I created a silk rose petal aisle runner for Abby’s wedding on the beach in Bermuda. This all started when Abby said she wanted a  silk rose petal aisle. Her wedding coordinator first said this would be fine and I thought this was not good to have silk petals all over the beach! Then she later said no loose silk petals! So I had to devise a way to turn the many bags of silk petals into an aisle runner. She said you could only use fresh petals.  But I wasn’t going to let this be an obstacle but a floral challenge. I started by playing with tulle. I knew they would not walk on this ,but it would line and define the aisle in the sand. I took the bolt of tulle and folded it so there was 4 layers of tulle to attach petals to. I tried several glues but these didn’t work well , so I tried stapling each petal on to the tulle. This worked quite well but takes forever!!! I used a hand stapler because you need to reach across the tulle on top and bottom.With this process the tulle was only about 12 inches across and 45ft long for this short aisle times 2 pieces. I mixed white and pink petals and spaced them loosely across the tulle.  I was able to just roll these out on the sand aisle sides, threw some of the pink Bermuda sand on them and there was no blowing petals and it looked like real petals. I also had a bag of fresh rose petals that I brought from home to throw between the petal borders. The combination worked and looked great and it gave my son a job as a flower girl with the fresh petals. I also decorated the 2 front chairs with a sheer pink bow and a large single open silk pink rose and a chunk of the petalled tulle behind the rose. This was certainly not your usual pew bow! So no more blowing petals in the sand. View picture below for details of aisle runner.

My daughter Abby got married on Memorial Day  on Jobson’s Cove in Bermuda. There were 16 of us who took a cruise from Norfolk,Va. This was a 5 day cruise with a wedding in between. The wedding was outdoors on the beach at 6pm in the evening. Everyone was barefoot and casual except for the bride and groom. The decorations and flowers were very simple- a brides bouquet of pink silk roses,a silk rose bout for the groom,silk rose petal aisle runners to mark the aisle,15 chairs with 2 pew bows and a single rose,and a bag of fresh rose petals for my son,Brian (aka the flower girl) to throw,and 2 rose wristlets for the moms.. So for a florist this was the bare minimum. But this is what she wanted! There was a short ceremony and then cake and champagne was served while formal pictures were taken. What a great way to have a small wedding.  was perfect as planned- the weather, the setting, the cake, pictures etc.I have a few of our pictures to share and a detailed description on petal aisle runner.