I am still blown away by how gorgeous my florals were for my Yosemite wedding! Susan did such an amazing job creating a unique and very "me" wedding bridal bouquet, as well as beautiful floor pieces for my ceremony, plus garlands for our picnic tables. I don't usually hear people commenting on the florals at weddings, but multiple of my guests mentioned how beautiful and striking they were! Susan was great at executing my vision while working within my budget. She was flexible and ensured my flowers were in tip-top shape during an unexpected heat wave in late September. Thank you Susan! I would recommend Susan and Sweet Lilacs to anyone who wants really special and thoughtful florals for their wedding. read more

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We hired Susan with Sweet Lilacs for our daughter's wedding last month. She did the most amazing job with all the flowers. Everything was so beautiful and magical. It was was everything we imagined and more. I highly recommend Susan! Hands down a 5+. read more

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I would 100% recommend Sweet Lilacs! Susan did our wedding in May 2023, and we were impressed with her from our initial contact through to the wedding. I did not have a strong idea of what I wanted initially and Susan helped us to create a vision of what the florals could be and suggested different ideas. She was professional and warm and easy to work with. She also worked with our cake vendor to add florals to the cake. We didn't have to worry about a thing on the day of the wedding! Highly recommend Susan and her team read more

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Long overdue but very well deserved! Susan did an absolutely phenomenal job styling our wedding florals. We got married in a remote location with a summer camp theme and during our wedding weekend we experienced the adventures of last minute rains. Weeee! We moved our reception indoors but Susan worked her magic transforming the atmosphere with gorgeous garlands and table settings. Everything was more than I could have ever imagined! Working in the event industry I am a huge proponent of creative freedom. I initially told her what I loved but very much gave her the leeway to style and go with her creative expertise. Although I had specifics I liked, we were marrying early in the season so I allowed her to choose florals that were seasonally strong and let her GO! I am so thankful I did because the bouquets were stunning and the table settings were lush, vibrant, perfectly textured, and very interesting. Everything certainly felt like I wanted to stop and take a second look! Thank you thank you THANK YOU to Susan for handling everything. I didn't have to spend a second thinking about florals. I just enjoyed myself, even with all the rain... seriously! I knew I had professional vendors who could make it work, and make it work perfectly despite the challenges. I didn't hold onto this exact "vision" I needed to recreate. I allowed myself to enjoy the day and be astonished at the surprises that unveiled themselves at my wedding all thanks to my wonderful vendors like Susan. read more

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Susan did the most incredible job on the flowers at my wedding last week up in Pinecrest, CA. Her work on the arch and surrounding stage was truly stunning --- and perfectly blended with the crane installation I had made. She found some of the most unique and striking flowers I have ever seen, all within the color palette I requested. It took my breath away to see it all come together. She also made my disco nature dreams come true with her decorations of the cables and disco balls in the tent. Susan is creative and tasteful. I had so much fun working with her and discussing different ideas over the phone. I couldn't recommend her more. read more

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We just had our wedding this past weekend and Susan did such a beautiful job on my bouquet and arch arrangements! Thank you Susan! read more

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The BEST!! Thank you Susan for making my daughters wedding day spectacular!! Susan wanted this day to be perfect and it was!! Due to Covid, Kim and Justin decided to have a small ceremony with just immediate family. They had planned a beautiful wedding in November, all that changed. Their small ceremony was planned under 3 weeks and it all turned out perfect because of amazing vendors like Susan! My first choice is always Sweet Lilacs! read more

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I had the pleasure of working with Susan for my wedding [which was to take place on April 25th]. Due to Covid-19, my (now) husband and I had to cancel our wedding and decided to elope instead since there is no knowing when we'll be able to plan another large gathering. Susan was compassionate and kind during the whole process. I had difficulty with almost every other vendor who did not offer to restore or refund deposits, except Susan was the first to offer a refund without me even having to ask. This kind of empathy and mindfulness really showed me who she is as a person, it spoke volumes of her character. On that basis alone I would recommend her! Not only that, but she is highly skilled and professional when it comes to her craft. Thank you Susan for making this process a little more bearable for a heartbroken bride. read more

Susan is just brilliant! Her flower arrangements were perfect for our October wedding! I am so grateful to her and her staff for getting them to us in perfect condition and on time on our big day! I honestly can't say enough! thanks for making our day perfect! read more

DO NOT HIRE SWEET LILACS FOR YOUR EVENT. They canceled on my good friend just days before her wedding, leaving her scrambling and stressed. She may not have flowers at her wedding now. AVOID AT ALL COSTS. read more

Susan is the best!! She was a delight to work with and the flowers were better than I could have imagined for my wedding. All I had to do was send a couple photos I found from Pinterest, discuss a bit about my style and Susan fully understood. I'm obsessed with flowers so this detail was a very big deal to me. Susan blew me away! She also did the flowers for my hair which were absolutely perfect. If you can book her for your wedding you will be in luck. She's the best. Just check out these pictures! read more

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Susan is amazing. She took care of the flowers for my wedding in Yosemite and couldn't have made things easier for me. I told her my overall thoughts on what I wanted the flowers to look like and what the wedding should feel like -- and she executed perfectly. Not only is Susan incredibly talented, she's also super friendly and fun to work with. Highly recommend Susan for your big day!! read more

We had the absolute pleasure of having Sweet Lilac as our florist for our wedding on June 1st at Venticello. The owner Susan is so creative in her designs. She has an eye for detail. I showed her pictures of what I envisioned and she replicated the bouquets and table arrangements perfectly. She also put together the most gorgeous circular archway for our ceremony which was stunning. We received so many compliments on the succulents and greenery that covered this large venue. Susan and her staff are wonderful to work with. Coming from the Bay Area, Susan has extensive experience with high end weddings but is able to provide an affordable rate to her clients. We could not have picked a professional, caring florist for our special day. Sweet lilac, thank you for everything! read more

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Susan did a fabulous job with the flowers for our wedding. We decided to add an arch with flowers for our ceremony since we were having it indoors and I'm so glad we did! I sent Susan some pictures of what I liked and told her our colors (shades of purple), and she ran with it. I was especially excited to see so many beautiful hydrangeas! We got so many complements on the flowers, especially the ceremony arch. We would definitely recommend Susan and Sweet Lilacs! read more

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My daughter was getting married in Yosemite and I was in charge of the bouquet. I live in Oregon and had to do it all over the phone. Susan totally understood my vision and did a beautiful job. She also arranged flowers on the cake for us. Beautiful results. I can't say enough or recommend her more! Thank you Susan! read more

There truly aren't enough great things I can say about Susan and her team! I'm not the bride that dreamt of her wedding day so when the time came to spend money in flowers I wasn't too happy about it. However, I contacted Susan and said "these are our colors this is my theme-you are the expert. If there is something you've been dying to do again or ever try..our wedding is the one" there's something about giving someone with artistic abilities the ability to let themselves open up and have free reign. We can not express exactly how perfectly her ceremony space, center pieces, and sweetheart table decor tied in so perfectly with our theme. You MUST book sweet lilacs to do your floral for your wedding. Hands down. Thank you Susan for so gracefully tying together all the loose strings and completing our wedding look! It was. Breath taking! read more

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Susan at Sweet Lilacs was our florist for our wedding at the Black Bear Inn in Arnold on 10/21/17. The centerpieces and bouquet were gorgeous! Susan was great to work with. I highly recommend her! read more

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Susan at Sweet Lilacs is so talented, sweet and easy to work with! I had a couple of calls with her and shared some inspiration pictures of what I wanted, and she totally got it. She executed to perfection, even when one of the main flowers I wanted (dahlias) were destroyed in wind and wildfires. She found substitute flowers that achieved the same look, and I was extremely happy with the flowers for my bouquet, the arch, and at the reception. I got numerous compliments at the wedding about the flowers! I highly recommend Sweet Lilacs! read more

I had sweet lilacs do the flowers for my wedding September 23rd, 2017 and they were so stunning. My bouquet and centerpieces blew my mind with how beautiful they looked. They were so helpful win working with my budget and created my perfect vision for my wedding day. Susan was incredible throughout the whole process. read more

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It was absolutely amazing to have Susan to be our professional wedding florist. Susan is truly an artist, and she is not afraid of high challenging work. Susan knows how to make any environment feeling natural with her highly skilled flower arrangement techniques, and she have an eye for detail and that make everything spot-on perfect. We couldn't ask for more from Susan, and we've only met her from our wedding but we become friends. Susan inspires people around her with her talent and her beautiful personality! On our wedding day, we had the most beautiful cheery blossom for our reception and ceremony. The weather was unstable so we were a bit worried about if the flower would be able to bloom on our wedding day. Susan helped us achieve this dream and she especially ordered cherry blossoms from Oregon and ships it to California in order to have the flower blooming exactly on our wedding day. All we had to do was looking for images references and letting her know what we would prefer to have. For my wedding bouquet, it was hard for me to find a reference images and I wasn't sure if the bouquet matches my height ( I am a short bride 5'-2", and I prefer bouquet that can make me look taller when taking photos). Susan helped us put everything from imagination to reality -- and the result was absolutely gorgeous. I couldn't stop holding my bouquet on my wedding day, they were so beautiful, and all the guests were complimenting the flowers at our wedding place. One thing I appreciate most from Susan is her interest in sculpture artwork influences to her flower arrangement skill ( Susan does sculpture work as her hobby and you can see how it applies to her flower arrangement -- the flowers looks equally beautiful on every angle). There were also time we really just don't know what we want. All we could do was to rely on Susan to make it beautiful, and she did! All the details that I care and I didn't have enough chance to mentioning to her ( it was super busy prior to our wedding day), Susan checks everything and make great solution for it. One example was one of the wedding sign was broken and one side of the gold frame was gone. Since it was on an easel, Susan uses flowers to cover it up and it looked so beautiful!) We wanted to thank Susan for she has done her best efforts for our wedding, and I won't have any hesitation to recommend Susan and Sweetlilacstudio to anyone who wants to have a happy beautiful wedding! Thank you Susan!!! read more

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Oh my goodness! We were so impressed with the flowers done by Sweet Lilac Studios! Susan talked with my daughter and me and listened so well to what we wanted. The flowers were beautiful! Some round tables had a bouquet of flowers, and other rectangular tables had a runner of branches with some flowers. It set the mountain theme for our mountain wedding so perfectly. We definitely recommend Sweet Lilac Studio to everyone. Additionally, we have recommended this florist to our vendor, Sequoia Woods Country Club in Arnold, CA. Thank you Susan for your fabulous work. You were so excited for us which made us realize how important a successful business was to you. read more

Wedding Date: 4/16/16 I can't speak highly of enough of Susan and her team at Sweet Lilacs! Susan is the best florist I have ever come across and I feel blessed that I was able to have her to work with on my wedding day and the days leading up to it. When I initially met with Susan I told her what I had in mind and shared some photos with her of ideas that I liked. Not only did she deliver, but everything was better than I ever imagined! If my makeup hadn't just been done, I would have cried tears of joy when her team brought in my bouquet and those for my bridesmaids the morning of the wedding. They were SO beautiful. When I was able to see everything that Susan did for the ceremony and the reception, I was in complete awe and it was hard to believe that it was MY wedding. Everything Susan touches turns to gold. She uses the best flowers out there and provides so many suggestions and insight into the floral world. Not only is she amazing with floral and design ideas in general, she was someone that I could rely on when I wasn't able to rely on my own coordinator. I believe that one of the biggest reasons that my wedding was even better than what I had envisioned was because of Susan's amazing talent, impeccable taste, and the hardworking team that she had beside her. Sweet Lilacs went above and beyond to make sure that my wedding was everything that I wanted and I would recommend them to everyone! I have attached some photos so you all can see her work for yourself, and because sometimes words only go so far. I wish I could say more about this amazing company. Thank you, thank you, thank you! read more

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Susan did the flowers for our July wedding at the Black Bear Inn and she did an amazing job at an incredibly reasonable price. We are still receiving compliments on 'the most beautiful wedding flowers' our guests had ever seen. I had been a bit wishy washy about paying for florals at all and had thought about trying to DIY it and I am SO glad I didn't because it was Susan's creativity that pulled the whole look of our wedding together! From one picture of a bridal bouquet that I'd seen on pinterest, Susan came up with designs for my bridesmaids bouquets, a gorgeous arch, and garlands for the tables. She made all of this work with our not-huge budget and even brought a ton of extra flowers to decorate a bridge, to fill small vases, and for the bridesmaids' hair. I can't recommend Susan or Sweet Lilacs highly enough! read more

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Just talking on the phone with Susan for the first time, I knew that she was the florist for me. She is down to earth, very kind, and so attentive to all of your needs and what I had envisioned for my big day. She and her team did a stunning job on each of the flower bouquets and ceremony backdrop that I had ordered. It was the perfect touch to my ceremony backdrop. Susan has a real eye for flowers and she is so talented. Her prices were great and she was so fun to talk to! I would highly recommend her to all of your floral needs. Thank you again Susan! read more

Susan is wonderful! She is responsive and easy to work with. The florals were above and beyond what we'd imagined.

Susan was absolutely amazing to work with and our flowers were more beautiful than I could have dreamed. I contacted Susan in mid-April for our early June wedding, frantic because my original plan for flowers had fallen through. She calmed me down and managed to squeeze our wedding into her schedule. We wanted unmanicured, wild flower arrangements and garlands for our outdoor, woodsy wedding and Susan more than delivered. I sent her a few inspiration pictures and what she delivered on our wedding day was better than anything I could have hoped for. When I walked into our reception I was blown away by the work she had done. Susan was also a joy to work with on a personal level and was always extremely easy to get a hold of and always very responsive. I couldn't recommend her more. read more

Susan was the absolute BEST! she went above and beyond for our wedding day and it was better than I had pictured in my head! Couldn't recommend her more!! read more

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The best of the best wedding florist! Susan and her team are amazing! I've worked with Susan for several years now as a fellow wedding vendor and hired her for my daughter's wedding last November. Susan went above and beyond to make sure she was capturing Liz's vision for her bouquet and also created a fairy tale ceremony and reception through her floral design. I highly recommend her to all my clients! read more

Working with Susan and her team was so easy and stress free. I called and told Susan that I did not really have a preference on flowers and she asked my colors and described a little of what she was envisioning and I trusted her along the way!! Come the day of the wedding when I got our flowers and saw the walkway vases I was in love. She created exactly what I pictured without me even helping her. I cannot thank her and her team enough for making our day so beautiful. Thank you, Morgan and Andrew, August 4, 2018 read more

My flowers were pretty, but should have been for the price, never once saw Susan just her employees. They were helpful. Have sent her multiple photos of my wedding and have not heard a response back. Quote was on the high end but very pretty flowers. read more

I loved working with Susan for my wedding flowers. She is super nice and responsive. She was able to bring what I had in mind for my flowers to life despite my limited ability to communicate about flowers. The bouquets, boutonnieres, and table flowers were just beautiful, and fit perfectly with my wedding setting and colors. She also was flexible and worked within my budget. We couldn't have asked for a better florist for our big day. read more

Planning a wedding is a tedious, tiring, and terrifying thing. The first thing you have to do is gather your vendor "team" whom you're suppose to put your trust in after speaking with a few times. I can tell you, I am ecstatic I put my trust in Susan. From the beginning, she was warm and friendly. After reviewing her work online, she really seem to have the same style I had in mind. But that style I had in mind was in a million directions!! She was really patient as I tried to put my ideas into words. When we finally honed in on what I wanted, she was really able to tie everything together. And even after that, I kept on making tiny changes because my mind wanders and she never once complained. But after all the talk, it wasn't until the day of my wedding I was able to see everything. And I was not disappointed!! I received many compliments on everything. She is also very fair and reasonably priced. She is very mindful of your budget which is always an extra plus. I had the pleasure to see her in person the day after the wedding when she was helping clean up where I gave her a big fat hug of gratitude! She really brought the essence of what I wanted to my wedding. Lastly, she's somewhat of a magician. I had envisioned a photo backdrop for the wedding and I honestly didn't think it was possible but Susan made it happen. She constructed it out of scratch and it turned out even better than I had envisioned. And now I have wonderful everlasting memories thanks to her. Thanks again Susan!! read more

Susan is incredibly accommodating, responsive and creative. We had our wedding in April 2016 at the Union Hill Inn. I had a very basic sense of what I wanted and gave Susan free reign and she just ran with it. The chapel, while already beautiful, was transformed by Susan and her team into the perfect setting for our ceremony. She also had some amazing ideas for our reception centerpieces (using driftwood flower holders) and our bouquets were gorgeous. I would get married all over again if it meant I could work with Susan again. :) read more

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Sweet Lilacs added the perfect touches to my daughter's wedding. Susan knew what to with flowers to make the entire venue sparkle! I can't say enough about her! Our wedding was absolutely beautiful! read more

I wish I could give this 5 stars, but the flowers I received on my wedding day were not exactly the colors that I had requested. I requested white with hints of red, and ended up with 50/50 red and white. That being said, the flowers were absolutely gorgeous. They set up greenery and flowers along the table runners that were stunning. The flowers were all fresh and beautiful, so many guests commented on how gorgeous they were. Even though it wasn't what I envisioned, they turned out beautiful. I would highly recommend them, just be very clear with your ideas and what you what/don't want. read more

Sweet lilacs recently furnished my wife's and my wedding in Columbia, Ca. Susan put together an amazingly beautiful arrangement of center pieces, boutonnieres, bouquets, and decorative pieces for us and the venue. Thank you for all the effort and for helping to make the day perfect! read more

Susan from Sweet lilacs made our bouquets and boutonnieres for our winter wedding. I sent her a ton of pictures of what I had in mind (pinecones, berries- very "wintery") and she was able to come up with the perfect image! Flowers can be scary as you don't know exactly what you're going to get, however, I have complete trust in Susan and she was able to bring my vision to life perfectly! I got compliments all from guests all night long saying they were the best flowers they have seen in a wedding. Susan also brought us candles to use to decorate our ceremony and set them up for us! Could not recommend Sweet Lilac Studio more! read more

Susan was a dream to work with! She took my terribly explained vision for my wedding and made it better than anything I could have ever imagined. The florals she provided were absolutely stunning and made our wedding so beautiful. She was a pleasure to work with and even happily took tons of additions I wanted to make just 2 weeks before the wedding and made them come to life! I would absolutely recommend Susan to anyone wanting beautiful florals for their event. read more

I attended a wedding in Clayton in which Sweet Lilacs decorated the church and wedding reception in a country chic style that gave a modern and sophisticated ambiance to a country ranch. It was creative and elegant, with simplicity throughout the design from the bouquet down to the sweet fragrant flowers in Mason jars. Simply beautiful! read more

Susan's work is beautiful and her creativity is amazing. Every arrangement she made for us was stunning. However the business side of her business is poor. She didn't often respond back with the information she said she would when she said she would do it. I found her difficult to communicate with. My flowers were delivered to the wrong location. I am pretty sad to not have many photos with my flowers in them after all the money I paid for them. read more