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August 16, 2023 ·

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Bring the garden inside! If you’d rather not st

Bring the garden inside!

If you’d rather not stress about the conditions for an outdoor wedding, there are still ways to have that natural, garden party feel indoors 🪻

🌺Choose a venue with a lot of character, and some unique focal areas, like this grand staircase @mansionsonfifth , a big fireplace, or a big brick wall

A blank slate is a great place to start!

🌸Figure out your budget for florals, and try and determine what elements are most important to you

Is it your ceremony backdrop? Your bouquet? Guest tables?

If you’re working with a strict budget, one large statement floral piece or installation can do wonders for giving you the feeling of lush abundance, rather than spreading your list of floral pieces across the entire venue for small pops throughout

🌼Let us transform your space into a floral wonderland! Remember those character elements at your venue, let’s cover them in vines greenery and fluffy flowers. Trust me on this one 😍

#pittsburghwedding #pghflorist #pittsburghweddingflorist #mansionsonfifth #gardenparty #floralinstallation #summerwedding #pittsburgh

The best budget tip 💰 Want to get the most ban

The best budget tip 💰

Want to get the most bang for your floral buck? Opt for a ceremony altar design that can be repurposed during your reception. Low, arching “meadows” like this one are PERFECT for repurposing.

If you have a limited budget, but still want to make an impact with your flowers, you have a lot of options for double duty designs. Floral pillars can (sometimes, depending on the mechanics) be repurposed behind the sweetheart table, or as a photo backdrop. Ground arrangements from anywhere in your ceremony set up can be used on bars or side tables, in front of your sweetheart table, or as accents on unique areas in your reception space.

We love not wasting flowers as much as you do, so we’ll talk about repurposing options during your initial consult.

Still looking for a florist for your late 2024, or 2025 wedding? Let’s chat!

#pittsburghflorist #pittsburghweddingflorist #pghweddingflowers #floraldesign #whiteflowers #floralmeadow #ceremonyflowers #burghbrides #pghwedding #budgettips

For Madison and Christine ✨ The wedding season

For Madison and Christine ✨

The wedding season started over here last weekend and it feels so good to be back. We kicked it off with the first ever wedding @franklinonpennweddings , in classic black and white and it looked like a goooooood time.

Christine and Madison were such a joy to create for and they deserve all the happiness in the world ♥️

➡️➡️➡️ for the matching bridal floral pocket square and those juicy flower deets

#pittsburghflorist #pghflorist #pittsburghweddingflorist #burghbrides #franklinonpennweddings #blackandwhite #whitebouquet #bridalbouquet #pittsburghwedding #lgbtweddings #brides #pocketsquare

Your April floral cocktail is HERE and I call her…

THE FIZZY FLEUR
🌸🥂🌼

She’s perfect for brunch or a warm afternoon when you want something light and refreshing (and cute!)

~The recipe~

3/4oz elderflower liqueur
3oz chamomile syrup*
1/2 oz lemon juice
2oz sparkling rosé

*for the chamomile syrup, boil 1 cup of water, and steep 1 chamomile tea bag for 5 minutes. Add 1 tbsp lemon juice and a drizzle of honey and let cool

~The steps~

1. Add elderflower, chamomile syrup, and lemon juice to a cocktail shaker with ice; shake for 30 seconds
2. Pour into a glass, and top with rosé
3. Garnish with a lemon slice

#floralcocktail #rosecocktail #chamomile #brunchcocktails #pittsburghflorist #stgermain #pghflorist #brunch #sip #pittsburghcocktails

Wedding season starts this weekend for Field and H

Wedding season starts this weekend for Field and Hand and I’m SO excited to get back into it. Get ready to see some more beautiful bouquets and flower names hit your feed over the coming months 💐💐💐

We’re starting off at none other than Pittsburgh’s NEWEST and HOTTEST venue, @franklinonpennweddings and that’s just gonna be a blast. I’m equally excited to test out the space on Tuesday for their kickoff party and get even MORE pumped 🪩🪩🪩 (lemme know if I’ll see ya there 👀)

I’ve got a lot of fun things on my calendar over the coming months; events, workshops, grab and go bouquets, and obvi weddings! Gonna be busy busy busy but fun fun fun!

Ok that’s it for now just happy to be back and grateful to you all for following along bye!

Happy Earth Month! 🌎🌳🌷 I love finding ne

Happy Earth Month! 🌎🌳🌷

I love finding new ways to add sustainable practices into my business and workflows, and this month I’m going to highlighting some of the things I’ve added into my routines

It’s no secret that the wedding industry creates a ton a waste, so it’s important to me to do what I can to keep my contribution to that waste at a minimum. There are so many ways to do this in floristry, and while I’m certainly not perfect, I know that every little bit matters.

Here at Field and Hand, I don’t ever use green floral foam. While it may be a very convenient and useful tool, it’s full of microplastics and chemicals that are harmful to the environment and the people who work with it, and that’s just not worth it to me.

Instead, I often use @agra.wool.international wool blocks. They function in a similar way, are made from organic materials, and are compostable and sometimes reusable.

Using wool blocks for this photo backdrop for @kelseycunninghamphoto was a no brainer! The soaked wool kept the florals looking fresh all day, and the addition of some chicken wire kept everything in place.

Finding sustainable and eco friendly alternatives is certainly not easier than the old school ways, but a little extra creativity never hurt anyone 🙃

Follow along this month for more earth friendly floristry tips!

Cover photo 📸 @kelseycunninghamphoto

#sustainablefloristry #pittsburghflorist #pghweddingflorist #pghflorist #earthday #ecofriendly #agrawool #foamfree #foamfreeflowers #foamfreefloristry #foamfreeflorals

Happy Easter! 🌸🌺🌼 Whatever your plans fo

Happy Easter! 🌸🌺🌼

Whatever your plans for the day, I hope you’re able to enjoy a moment of peace. Thankful every day that you choose to follow along with my flower filled journey ♥️

Speaking of beginnings… The combination of daff

Speaking of beginnings…

The combination of daffodils and forsythia will always remind me of baby Field and Hand. Instead of entering my first year of weddings in 2020, I was searching for ways to practice arranging flowers while in lock down.

I was new to the Pittsburgh wedding vendor community, but I was watching as they created challenges for each other to keep busy while at home. Things like “create your own mini styled shoot” and “make a floral arrangement in anything but a vase”. If I remember correctly, it was @sapphireandlace who created a challenge to make an arrangement using only foraged materials.

It was about this time in 2020, so the pops of yellow were just starting to appear outside. It was a weird time, but it felt so good to get creative and try new things.

And now, each year I have a happy reminder of those early days in business. A reminder that I started something beautiful from foraged materials 🌼

#birthday #nostalgia #pittsburghflorist #pittsburghweddingflorist #covidflowers #foragedflowers #dadfodils #forsythia #yellowflowers #springflowers #pittsburghflowers

Happy birthday to Field and Hand! 🎉🍾🥳 My

Happy birthday to Field and Hand! 🎉🍾🥳

My little business turned FIVE this month!!

The question “when did you start your business?” is a tricky one for me to answer. TECHNICALLY (legally), it was born in March 2019. I spent most of that year getting all the documents in order, setting up my first website, and freelancing, finishing the year with my first wedding on NYE.

2020 was going to be my first year with several events, but that didn’t really happen 🥴 I DID spend a lot of that year playing with grocery store flowers, running instagram bouquet sales complete with contactless porch drop offs, as well as a larger event or two, but it still didn’t feel like I had really begun.

2021 was really my first full year of weddings and events, and things have been escalating ever since. Maybe that’s why it feels so strange that it’s already been FIVE YEARS but really feels like three lol

Either way, it’s our birthday, and that’s worth celebrating 🎉🎉🎉

Please enjoy this montage of 5ish years of awkward bouquet holding videos! As they say, behind every great florist is an iPhone photo album full of 3 minute long videos of us holding flowers, hoping for a single salvageable screen grab (they say that, right??)

Do you see your bouquet??
How many bouquets are hiding a baby bump??
How many of these 5 years have you been following along??

Cover photo : @linneamariephotography

#birthdaypost #pittsburghflorist #pghfloraldesign #5years #bridalbouquet #pittsburghwedding

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What Garden Party dreams are made of 😍 Looking

What Garden Party dreams are made of 😍

Looking for a fun activity to enhance your birthday parties, bridal showers, or a simple friend/family gathering? Consider a build your own bouquet/arrangement bar!

This is such a fun way to get your guests mingling and figuring out what to do with their hands, especially if your attendees are from a mixture of friend groups. Plus, they get to walk away with a souvenir that won’t gather dust for years 😅

Shoot me a DM if you’re interested in a private workshop, or self serve flower bar 🌸🌸🌸

Cover photo: @kelseycunninghamphoto

#flowerarrangement #pittsburghflorist #floralworkshop #birthdayparty #gardenparty #bouquetbar #floraldesign

Out with stuffy, round bouquets! And in with…

Out with stuffy, round bouquets!

And in with…

✨ T E X T U R E ✨

I like to think of floral design like painting. When you look at a painting, you first see the full, final product, but when you look closer you start to see all the layers the artist painted to achieve that rich dynamic landscape that makes it feel so impactful.

The same is true with floral arrangements. Each design has layers of intentionally placed foliage, focal blooms, accent florals etc. Some designs have a single layer of focal blooms, but others have varying heights and sizes and TEXTURES that work together for a really fascinating final product.

Texture can be added in a variety of ways to your arrangements, and does a great job of elevating the design and adding interest in a modern way.

I love adding extra intrigue to designs with

🌾 A mixture of fresh and dried florals

🌾 Lots of smaller, unique accents florals

🌾 The addition of non-floral elements, like fresh fruit or moss

🌾 Lots of variation in the heights of each stem

If you’re looking for flowers that make you FEEL something, let’s chat!

Styled shoot team
@linneamariephotography
@theharpereventvenue
@wanderlustweddingsandevents
@eventioneers
@partymosaic
@angelaprodesign

#pittsburghflorist #pghwedding #modernwedding #fruit #driedflowers #pghfloraldesign

Three things that I don’t do as a wedding floris

Three things that I don’t do as a wedding florist:

🌼 Have an aesthetic studio space, or storefront

Instead, I work from my home basement. It saves me money, is SO convenient, and doesn’t say anything about my legitimacy as a professional. With that said, I am working towards making it the best it can be while I’m in it

🌼 Use floral foam

Floral foam is toxic and truly awful for environment and florists alike. It’s an incredibly useful mechanic, but I’ve never used it in my business and never will. Instead, I look for mechanics that are reusable, biodegradable, or compostable. It might take a bit more problem solving, but at least a challenge is good for me!

🌼 Recreate arrangements from inspo photos

Instead, I’ll listen to the words you use during our consult to describe you, your relationship, and how you want your wedding to feel, and use your inspo photos as a loose guide to create designs that are truly custom fit for you. Why should we create something that already exists? You and I deserve better than that

Do any of these surprise you??

#pittsburghflorist #floraldesign #thingsidontdo #pghweddings #foamfree #sustainablefloristry #pittsburghwedding #pghflorist

…and you realize how the whimsy of flowers can h

…and you realize how the whimsy of flowers can help make that happen!

(Oh and you hire Field and Hand to REALLY bring your vision to life, obviously!)

You should feel at home on your wedding day, because it’s a day that exists to celebrate YOU and YOUR love story!

As you plan, dream about all the things you love, and then come to me and I’ll help you figure out how flowers can work with your vision to create a space that is worthy of the celebration.

Don’t feel like you have to fit yourself into a box of things you’ve seen before. Everything about you and your relationship and your wedding day is unique to you.. embrace that ♥️

My inquiry form is ready for ya in my bio if you wanna chat about YOUR wedding day 🌷🌷

#weddingflowers #pittsburghwedding #pghflorist #pghfloraldesign #uniqueweddingflowers #steelerswedding #rooney #pittsburghsteelers #mrrogersneighborhood #weddingtheme

Being a florist is more than playing with pretty f

Being a florist is more than playing with pretty flowers 🥵

People think that simply adding the word ‘wedding’ before flowers instantly increases the cost tenfold. The truth is, you WILL pay more for wedding flowers than you will for everyday flowers, but it’s NOT some wedding industry price gouging tactic.

There are so so so many factors that make up the cost of your total wedding floral bill, and I want to take some time to break those things down. Most often, when you’re planning a wedding, you’ve never done it before, so how could you possible know what to expect??

You’ve heard that weddings are expensive, so you assume that vendors are just trying to take advantage of you in your newly engaged bliss. What you don’t think about, is that so many vendors are small businesses- regular people doing something they love, and trying to support their families, just like everyone else.

Today I want to talk about one aspect of your floral invoice that you might not consider when you think “psh I can just do it myself, how hard can it be??”

💪🏼LABOR💪🏼

Please let me tell you, it takes more than a trip to the flower market, and a trip to your venue to get you the wedding florals of your dreams.

Let me break (some of it) down:
After all of the conversations with you, the planning, the ordering, etc ➡️ vessel/mechanic prep, processing allll the flowers, sorting, arranging, transporting, setting up day of, installation, room flips, late night tear down, composting, cleaning buckets, cleaning vessels, cleaning studio space…

… each of these could be their own post, but please just know, A LOT of work goes into translating that inspo pic you started with into the floral oasis you’ll see on your wedding day.

If you think the labor charge you see on your invoice is steep, please know that it’s not some number we throw out to drain your pockets. We just want to get paid for our labor just like everyone else ♥️

#weddingplanning #weddingflowers #pittsburghweddingflorist #pghflorist #floraleducation #getpaid #work #smallbusiness #pghsmallbusiness

Ingredients from our Valentine’s Day arrangement

Ingredients from our Valentine’s Day arrangements 👇🏼

Spray rose
Pink Carnation
Barista Rose
Scabiosa
Butterfly Ranunculus
Clooney Ranunculus
Snapdragon
Dianthus
Yarrow
Heather
Mimosa
Sweat Pea
Quicksand Rose

Which is your favorite??

#valentinesdayflowers #vdayflowers #pghflorist #pittsburghflorist #floraldesign #flowerarrangement

Process grocery store roses like a pro 🌹 If yo

Process grocery store roses like a pro 🌹

If you find yourself with some grocery store flowers, you can easily spruce them up to make them look better, and last longer. Here’s how 👇🏼👇🏼

1. Remove the packaging
2. Remove some, or all, of the foliage, but definitely any that will sit below the water line to prevent bacteria. Pop those thorns off too!
3. Pluck off any torn or battered petals from the outside of the rose (these are called guard petals). Give it a twirl to fluff it up!
4. Cut the stems at an angle to increase surface area for water intake, and to prevent stems from suctioning to the bottom of the vase
5. Fill a clean vase with fresh water and some flower food (not the whole packet at once)
6. Arrange the stems in the vase. Play around with stem heights! This will elevate your arrangement, especially if you’re working with a single variety of flower
7. Change out the water and add a bit more flower food every 2 days or so, and keep out of direct sunlight

Happy Valentine’s Day ♥️♥️

#localflorist #pittsburghflorist #pghweddingflorist #valentinesdayflowers #vdayflowers #floraldesign #pittsburghfloraldesign

Inspiration can be found ✨ A N Y W H E R E ✨

Inspiration can be found ✨ A N Y W H E R E ✨

Took a little bday trip to NYC this weekend with my husband, and I don’t know if it was the 60 degree weather, being away from my baby for the first time, or what, but I left feeling full of inspiration for the upcoming wedding season.

Since leaving my 9-5 job last year, I’ve had a lot more headspace for creativity and brainstorming new ideas. Here are some of the ways I noticed that taking shape in NY:

💡 Seeing floral installations, arrangements, designs, etc.
This is an easy one! It’s always so fun seeing the different shapes flowers can take, whether it be in a huge installation, or a Renoir painting

💡Seeing the juxtaposition of architectural lines amidst natural ones

Believe it or not, florists think about this type of thing a lot. Maybe not always with buildings, but we often have to be aware of how hard lines from vessels, mechanics, or venue details will work alongside the natural curves and bends of floral product. It’s fun to take note of similar combos out in the wild!

💡In real world color palettes

Every time you open your eyes, there’s color within the frame you’re seeing. Granted, it might not be a palette that inspires or impresses you, but I’ve found a lot of joy in taking note of the times it does feel a little special. Then I think about how it might translate to a floral arrangement or a wedding… 😍

💡 In the little details

Tiny details always make me smile. I think the little touches are the ones people appreciate the most, but don’t know it until they experience them. People like knowing that other people care! I love finding little ways to sneak the tiny little “I care”s into a couples wedding flowers ♥️

What’s your favorite place to find inspiration?

#weddingflorist #findinginspiration #nycflowers #pghweddingflorist #pittsburghweddings #pittsburghflorist

Really liked this little note from my tea this wee

Really liked this little note from my tea this week ♥️

It’s such a cool thing to have goals; whether they be personal, professional, relational, etc. I think it’s so important to always seek growth, to always strive to better ourselves.

And

It’s such a cool thing to celebrate where you are right in this exact moment, because it’s where your past self has grown to. You need this version of yourself in order to get to your ideal future self.

In such a fast paced world where everyone seems to be fighting to be the best this, the most successful that, I find that taking some time to put things in perspective like this really slows things down.

Is it hard for you to celebrate your current situation in light of where you’d like to be one day?

#pittsburghflorist #floristthoughts #pghweddingflorist #yogitea

We’ve got a sale going on! For the month of Feb

We’ve got a sale going on!

For the month of February only, couples who book with me for their June, July, or August 2024 weddings will receive 10% off their total balance

♥️ This discount applies only to full service florals, which start at $6000, before taxes

♥️ booking (signed contract and deposit paid) must be complete by 2/29/24 to qualify

♥️ discount will be applied to the final invoice

Tap that link in my bio to fill out the inquiry form and check availability for your date! Talk soon 😉

Oh you think you know your partner sooo well? Then

Oh you think you know your partner sooo well? Then which Valentine’s Day bouquet do they want??

💐💐💐

(Psst! If you’re buying flowers this year and feel stuck, send this reel to your partner with your guess of what they’d like, to check your answer… then preorder some flowers from a local florist 😉)

I sold flowers through a local boy scout troop this year so I don’t have any arrangements publicly available, but believe me I know some other fantastic florists with some stunning options for preorder 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

@sapphireandlace (offering classic reds and pinks like #5)
@emmaharrisfloral (options kinda like #2, #6, and #7)
@gold_dust_floral (lots of pink like #1)
@the.floral.touch (maaaaybe like #3? And they come with cookies?!)
@studio.fleuraison (some unexpected neutral tones sorta like #4, using dried flowers)

#valentinesdayflowers #vdayflowers #pghflorist #shoplocal #pittsburghflorist #valentines #bouquet #valentinesbouquet #rose #gardenstyle

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