anastasia flowers

Christmas and New Year flower classes

2012-01-14T05:03:00.000-08:00

With 16 students last night we have created not just flower designs but great atmosphere, making new friends, having fun, learning new skills and finding creativity inside each one of us - thank you to everybody, it was a pleasure to work with you!

See more pics here

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Anastasia-Flowers/170809192949507

2011-10-16T10:20:00.000-07:00

Few pictures from Hazlewood wedding fair last Sunday - we have transformed the chapel into a magical place.

Looking forward to our brides to discuss these news pew decor ideas

Sunday workshop

2011-10-03T04:54:00.000-07:00

By Sunday the weather cooled down a bit, so we were not tempted for sunbathing :) and had a chance to run another successful workshop,

We had a lot of fun yesterday working on autumn theme, all our students left the workshop loaded with both designs and ideas!

Wedding fair at The Mansion

2011-09-26T06:11:00.000-07:00

We had a pleasure of decorating the Fountain room and one of the guest tables in main reception. Views from windows are so amazing - wish you could live there :)

Rich autumnal colors of flower arrangements complemented the wooden table where everything was ready to accept guests for an unforgettable dining experience

Wedding fair at The Mansion

2011-09-26T05:45:00.000-07:00

Yesterday , 25th of September, we had fantastic event at The Mansion, Roundhay Park - wedding fair at this amazing venue. The Mansion was restored in august 2009 and at the moment is one of our favorites - tasteful decor, chandelier - die for!, beautiful surroundings, great food - you have to come and look for yourself!

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Part of our creative team

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Wonderful wedding of Dawn and David had an amazing response

Wedding season in full swing

2011-08-20T12:25:00.000-07:00

We have been very busy with weddings these months, flowers and cakes, a lot of creative work and happy couples. We will try to show you some samples to keep you updated

Yorkshire Evening Post 25.07.11

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Yorkshire Evening Post 25.07.11

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2011-04-06T12:59:00.000-07:00

working together with Radio Aire in a fund raising action "Cash for Kids"

more details on

http://www.radioaire.co.uk/30brides-sectional

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The winning couple - Claire and Edward! Aaah, happy days!!

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meeting a couples at Radio Aire station for the first time - all of them are quite nervous - it' s going to be not an easy task - fund raising in a week time !!!!

30 brides - 1 royal wedding

2011-04-06T12:11:00.000-07:00

We up to a new challenge together with a Radio AIRE, providing a wedding flowers for a couple who will win a competition!

http://www.radioaire.co.uk/30brides-sectional

Pictures from the event

2011-03-24T15:46:00.001-07:00

Flowers For Frankenstein's Wedding? Of Course We Can

2011-03-23T06:25:00.000-07:00

We promised you a look at the event we were involved with at the weekend. .Frankenstein's Wedding' Live in Leeds. 12,000 people were in attendance and everyone was asked to dress as they would for a real wedding. The dress colour scheme was black,white or gold. Everyone went all out. There were some amazing hats and costumes Our flowers looked beautiful in the stately surroundings of Kirkstall Abbey. We are waiting on images coming through from the local press.So in the meantime take a look at these

We were somewhere in this massive crowd!

2011-03-18T07:14:00.000-07:00

We had a fantastic event in our shop today - a kid's floral party based on an Easter theme - lots of fun! We have a very cute video of all the girls singing whilst they work. We will post this asap....Or you can check it out here cute video

Spring Has Sprung

2011-03-18T06:28:00.000-07:00

Just a quick post to show you a pic of our Spring window display

Spring Classes

2011-03-18T06:15:00.001-07:00

Top 50 Florists . Yipeeee!!!!

2011-03-18T05:44:00.000-07:00

WE are delighted to have made it into this years Top 50 Florists in the UK list. The list is drawn up each year by the Independent newspaper, with the help of a panel of floristry professionals. Follow this link to read more....

Top 50 Florists UK

Anastasia Meets Frankenstein!!!!

2011-03-18T04:32:00.000-07:00

Coming up this weekend Live in Leeds 'Frankensteins Wedding'. We are all very excited at Anastasia Flowers HQ. We have been chosen to do all the flowers for the BBC production of Frankensteins Wedding. . We have been asked to come up with the designs for the bridal bouquet, buttonholes, pedestals and various other designs for the stage.
We can't let you in on what we are doing yet, but we are going this weekend to see it and will post any pics we manage to get, but in a crowd that big they may not be the best quality!
If you are one of the lucky people to get one of the thousands of tickets we hope you are going to dress up and join in the fun.
If you didn't get a ticket you can watch it live on BBC3 this Saturday.
Take a look at these videos for a sneak peek of what its all about......

Third Place at the BFA Florist of the Year Competition!!!

2011-01-20T07:08:00.000-08:00

Congratulations!!!

Lana was awarded with the third place at the BFA’s FleurEx Gala Awards dinner on Saturday 23 October by Mark Ward, president of the BFA.
The competitors in this year’s competition were given the theme of “The Elements.” They had to construct a bridal design inspired by the element of “wind”, a planter inspired by the element of “earth”, a free expression piece to do with “water” and a bouquet inspired by the element of “fire”. They also had to create a surprise item.
Second place went to David Ragg, with the first one going to Neil Whittaker.

Lana's works at the competition:

Water

Wind

Earth

Fire

Tears of Happiness Event in Alden Biesen

2011-01-20T06:48:00.000-08:00

Lana Bates, our leading floral designer once again went to Belgium in September 2010!

The annual Floral Spectacular event was held by Fleur Kreativ in the end of September within the legendary grounds of Landcommandery Alden Biesen, where every year best european floral designers create numerous floral wonders, attracting thousands of visitors – florists and general public from around the world. Many young talents are invited to taste a water in different competitions held throughout the event.
The topic of the event this year was “Touche couleur” and found reflections all through the castle, where large and small rooms, halls and corridors, even attics and cellars, and water canal were full of colorful designs.

The largest project of the event this year was offered for decoration to Robert Koene – famous Dutch florist, based last 10 years in Greece, author of the “Wedding story” book .
Robert Koene with a team of 16 florists from Greece, UK, Israel and Ukraine decorated the castle in Landcommandery, where the most famous designers had previously put their floral touch, such as Daniel Ost, Stef Adriaenssens, Geert Pattyn .

Robert Koene's project was named “Tears of Happiness” and sponsored by Dutch Creations, presenting their new rose variety “White Naomi”, 10,000 rose stems were used for creating 8 small and 4 big conical constructions, each symbolizing a teardrop, for the church isle and the altar.
The colours chosen for the theme were white and green. For the decoration of each smaller “teardrop” as many as 250 stems were used and over 600 – for the decoration of each large construction.
In addition to the major decorations wide variety of classic and elegant church decorations were also created, such as white and green balls and ivy strands placed in different points of the church, garland at the entry, chandeliers and exterior decorations. But, undoubtedly, the main attraction was a tablecloth, covering an altar, all made from “White Naomi” rose petals and stachys leaves.
"Knowing Robert for the few good years I was very happy to be invited to participate in this project and enjoyed every moment of this endeavor. All the members of the team worked very hard and achieved a huge success as a castle décor was voted the best in the event.", said Lana

Marie's birthday!

2010-07-15T01:32:00.000-07:00

Every day brings different reasons to celebrate this life.....

Today is Marie's birthday! What a birthday without a cake? Our own cake lady Alina is perfectionist when it comes to cakes, delicious and beautiful, mmm....yummy! Happy birhday, Marie!

Gold Medal at Chelsea

2010-05-29T10:53:00.000-07:00

This week once again we had a serious reason to celebrate - we have been awarded a Gold medal at the legendary Chelsea Flower show!

This year the title for the competition was "Fantasy floral parasol". All team worked hard on the project. Following our rule "Be different! " we had a few versions of constructing and decorating a parasol, tested them, dismissed and in the end decided to introduce quite new for UK wiring technique based on Gregor Lersch studies. The wired frame created an unique rustic base for decoration by orange Mocara orchids (many thanks to Mark Smith from Tropiflor, who always has a best tropical flowers for us), green Helebora, Craspedia, Cenecio, Ceropedia woodii and special foliage.
We have been so happy to see that our design was so highly appreciated, especially by Ian Lloyd - one of the most reputable names in UK floristry.

Our award is another great achievement for our company and one more reason for our customers to be sure - quality and design are must in our shop!