#flowerhaul

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DTLA Flower Market Haul! 

Last weekend I rallied some of my best girls to help me with a bridal/floral photo shoot. More on that to come but today I wanted to share my downtown Los Angeles flower market haul. The ORIGINAL LA flower market. It’s a different kind of experience when you get to shop for your own vision. Not that I don’t inject myself into work for clients but this time I was picking entirely completely and only what I wanted. It’s almost overwhelming. When I’m picking up for an order I know what I need, but when the reins are off and I get to pull what I want?!? There are so many options, so many things I want to try! My head spins. But then I say to myself “Jessi”, that’s what I call myself, “Jessi, get it together. It’s flowers”... And I calm the eff down. Thanks self. 

In an earlier post I talked about my Trader Joe’s haul, this is a different kind of experience. Rather than getting creative with whatever they have, I’m presented with endless options. I did have a vision in mind but I always like to go in open to those random cool things that just happen to be there that day. First, I needed romantic looking flowers, something a little wild. I didn’t go in with a purple scheme in mind but then I saw the lilac and they literally called my name...”Jesssssssssi”. Turns out, Lilacs call me that too. Purple it is! Those Lilacs were the most expensive thing I bought at $16 for 5 stems. They're lucky they spoke to me. Ended up grabbing a bunch of lavender roses for $10 and a heap of Silver Dollar and Baby Blue Eucalyptus, lemon leaf and tree fern. I think they were about $4 ish per bunch. For filler I bought some Queen Anne’s lace, which in my humble opinion is superior to Baby’s Breath in every way. 

For my other project I grabbed some white Gerbera Daisies with black centers. I did kind of have these in mind but knew they would only maybe be there. Lucky day for me. They feel really vintage and I actually had a couple in my wedding bouquet :) I had been wanting to use Kale in something for awhile and finally decided the green and white variety would be a good Gerb buddy. Oh and I spotted one of my all time favorites - fire and ice roses (white with red tips and centers) in spray rose form. Call them an alt buy but I had to have them. I also bought some standard white hydrangea that I didn’t really end up using this time.

In total I think I spent about $80, which for 2 buckets of flowers is pretty great. Stay tuned for pics of the finished products coming, oh I don’t know, let’s say in the future. And I’ll be heading to check out a new Flower spot today so yeah get hype for that. 

All my love,

Jess