How to avoid wedding flowers disaster

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Recently UtahBrideBlog featured a couple florists’experiences that could be considered floral disasters. I wrote up an experience I’ve seen recently. Here it is:

911

I once received a call from a bride-to-be just one week before her wedding. She said that one of her relatives was going to do flowers for her,but she then found out that it wasn’t happening because this “dear” relative decided that she could not come to the wedding. As you can imagine,this poor bride was in a panic… So,she ordered all of her personal flowers and the flowers for her ceremony décor through me. She insisted,however,that her mother would arrange the centerpieces and all I needed to do was to provide her with the fresh flowers for her mom to arrange.

I delivered all of the flowers to the wedding and when I gave the mom flowers for her to arrange in the centrepieces she rolled her eyes and screamed:”I don’t know anything about flowers,I have never arranged flowers in my life,why did she want me to do the flowers?” As you might suspect,they didn’t have any tools for trimming and preparing the flowers,and so the bride’s father brought some pliers from the toolbox in his car to cut the flower stems!

Ooops,time to call 911. I just couldn’t standback and watch these beautiful flowers get trimed with pliers from the dad and arranged by the hysterical mom. So,of course,I grabed my floral knife and went to work to help them arrange the flowers for the centerpieces…just to save the Bride from all the stress…a screaming Mom who had no clue how to do the flowers and a Dad who wanted to cut the stems with pliers. This dear girl seems like the person who “stepped on the same rake twice”…trusting a relative to do the flowers only to have her,at the last minute,decide that she couldn’t come to the wedding and then insisting that her mom could do the centerpieces. And in both cases,it was a professional florist who stepped in to help her get through the crisis! Perhaps she could have saved herself an awful lot of stress if she had just contacted me in the first place! In these tough economic times it is easy to “waste a dime to save a penney.”

Here are what my collegues have to share:

Floral Disasters by UBB
Floral Nightmares by Blossom Sweet

Dear Brides,I hope these real floral disasters stories will help you not to “step on the same rake twice”…just call to professional florist and enjoy your wedding day!

Talk to you soon,
Yours Olga Goddard.

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