Arrange beautiful, garden-style wedding and event flowers!
Wedding Flowers
Learn how to plan and execute wedding floral designs like a professional. Learn the florist tricks for ensuring flowers are open and fresh on the day of the wedding, how to create centerpieces, bouquets, corsages, boutonnieres, and more!
Testimonials
Students of our Wedding Flowers course include beginning floral designers (we recommend taking Flower Arranging 101 first, though!), flower farmers, floral designers and shop owners.
Student Work
By Nancy Cook and Jennifer, Fir and Flora
Wedding Flowers: Course Content
The course includes four lessons. To submit your homework, you will take a photo of your flower arrangement and upload it to our online gallery for feedback.
Lesson 1: Planning and Logistics
-Creating a cohesive event through a mood board and planning.
-How to create flower recipes to coordinate with your mood board.
-How to source flowers.
-How to create a floral production timeline for an event.
-Pricing and contracts
-Create your own mood board and flower quote and receive feedback from Chelsea.
Lesson 2: How to Make a Large Scale Arrangement and a Garland
-Learn how to make a large-scale flower arrangement.
-Learn my method for making floral and greenery garlands.
-Create your own and receive feedback from Chelsea.
Lesson 3: How to Make a Wild Organic Wedding Bouquet and a Modern Organic Centerpiece
-Learn how to make a wild, organic style bridal bouquet.
-Learn how to make a low centerpiece in an organic style.
-Create your own designs and upload them and receive feedback from Chelsea.
Boutonnières, Corsages, and Cake Flowers
-Learn how to create an all natural boutonnière.
-Learn how to create a wrist corsage.
-Learn the secrets for designing and implementing cake flowers.
-Create your own designs and upload to the classroom for feedback from Chelsea.
About Chelsea
With over twenty years experience as a florist and floral stylist, I pair my skills as a stylist and my training in classical floral design to create floral designs that feel effortless, fresh, and straight from the garden! My first flower arranging book will publish Spring 2021 with Abrams. In my online flower workshops at Frolic! Flower School, I teach you all my secrets for composing fresh floral arrangements for clients or just for yourself. My floral work has appeared in Kinfolk, Remodelista, Gardenista, Design Sponge, Once Wed, Snippet & Ink, Apartment Therapy, and more!
Learn more about my story here.
FAQ
What supplies do I need for the course?
If you want to complete the homework (we recommend doing the homework!), you will need a few supplies. Each lesson offers a full list of supplies. You will need:
Access to fresh flowers. Download our flower sourcing guide here.
Garden clippers
A vase
A piece of rope and some wire.
A large urn or bucket.
Ribbon
A camera (can be phone) to take photos of your assignments to submit for homework.
Where do I find flowers?
We recommend Fifty Flowers and when you sign up, you will receive a discount code to shop with them.
You can also download our sourcing guide here for additional ideas.
How long do I have access to the course?
You will have ongoing access once you sign up!
Do I need to be located in the USA?
No. We have had students from all over the world!