Two friends bring blooms and tunes together to create a floristry disco workshop in Liverpool

Two friends have brought blooms and tunes together to create a floristry disco workshop in Liverpool on Valentine’s weekend.

Florist Anna Forster and events organiser Sarah Sandison are launching The Arrangement – an event which combines bouquets and boogie in one fabulous afternoon.

Anna, who owns Mary Mary Florals in the Baltic Triangle, already runs sold-out wreath-making workshops and hand-tie classes throughout the year.

But now the pair have decided to go big and add DJs and drinks to the floristry element so people can learn how to make a pro-style hand-tie and have a dance while they do it.

Sarah explains:

“I love buying flowers then putting some tunes on and having a little dance at home while I arrange them so I thought, what would be better than that?

“Anna does about 8-12 wreath classes a year so I suggested she group them all together and make a massive one. We’ve been talking about it for ages and never got round it doing it but then at Christmas she ran some more and they were so popular so I thought now was the time.

“I just thought it was something we could scale up because she can only get about eight people around a table in her shop for workshops.

“With this event we’ve hired The Green Room, upstairs at 24 Kitchen Street, where we can fit at least 32. The more people, the more fun, and there’s a bar so you can get a glass of wine too.”

Anna is one of the busiest independent florists in Liverpool, with commissions ranging from wedding to Christmas floral displays. Her Christmas tree decoration became an Instagram hit last year when she created one for former Strictly couple Stacey Dooley and Kevin Clifton’s home in Liverpool.

Sarah says the vine and wine workshop will be an opportunity for girls to come along with their partners, mates or mums and learn all the tricks and techniques needed to make a vase-ready bouquet in Mary Mary Florals’ signature style using a seasonal mix of stems. 

“There’ll be some cool music because we’ve got two female DJs from Liverpool – Laura Weaver, from Eves’ Drop Collective of female DJs, and Emma Rainbird. 

“They’ll play jazzy stuff while people are arriving and the workshop starts, and then it’ll build up to some disco sounds for a little boogie while everyone’s doing their arrangements.

“It’s also in association with Flannels beauty so every guest will get a free Flannels beauty goodie bag to take home along with their beautiful hand-tie.”

Although this one will be on Saturday February 15 from 12pm-2.30pm, so perfect timing for Valentines (and Galentines), Sarah says it’s the first of many they’ve got planned during the year.

“We’re starting off on Valentine’s, but then we’re going to be doing a Mother’s Day one, a summer flower crown one for people going to festivals, autumn wreaths and the dream is to build up to a massive Christmas wreath disco workshop,” she adds.

Find out more about The Arrangement here.

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