This is the season to plan for weddings, graduations and other  special events. Flowers usually play a prominent role in these occasions.  Floral arrangements can be expensive or within a reasonable budget.
A couple examples of keeping expenses down are my daughter’s and my weddings.  Perhaps you have some other tips to contribute.
Neither my daughter nor I had the traditional floral arrangements and bouquets for our weddings.  I had natural flowers and my daughter silk ones.  For both of us, the cost wasn’t exorbitant.
For my wedding, my mom purchased a mass of flowers from a local florist.  My mother-in-law-to-be made the bouquet …read more

What a marvelous idea Noreen Crone-Findlay had to begin the festivities for her daughter Chloe…a bridal tea.  Noreen blogs at Hankering for Yarn and Chloe at Tangled Thread.
Since I enjoy tea myself and often write about it in “one of my other lives” as a newspaper columnist of the Country Kitchen column, I thought the idea of a bridal tea simply a delightful one.  This could be adapted for a quilter who’s getting married by using patchwork placemats or appliqued table cloth.  Perhaps there would be napkins to carry out the theme.
Would there be some type of quilted or patchwork …read more