floral suggestions

Its a Keeper

Hey everyone

So, I am getting married in about a year. I haven't started shopping for florists yet, just wondering if i need to get on that asap! When did everyone else start looking?

I already have booked my venue and DJ.

Also does anyone have suggestions for florists? I am looking for someone who can really "get" what i want - something very modern looking. Any suggestions?

indieglam

I started looking about 8 months in advance of my 9-22-12 wedding. September seemed to be booking up quickly at that time for other vendors, so I started looking at florists earlier than I thought I would.

I'm using Pot & Box in Ann Arbor; Lisa does more modern arrangements and she's been wonderful to work with. I also looked into Sweet Pea Floral Design, PassionFlower, Linnaea Floral Design, and A Moment in Time but all were already booked for my day.

kikirst33

Love, love LOVE Le Petit Fleur in Ferndale.

She has great ideas and beutiful arragements.  She can work wtih specific flowers if you have ones that you must have or she will work with what is in season to maximize your budget.

AriesAngel86

indieglam: PassionFlower was probably booked because I'm using them for 9/22/12! Small world :P

indieglam

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/local-wedding-boards_michigan-detroit_floral-suggestions?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Local%20Wedding%20BoardsForum:88Discussion:eda588bc-b61e-4c9a-9ea5-a1aac0198161Post:ab4b9677-59cb-4560-be6d-0e4d84d15f08">Re: floral suggestions</a>:
[QUOTE]indieglam: PassionFlower was probably booked because I'm using them for 9/22/12! Small world :P
Posted by AriesAngel86[/QUOTE]

<div>LOL! Truly a small world! Your flowers are going to be gorgeous!</div>

mpickl

I'm pretty sure we are going with Tom Thompson out of Ann Arbor. He does all of the flowers for events at my FI's work (a private country club) and his stuff is always so beautiful. 

I did find, however, that when I started researching and talking to florists more than a year before my wedding, they were...hesitant?...to sign me up so early. A few told me my tastes would change so much between now and the wedding. Yeah, I'm sure that's true, but can't I just secure you for my date?? Really didn't understand that one.

db1985

We are using Linnaea Floral Designs for our bouquets, corsages, and bouts.  Her work is beautiful and very unique and for about the same price as the flower shops we investigated we are gettng double the flowers.  We started looking in October for our August wedding and she already had a large wedding booked, but was still able to accomodate us since we had such a small order.  You are definatly right to look early

empowder

A recommendation to avoid Parsonage in Clarkston.  Their arrangements are beautiful, but my experience has been that they are expensive and their service has been awful.  We're working on Plan B to get out of working with them.

CollElizabeth19

Call Lynn at Cleverbumblee Creations! She's great and totally reasonable!

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Cleverbumblebee-Creations/258653170169

CollElizabeth19

Call Lynn at Cleverbumblee Creations! She's great and totally reasonable!

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Cleverbumblebee-Creations/258653170169

sparkles776

 One thing I would recommend working on before flowers though is a photographer. A lot of the photographers I contacted were booked about a year and a half in advance.

drandreasalazar

I would say you should be doing flowers and photographer around the same timr