Avalanche Rose Bridal Bouquet designed by our students

Our students today mastered the technique of creating hand tied bridal bouquets of all Roses.  The Roses used today were the impressive Avalanche Rose which is a very popular choice for these Bridal Bouquets

Priscilla from Brasil working on her bridal bouquet on day 1 or our beginners bridal course 

Maeve from Dublin  working on her bridal bouquet on day 1 or our beginners bridal course

Sonia from Co. Monaghan  working on her bridal bouquet on day 1 or our beginners bridal course

Muge from Istanbul, Turkey working on her bridal bouquet on day 1 or our beginners bridal course

Sympathy & Funeral Tribute Training Course

What a fun week we have had this week, with only 1 new student who had not been to Kay's School before all the rest of our returning students had lots of tales to tell us of their journey into the flower and floristry world.

Monday morning saw the students creating gorgeous eternal circle funeral wreaths in whites and greens.  In the afternnon they took on the challenge of pleating florist ribbon....  and a challenge it was but by the early afternoon they were flying and pinning it onto their heart based wreaths .Using their own style each student designed and decorated their own Heart Shaped Wreath.

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Over the next couple of days students got the opportunity to work on an array of different  funeral tributes, Hearts, Crosses, Gates of Heaven, Cushions and some mini tributes also.

These are just a few photo of their designs 

For more details of any of our courses or to speak o us about your career in floristry, 

just call us on 01 453 86 49 or drop us an email to info@kaysschool.com 

Presentation Hand Tied Bouquet in a Floral Box

A very busy day at Kay's School of Floristry today as students learned the art of butting together a very large Hand Tied Bouquet.  The quickly caught on to the spiraling technique and it wasn't long before the mastered the skill of creating these fabulous bouquets.
The ladies learned how to make an aqua pack bubble of water, assembling the floralbox floral boxes, making organza bows and then just to add a bit of bling they added a brooch to their bouquet.

At Kay's School we only ever use Floralbox Flower boxes as we have found these to be the most sturdy box on the market, with the added protection of the plastic bag interior flowers can be easily placed inside without the fear of them toppling over.   Michael from Floralbox  has a beautiful selection of boxes and you will find the link to his Facebook page here,

Michael is the worldwide distributor of these boxes and you will not get anything like them anywhere else.  If you are a florist you can order a free sample here from Floral Box Website 

Click here for more information about our Hand Tied Flower Bouquet Workshop

Advanced Bridal Church Flower Arranging Training Course

Another amazing and busy week at Kay's School of Floristry this week. Tuesday & Wednesday this week saw our students designing  stunning Wedding Unity Candle Arrangements, Altar arrangements, Pew Ends, Glass Bowl Arrangements.  Tutor Janette also demonstrated a 5 foot Church Pedestal Arrangement & Wedding Floral Arches.
Our Wedding Floral Arch is a one of a kind design and we show you how to make your own stand that is light, flexible and easy to assemble on your own in the church.
The students all played a part in putting together Topiary Trees, Candelabra Arrangements and smaller candle stand arrangement.

We were delighted to see all our returning students, some who had trained with us this year and some who had trained with us last year.  This final module is the end of their training with us, but as ever we cannot stress, no matter how long ago you trained with us, we are always here should you need advice or a friendly ear  - info@kaysschool.com

Click here for details of our Advanced Church & Hotel Design Course 

Details of our BROOCH BOUQUET TRAINING KITS & WORKSHOPS can be found here 

AOIFA - Association of Irish Floral Artists National Competition in the Middleton Park Hotel, Co Cork

Kay was delighted to get the opportunity to visit the National Competitions for AOIFA this year in Middleton in Co Cork.  As a Commercial Florist it is such a wonderful experience to see these Artists at work using the flowers & materials we use in the school everyday but on a commercial basis.
Their designs were just amazing and the hours of work that must have went into each piece was evident in the attention to detail in each of the floral designs.

Over the course of the day Kay got chatting with lots of the designers and coincidentally some of them had actually started out as students at  Kay's School of Floristry many many years ago.

Mary O Brien won Floral Artist of the year with this stunning creation and fantastic use of midelino sticks 

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Beatrice Hartog won first in the Craft Class with this exceptional piece of craft.

For more information on AOIFA visit their website here 

The 11th World Flower Show will be held in Ireland this year for the very first time in the RDS in Dublin.  This Event will be attended by Floral Artists and Flower arrangers from all over the world and is expected to be a phenomenal success.  For more information on this event and to buy tickets pop over to The World Association of Flower Arrangers Page. (WAFA)

Advanced Bridal Floristry Course - Head-dresses - step by step approach

Normally on day 1 of our Advanced Bridal Floristry we cover halo Head-dresses and we usually do these in all white, today we decided to change our theme for these and go for an Autumnal Theme Wedding Head-dress.

Janette demonstrated the Bridal or Flower Girls Headdress step by step creating a beautiful creation using Orchids as the main flower and adding to it some mixed foliage and some cotoneaster berry.

The students then got the opportunity to try on and photograph the headdress 

For more information on how you can learn to create head dresses like these or maybe design your own wedding flowers, drop us an email to info@kaysschool.com