A wedding asks people to hold onto a day that will pass quickly.

The flowers help them do it. They mark the path into the ceremony, sit close to the people making the promises and shape the room where everyone gathers afterwards. By the end of the day, each arrangement has become attached to a moment.

One Posy Silk and Dried Florals aisle piece was designed to continue beyond that first setting. When the ceremony ended, the arrangement moved to the reception and took on another role among the gathering.

A bride and five attendants walk outdoors carrying coordinated rust, white and green bouquets.
Bouquets carry one colour idea across a wedding party.

Silk and dried materials allow an arrangement to be prepared ahead, carried between spaces and kept after an event. The design begins with the occasion and considers the life that may follow it.

At the ceremony, an aisle arrangement belongs to architecture, movement and distance. At the reception, it may sit closer to people, furniture, food and conversation. Later, in a home, it enters ordinary light and a room that was never designed as an event backdrop. The underlying composition has to remain coherent while its surroundings and meaning continue to change.

Posy creates silk bouquets and wedding flowers, with dried material also forming part of its work. Each material has its own texture and behaviour. Their longer working life gives the maker and client time to consider where an arrangement will stand, how it will travel and what place it might occupy after the event.

A person in white holds a large pale pink and cream bouquet beside a glass of sparkling drink.
A silk bouquet held close during a celebration.

During a wedding, a bouquet sits beside clothing, skin and other flowers. In photographs it becomes part of the day’s wider palette. At home it may stand alone, carrying the visual memory without the ceremony around it.

A design needs enough presence for the event and enough belonging for the quieter room that comes later. Shape, proportion and colour carry it between celebration and return.

The person who carried the bouquet can encounter it again in an ordinary week. The arrangement may sit beside familiar objects, move between rooms or become part of a home that changes around it. Its first meaning remains, while new days gather beside it.

Four people in blue dresses hold coordinated white, silver-green and blue dried bouquets indoors.
Dried bouquets held after the ceremony.

Through Power of Colour, a palette chosen for an occasion appears at the ceremony, re-enters the reception and continues into a home. Colour links the public moment with private memory.

From Traralgon, these arrangements carry the forms and emotional language of flowers into regional occasions and everyday interiors. They extend the Garden City relationship with nature from a temporary celebration into the rooms people live in every day.

The aisle piece had another destination waiting when the ceremony ended. Its movement to the reception was part of its purpose. Later, flowers made to last can make the same journey into a person’s home.

The day passes. Something chosen with care remains.

Power of Colour Awards 2026 artwork with colourful figures rising like a fountain of leaves.

Power of Colour

Power of Colour Awards

Posy’s lasting floral work gives you a way to explore how colour can move from an occasion into everyday life. The Power of Colour Awards celebrate the wider regional relationship between gardens, colour and place. This is Eden of the East Foundation’s editorial connection, not evidence that the business participates in the Awards.

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