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Flower Allie - Run Instead of Walking Away

We read fantastic reviews about Flower Allie, mainly on the knot and other related sites.  However, after dealing with them and their horrific employees, there is no question that this is the worst flower shop in Southern California, possibly even the world.  If you would like to deal with a crying bride on the day of your wedding, by all means, Flower Allie will accomplish that task.  But if remembering the beauty of your wedding and the flowers is important to you then stay away from this appalling service provider.Now of course the above stated is my opinion, and you may have heard other stories, but here is ours.  My wife was very adamant on the only thing that she wanted in her bridal bouquet was Peonies, and, of course, in their fabulous sales pitch Flower Allie said that no question they would be able to get these flowers on all of the tables and, under no circumstances, would the bridal bouquet be without them.  Come the day of the wedding, we were provided with not a single flower we requested, and no Peonies at all.  Now I wouldn't be making a big deal about this if this was there only problem.  Possibly I would not be on this site had Flower Allie provided decent replacement flowers, however, they failed to do even that.  In my wife's bridal bouquet there were DEAD roses.  The flowers used were brown and breaking apart and barely lasted through the ceremony.  The weddings colors were light pink and cream, and someone Flower Allie decided that providing us with colors that were not even remotely close to what we requested.We additionally requested that Flower Allie provided bar table flower arrangements.  The arrangement was very simple a single rose floating in a container.  However, the roses used for this were BROWN.  This led us to actually talking on our wedding day about removing the bar table roses because they looked like a dog chewed the flowers up before using them.As if the above stated could not get any worse, we were informed the DAY BEFORE OUR WEDDING, that the candles that were requested to be purchased by Flower Allie and that we paid for were never purchased.  I was forced to pay extra money to have a different florist give us candles.We also had Flower Allie tell us that they were going to decorate our cake with hundreds of flowers.  They were going to place flowers on the cake and around the cake.  They did next to nothing on the cake and decorated the table with approximately 15 flowers.  Then they decided to spread a bunch of crystals on the table, despite the fact that we told them no crystals.It continues.....There was a fountain that was supposed to be decorated, we specifically told the florist that we did not want flowers in the largest portion of the fountain because all of the flowers pool to one side of the fountain and it would look as if someone just discarded leftover flowers in the fountain.  Well Flower Allie chose to disregard this request and threw the leftovers into the fountain.  It looked horribleLastly, we asked them to place the candles we purchased out.  We purchased about 300 candles, and they placed out 50. SO.....if you want horrible service, horrible flowers, a lack of attention to your requests, and for a florist to place the bride in tears on the day of her wedding, I would fully recommend Flower Allie.  If none of these things are what you want then RUN AWAY FROM THIS HORRIBLE COMPANY!!!!

Re: Flower Allie - Run Instead of Walking Away

  • kasarinkasarin member
    100 Comments
    edited December 2011
    Wow... I'm really sorry that you had a bad experience. We used Flower Allie as well and have nothing but the best praise for her and her team. She was one of my favorite vendors to work with and did an amazing job.
  • SmithaandMikeSmithaandMike member
    10 Comments
    edited December 2011
    I didn't have a good experience with them either. She actually told me that she charges more now that she is getting to be more well known. I understand charging more but don't be so rude about it! Anyways we went with Tiffany at Pacific Coast Florals and she was amazing I got a lot of raves about our flowers
  • lala90lala90 member
    100 Comments
    edited December 2011
    That is too bad about the flowers. Terrible really. Well if other girls are looking for florist options I really love my florist and I have seen her work at a real wedding--it was gorgeous. Her info is on my bio--Bride and Bloom Flowers and my mock up is under the photos section.
  • ashley010525ashley010525 member
    Eighth Anniversary 10 Comments
    edited December 2011
    Have you asked for a refund, If she refuses, take her @$$ to court. thats horrible!!
  • edited December 2011
    Sorry to hear about your bad experience with Flower Allie. We used her for our wedding this past May. And she was one of our favorite wedding vendor. All of our floral decoration turned out the way we discussed. I had peonies in my bouquet. When was your wedding? Typically Peonies are out of season after June or July.
  • edited December 2011
    You should post this review on projectwedding.com. I had an awful experience with my florist as well and posted a review there.
  • edited December 2011
    Flower Allie did my wedding. She did a great job but did leave the impression that she was too busy to do everything she promised. Maybe she has just gotten so busy that she can't live up to the standards that earned her such high marks among former knotties. I wouldn't give up on her as she is very talented and reasonably priced but if you are interested, I would personally recommend only hiring her if your wedding is in an off season.
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