DESIGNING WITH FRUITS, VEGETABLES AND FLOWERS
Single class – $105
Wednesday Evenings, June 8th, July 13th or August 31st, 6:15-8:30pm

Summer is the time for fresh, ripe, juicy, scrumptious produce. Sure, it’s good to eat (and good for you, we’ve heard) but why bother, when produce is such a feast for the eyes? Spend a hot summer evening discovering all sorts of beautiful ways to present your summer produce with a fresh twist: flowers. Casey Cooper will offer up a tantalizing selection of eye-catching designs for demonstration and discussion. Then it will be your turn to get your hands dirty and create two visually delectable treats to take home.

CALL 773.269.3142 ext. 425 to REGISTER. CLASS SIZE IS LIMITED.

DESIGN BUILDING BLOCKS
Four classes – $375 for the series
Wednesday Evenings, September 7th, 14th, 21st, and 28th, 6:15-8:30pm


CLASS ONE: INTRODUCTION TO PROCESSING & CARE TECHNIQUES, HAND-TIED ENGLISH BOUQUETS
Our first class will get you comfortable handling and thinking about fresh flowers. Instruction on processing and care of materials, discussion on seasonality, vocabulary and defining primary, secondary and filler flowers. The origin and uses of hand-tied bouquets. Demonstration of types of hand-tied bouquets. hand-on experience selecting materials and creating your own hand-tied bouquets for you to take home.

CLASS TWO: THE BEAUTY AND DIVERSITY OF GREENS
This class will focus on the endless possibilities of foliage. Exotic leaves, variegated bushes, and slender grasses utilized in a variety of imaginative ways. A wonderful way to bring nature into your home. Focal arrangements, napkin treatments, candle treatments, wreaths, and more. Hands-on experience creating some of these projects, selecting what interests you the most. With take homes, of course!.

CLASS THREE: CENTERPIECES
Building upon knowledge of hand-tied bouquets and leaf treatments, we will work together to create some of the most innovative centerpieces you have seen. You might be amazed that you will be able to accomplish some of these things by yourself. You will select your own container and flowers and create your own centerpiece to take home.

CLASS FOUR: PERSONAL PROJECT
This class will require some homework turned in the week before: color swatches and a few snapshots of a particular area of your home—dining room, entryway, living room, as well as your favorite container for that area—perhaps a silver bowl, a ceramic cache-pot, an old copper pitcher. We will have discussed throughout the entire four class session your personal style and taste. We will now add to that your environment, the importance of bringing nature into it, and ways to do so. In this class you will conceive and create a custom-made floral design for your home.

AUTUMN CONTAINER GARDENING WITH KIM KOZIMOR
Single class – $125
Saturday Morning, September 17th, 10:15-12:30pm

Celebrate the rich colors fall has to offer and create an Autumn Container Garden. You will be planting a large farm stand bushel basket with fall annuals that will last you into November. Learn how to accommodate the shorter days and cooler nights of the fall season with plant material selected to add wonderful texture and saturated color to your outdoor space.

AUTUMN DESIGN
Single class – $115
Wednesday Evening, October 5th, 6:15-8:30pm or Saturday Morning, October 8th, 10:15-12:30pm

Autumn is Casey’s favorite season for floral design. She will host a class to share with you some of her favorite seasonal materials (vine maple branch, grasses, bittersweet, ahhhh, the list is endless), how to care for them, and how to design with them. As always, you will make at least one arrangement or item to take home.

HOLIDAY DESIGN
Single class – $115
Wednesday Evening, November 9th, 6:15-8:30pm or Saturday Morning, November 12th, 10:15-12:30pm

Get ready for the Holidays with a wonderful class filled with innovative design ideas. Forget the tired old hurricane candle encircled with the wreath of evergreens, we are delving into new territory for this Holiday season. Demonstrations, hands-on experience, and take homes, of course!

CALL 773.269.3142 ext. 425 to REGISTER. CLASS SIZE IS LIMITED.

Okay, you chose each other, now choose a napkin color.

Menus, venues, hours, flowers — choice after choice, that’s getting married. And making the best choice is unlikely, and no fun, without enough knowledge.

What we see at Botanicals is how much this knowledge includes self-knowledge. So that’s the premise of our Wedding Workshop, where you examine in detail how to get the right look and feel for you. And the right choices for you are a lot more fun to make.

This is a series of five classes taught by people at the top of their field. Each is a seminar flowing with ideas, resources, information and skills for you to plan and design your wedding. But more than that, each class provides invaluable, hands-on opportunities to explore and define your own personal style as a bride.

THE WEDDING WORKSHOP
Five classes – $475 for the series
Thursday Evenings, January 19th, January 26th, February 2nd, February 9th and February 16th, 6:15-8:30pm

CLASS ONE: EVENT DESIGN
You dream of a wedding with style and savoir-faire. But as you start planning, you’re unsure about what style. And who ever had savoir-faire about something they’ve never done before? Come learn where to begin, how to navigate the wedding industry, how to pull together a fabulously unique wedding that reflects your own style . . . and have fun along the way.

Learn how to plan the perfect event with Jessica Holmes, a dynamic planning associate with Birch Design Studio. Birch Design Studio, an event design and planning firm known for its creativity, will teach you how to imagine, define and shape your dream wedding, and then translate it into a reality you and your guests will always remember. Jessica and Casey Cooper, founder of Botanicals, will present a series of events, walking you through how they were envisioned and how they came to life. Jessica and Casey will show you know how fun and exciting the wedding planning and design processes can be.

You will take home a wedding planning packet customized for you by Birch Design, filled with useful information, tips and suggestions, to help you on your way.

CLASS TWO: WEDDING FLOWERS
Flowers are, of course, central to the whole spirit and feel of a wedding. Floral design is where you can really personalize your wedding in a profound and delightful way.

Botanicals’ founder and noted designer Casey Cooper will explore with you the plethora of elements that make up floral design for a wedding. She will touch on personal flowers, several styles of centerpieces, and present an enormous array of clever details that make a wedding truly custom. Boundless options will be presented, discussed and demonstrated.

Each student will have the opportunity to create a hand-tied nosegay, a boutonniere, and a centerpiece to take home.

CLASS THREE: MAKEUP
Unsure what colors or products to use on your wedding day? How to look special and still look like you? Beauty on Call’s experts will help you develop not only the look you want, but also the skills necessary to achieve a professional makeup application on your own. They will supply you with the tips, techniques and highest quality products to insure that your makeup not only looks polished and radiant, but lasts throughout the day.

Stacey Koerner, founder of Beauty on Call, providing makeup artists and hairstylists to brides, is one of the foremost beauty experts in the Midwest. She has worked with top cosmetic experts and meets with leading cosmetic companies six months prior to product launches, so she always has an insight into new products and trends. From Stacey and her assistants you will learn how to create a flawless look for photos — and still look like a true blushing bride in person.

You’ll take home a beauty bag filled with such necessities as a seven piece sable brush set, false lashes and blot film, plus various skin care and makeup samples.

CLASS FOUR: WEDDING INVITATION SUITE
Are you looking for creative ways to add personal style to your wedding invitations? You also have ways to show your style through such creations as: save-the-dates, place cards, menu cards, favors and programs. This is the invitation suite. This class will spark your imagination in showing you how to create your suite and make it distinctively yours.

Award-winning designer Neille Hoffman of Aurum Design has been creating invitations for brides, corporations and special events for ten years. Whether contemporary, traditional, or casual elegance is your style, Neille will help you choose the perfect invitation suite to convey your personality and the mood of your special event. She will also discuss the basics of etiquette, style, layout, printing, and assembly.

A keepsake packet of ideas, invitation styles, printing techniques and embellishments is included to start you off with a hands-on approach to the right look for you.

CLASS FIVE: SHOW AND TELL
Each bride shares her thoughts and plans with the group, incorporating the knowledge gained throughout the workshop as we sip champagne and share in a wedding toast!

CALL 773.269.3142 ext. 425 to REGISTER. CLASS SIZE IS LIMITED.

This winter, look forward to:

WINTER BLUES
BE YOUR OWN VALENTINE
WEDDING FLORAL DESIGN
And, of course, the ever popular DESIGN BUILDING BLOCKS

• New ideas, innovative teachers and more hands-on experiences and take homes!

CALL 773.269.3142 ext. 425 to REGISTER. CLASS SIZE IS LIMITED.