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Add Color To Your Cinco De Mayo Party With Flowers

Cinco De Mayo

Cinco de Mayo falls on Saturday this year and is a GREAT excuse to have a FIESTA!

Are you tired of the same ol’ get-togethers every weekend? Break out the sombreros, this Saturday will be different – a Cinco de Mayo party is easy!

Cinco de Mayo Decor

Cinco de Mayo decor is all about bright, bold COLOR! While Mexico’s colors are red, white and green, their culture is know for it’s use of vivid colors.

  • Choose colorful tablecloths, plates, cups and napkins.
  • Create simple garlands of flags to hang around the room, or an outside canopy.
  • Don’t forget the flowers! Use bright and cheery Cinco de Mayo flowers as the centerpiece to your buffet table, or anywhere else that needs a splash of COLOR!
  • Flowers make great hostess gifts!

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Congratulations Matt & Meghan!

8 Bit Wedding Shower - Congrats

Yes, another party, woo! This time we are celebrating the marriage of one of our programmers, Matt to his wonderful fiance Meghan. Because they are both avid video gamers, their wedding actually had a gaming, 8-bit theme. We tried to continue this with the wedding shower decorations with 8-bit hearts and fonts.

8-bit Hearts - Gamer Wedding Shower

You can see the hearts are kind of squared, this is what 8-bit means. Think of the graphics of Mario and old Nintendo games. What a neat idea for a themed party or wedding, and just perfect for Matt & Meghan.

So BIG congrats guys, from ALL of us at FSN!

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FSN’s Bloomin’ Newsletter for July

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3 Great Party Ideas For Your Summer Entertaining

Backyard BBQs, pool parties, picnics — you name it, it’s happening now! Summer’s here and EVERYONE’S outside enjoying the sun!

The Patriotic-Themed Summer Party
Just because the 4th has passed, doesn’t mean you have to put away your patriotic decor! You’ve got the perfect party theme! Decorate your porch, yard or rented pavilion with everything red, white and blue. Find 4th of July themed party supplies like hats and glasses to force everyone into the festive spirit! (Since the 4th is over — think: clearance, clearance, clearance!)

For food, think traditional American — hamburgers, hot dogs, and anything else that cooks on a grill! Adorn your desserts with fresh strawberries, cherries and blueberries on top of white icing for a delicious red, white and blue treat!

A party just isn’t a party without beautiful table decor. Ask your local florist to create a patriotic floral centerpiece for your guests to enjoy, just like this one by one of our great members, Hart Floral.

Garden Party
Gardening has quickly regained it’s status as a favorite pastime all over the world. Between you and your friends you are bound to have at least one…
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FSN’s Favorite Flower Arrangement For July

Summer is here to stay! Send summer flowers to a friend or use in your decor to celebrate the beginning of summer. Corporate picnics and family reunions aren’t complete without a beautiful a festive summer centerpiece! Yellow Aglow would be a perfect table topper!

Use Flower Shop Network’s handy local florist directory to find your city florist and ask about the Yellow Aglow today!

FSN At AIFD’s National Symposium

FSN was on the road this past weekend to Boston, MA. where the AIFD (American Institute of Floral Designers) was hosting their extravagant National Symposium! This is where the top floral designers in the United States and around the world come together to network, learn, and really show off their stuff! These are the floral artists. They know the ins and outs of their trade like no others, and are there to show their passion as well as give a few pointers, tips and techniques along the way. We just got back yesterday, July 7th, and are slowly posting all of the great media we recorded while there. Be sure to check out the FSN Photos of AIFD Revolution as well as the video interviews with event directors, presenters and even local florists attending the event as they are posted. [Read more…]

3 Great Ideas For Summer Entertaining

Backyard BBQs, pool parties, picnics — you name it, it’s happening now! Summer’s here and EVERYONE’S outside enjoying the sun!

The Patriotic-Themed Summer Party

Just because the 4th will come and go, doesn’t mean you have to put away your patriotic decor! You’ve got the perfect party theme! Decorate your porch, yard or rented pavilion with everything red, white and blue. Find 4th of July themed party supplies like hats and glasses to force everyone into the festive spirit! (Once the 4th is over — think: clearance, clearance, clearance!)

For food, think traditional American — hamburgers, hot dogs, and anything else that cooks on a grill! Adorn your desserts with fresh strawberries, cherries and blueberries on top of white icing for a delicious red, white, and blue treat!

A party just isn’t a party without beautiful table decor. Ask your local florist to create a patriotic floral centerpiece for your guests to enjoy, just like this one by one of our great members, Hart Floral.

Summer Garden Party

Yellow Aglow - Garden Party CenterpieceGardening has quickly regained it’s status as a favorite pastime all over the world. Between you and your friends you are bound to have at least one garden, flowerbed, or … well, just a tree will do. Use a simple card table with a nice table cloth for your focal area, garden parties tend to be fairly small.

Pick a color palette to stick with when decorating for a more ‘designer’ look. It can be all one color or several. Also, it’s a good idea not to mix and match bright colors with pastels. For decoration ideas, browse through an aisle in your garden center. You could use terracotta pots, mason jars, or watering cans as containers for your party snacks and finger foods. Kid’s shovels could be used as serving utensils.

Your garden party menu should be light, finger food-type entrees. You could even do garden-themed foods, like mudslide pie or cupcakes with cookie crumb ‘dirt’ ontop. (Depending on the age of your guests, use gummy worms!)

Ask your local florist to create a garden themed centerpiece for your party. Be sure to tell her what your color scheme is! You just can’t have a garden party without FLOWERS! Your local florist can hook you up with all sorts of summer flowers to use in your garden party decor!

Transform your garden party into a grown-up tea party.. or invite the kids to join. Decorate your table in the girliest way possible — think: beads, feathers, pearls, jewels. Find inexpensive china or other dinnerware from your local thrift stores. Doesn’t match? Not a problem, just gives it character! The possibilities are endless!

Our sister site, Wedding and Party Network, did a post all about garden parties not too long ago, check it out: Candle-lit Garden Party On A Budge

Hawaiian Luau Party

Aloha! Hawaiian Luau Parties are great for hosts with pools! Encourage everyone to don their grass skirts and coconuts! For luau decorations, think beach and tropical, tiki masks, torches and Hawaiian leis

Luau food is easy! Have a fruit tray with lots of tropical and citrus fruits. Set up a make-your-own-shish kabob table and let everyone customize their own kabob for grilling. If you’re really brave, go for a whole hog cooked in the ground.. (Hey, I said you had to be brave… I know I’m not brave enough!)

The key to a Hawaiian Luau Party is a good lei! Contact your local florist and ask about fresh flower leis, they look great, smell great and will be memory you will never forget!

Kick Off The Party With Game-Day Football Flowers

Jaguar Spirit Flowers

Jaguar Spirit Flowers

If you missed the first kickoff of the official football season, don’t worry! You can still kick off the next big game with a fun football themed party. Grab your team colors and have a blast. The one thing that you can’t forget at this party is flowers. Arrangements of chocolate cosmos or other brown flowers shaped like a football will rock everyone’s socks off as a festive centerpiece. Throw in some foods in the team colors and the party is underway.

Another great idea for the women at the party is to contact your local florist for stems of flowers in the team colors. Snip the stems just enough so that the women can decorate their hair with flowers for an even more over-the-top look.

Attending someone else’s party? Don’t forget a gift of colorful flowers decorated with the team colors and perhaps even the team’s emblem emblazoned on decorative floral accessories. It’s a creative gift that your host or hostess will love.

Have any creative ideas? Scored big with game day flowers before? Share your stories by commenting below.

It’s easy to find a beautiful flower arrangement in your team colors such as this daisy and delphinium arrangement. Decorate your football party with these colorful flowers while cheering for the Jacksonville Jaguars. Nothing quite shows the ferocity of the Atlanta Falcons or the San Francisco 49ers quite as well as a contemporary flower arrangement of red roses. Whatever your team colors may be, simply ask your local florist to design an arrangement with your team in mind. Let the fun and games begin!

You’re Invited – Set The Party Mood With Flowers

Fresh flowers can really set the mood for any celebration, from casual to formal, and the well-appointed luncheon or dinner party table always includes a floral centerpiece. If you’re planning a special event, your local professional florist can work with you to create the perfect decorations for the festive occasion, expertly coordinating the flowers to the environment. It’s a fact that people will remember and talk about beautiful flowers long after the food has been consumed.

Popular Party Trends With Flowers

One popular trend in table decor features the use of several smaller components to make up the total design. These individual components might consist of a series of small glass vases in varying shapes lined down the center of the table, each separate vase containing it’s own type of flower. The little arrangements can then double as party favors.

Fruit & Flower ArrangementA similar effect can be achieved with terra cotta pots (with waterproof liners) in a variety of sizes, mounded tightly with blossoms, arranged along the table, and linked with strands of bear grass or curly willow twigs between them. Even though each vase or pot might hold just one kind of flower, it’s best to consider the overall color harmony of the total design.

For example, a monochromatic color scheme, with all of the flowers being within different values of the same hue, can be very effective even if the flowers are of assorted species. The addition of other decorative elements, such as linens, candles, and napkin ties, completes the tablescape.

Fresh fruit can be an excellent complement to flowers in a centerpiece. In fact, the arrangement pictured here uses grapes and green apples as means of support for the fresh blossoms.

Party Flower Etiquette

No matter what style of centerpiece you choose, it is important to keep in mind that your guests will want to be able to see each other across the table. A good rule of thumb is to place your elbow on the table with your forearm in the vertical position, wrist bent. This will be the maximum height for the flowers in order for the party-goers to see across them. Of course, you may also choose to elevate the flowers above the guests’ sight lines, as in the case of a topiary style arrangement. This is especially effective in a high-ceiling room.

Centerpieces for buffet tables should be tall and raised above the food so that they can be seen over the fare and so that they are not competing with it for table space or attention. In this case footed urns, cake plates, or tall vases make suitable containers.

Your local florist can provide lots of ideas for flower arrangements that will help make your party splendid. Don’t delay…throw a party today!