Wedding Flowers: How to select a florist for your wedding
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How to Select a Florist




When considering your choice for a florist,
I urge you to use a professional. A professional florist provides so many services: the behind the scenes work that we never see, conditioning and storage of the flowers so that they will look good from beginning to end of your day, careful transportation to your ceremony and reception sites, and professional set up. You florist will design a bouquet that matches your personality, and which also suits your figure and coloring. She/he will also instruct you how to hold your bouquet so that you and the flowers look great.

Your choice of a florist will affect your photos.
The photographer also has an interest in your engaging a good florist (who arrives well before the photographs are scheduled to start). I have seen beautiful light and settings lost because of floral delays: the florist, a friend of the family, was late, perhaps because he/she hadn't realized how long it would takes to prepare that many bouquets, corsages, boutonnieres, and centerpieces. Or the boutonnieres arrive without labels, or without pins. Or, the volunteer florist puts the boutonnieres on the wrong lapel, or upside down!

Consider how floral design and placement will affect your guests and photos
For example, tall centerpieces can create problems for guests and photographers. The arrangements may look gorgeous when you enter the reception, but once the guests are seated, tall centerpieces get in the way of people seated around the table, affect speeches, group dynamics, and interfere in any candid or formal photographs done at the table.

Dropping names: Florist recommendations
Erfani One Block from my studio! (510) 525-3523
Pat Gibbons (510) 527-3197
Leslie Hruska (510) 526-2990
Bloomies [Market Hall in North Oakland] (510) 547-0444


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Last Updated October 30, 2001 by Eliot Khuner

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