Garden & Gun

Rings of Plenty

MANDY O’SHEA’S WREATHS ECHO THE FREE- spirited centerpieces, bouquets, garlands, and boutonnieres she and her husband, Steve, piece together for weddings and favorites, and while O’Shea’s company ships out wreath kits, she encourages first-time makers to follow their own intuition. “Use ingredients like to look at,” she says. “And remember that when you start with a grapevine base, you don’t have to use any wire. You can just tuck things in as you go.”

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