Mandy made our wedding day look like it came from the pages of Brides magazine! We first met with Mandy in her immaculate, blooming store, where she made us feel like honored guests. From the very beginning, her graciousness and professionalism made us feel like we were in very capable hands. To be honest, I felt like an imposter at first. I was sure that someone like Mandy would be WAY out of our price range, so I was thrilled when it came time to talk about our budget and she was more than happy to work with us! In fact, when we started to get some grandiose ideas during the "planning stages", Mandy gently brought us back to earth and gave us some ideas on how we could stretch our wedding day dollars to accomodate our new floral dreams! Any other florist would have gladly sat back and let us rack up an enormous bill, but Mandy respectfully told us that our ideas would end up costing more...and then told us exactly how she could create the same look we wanted by staying within our budget and changing a few simple things! A wedding vendor who wants to save YOU money? Unheard of!! Above and beyond what we could have asked for in a florist!
The first thing that truly made me feel like a bride was when Mandy arrived before our wedding to deliver our flowers. I'm not the kind of bride who had her heart set on specific flowers, so I had given Mandy some general color ideas and let her go to town. Actually, I don't know the difference between a Calla Lily and an Orchid, but when Mandy showed up with her hands full of radiant pink bouquets, I immediately started jumping up and down like a first grader. From the full, blooming, artfully arranged bridal bouquet to the adorable Flower Girl "crown" and galvanized bucket of pink petals....from the pink blooms tied delicately on each tree branch to the artfully built chuppah and stunning reception arrangements....to the beautiful architecture of the branches that dramatically graced each of our tables (I had my heart set on cherry blossom branches, and Mandy gently let me know that they weren't in season...then on the wedding day I discovered that she had crafted arrangements that looked exactly like....cherry blossom branches!!) Mandy took care of details that we hadn't even thought of! She even stayed to help us move things from the ceremony to the reception, and then made it super convenient for us to return things to her on our own schedule.
Mandy and her team are professional, energetic, and brimming with creative (and money-saving!) ideas. She made us feel like we could have a celebrity-style wedding, on a regular-people budget. She is one of those very rare wedding professionals who seems to read a bride's mind perfectly....thank goodness we had Mandy to make our dream wedding a reality! read more