September - wow September….this truly was my busiest month since I started my business over nine years ago. It was all about weddings and events and so many flowers.
Shannon (my wedding flower side kick) and I produced flowers for 7 weddings in September. I usually like to do one wedding every other weekend so how I got to seven I really don’t know, but with a lot of hard work and organization we completed them. All the weddings were using flowers from my field, I am loving it that people are choosing seasonal flowers. One of the weddings that was closest to my heart was for Marissa & Dan, those of you close to me will know why. The sneak peak at their photos made me so happy.
September was also full of visitors. My parent’s from England, both of my boys came to visit at different times and my “uncle Bob” - not a true uncle but he went to school with my dad - probably about 100 years ago, so he is like family came to stay too. We celebrated my parents 60th wedding anniversary, which is quite the milestone. The house was full and so was my heart - I was probably not the best host during the crazy busy month but it was still a lovely time.
The dahlia field continued to produce so many beautiful blooms, all the hard work in the spring definitely paid off, this has been my most successful dahlia season to date. I hosted my very first U-pick dahlia evening which was definitely a success and I will continue to host this evening in future years. So many people taking photos in the fields and going home with buckets full of blooms.
Jess Vallance and I started September by documenting with photography some more dahlias in the field. It was one of those perfect evenings that you want to bottle and save for the winter months. Beautiful warm sunlight, the dogs and her baby behaving whilst we chatted and took photographs. It was probably one of my favorite evenings from this summer.
Towards the end of September I hosted an intimate everlasting wreath workshop at the farm. A small group of ladies created a half moon wreath with flowers that I have dried from my farm. I love working with dried flowers and it was so lovely to see other people finding the joy in this too.
The evenings are getting darker and cooler and the season is drawing to an end, even though the flowers will be finished there is still plenty of work to do preparing for winter, so there is no rest in sight for a while yet, but in the meantime I am enjoying the glorious fall weather that we receiving in the Pacific Northwest.