Wild Rabbit Flowers

Wild Rabbit Weekend Flowers hitting the brewery at 5:30 tonight!
Go grab yourself a bunch of summer sweetness while they last! ✨
Mountainview Brewing Co.

August was something wild. Mostly a whirlwind of color and texture and big, big jobs, infused with a revolving door of visiting friends bringing food and laughter. It wasn’t a month for sleep or rest. A blur and a flurry that’s left me on September’s doorstep chuckling, a tangled, tired mess, with a belly full of life and lipstick on my heart.

The story of the sisterhood and the travelling PLANTS.
What a TIME. Three events, three nights, three decor set and strikes. Hoping on with Ace and bringing the fleurs.
I really pushed these live installs to their limits : long travel days, trailer ins and outs, elevators and stairs, late nights in hot rooms (maybe the music kept them going??) These live stands went from Hope to Squamish to Whistler and honestly, required way less attention than I expected.
Buckets of fresh in the trailer to revive every morning, and sticking with the hero ingredients, I think I even learned some new things about just how far some varieties can go considering how much they travelled over three nights.
It was a pleasure to be out there again doing gig work with Ace ✨Nicoletta Fontarelli ✨ Andreann Lamoureux 🪩 These ladies know how to party and by party I mean hustle 💃

Such a solid crew for all three events it was a marathon!!! Arc’teryx takeover, the most epic thunderstorm and ending it all with such a banger Bass Coast Festival Sunday night!!

There are some couples who are the kindest, sweetest people, and Andrea and Zach are those people.
On her way up the lawn to her ceremony, Andrea throwing me hearts 🫶🏽🫶🏽🫶🏽 is about all this florist could ever want.
Thank you for trusting me with your most perfect day. Captured beautifully by Franki | Vancouver Wedding Photographer and coordinated to perfection by Bright Gray Events

Venue Fraser River Lodge - Weddings
Planner + DOC Bright Gray Events
Photography
Videography Forever After Studios
Florals Carli // Wild Rabbit Flowers
DJ DJ_AMYD
Live Music NIKITA AFONSO | EVENT & WEDDING MUSICIAN & DJ
Decor Valley Weddings & Events
Decor events by elle — decor rentals & wedding planning studio
Bar + Candy Signage Chalkboard Art by Emily
Cake Crystal | Reddy Made Cakes
Hair + Makeup Vancouver • BC Makeup & Hair Team

The summer weeks are flying by but the flowers are unforgettable.✨

A sweet summer party at Sandpiper, bejeweled by Valley Weddings, and adorned with August blooms.

Cutting the color palette tonight. ✨

Hot Summer Nights

It’s a four event weekend and I’m bringing in my all-star Miyuki to help me. I do a lot on my own - but I’ll draw the line at a quadruplet.

So much in weeks like this is dedicated to keeping everything organized. Different days require different design schedules, the early week is a massive amount of prep with mechanics and flower processing. In summer months - it’s a constant assessment of every single bloom to keep them perfect through the week, including an ever revolving decision on who gets precious cooler space, and who can stick it out in the shop.

These are just a handful of the daily tasks and on big weeks - you can expect to be working day and night. I break my days up with a late afternoon at home to reset, water gardens, pet dogs and stare at the wall.

Most all the bouquets I make are done on my night shift. After sun down, i feel like I come into creative focus, and do my best designing. Hot summer nights with the doors and windows open, music up and the space from all the daytime tasks, I love my night shifts.

Miyuki and I will be slinging fleurs all weekend for some really awesome people, in some of my favorite venues.

This is what it’s all about.
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Aside from a few forest ferns, this late night, early morning heat wave wedding was designed entirely with the flowers you’ve been watching grow since February.

I spent the late hours last night with each of the flowers, coaxed from seed and seedling, under lights, in the greenhouse, (and out, and then back in, and then again out, weather dependant) under worried cover and finally left to stretch and unfurl and provide.

This bouquet left my hands but came from my heart beat. From a not so big plot of land on a little block, is where I grow and grow.