Flowers At The 2014 Oscars

 Spring flowers were in abundance at the 2014 Oscars!

Even if spring flowers are not blooming at your home

yet (the cold just seems to be lingering so long this year)

they were brought in from around the world to decorate

spaces at the Academy Awards this year. 

We all know that you have to the showers to bring the

flowers and the days leading up to the Oscars were full

of showers this year in Hollywood. 

The organizers of the Oscars used miles of plastic and

many tents to try to keep the iconic statues and red

carpet dry for the big event on March 2, 2014. 

In the photo above you can see that despite valiant efforts, rain is coming in on the red carpet near the door.

The black risers show designated camera positions for the press from around the world for the red carpet. 

This bridge is a prime area for camera angles.  If the tents

could not have been taken down, we would not have seen some

 of the best views of the red carpet arrivals due to the tents. 

The florists from Mark's Garden were also very busy the 

day before the awards show arranging flowers that had

been months in the planning.

Here's an idea to borrow that shows how the florists

hid the mechanics holding up the masses of flowers.

After the decision was made on the evening before the

Oscars to take down the tents and plastic, workers toiled

through the night to have the red carpet arrival area 

 ready for the star's arrivals. 

Another area full of gorgeous flowers by Mark's Garden

was the press rooms.  One press room is mainly for press

photographers to get good photos of the award winners. 

Photo From Mark's Garden

The flowers are arranged into three sections on the stage

 because the winners stand in front of each section for

 photos so that the photographers on the sides of the 

risers can also get good frontal photos.

Photo by Jason Merritt/Getty Images North America

Video by Rueters photographer Mario Anzuoni

The other press room is mainly for interviews.

  It was decorated similarly to the photo press room. 

After the awards show comes the Governor's Ball.

It was also decorated by Mark Held of Mark's Garden.

Here is a video of Mark (who has been the Oscar florist

for many years) describing how he decorated for the ball.

To make things a little different this year,

 he used a theme of hanging gardens. 

This photo shows one of the hanging garden pieces being

 prepared at his shop before coming to the ball. 

Photo by Mark's Garden

Photo by Mark's Garden

Photo by Mark's Garden

 Also instead of flowers on top of the cocktail tables,

 flowers were arranged underneath the glass tops.

I had the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to go the 

Academy Awards this year!  My daughter and I got to

borrow exquisite flower-themed jewelry by

Margaret Rowe Couture Jewelry for the event. 

If you watched the Oscars or saw coverage of it later,

you probably saw the selfie photo by Ellen Degeneres and

some of the celebrities there.  I found out that you can 

use a feature on PicMonkey to merge two photos 

together...looks like I was right there with them!

(not really but that's the fun of inserting yourself

in photos...it's campy). 

Hope that Spring flowers are coming your way soon

if they are not already there!

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