Classic designs for church pews, wedding cars,  walls, doors and mirrors are always beautiful, but often impossible to attach to vertical surfaces.

This design is the answer, using a suction cup in a cage encasing floral foam, which you can use, without damaging the surface. Floral Artist, Colleen Fernie leads you through the process of design using the suction cage in a free lesson with classic wedding colours.

I have to say I got excited (yet again!) Wandering around the warehouse I found, although it was never lost, a plastic cage , filled with green floral foam, and a huge suction cup on one side. Moisten the suction cup, neat little toggles on the side pull out and Voila! the suck has been activated!

Of course, having to know what this gadget could do, in no time at all, it was stuck to mirrors, cars, doors, and walls. It just stuck there like glue. What a wonderful thing to use, and it left no damage to the surfaces, which is just as well as I tried everywhere, except wallpaper!

A package flew through the post to Colleen Fernie, who was our resident designer at floral design magazine, asking her opinion. " That's a lot of foam in there," she said," it's going to get very heavy when its wet. I don't know if it will hold on a vertical surface when it's full of plant material".

The challenge was on and this lesson is the result. Not only did it hold the weight when we photographed it on a glass door, I then attached it to an oval mirror and the design has been there for 5 days. That suction is just not going to let go until I push in the tabs and release the vacuum with a finger!

This is a great little gadget for weddings and decorating halls where you can't use nails or hooks on the pews, wooden walls, doors, or cars and it is transportable to a new location and reusable.To reuse, just  cut off the top piece of the cage, add new foam and wire it in. You can buy it at most floristry wholesalers.