Squamish Mom Entrepreneurs Website

Check out this website by two of my mom friends here in Squamish.

http://www.squamishmom.ca/

They did a profile of our shop when they first launched their awesome site!

http://www.squamishmom.ca/SM/AlannaVolp.html

Hello again!

Hello to all our dear customers! We had a very busy Thanksgiving week, and it was so beautiful and abundant in the shop. We had pumpkins, modern cornucopias and centrepieces with orchids and gourds. I love thanksgiving as it allows you to be with your family (this year it was just our little family of three and our cat Milla as our families are a little far away), enjoy a nice meal, and be thankful for the abundance that we have. Truly we are so blessed here to have such beautiful food, friends, community, nature, fresh water....

I am getting inspired about my garden again-perhaps because I can actually pull the weeds out easier! I have endless plans and visions for my tiny little space but this year I want to focus on building up the vegetable plot into at least twice its size-raised beds-with beautiful soil to grow lots of vegetables that I will actually harvest and eat. It seems to me it is hard to find time to garden in wedding season, but life is about balance, and it is really important to me to teach my little man Shem, where our food comes from, getting dirty and putting our hands in the earth.....

Shem doesnt like to wear shoes as you can see :) He just started walking on his own this past two weeks and it is-hands down-THE cutest thing I have ever seen. It makes my heart swell every time I look at him. Motherhood is the most incredible gift!

Furry Creek Wedding Flowers

Jackie and Mike had the most beautiful weather for their wedding at Furry Creek this past weekend. Check out their gorgeous photos from Adriana Durian photography.

http://www.adrianadurianphotography.com/blog/?p=862

Fall ...at last!

I seriously love fall. I didn't think I loved it as much as I do but oh the flowers! The colours are so incredible at this time of year, you just want to squish your face into all those beautiful hues. The golden rusty coloured disbud mums with the glowing copper echinacea centres....the burgundy smoke tree and amaranthus hanging so dignified! Oh and of course the peachy/fushia colour which is so hard to describe. I did a beautiful wedding a few years ago where the bride who owns an amazing tea shop called Bayswater Tea Company ( http://www.bayswatertea.com/ ) asked for her flowers to be eminent of these three words: cozy, fall, yummy. I used pale yellow creamy champagne buttery coloured roses with golds and coppers and fall leaves I picked from the trees around Vancouver, with chocolate brown and hits of greeny/burgundy hydrangeas that when they start to dry turn sort of a verdigris colour....ahh heaven.

If you love nature, flowers and poetry, read my favourite poet ever: Mary Oliver. Her poems describe how we feel about flowers, colours, nature. Total bliss!

So bring on the hot chocolate, the scarves, hazlenut latte's, chunky sweaters, brown boots and gourds! And feel free to bring us golden sparkling champagne or crisp white wine into the store at any time, we will add some extra oomph to your bouquets, always in exchange for wine or chocolate ;) (learned that one from Cheryl)

Blackberry Wine anyone? (a great book by the author of Chocolat)

Summer Sale on Now at Billie's Bouquet

SOLAR LANTERNS..... two varieties in store, white and green

ALL STOCK 25% OFF!

Funk out your patio or gardens and create that beautiful ambiance as fall approaches and dusk falls earlier. All lanterns are 25% off. Hurry Stock is selling out quickly!!

POTTED ORCHIDS-FRESH WITH LOTS OF BUDS IN A VARIETY OF COLOURS....

ALL 25% OFF!

Summer's Bloomin

Here are the lovely flowers for the lovely Sonja and Shane who got married this past weekend at Totem Hall. They did an amazing job of the decorating. They turned the room into an evening in the park. The brilliant fushias, and lime greens looked amzing and we are so happy that everything went perfectly with all their hard work.

The next batch of bright and bold colours were the most fabulous couple, Stacey and Kelsey. Wow, what nice people and so laid back. I had a great time putting their flowers together, the striking summery hues would have been gorgeous on their river beach ceremony location. Thanks for being so super wonderful you two!

Here is another beautiful bouquet we made for an early morning wedding this past Saturday, bling was present in the rhinestones and gold wire we incorporated into the flowers, all in very Eastern hues, this power punch of colour was a fun hint of what colours are coming soon for autumn.

July Weddings

Hi all, I write this on a hot Sunday evening, exhausted from the past two weekends, having done full florals, decorating and day of consulting plus a little bit of planning for two lovely couples.
Check out some photos of the flowers we did over the past couple of weeks....



Nathalie and Brendan-your wedding made my summer, I hope you move to Squamish so we can spend more time together! Your wedding was so smooth and calm and I really enjoyed getting to know your wonderful family and all your friends. You are a really special couple and I felt your love for one another right from the first time I met you two in Whistler at the wedding fair last fall.

I think everything turned out beautifully, the Edgewater Lodge is the perfect venue and the speeches were amazing. Thanks for seating us with the guests and your father to boot, we felt like part of the initmate day, and I am so grateful for that. Looking forward to seeing some photos and seeing you two in the future!

This is just a photo of a very summery and pretty bouquet we made up this week for a new baby boy. We had sent her several blue arrangements already so thought this time we'd go a bit more natural and fresh.

Michelle's modern bouquet in a biedermiere style with white mini callas and hot pink garden roses that smelled so heavenly!
Michelle and Ben's wonderful wedding here in Squamish was full of hot pinks and whites and chocolate browns. My favourite part might have to have been the cake! Absolutely stunning!
We are looking forward to some playdates with our little guys, very close in age. Congrats you two! It was a beautiful day!

A passionate, sexy and modern bouquet of black callas and white freesias, for an outdoor wedding down by the ocean at Furry Creek.

And....finally, below are Naomi's flowers. I have been looking forward to doing her flowers all year! First because I just adore Naomi and she always cheered me up when I ordered my latte's next door becaues she always took the time to genuinely find out how I was. She is so earthy and real, yet always happy and a little goofy! Our style is so similar, and when I was making her flowers, I felt I was in heaven! This is what I wished I had for my own wedding flowers! Unfortunately when I made my wedding flowers I wasn't as skilled as I am now and so, I got to live vicariously through Naomi's flowers.

Naomi's bridal bouquet was a challenge for me. Not from a design perspective because I had been thinking it over and we had even done a little trial. It was more from a technical perspective so it utlised all the techniques I have learned over the years. I can't wait to hear how it all went. I hope she loved everything!