08/14/07

Beautiful flowers, difficult owner

by jamie_posey

Awesome Blossom did the flowers for my wedding.They were beautiful. The road that led up to my wedding day was not so beautiful. I first met with Monique and she has you sign saying you will pay her half this original estimate (2500 dollars!) if you cancel. It took 3 weeks to get a second meeting with her . I prepared endlessly for the meeting choosing flowers I liked from magazines, etc. It was a total of 45 minutes in which she did not look at one picture that I had brought and shuttled me out saying that she had a "10,000 dollar wedding meeting" to get to. Very unprofessional! . I was told "no" to every flower choice I liked - dahlias, peonies, ranunculas, etc. All were out of season. All that was available was hydrangea and roses. I found out later that this is not true and was told by florists that she probably limits your flower choices to increase her profit margin. I did some extensive research that showed peonies and dahlia are available for my wedding date with growers , local florists, designers, and emailed her my results. Her response was if I got the flowers shipped to her she would use them. Do not waste your precious time and energy as a bride doing this because wholesalers will not sell to you - which I am SURE she knows. I resigned myself to the fact I would not get the flowers I had always wanted and would have to live with it. After making a big stink, I finally got my peonies. Overall, working with her caused me alot of stress ( feeling angry, lied to), her not having my correct email, giving me incorrect estimates that I had to fix, etc. But, the flowers turned out to be beautiful. The arch she did for the ceremony was gorgeous! Was it worth the stress? My advice, if you work with Monique, do not sign anything until you know for sure what you want and that she can deliver.

• Pros: what I got I liked
• Cons: difficult florist, limited flower choices