Prepare for the Holiday Season
The holiday season moves quickly for florists. Between custom orders, event work, memorial pieces, and the steady demand for seasonal arrangements, you need tools that can keep pace with the work, and with your ideas.
Holiday floral design is about more than choosing seasonal flowers. It’s an opportunity to create something meaningful, unexpected, and personal, whether you're designing for Halloween, Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, Christmas, or a holiday memorial. The right foundation can make it easier to bring those ideas to life without letting the mechanics dictate the design.
That’s where UrnTray comes in. Designed to simplify floral wreath construction, UrnTray’s raised center platform also opens the door to designs that go well beyond the traditional wreath. Photographs, candles, pumpkins, ornaments, nativities and figurines, urns, keepsakes, and other focal elements can become part of the composition, surrounded by the floral design you envision.
As a designer, you already know what to do with the flowers. UrnTray gives you another foundation to build on.
This holiday season, bring the idea. We’ll give you the foundation.
A Platform for More Than a Wreath
The center platform is what makes UrnTray more than a traditional floral wreath tray. It gives designers a defined space to introduce a focal element while maintaining the structure and visual impact of the surrounding floral design.
An urn can become the centerpiece of a memorial arrangement. A photograph can anchor a celebration of life. A pumpkin can transform a design for Halloween or Thanksgiving. Ornaments, candles, keepsakes, and other decorative elements can bring an entirely different dimension to a holiday arrangement.
The tray provides the foundation. The finished design is yours.
Halloween Floral Arrangements
Halloween offers plenty of room to push beyond conventional seasonal design. Rich autumn tones, deep burgundies and plums, rust, ivory, dramatic foliage, dried materials, branches, berries, pumpkins, and gourds can all take a design in a different direction.
Use the center platform as a focal point for a pumpkin or seasonal object, then let the surrounding flowers establish the mood—whether that's sophisticated and moody, playful and unexpected, or unmistakably Halloween.
UrnTray gives you the structure to incorporate those elements without having to force the design into a traditional wreath format.
Thanksgiving Centerpieces
Thanksgiving is naturally suited to centerpiece design, with an abundance of seasonal materials to work with. Warm autumn flowers and foliage can be paired with pumpkins, gourds, berries, pinecones, wheat, fruit, branches, and other natural elements.
And there's no reason a Thanksgiving palette has to stop at orange and brown. Cream, burgundy, blush, dusty blue, sage, and natural wood tones can create a more unexpected interpretation of the season.
UrnTray's platform can accommodate a decorative focal element, candle, family keepsake, or—in a slightly more literal interpretation of the centerpiece—your Thanksgiving turkey. Yes, it is strong enough for a large turkey and all the fixings.
Hanukkah Floral Arrangements
Hanukkah provides another opportunity to create a seasonal design that feels intentional and personal. Blue and white flowers, silver accents, greenery, branches, and other complementary textures can establish a distinctly Hanukkah-inspired palette.
The center platform offers room for a meaningful decorative element while the surrounding floral design provides structure, movement, and dimension.
As with any holiday design, the strongest results come from responding to the client, the setting, and the traditions being celebrated rather than working from a prescribed formula.
Christmas Floral Arrangements
Christmas may offer the broadest range of design possibilities of the season. Evergreen, red berries, roses, pinecones, ribbon, ornaments, eucalyptus, white flowers, metallic accents, branches, and natural textures can be combined in countless ways.
A traditional Christmas palette can create a timeless arrangement, while whites, greens, ivory, silver, and natural elements can move a design toward an elegant winter aesthetic. Or lean into woodland textures, incorporate favorite ornaments, or build the arrangement around a completely unexpected focal element.
The mechanics don't have to dictate the aesthetic. That's where a versatile foundation earns its place in the design studio.
Bring Photography and Personal Elements Into the Design
Some of the most compelling holiday and memorial arrangements incorporate something that couldn't come from a flower wholesaler: a person, a memory, or a meaningful object.
A framed family photograph, wedding photograph, favorite ornament, or personal keepsake can become the focal point of an arrangement, with flowers providing the surrounding framework.
For memorial work in particular, this creates an opportunity to incorporate personal details without sacrificing the scale, structure, or seasonal character of the floral design.
Holiday Memorial Arrangements With a Personal Touch
The holidays can be an especially significant time for families remembering someone they've lost. Floral designers have the opportunity to create memorial work that acknowledges the season while reflecting the individual being remembered.
UrnTray's platform provides a natural foundation for incorporating an urn, photograph, keepsake, or other personal element into the design. Seasonal flowers and greenery can frame the focal point while favorite colors, ornaments, hobbies, or meaningful objects bring another layer of personalization to the arrangement.
The result can be distinctly seasonal without feeling generic, and distinctly personal without losing the beauty of the floral design.
Think Beyond Floral Materials
Some of the most interesting work happens when traditional materials meet something unexpected: Ornaments, pumpkins, pinecones, ribbon, branches, berries, candles, photographs, keepsakes, and other decorative objects can all become part of a seasonal composition.
UrnTray gives those elements a place within the design without requiring the designer to work within the limitations of a traditional wreath structure. Consider the tray another tool in your design kit, not a limitation on what you can create.
One Tray, Countless Possibilities
That's ultimately what makes UrnTray useful, the same tool can support very different finished designs.
Floral wreaths, holiday centerpieces, memorial arrangements, photo displays, seasonal designs, event work, and ideas that don't fit neatly into any one category can all start with the same versatile foundation. And that's where it gets fun, the designer can use their creativity to the MAX. Maybe the focal point is an urn. Maybe it's a photograph, pumpkin, candle, ornament, keepsake, or something you've never tried (or seen) before. Maybe the finished piece looks nothing like a traditional wreath, or any other standard arrangement. That's the point!
Whether you're designing a Thanksgiving centerpiece, a Hanukkah floral arrangement, a Christmas wreath, a Halloween display, or a personalized holiday memorial, the possibilities are limitless, and our UrnTray is here to support all of it.
Bring the idea. We'll give you the foundation.
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