, you get interrupted or lose internet connection during the course of the session.
All our online workshops and demos work well if you can’t attend live. Simply book your place as if you were coming along and we will send you the recordings as soon as possible after the session has taken place.
We will send recordings (and notes for workshops) within 7 days of the session taking place, but usually much sooner than this.
Please familiarise yourself with our terms and conditions in case you need to cancel your workshop or demo place.
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