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Ashley's bridal sitting bouquet. Thought i would share how sometimes things just dont work out, no matter how hard i work! Ashley called me only a few weeks ago to do her bridal sitting bouquet only (she is getting married in hawaii at christmas time.) we ordered flowers for a bouquet she found in one of my books she really liked. we did this about 3 weeks in advance which usually is good time for most flowers, but we knew this would be iffy since she wanted special brown orchids to go with sahara roses, a very vintage unique bouquet. about a week before the sitting the wholesale supplier called to tell me we would not be able to get the orchids and that they had exhausted all resources to get them. so we fell back on a back up bouquet that ashley already had picked out that we knew would be readily available even at short notice, red roses, eggplant misted red callas, green hyp berries, and green cymb orchids with a ivory and brown satin wrap. she added a single white orchid to her order for her hair.

day of sitting arrives and ashley calls to inform me that they have moved the sitting time up a few hours and hoped i could also adjust. i bend over backwards a lot of the time for clients and this seemed to be just a little back arch adjustment .... initially. later in the day when she was supposed to be at my house picking up her flowers she called to tell me she was running short on time and wouldnt make it to pick up the flowers and wanted to know if they paid for delivery if i could bring them to her at thanksgiving point. so now reaching a little farther, i have 3 kids just home from school and realize that i have to go now in order to get it to her by the time she gets there to start her shoot before the rain coming in hits her. so i load them all, the bouquet too and hit the road, making phone calls to asjust my schedule on the way. we drive the 20 min there and just as i pull in the parking lot, i have a light bulb moment that drops by heart and my stomach, my clients and their events mean a lot to me! i had forgotten the single orchid bloom for her hair. OOOPSS! well i am human but honestly i try hard not to bed when it comes to events. i know how intense weddings are for everyone and how one shot these things are. i felt so aweful. so i go find ashley and tell her and her mother how sorry i am and that i will waive the travel fee. i was happy to go back and get it but knowing that there and back would be 40 min, thought her sitting would be nearly over. but they wanted me to, so i spent the next hour of my packed day now rearranged in the car driving home and back to TP with one single orchid. what a day! hope Ashley and her mom are not too mad at me. bouquet turned out gorgeous not too tropical but between the bouqet and the hair orchid i think it was uthawaii!