I had a good experience working with Ally for my 2007 wedding. My flowers were one of my top priorities, and I over-did it a little with my expectations. She was very accomodating and responsive to my requests. We had 2 planning sessons, and to be honest, I needed a few more.
Pros: She was professional, budget-friendly, and created beautiful bouquets and centerpieces. She arrived on time, and brought helpers to help set up and pin boutinneirs on the fellas.
Huge pro: We definitely threw a kink in the floral planning and Ally was instrumental in bailing us out at the last minute. I had planned to use potted plants as wedding favors, one pot per couple. They were also doubling as decoration for the table. After my mom and I realized that growing the plants from seed, transporting them to the reception, etc was going to be too difficult, I hired Ally to make me 200 hand-tied mini rose bundles to place into the pots. The bundles were not the color I expected (off white roses), but they were a huge undertaking and she definitely did a great job of making a relatively last minute fiasco into a lower stress experience.
Cons: My arrangements were a bit of a surprise. The men had very normal salmon-pink boutinniers, when I expected that they would be more of a deep fuschia/magenta/poppy darker pink, almost red, color. I had brought her lots of magazine pictures of what I liked and my general style, and unfortunately my flowers really did not look anything like what I had imagined. My sister's MOH bouquet was actually the most beautiful in our group, and I wish I had swapped with her before the ceremony. The centerpieces were a bit too small, which was my fault because I had cut them down to make them less expensive.
Aside from some of the bouquet/centerpiece surprises, she did do an incredible job and I would recommend her. I blame myself for not clarifying more exactly what I wanted since it was clearly pretty important to me. If I were going to be a bridezilla about anything, it was going to be the flowers! read more