Creating Hand-tied Bouquets with Alena Whiting May 14, 2009

Hand-tied bouquets can be simple and sweet, or breathtakingly sophisticated. They range from favors for your daughter's birthday party to bridal bouquets. Alena Whiting will teach you which flowers and foliage work best and how to make them last. With Alena's guidance you will take home a beautiful and polished bouquet, and the techniques for making them on your own.

Alena Whiting is the owner of Alena Jean Flower Shop and Nursery in Half Moon Bay which she established in 2005. She graduated from the College of San Mateo floral design program in 2002 and from San Francisco State University in 2004 with a major in sculpture and ceramics. She has participated in Bouquets to Art at the De Young Museum in San Francisco.

$45 members, $55 non-members, includes all materials.

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