Design Day Recap: Meg from Will & Wild

Last Thursday was spent flowering with the talented Meg from Will & Wild, who subconsciously wore the best outfit ever (we didn't even communicate on the colour palette!) at our recent 1:1 Flower Workshop. 

Wildflower Academy Design Days are a one on one, in-depth floral workshop with myself (Ash!), founder of Film & Foliage and Wildflower Academy. These sessions include a floral demonstration, hands-on experience creating floral designs alongside myself and relaxed business/mindset chat on topics of the students choice. 

Here's just a a snippet of what Meg and I covered during the recent 5 hour Design Day:

1. Creating a Lush Foam Free Rectangular Arch using the Flower Towers and our favourite Oshun Pouches. We discussed how to make your designs like large scale and impactful using strategic flower recipes and flower placement

2. Breaking the rules on placing flowers evenly to create delicious depth, a more organic and dynamic design and how to utilise the Design Principles in your creative process

3. Communicating with your client to recommend the best structure and shape for their specific brief, how to lead, offer suggestions and choose mechanics that achieve the result

4. Step by step process of finding inspiration, sketches, flower orders, mechanics and the creative process, including communicating with freelancers to create an efficient flow

5. Placing flowers with intention, taking into account their size, shape, colour and scale to create a considered and profitable outcome

6. Breaking down an upcoming wedding brief including pricing, flower varieties, venue logistics and mechanics - taking photos and creating a flower recipe to take to the client

On top of this we snacked, laughed, talked through different scenarios and had a lovely time flowering up some glorious floral pieces. Another inclusion of our Design Days are imagery! Meg now has professional photos of her work (and herself) to pop on her website, socials and portfolio. 

These workshops are fast becoming my favourite way to spend my days - there really is nothing better than flexing your creative muscles with a fellow flower friend. 

Keep an eye on our Instagram for the announcement of our next available Design Day bookings!

Check out some behind the scenes of our Design Day with Meg over on our TikTok