Floral Meeting Rant

Bridal Bouquet

New bridal party bouquet, having to lessen the amount of succulents I wanted to save money hopefully.

I drove an hour to meet my florist in a snow storm. Finally sat down and the first words out of her mouth were, "so you have picked a very popular date, we already have two weddings booked on that day, but there are options." Keep in mind this was back in December. I was a little confused. She went on to tell me that I could pick the flowers up Thursday before the wedding and DIY it (for $200 less). I immediately started crying. I didn't drive an hour in a snow storm for this. I ended up going with them. They will be delivering my flowers. However I emailed them two weeks ago about my flower crowns and have no gotten a response. Listen to your gut. If you're not happy move on!

The first florist we met with asked for a photo of me in my dress during our first meeting. Seemed reasonable, since everything needs to create one cohesive look.

I show her the photo of my in my (unaltered) dress and she goes "huh. That would look much better if you did something with your arms and back"

Needless to say, we didn't hire her. We kept looking and found a florist who was amazing. To echo Chelsea, listen to your gut!

If it was me honestly I'd book another vendor. Hopefully you haven't signed a contract

So sorry for those of you who have had negative experiences.

I can't imagine not having the person doing my flowers being there to meet with me AnnaF

And MrsSkitobe I would have been livid if they would have tried to tell me how to wear my dress

The flowers are included for our wedding package at our venue so FH wants to make sure I play nice since we'll have to work with them.

@Chelsea L. I couldn't imagine having to go through all that to get the flowers for my wedding. If they couldn't take your date they should have been more upfront with you instead of putting pressure on you to do more work for y'alls big day. Going all the way out there in the snow all the less! I hope everything works out for you guys <3

@MsSki(ToBe) wow how rude! Ours was not even cornered with what we were wearing. I had to make sure they looked at the pictures to ensure everything would work and look well. Anyway, very unprofessional of them. I'm glad you all did not go with that florist. I'm going to make sure we stand up for what we want no need to be bullied around or not listened to.

I showed my florists pictures of what I wanted. She drew up a contract of what each will actually have. We met for 15 minutes in person & I gave her a deposit. I'm sorry you had such a bad experience. My florist has only been in the business for 3-4 years so she's really thorough and timely. She has great reviews.

@Lauren M. I really hope we have more of this type of experience in conversations to come. Great to hear some positivity. Does anyone have any pictures they would like to share?

My first florist appointment went terrible! We'll never happened. I drove 45 minutes and couldn't find the place so I called several times and no answer. I even called before I left my house to confirm again and no answer. I figured they were busy. I sent a email when I got home saying how I showed up and nobody was there! Their response was oh miscommunication. We didn't receive your message confirming the appt! I literally spoke to the girl the day before. Needless to say I didn't go with them or even reschedule like they suggested. I ended up finding a awesome florist who listened to my ideas! Keep looking and find someone who cares about your vision for your wedding.

I had one florist appointment that was sketchy. I know flowers are expensive but she was quoting me way over. I knew my venue includes $50 per centerpiece & brought that up and she was trying to tell me that one of my lower centerpieces would be an up charge of $120... there's no freakin way. So I contacted my DOC at the venue and I got a call from the florist the next day that "they just got notification of the increase in centerpiece included in the venue." I call BS. We won't be going with them. We asked to stay between $2500-$3 which is by no means unreasonable and she said with what I wanted that couldn't happen. Already my next appointment with another place was much better and so accommodating to the budget saying the complete opposite. We have 2 more appointments as well next week to weigh options. So like others said ... go with your gut. I had a weird vibe when I went to the first place and they definitely were pricing way higher for no reason.

If this florist came with the venue, speak to the coordinator or your main contact with the venue and tell them of your experience and see how they respond and what they may be able to do to help you and that your appointment wasted BOTH of your times (FH and yourself).

And then reschedule the appointment knowing you spoke with the coordinator or have the coordinator speak to the florist and schedule on your behalf etc.

I have been emailing back and forth with a florist and First, she did not read that our colors were mint peach and gold, and that I wanted NO PINK flowers anywhere, because she quoted me for PINK roses, then when I emailed her back asking her if we can do peach roses instead and what the deposit would be, she told me I was asking too many questions.

Time to find a new florists. :/

I've been emailing back and forth with a florist that I met at the bridal expo put on by my venue. The owner was super nice and sweet when we met her that day and was the only one who could do silk flowers out of the 8 florists they had at the expo. She gave me her information so I could email her and the one thing other than silk flowers that I wanted was battery operated lights in all of the bouquets which she claimed she could do. I'm not a flower person, in fact I don't really like them at all and if I could go without them I would. Well I emailed her with all of details of what I was looking for as well as the center pieces. The bouquets I figured would be pretty simple but the center pieces would be a little more difficult. We wanted to do 3 different size vases with floating candles and flowers in the water. She starts telling me what flowers she thinks would work best and after looking all of them up none of them will work with our theme or colors. Then she proceeds to tell me the center pieces that we spent several months trying to decide on are a waste of money and she doesn't like making them and no one really cares about center pieces anyways. Then tells me she carries the lights for the bouquets but because I want all 7 of the bouquets to have them I have to provide them myself and I would have to put them in because it's too much work to get them all together. Needless to say we never even got past that part and I never got pricing from her and now I'm deciding whether I just want to DIY the flowers or if I could try hunting down someone else and hope they do silk flowers.