Flower Festival 2019. The Abbey Church, Ballasalla.

[curiouswombat]

The Abbey Church is so named because it stands on ground that was part of the old Cistercian Monastery and Abbey

Comments

[kazzy_cee]

Huh - I would have thought saying you had used a frame from another church would have been an ideal 'community' premise. How odd that they didn't even acknowledge it. Shame really - not in the spirit of the festival at all.....

I love the pretty ideas behind the other displays though.

[curiouswombat]

I think it is likely that it was just the lady stewarding that got it wrong rather than the arranger actually saying her husband had made it, but a note by the display saying the frame was ours would have been a real community thing.

[thismaz]

I love the first one - the veil evokes the message of the arrangement perfectly (plus brilliant frame *g*) and the christening gown, too - the flower arrangers have almost created a figurative picture with both of them, as well as a mood.

[curiouswombat]

I thought the wedding one was beautiful - our 'winter' frame worked so well for it, and it was so different to our use of it. And that christening one, too - such a simple idea beautifully carried out.

[petzipellepingo]

Everyone always does just a lovely job on these each year.

[curiouswombat]

They really do. And alongside the traditional arrangements there are always new ideas, too.

[elwenlj]

What lovely, lovely displays.

[curiouswombat]

It is always such a pleasure to go to the different venues and see so many lovely displays. I still haven't even got to posting my favourites yet!

[engarian]

How lovely, and what a brilliant story about the frame traveling from one church to the other. It's a pity it wasn't identified as such, since I agree it might have made inter-church kindnesses more obvious and prevalent. Delightful photos.

- Erulisse (one L)

[curiouswombat]

I really liked what the Ballasalla arranger had done with our frame - And telling the stewards where it had come from would have been a really good gesture - and I wouldn't have been accusing them of the floral equivalent of plagiarism!