Lamber de Bie Flowers

Lamber de Bie Flowers Lamber de Bie Flowers has retail florist shop in Ireland since Nov '99 in Waterford and Kilkenny and Deliver luxury flower bouquet anywhere in Ireland.

Lamber De Bie is the go to florist for luxury wedding flowers in the South East in Ireland. Our florist webshop is open 24/7
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He's not going to tell you what he wants. He never does. No wish list, no hints over dinner, just the quiet assumption t...
18/06/2026

He's not going to tell you what he wants. He never does. No wish list, no hints over dinner, just the quiet assumption that it'll be fine and you don't need to make a fuss.
But you want to. And you should.

Flowers are the gift that doesn't need an explanation. They say: I thought about you. I wanted to get you something beautiful. And I did.

Father's Day is Sunday. Order by 1pm Thursday for guaranteed nationwide delivery, free across Ireland and Northern Ireland.

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14/06/2026

No two weddings are the same. And no two days in this studio are either. 🌿

Some weddings happen right there behind the counter. An elopement - just the two of them, maybe one or two friends. A bouquet and a buttonhole. And while Mashy works, the regular customers come in for their weekly flowers and stop, because watching a wedding bouquet being made is its own kind of theatre. You don't put it down. You don't walk away from it. You finish it.

And then there are the castle weddings. The giant ones. Those begin two, sometimes three days before the couple ever arrives. The studio fills up; flowers conditioning, designs taking shape, every element prepared with the kind of quiet intensity that the bride and groom will never fully see.

They see the result. And they are always, Mashy says, surprised.

That surprise is something Lamber thinks about often. Because he can visualise it - after a lifetime of nothing but flowers, he can see the finished room before a single stem is placed. So can Mashy. But a bride planning her wedding for the first time, trying to imagine a room she has never seen dressed in flowers she has never held takes a different kind of communication. A different kind of care.

Photos. Conversations. Back and forth, until she can feel it too. 🌸

This is Stems & Stories - the work behind the wedding day.

11/06/2026

Every time Lamber goes to Venice, he goes to Murano. 🌿

And every time he goes to Murano, he comes home with one vase.

This one came from a little antique shop on the island. Contemporary in feel, extraordinary in presence. And what does he put in it? Two anthuriums. Two stems. Nothing more.

Because here is what the Murano glass already knows, it doesn't need help. It needs a conversation partner. One flower leaning this way, one sitting that. Whatever way they come, whatever way they settle. That is enough.

But look closer at what is actually happening in the composition. A solid, heavy round base - two feet on the ground, stable, strong. And then that light, elegant diagonal stem reaching upward and across. The base grounds you. The stem creates energy.

Together they do something to you that you feel before you understand it.

This is Ikebana thinking. The Japanese art of placement - where every element in a composition carries meaning, and nothing is accidental.

Go to your flower shop. Buy one or two unusual stems. Place them in a vase you love. And watch what happens. 🌸

This is The Vase Edit - and this may be our favourite chapter yet.

08/06/2026

Next time you're on a walk, look down. 🌿

The hedgerow, the garden, the roadside - there is a bouquet in there. You just need to know how to see it.

Every beautiful arrangement is built on three layers. Your focal flower: the star, the one everything else supports. Think a rose, a chrysanthemum, something round and full that draws the eye. Your filler flower: lavender, sea lavender, wax flower - the quiet ones that hold it all together and add depth without demanding attention. And your secondary flowers: everything else that brings contrast, movement and surprise.

Then think in shapes. Round flowers beside pointy ones. A broad eucalyptus leaf beside a fine, feathery stem. Smooth textures beside rough ones. Light tones beside deep ones.

That contrast: that tension between different shapes, colours and textures - is what makes a bouquet feel alive rather than arranged.

You don't need a flower shop to make something beautiful. You need a walk and a little knowledge. 🌸

This is Bloom Science with Lamber de Bie - the knowledge behind every stem.

03/06/2026

To become a Master Florist in the Netherlands, you don't just learn how to arrange flowers. 🌿

You learn how to see differently.

It begins with three years: two days a week in college, two days a week in a recognised flower shop. You learn the craft by doing it, every single week, until your hands know what your eyes are still figuring out.

Then, if you love it enough, and only about one in five do, you go back. Two more years. Advanced floristry on one side. The business of running a flower shop on the other. Because a Master has to understand both.

And then the Master's programme itself. Three phases that change everything.

First, they break you away from everything you know. Everything conventional - unlearn it. Then, they push you somewhere unexpected. Tulips hanging upside down. Plastic. Pins. Flowers used in ways that make you uncomfortable, then curious, then inspired.

And finally, they bring you back. Take everything you experimented with, everything you questioned, and apply it to the real world. To real customers. To real moments that matter.

That is the Dutch way. That is what it means to carry the title. 🌸

This is Stems & Stories - the craft, the training, and the lifetime behind every arrangement.

31/05/2026

Something shifts in the last week of May. 🌿

The garden knows it before we do. The colours deepen, the scents grow warmer, and suddenly everything is blue and purple and lilac and soft.

Hydrangea arriving first - the quiet signal that summer has genuinely begun. Delphinium in that impossibly delicate light blue. Lilac stock filling the room before you even see it.

And then something new this season that has us genuinely excited the Irish Hollanda.
A garden iris, now available as a cut flower. Look at the size of that bloom. Watch what happens when it opens.

This is the transitional moment. May stepping aside for June. The last of spring making way for the full, generous abundance of summer.

These are the flowers of right now. And right now is beautiful. 🌸

Available in the studio - link in bio.

28/05/2026

Most people think a calla lily is rigid. Fixed. Unchangeable. 🌿

It isn't.

Peel back the skin carefully, base to tip, both sides, and suddenly the calla lily becomes something else entirely. Fluid. Sculptural. Ready to be shaped into a cascade, a curve, or even a knot.

This is what separates a florist from a Master. 🌸

Paired with trailing amaranthus and worn on the wrist rather than carried in the hand - this is the wrist bouquet reimagined. Architectural. Dramatic. Completely contemporary.

And here is the thing about this style of design. It doesn't need many stems to make an impact. A calla lily. An anthurium. A cymbidium orchid in chocolate and burgundy-tipped green. Fewer flowers. More intention.

Expensive blooms, yes. But fewer of them. And the result? Something that will stop every single person in that room.

This is The Wedding Edit - where trends become something personal, and personal becomes something extraordinary. 💍

Planning your 2026 wedding? Link in bio. 🌿

25/05/2026

Not every vase needs to hold a bouquet. 🌿

This one has been in Lamber's collection for 35 years. Bought in Amsterdam. Designed by a Dutch designer - four sheets of glass, modern, precise, quietly extraordinary.

It can sit one way. Or another. Or another still. Each angle, a different composition.

And what goes inside? Sometimes just a handful of bluebells and a little water. Sometimes a single stem. Nothing more.

People come to us regularly asking for a vase for one flower. One. And we love that.

Because there is something about a single stem in the right vessel that a whole bouquet cannot always do - it stops you. It makes you look.

A vase does not need to work hard to be beautiful. Sometimes the quietest arrangements say the most. 🌸

This is The Vase Edit - the vessels, the stories, and the philosophy behind them.

21/05/2026

Wedding floristry is changing. And honestly - it is changing beautifully. 🌿

This year, we are moving away from the abundance of previous seasons - the overfilled, the overwrought, the more is more. What is replacing it is something altogether more considered.

Architectural. Dramatic. Unexpected.

Burgundy and green. Burgundy, white and cream. Orchids wired close to the hand - single heads, deliberate, precise. Cosmos for a touch of playfulness that stops it from feeling too serious. And amaranthus trailing through everything, connecting it all.

This is floristry that knows exactly what it is doing.

And the dress? Not classical white. Rich buttercream. Ivory. Off-white. Heavy satin with a beautiful drape and a clean, architectural cut. The flowers and the dress speaking the same language - quietly, confidently, together.

This is what 2026 looks like for weddings at Lamber de Bie. 🌸

Is this your vision? We would love to bring it to life. Link in bio.

19/05/2026

There are wedding venues. And then there is Waterford Castle. 🌿

Mashy has worked there many times. And every time, it surprises her.

An island. A river wrapping around it. Rooms that feel personal rather than hotel-polished. A relaxed, unhurried atmosphere that makes guests feel like they have been invited somewhere truly special, not just checked in somewhere beautiful.

Outside the castle, there is an oak tree. Ancient, wide, magnificent. The kind of tree that has watched generations pass beneath it. For photographs, there is nothing quite like it.

And for floristry, the space is a gift. Versatile, characterful, generous. A venue that lets the flowers breathe rather than compete.

This is Stems & Stories, Mashy talking about the venues, the weddings and the moments that stay with you. 🌸

Planning a wedding at Waterford Castle? We would love to be part of it. Link in bio.



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