Don't know if any of you lot do it but I sometimes do two rows of box pleat (sort of back to back) so they look like an old fashioned ruff (Elizabethan). Find it cuts down on the number of flowers used
One florist I knew used to do a box pleat and then sort of folded the next row on top on the angle - it looked lovely but I could NEVER get the hang of it. He SO annoyed me as he had dropped out in college (level 2) but was the most brilliant florist I have so far had the luck to meet (he opened his shop straight after he left college and never worked for anyone else so it was purely his own imagination) - unfortunately he sort of threw his sexual inclinations at us and I felt I couldn't work there for very long (which was a real shame cuz I reckon I could have learned a lot from him) - not only that it was the only florists I have ever been in where he actively encouraged the staff to have a ciggie in the workroom - weird. But he sure did lovely work - and the ribbon thing was great.