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Taos event planner helps make holidays, weddings about you - taosnews

Nixon home, so this affiliation opened the door for her to work on the opening of the Nixon Library.Palmer moved to Taos when her husband was hired as the chief financial officer at Taos Pueblo. "Taos is a beautiful place. It's unique and amazing, and that includes the people," she said.Palmer said that she doesn't have to work at this career, but she chooses to do so. "The occasions for which I prepare begins as visions in my mind. It's hard work, bur worth it. I relate with my clients in order to give them good customer service. The event usually lasts one day, and I want to get it right. I want to please the guest(s) of honor," explained Palmer.She cited a special floral piece for a biker's funeral. "I created a special Harley Davidson item for the funeral. The cross was wrapped in leather. I used Birds of Paradise flowers to resemble the bike flames," described Palmer.Palmer has worked with wedding parties who come from all over the world for a destination ceremony in Taos. She coordinated weddings for residents from Texas, Colorado and Africa, among other places. Many of her clients favor garden weddings, and Palmer enjoys such events because of the color and texture they provide.An interesting challenge in this realm includes a wedding at Old Martina's Hall in which the couple requested an outdoor garden theme in an indoor setting. "When I receive such a request, I strive to rely on visions of nature, especially the forest, for various types of flowers. I keep in mind whether people have allergies, especially sage," Palmer related.Palmer rightfully earned the name Taos Floral Diva, and under this title one may seek her website. Her business also uses the title Margaret Palmer Floral Design. Some of the brides and grooms become her friends and they invite her to their wedding as a guest.FamilyPalmer experienced some firsts in her genealogical lineage. Her late father Giuseppi Vitulli arrived in this country from Italy, thus making his children first generation Italian American. Her late mother, Evelyn, on the other hand, was a first-generation citizen herself because her parents came to the United States from Calabria, Italy.Her father worked as a Merchant Marine and came to this country with a strong work ethic. He arrived in America illegally, to escape Mussolini's Italy during World War II, and later became a naturalized citizen.Margaret Vitulli married her high school sweetheart, Richard Palmer, 30 years ago. The couple raised two children. Daughter Paisley, 27, received her B.A. from the Universit... https://www.taosnews.com/stories/know-your-neighbor-margaret-palmer,60914?

Floral design and gift shop is Colorado Springs native's dream - Colorado Springs Gazette

The shop delivers flowers to Colorado Springs, Falcon, Monument, Woodland Park and Pueblo. It's also in a network that delivers flowers nationwide. Berdon studied floral design, and she relies on part-time designers to pitch in during busy times or on big orders."We offer traditional arrangements as well as creative and unique designs," she said.Berdon also has recycled and upcycled items and reuses materials whenever possible. And she has a "very broad" price range so clients on any budget can find a treasure in her store."I deliver happiness with all of my floral arrangements and want people to have that same sense when they come into the store and when they leave," she said.Customers will find a curated selection of baby headbands, fragrance warmers, toffee, keychains, bath products, notecards, glass-beaded bracelets, knit gloves and boot socks, frames, candlesticks, decorative items and bags."I'm trying to build my reputation on being unique," Berdon said. https://gazette.com/life/floral-design-and-gift-shop-is-colorado-springs-native-s/article_480fe80d-37e6-515c-b78d-de049d4293f6.html

Beautiful blooms in surprising places around Ireland - The Irish Times

The language of flowers may be eloquent, but making floral short stories pushes the craft of floristry in imaginative new directions. “A florist is someone who is addicted to flowers – it’s a vocation,” says Ruth Monahan, founder of Appassionata Flowers in Dublin and the author of a visually exciting new book called Blathanna: Irish Spaces in Flower. She describes it as a “playful work with flowers ... and the magic that can be conveyed when artistic vision meets a deep knowledge of flora and understanding of space.” The book features spectacular displays of seasonal blooms in diverse locations all over Ireland – the cover shot of a currach laden with native Irish flora foraged in the west, anchored in the middle of Glendalough Lake, is one of the more striking. Monahan exchanged a career in television production for one in floristry, training at the McQueen school in London before setting up Appassionata in Dublin... https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/beautiful-blooms-in-surprising-places-around-ireland-1.4074192

Colorado Springs' top 5 florists, ranked - Yahoo News

FJk6EAjXEoRVFXGWUmhIA--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTcwNQ--/https://media.zenfs.com/en/hoodline_545/b0c8ca30bb4d8201ab060077101e4f5a" Springs in Bloom Photo: Alisha W./YelpLooking to check out the top florists around?Hoodline crunched the numbers to find the top florists in Colorado Springs, using both Yelp data and our own secret sauce to produce a ranked list of where to venture next time you're in the market.Colorado Springs-area shoppers tend to spend more in November at retail and wholesale businesses than in most other months of the year, according to data on local business transactions from Womply, a provider of CRM for small business and email marketing for small businesses. The average amount spent per customer transaction at Colorado Springs-area retail and wholesale businesses grew to $74 for the metro area in November of last year, tied with December with an average of $74, and 5% higher than the average for the rest of the year.Hoodline offers data-driven analysis of local happenings and trends across cities. Links included in this article may earn Hoodline a commission on clicks and transactions.1. Dawn's Creations PHOTO: heather H./YELP " src="https://news.yahoo.com/colorado-springs-top-5-florists-110342482.html" data-src="https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/kXUkZVDrwEKrZtzLvyfQJQ--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTcwNQ--/https://media.zenfs.com/en/hoodline_545/920b8b338e7e7c431b778ac6974d18fd" PHOTO: heather H./YELP " src="h... https://news.yahoo.com/colorado-springs-top-5-florists-110342482.html

Redmond florist is deeply rooted in the community - Redmond Reporter

For 41 years, Bear Creek Florist — formerly known as JaRae’s — has and continues to operate as a family-owned flower shop.Since opening in 1978, Lisa Aliment, the current shop owner, said there are very few stores in Bear Creek Shopping Center that can claim to be original tenants, pointing to Safeway, Rapunzel’s Hair Salon, a barbershop and a drugstore as buildings from a time when her aunt, Janice Tanner, and her father, Ray Aliment, made a pact to open the store together.During the holidays, flower shops everywhere are preparing for the surge of orders from people wanting to decorate their homes for the festivities or to give as gifts for loved ones. A trend Lisa has noticed through the years is the fact that people are buying fewer arrangements specific to a home but rather are giving flower designs to friends as gifts during the holidays. Lisa attributes this change to more people spending Thanksgiving with friends, not just family.“So many people don’t live close to families anymore,” She said.Lisa does... https://www.redmond-reporter.com/business/redmond-florist-is-deeply-rooted-in-the-community/

Florist Delma Booth, who turned ballrooms into wonderlands, dead at 89 - Tampa Bay Times

Mrs. Booth’s artistic vision, her son said.“She’d come up with the darnedest ideas and he’d build it,” he said. “If my dad couldn’t build it, it couldn’t be done.”Soon, she was the go-to florist for socialite weddings and major events in St. Petersburg. Her annual calling card was the yacht club’s winter display.One year, she had an old-fashioned living room with a fireplace built from scratch in the ballroom, he said, and another year they turned the club into a toy store.In 2004, Mrs. Booth imported 70 Christmas trees from North Carolina and used over 49,000 lights for the event.Each tree was different.“Some had kids’ stuff, some had white lights, some had purple lights, some represented different countries,” her son said.The yacht club began using different decorators in 2010.Mrs. Booth retired from full-time duties at Delma’s Flower Booth a few years ago because of her health, her sister Sonn said. Her husband died in 2016. She spoke often about how she missed the business every day.“Her customers meant everything to her,” Sonn said. “She loved making pretty things for them.”BIOGRAPHYDelma BoothBorn: Nov. 1, 1930Died: Nov. 16, 2019Survived by: Son, James; three granddaughters, Tiffany Sabiel (Keith), Ariel Booth, Lexi Booth; sister, Marie Sonn.The service has been held. https://www.tampabay.com/news/pinellas/2019/12/03/florist-delma-booth-who-turned-ballrooms-into-wonderlands-dead-at-89/

Bride repays £100 to florist after claiming her bouquet never arrived - Daily Mail

Bride 'demands a £100 refund for wedding flowers that she claimed never arrived only for the florist to spot her posing with the bouquet on Facebook'Bride Jordanne Mclaughlin was forced to repay £100 to wedding decor businessShe claimed her bouquet by Forever To Hold never arrived for her 2018 weddingBusiness owner Sarah Weatherill found photos of the bride with the flowersShe confronted the bride about the images and threatened police actionBy Alisha Buaya For Mailonline Published: 11:30 GMT, 15 March 2019 Updated: 17:43 GMT, 15 March 2019 A bride who claimed a £100 refund for wedding flowers that supposedly never arrived in time for her wedding has been caught with the bouquet after photos emerged on social media.Sarah Weatherill, 34, and Lisa Husband, 46, who run wedding decor business Forever To Hold in Whitby, North Yorkshire, spotted wedding photos of bride Jordanne McLaughlin with the flowers on Facebook, last week.Mrs McLaughlin from Port Glasgow, Scotland, offered to repay the balance by £20 per week but eventually returned the refund in full afte... https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6812843/Bride-repays-100-florist-claiming-bouquet-never-arrived.html

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