2022 Couples! Workshop dates are ready to be booked!
Let us be the first to say YAY! Congratulations to all our couples who will be saying their I do’s this upcoming year!
Curious as to what our clients had to say about us this past year? Check out some of our recent reviews. We have the BEST clients ever and are so looking forward to having you in the studio for the full experience!
Dates for 2022 Client Design Workshops
March 17th-21st
April 18th-20th
May 5th-7th
What is a Wedding Design Workshop?
About four years ago, I was laying in bed thinking about our business practices and the process involved with how our clients select their wedding flowers. I was getting frustrated at the fact that although flowers are such a visceral experience, meaning they are best enjoyed in person when you can touch, see and smell their beauty, we had mostly just been designing for our clients with pictures on a screen, fabric swatches and sketches. Mood boards, pinterest links and instagram are all great tools when finding some inspiration for your wedding florals, but when that’s all we have to work with, we realized clients were requesting designs that have already been created before and more often than not we would get sent the same pinterest images in succession.
As a designer, this frustrated me and I knew there was some way I could change it. Almost immediately, I lurched upright with a brief moment of epiphany and decided that we wanted to create mock up displays of real, fresh flowers for all our clients. I wanted to invite each booked client in, order in tons of fresh flowers for them to choose from and let them be involved in the floral selection process. So, I sat down, did some math and figured out how much we would have to charge our clients for this service. Needless to say, it was in no way cost effective and I immediately crumpled up that piece of paper with a sigh of defeat.
The moment of realization.
A few days later, I woke up in the middle of the night in a true EUREKA! moment and said out loud to my sleeping (then) fiancee (now) husband “We should have them all in the same week!”. He grumbled something and went back to sleep and I stayed up all night hashing out the details of how this could work.
I first thought, there’s no way I can get all of our clients through our doors in one week. When we handle 50-60 wedding a year, that just isn’t a logistic feasibility. Plus I want to make sure the seasonal products that will be in bloom around their wedding are available to select from. I called a meeting with Erin the next day and we talked for hours about how we could make this work for every client we have and not charge a single one of them. Hence, Design Week was born.
How does it work?
Three weeks out of each year, we invite all our booked clients to come into the studio for a 1 hr. wedding design workshop. We typically host these in late winter/early spring. We stock our cooler with hundreds and hundreds of blooms and make sure we have on hand any specific requests our clients had for their wedding day. You come in with a guest of your choice (two person maximum due to covid) and get to tour the studio, meet the design team who will be working on your wedding and select from REAL, FRESH flowers. It’s pinterest come to life. This year you also have the option to do this appointment virtually via zoom!
We walk you through our process of how we select greenery based on seasonality, how design with chicken wire over the bad-for-the-environment floral foam and how we package your flowers to ensure they arrive safely on your wedding day. You’ll get to view all our rental inventory in person to select your details and add on any furniture rentals, custom signage, and additional details. Plus, we’ll walk you through our floral repurposing program which gives you the opportunity to start your married life our on a charitable note. You will get to hold bouquets of different sizes and shapes to see which style you like best, and believe me we’ve had many brides completely change up their preferred style once they hold it versus seeing it in a photo. We also work together to create a full scale mock up of your centerpiece designs as well.
You’ll leave with a new appreciation for flowers and the certainty that you’ll be getting exactly what you want on your wedding day. It’s a bonus for us too as after all our design appointments are complete, we have ALL our weddings for the upcoming season designed and ready to go, which saves us loads of time by not emailing with our clients back and forth during our busy season, which then in turn allows us to focus solely on sourcing and production during the season.
We’re currently in the process of sending our calendar links to book your 1 hr private design session. Appointments are booked first come first served. Due to the ongoing covid 19 endemic, we request a maximum of three guests per appointment. Guests will be asked to sanitize upon entry. We will follow the current CDC mask guidelines and specific masking requirements will be updated prior to your appointment.