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Flower Allie - Run Instead of Walking Away!

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Re: Flower Allie - Run Instead of Walking Away!

  • edited December 2011
    You should post this on Project Wedding as well. This is a great resource for other brides. I'm sorry to hear that you had such a terrible experience with your florist.
  • 23sb23sb member
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    edited December 2011
    I heard great things about Flower Allie too. Sorry to hear you had this bad experience with them
  • edited December 2011
    I am truly sorry that you had dead brownish roses and that they didn't put out all the candles you requested.One word of insight though.  Alot of florists have a clause in their contract agreement that allows for them to replace flowers in the event that their supplier cannot provide them with the exact color or type flower.  Read over your contract, and go over the points where it is clear that CYA clause does not apply.Although the other stuff is inexcusable. in doing the research for wedding flowers one of you should have known that Peonies in September are out of season and more than likely either impossible to get and/or insanely expensive.  To be fair, Flower Allie should have informed your wife that the flowers she wanted were out of season beforehand and had her choose a similar looking flower in the event they couldn't get them(import roses for example, if opened up gently and coaxed in the right way can pass for peonies to the untrained eye).The PP is right, go ahead and post this review on Project Wedding.
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