Nancy Swiezy's Flowers Of The Week Bouillabaisse Verte!

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Nancy Swiezy's Flowers of the Week

By Nancy Swiezy Events and Flowers
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Nancy Swiezy's Flowers of the Week...Pinecones

By Nancy Swiezy Events and Flowers
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Burberry Wedding Theme

Hand Made Vase, Flowers and "Trench Coat" Pintuck Linen by Nancy Swiezy Events www.nancyswiezyevents.com

Language Of Flowers... What Will Your Flowers Say About You?

The Victorians were familiar with various meanings that were associated to different flowers, such that a bouquet often conveyed an understood meaning to the recipient.








View my bouquet containing Queen Anne's lace and lily's

Almond flowers -- Hope
Anemone -- Forsaken
Balm -- Sympathy
Basil -- Best wishes
Bay leaf -- "I change but in death"
Bell flower, white -- Gratitude
Bergamot -- Irresistible
Bluebell -- Constancy
Borage -- Courage
Broom -- Humility
Campanula -- Gratitude
Carnation, red -- "Alas for my poor heart"
China rose -- Beauty always new
Chrysanthemum -- Love
Clover, four leaved -- "Be mine"
Convolvulus, major -- Extinguished hopes or eternal sleep
Coreopsis, arkansa -- Love at first sight
Cuckoo pint -- Ardour
Daffodil -- Regard
Daisy -- Innocence, new-born, "I share your sentiment"
Fennel -- Flattery
Fern -- Sincerity
Forget-Me-Not -- True love
Furze or Gorse -- Enduring affection
French Marigold -- Jealousy
Gardenia -- Ecstasy
Gentian -- Loveliness
Geranium -- "You are childish"
Hare bell -- Grief
Heartsease -- "I am always thinking of you"
Honeysuckle -- Bonds of love
Heather -- Admiration
Ice Plant -- "Your appearance freezes me"
Ivy -- Fidelity, friendship, marriage
Jasmine -- Grace
Jonquil -- "I hope for return of affection"
Lavender -- Luck, devotion
Lemon Balm -- Sympathy
Lily -- Purity, modesty
Lily of the Valley -- Purity, the return of happiness
Marigold -- Health, grief or despair
Marjoram -- Kindness, courtesy
Myrtle -- Fidelity
Oregano -- Joy
Pansy -- Loving thoughts
Periwinkle -- Happy memory
Phlox -- Agreement
Poppy, red -- Consolation
Queen Anne’s Lace - sanctuary.
Rose, cabbage -- Ambassador of love
Rose, red -- Love
Rose, pink -- Grace, beauty
Rose, yellow -- Friendship
Rosemary -- Remembrance, constancy
Rue -- Contrition
Sage -- Gratitude, domestic virtue
Snowdrop -- Hope
Star of Bethlehem -- Purity
Sweet Pea -- Departure, tender memory
Sweet William -- Gallantry
Tuberose -- Voluptuousness
Tulip, red -- Reclamation of love
Violet -- Loyalty, modesty, humility
Violet, blue -- Faithfulness
Wormwood -- Grief
Wheat -- Riches of the continuation of life
Willow, weeping -- Mourning
Wallflower -- Fidelity
Yew -- Sorrow

Flowers for Housing Works "Bride on a Buck"

This is the Topiary I did for the Housing Works Bridal Event.

























The next one will be in April
www.Housingworks.org

Nancy Swiezy Events In the Huffington Post Entertaining Secrets: Park Avenue Tulips Inspire A Spring Setting

Who knew that a tulip bulb could be like a light bulb and energize an urban landscape?




Thirty years ago, the late New York philanthropist Mary Lasker, an early advocate of city beautification, helped fund a charity to plant tulips on Park Avenue as well as luminous cherry trees and colorful begonias in the summer. To celebrate this milestone, Scully & Scully, New York's fine home furnishings store, asked the Fund For Park Avenue committee members to design table settings inspired by spring tulips.

Because of the Fund for Park Avenue's success, not only has New York City planted over three million tulips but over eight million bulbs all over New York. "It's basically a flower for every New Yorker," said Parks Commissioner Adrian Benepe. "This is a program that has been imitated but not duplicated in many cities." In fact, flowers have a calming protective power. "I've never heard of a fist fight in front of tulips," he quipped.


Why not use spring's tulips as inspiration to set a table at your own home, As poet Silvana Krculic wrote, "If I was a tulip, And you were wind's wings, I would not count my broken dreams, But bless the coming spring."

Hopefully this will inspire you to have this floral theme at your own dinner table to mark the new season. Tip-toe through these tulip designs and see the ways celebrated designers and hostesses mixed and matched dinner plates, florals and objet d'art to create pleasing presentations.















Anyone who has a tray can use it to start a display. New York's Nancy Swiezy, who runs an events and floral company, loved this Buddha and put it on the tray. She then placed green floral oasis easily purchased at any garden store and then added the white tulips and sprinkled them around the Buddha. She bookended this major feature with floral urns on trays surrounded by dog and cat objects d'art. You can use trays and line them up to create a personal statement.


To create a jolt of color, find jewel toned glasses and add them to the table. While wine glasses can be crystal, designer Nancy Swiezy used Varga copper glasses as water goblets which blended with the "Chinese Bouquet" Herend orange and white plates. Notice how she placed three glasses in a triangle shape. This is obviously for a more formal dinner that includes various drinks.

Salad Plates: Meisen "Ming Dragon"
Chargers: Hermes "Jardin Des Orchidees"
Colored Glasses: Varga
Dog, Cat & Buddha figurines: Herend
www.scullyandscully.com

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jill-brooke/entertaining-secrets-park_b_545872.html
BY Jill Brooks
All photos from Laurie Lambrecht for Scully & Scully

The New England Society Annual Dinner Dance

It was a wonderful night!













The flowers I designed and created for the event were a hit!

The baby pineapples in hot pink was the inspiration for the floral design.
Leasle Stahl was our honoree and the New England color guard is one of our traditions that makes this event quite special.

I'm so proud to be part of it.

Thanks to Mari O'Connor for her millinery help with the May Flower Madam!
http://www.nesnyc.org/

Real Wedding by A Newport Affaire In The City of New York

Here are the Photos from Kamil and John's High Tea Wedding at the New York Jr. Leage.
It was a magical day with a fairytail ending!





Photos by Stavros Panopoulas of Fifth Avenue Digital

Flowers By Nancy Swiezy

Wedding Cake by Cakeline