;111 Celebrate!
DEBRA B. DARVICK
Special to The Jewish News
L
aguna, Pavarotti, Gabriella,
Obsession, Majolika, Livia
— just a few of the kinds of
roses that florists might be
weaving into simple, hand-tied bridal
bouquets or ornately formal table
decorations this season.
Depending on who you talk to,
what's in is as varied as a mixed
bouquet — intense color, traditional,
natural.
What you will hear time and again
however, is that the demand for fresh
flowers, exquisitely arranged, is far
from fading.
Bruce Bolton of Breath of Spring
averages 20 30 parties a month. "Our
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Bolton for years, loved the special
main business is weddings," he says,
containers he devised for her birthday
but we do a lot of private parties and
party last year. "It was spectacular,"
bar and bat mitzvahs as well. Baby
she says.
namings are getting bigger and bigger
"Bruce used wrought-iron holders
each year, as big as weddings.
that
had rusted and filled them with
Bolton, who "fell into the business
four
to five dozen roses, all in this
22 years ago, was always being inter-
wonderful
peach shade that deepened
ested in flowers. "I enjoy it," he says.
to orange at the edges.
Bolton estimates that he
Shaevsky, whose foot
Breath of Spring's
turns away nearly 25 per-
ber
works
measures
a bud-sized 4 1/2,
Marla
Kam
cent of potential jobs in a
rpiece.
on
a
cente
used
a
shoe
theme ("No one
year. "We can only do a
can
fill
Lois'
shoes") for the
certain amount. I have my
party
"Bruce
designed
staff and that's it.
these
wire
shoe
forms
and
filled them
"There's room for everybody," he
with roses, too," she says. "And he car-
says. "Anyone can copy anyone else's
ried the theme through by having the
work. Fifty roses is 50 roses. To me
table numbers in the shape of shoes."
it's the props, the containers that
Unique design is a big part of
make the arrangements."
florist
Kathie Henk's cachet as well.
Lois Shaevsky, who has used
)3
"
Working out of her Pontiac studio,
Henk's client roster includes Detroit
Edison and the Detroit Institute of
Arts. The Henk Studio offers clients
a full-service operation.
"We do the whole design of a
room," says Henk. "If the client
wants, we supply everything from
tablecloths to flowers to salad forks."
Henk's trademark may be her flair for
the innovative, from recreated mini-
forests to incorporating family pets
into a bridal procession.
"My clients trust me," says Henk.
"They know I know what I'm doing
and they usually leave it up to me. I
get a basic idea from a color scheme
they've chosen and then they trust me
to give them what looks good with-
out spelling everything out.