The Living Fresh Flower School is offering a six-week advanced floral design course for students who have completed our floristry 101 course. This course is designed to give students the opportunity to keep building their skills and creativity.

Students are to bring tool kits provided in Floristry 101. All the materials and supplies required for the course are included in the cost except the tools from 101: 

• Flowers, greenery, non-perishable design elements 
• Containers and vases 
• Wire, ribbon, floral glue 

Course Breakdown by Week

Week One: Compote Centrepiece Arrangement 


This class gives the student the opportunity to design a garden styled wedding compote centrepiece using chicken wire as the base instead of floral foam.

Week Two: Exotic Foliage Design 


This class focuses solely on the different types of foliage available in the floral industry and the many ways in which greenery can be manipulated, sculpted and altered to create cutting edge floral designs.

Week Three: Wrist Corsages and Floral Crowns

This class gives the students the skills they need to create wrist corsages and floral crowns.

Week Four: Statement Arrangements

This class will introduce students to mechanics and skills to build large, oversized arrangements for weddings and events.

Week Five: Bridal Bouquets

Students will learn the basic skills required to design hand-tied bridal bouquets. Various techniques for finishing bouquets with ribbon will also be taught.

Week Six: Student's Choice

As the final class in the 102 series, the students will decide as a group what type of arrangement/installation they would like to focus on for the last class. Suggested projects would be: ceremony installation, greenery garlands, hanging installation, ceremony standards.

DATES:

Tuesday, May 23rd
Tuesday, May 30th
Tuesday, June6th
Tuesday, June 13th
Tuesday, June 20th
Tuesday, June 2

Time: 6:00pm to 9:00pm
Limited to 6 students.

This class is open to students who have taken our Floristry 101 class and are over the age of 18. Full payment is required to reserve your spot. This class is non-refundable or transferable.