Cheddar's own Shannon LaNier visited The Paris Café at the South Street Seaport in downtown Manhattan to get a taste of the perfect Mother's Day brunch and sample the historic brasserie's DIY flower bar. 

Cheddar's own Shannon LaNier visited The Paris Café at the South Street Seaport in downtown Manhattan to get a taste of the perfect Mother's Day brunch and sample the historic brasserie's DIY flower bar.&nbsp;

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How to Make Your Own Mother's Day Flower Bouquet 

Welcome back to wake up with everybody. I'm Hanna do live in Lower Manhattan here with Chloe I in for Baker, Machado and Mother's Day is a Sunday. If you need ideas on how to treat the moms in your life, don't worry, Shannon is on the scene to help. Hey, Shannon. Hey, I got you covered today. We're at the Paris Cafe getting you ready for Mother's Day and we're putting together this bouquet because they're gonna have a flower bar this Sunday. How cool does that sound where you can make your own bouquet for a mom in your life? And we have here to help us because she's the pro at putting these arrangements together. But first my kids had to send in their own request. Here's what they had to say. Hey, guys, what's up one morning? If you could help my dad make a bouquet for Mother's Day for our mom using these colors, red, white and blue. Thanks guys. That's all. Have a great rest of your day. Bye. Yeah, of course. They had to pick some random colors. It's not July 4th kids. This is Mother's day. Ok, so we're getting close. So hopefully we can work with something because you brought a beautiful arrangement of flowers here. Right? Thank you. Yeah, I brought some stuff that is uh available at most bodega at the moment. So I wanted to show you what was in season classically. We have lilacs and, and these are super in season usually around for mother's day. They came a little bit early this year, but they're very much around very much in season grown locally. So that's a good place to start. Yeah. And you just go to the market and you could pick up individual flowers. You don't have to pick up like a whole already arranged bouquet. Absolutely. You can go to a grocery store or a corner store bodega and I think that puts more thought into it. Like, hey, I arranged this myself for you. Mom. I did this with my own hands and mom will be proud of all that. Right. Absolutely. And it's, it's hard to go wrong if you're bringing someone flowers, that's what you say. Let's try to make this look nice. So, where do we start? We've already got a base here. Right. Yeah. So I'd like to start with some greens here. We cheated a little bit and we have a two for one with a lilac. Uh, they have a lot of foliage on them. You do want. This is like a branch. Really? Yeah, exactly. It comes off of a bush. You've probably passed it on the street. Uh, the key to buying these when you buy them at the Bodega is give them a good snip on the bottom or smash them with a hammer. They need to get. Yeah, they're really woody and they need to get water up the, and it helps them last longer as well. Ok. And I think it helps, it already look full with the greenery. A lot of people are cutting these little leaves off but you say leave them off. Yeah, I'm a big fan of greenery. It makes it look fuller more bang for your buck if they're looking good. Leave them on is what I say. So how do we do? We just put them anywhere. How do we do this? I mean, I think the main thing is just to kind of follow, follow what you like and, uh, then you take a look at it as you go and you can check in and see, but you're doing great. Uh, this vase is nice and wide. So it gives you a little bit more coverage and makes it look a bit fuller. You're colors. Now, they're gonna have a flower bar here at the Paris cafe this weekend. How will that work? Right. Yeah, I'm told if you, uh, participate in the brunch, uh, you'll get a little voucher and then you get to go to the flower bar, they'll have about 10 different kinds of blooms available, put them together and give mom a little house made, arrange and speaking of that brush. This food was amazing. I had, yeah, it was delicious. Definitely. Gotta try out the food here at the Paris cafe. All right. How did I do? I put them in there. I tried to like spread them out a little bit there. Let's see if we can add a few more we can get. Now, do you have to have like a consider something the front and something at the back or do you try to make it look a 3 60 like? Ok, it looks good from every angle, you know, I think it's really the beauty is in the eye of the beholder and there's so many different styles of flowers uh and arranging style that I think you really ought to do what, you know what the space is going to, what's mom like, uh things like that. But what are you doing here? You're measuring, checking to see if it's roughly the right size because I'm like, did I trim it enough? Did I trim it? Yeah. Well, you know, measure twice cut once you can really only go. Uh Now see I would have put the big one on this side to balance it out more, but I love how you put it on this side and it kind of offsets a little. Yeah. So rules of three, right? Like triangles are really strong uh shapes and here it's the same, same thing, taking off some of the leaves just to clear it off for us. And then uh you know, I might pop this one in over here back, but on the other side. So it's a triangle like this rule of threes, put three of those on there. That's OK. Now, I also have to ask you how can we make these flowers last longer? Because my flowers always die. It's usually the bacteria that starts to grow in the water. So best is to either change the water every other day. It doesn't have to be a total water change. If you dump out most of it, add a little bit more. If you go to the bodega or a flower store, they'll probably give you one of these little packets. It's called uh cut flower food, but it's not actually food. It's a slight antibacterial. So you can do that or you just put a little bit in because I'm like, I gotta make this little package last. I put a little in today. I mean, I think that that's a great way to do it. If you, it depends how much water you excuse me that you have in the vase so you could do half of it. And when you change the water again, add a little bit more, but no need to save it. I mean, go ahead. Put it in the hold. All right. Well, you know what you're getting for Mother's Day. I think it's just for you, baby. All right. So make sure you check out the Paris cafe. They're having their brunch this Sunday where you have a flower bar, they have good food and a lot of them won't be here. But don't worry they got you covered with help along the way with the flowers. All right back to you guys. Hope you get some flowers too, ladies and you followed your kids' directions very well. Shannon. Thank you so much. Such a pretty book. Yeah.