Mary Elizabeth Flowers

Dried Flower Fashion, Wedding Styling and Interior Decoration

Is there any occasion when flowers are not a fantastic gift? Naturally as a florist, I am biased and think not. But I’m even more biased towards dried flowers.

In a way, I think of dried flowers as super-flowers when it comes to gift-giving or beautifying your home because, unlike their fresh friends, they are long-lasting.

This is what lead me to start Mary Elizabeth Flowers as a business, making wreaths and flower crowns from real dried flowers – all individually handmade in my modest workshop in Warwickshire.

But to go back a bit closer to the beginning of my story, it was when I first used dried flowers for a project during my floristry training that I fell a bit in love. I was swept off my feet by their natural shabbiness and gorgeously muted colours. They have that dishevelled-cool personality that some lucky people can pull off.

From there, I got side-tracked into experimenting with ways I could use dried flowers and techniques for drying my own flowers.

Since its inception, my crush has developed into the kind of long-term relationship in which trust and respect are heavy players. The more I learn, the more I find there is to love and the more products I have in the pipeline to share with you lovely people.