Description
Flowers are the easy part. What keeps a design upright for twelve hours in the heat is the cage, the grid, the wire and the weight behind it — and almost nobody teaches it properly. So florists guess, and installations sag, lean, dry out or peel away from the frame in front of guests.
The Floral Mechanics Handbook is the reference you wish someone had handed you on your first install. It is written foam-free, the way venues and couples now expect, and every method in it is one working florists rely on and reuse season after season.
What is inside
- What a mechanic actually has to do — position, water, weight, concealment and fast dismantle
- Chicken wire done properly: cutting, crumpling, layering, taping into the vessel
- Taping grids, pin holders and the clear-vessel problem
- A mechanic selector table matching method to design, water and risk
- Water sources when there is no vessel: cages, pods, vials, moss and dry-tolerant material
- Hot-day rules and dry-stem countdowns
- Cages and frames: building, fixing to timber, metal and draped structures without damage
- Weighting and stability, wet-load estimates and a wind plan you agree in advance
- A which-mechanic-suits-which-design table with build times
- A printable installation build sheet and a timed install and dismantle grid
- A full mechanics kit list and the mistakes that cost people a wedding
Who it is for
Working and training florists moving into installation work, stylists who build their own florals, and anyone who has ever driven home from a wedding wondering whether the arch is still standing.
After you use it, you will quote installations with real build times, walk into a venue with a written fixing plan, and know the weight of what you are hanging before you hang it. Your set-ups get faster, your components get reused, and your work looks the same at midnight as it did at midday.
What’s inside
- Foam-free mechanics explained method by method
- Chicken wire, tape grids and pin holders
- Mechanic selector table with water and risk
- Water pods, vials and dry-tolerant material
- Fixing to frames, timber, metal and drapes
- Weighting, anchoring and a written wind plan
- Printable installation build sheet
- Timed install and dismantle grid plus kit list
