Laynie

Laynie's flowers were as gorgeous as her! she wanted bright, fun, and textured. we used mokara orchids, asiatic dragon lilies, yellow freesia, curly willow, calla lilies in several colors, hydrangea, cymbidium orchids, anemone, and berzilia throughout the wedding.

what is not having a headache worth? i think knowledge is excedrin and i am going to use this wedding as an example of what happens when a client chooses to provide some of their own supplies rather than rent. first off i want laynie to know what a kick back cool bride she was and how well she took things in stride! she was and is a great client! and for the clients out there who still insist on providing their own product thats fine we will still take you in most cases but be warned the migraine is coming on!



laynie wanted centerpieces in the same style as a wedding we did last year "osorio". tall fluted glass vases filled with gold fish and flowers. her family happened to fall upon similar shaped vases and thought it might save them money and hassle to buy them and provide them themselves. i am not aware of what they paid for them so i cant say that our rental price underbid their buying price but i am willing to bet! we rent those vases in tall for $10 each and xtra tall for $15. when i received a sample of the vase to design with it was about half the size of our medium ones. this changed things a lot. they also thought they might provide their own goldfish. goldfish, the feeder kind, are quiet cheap at some places only 10 cents a piece. so why pay us to provide them? have you thought about who and when they will be aquired on the day of? even if you have a plan this is an added stress in the day. have you thought about how to treat the water and acclimate it so that the fish live through the reception? there is no time for me to do that if the fish just suddenly arrive at the reception ready to be dumped in vases. this makes for murdered fish. is it not worth the headache to pay someone to do this? one of the profound effects of the osorio's vases was how many fish where in the vase, we were not able to do this with laynie's vases because they were much smaller and fish need space and oxygen to breath, the ratio wouldn't work. last but not least the vases arrived unopened and unclean and some where broken. now what, too many flowers not enough vases? is it not worth not having a headache i ask you? some clients dont think a headache is too much to handle. whats difficult for me is that in the end who does this reflect on? more than not people need someone to blame or place identity on and its usually me in cases like this.

in the end her centerpieces were still soooo gorgeous and looked amazing in the orangerie at red butte gardens! it worked out beautifully, it most often does if you have great vendors who can problem solve and problem solve fast!