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Black-Owned Philly-Area Wedding Planners, Florists and Decor Pros to Know - Philadelphia magazine

Interested? All you have to do is text via the website.Enchanted Allure Events The East Brunswick-based boutique wedding planning and design firm focuses on creating a stress-free experience for couples throughout the Philly region and New Jersey (as well as New York). Founder and principal planner Melissa Brooks and her team are driven by creative and modern designs, but ultimately dream up a day (and related celebrations) that is unique to you and your love. Custom packages range from à la carte options to full-service planning and design; engagements, day-after brunches and unions of all sizes (elopements, micro-weddings or large bashes) are among the events they skillfully guide. Even virtual consultations via Zoom or teleconference are on offer. Event Loft/... https://www.phillymag.com/philadelphia-wedding/2020/06/09/black-owned-philly-area-wedding-vendors/

CBS11 Investigates Online ‘Florist’ With Hundreds Of Complaints - CBS Dallas / Fort Worth

Not even close! (credit: CBS 11 News)That’s because Troys Florist isn’t in Texas. The company’s address is a non-descript gray building without signs in East Brunswick, New Jersey. And it turns out, Troys isn’t a florist at all. When our colleagues at WCBS visited the business, they found a room filled not with flowers, but computers. Minutes later the workers locked the door and refused to answer the reporter’s questions.Troys Florist in New Jersey looks more like an office. Not a flower in sight. (credit: CBS 11 News)A former employee says Troys works as a middle man between customers and real flower shops. WCBS reporter Lisa Rozner asked her how Troys workers could find florists to fulfill orders. “The same way the people do,” said Bianca. “We go on Google, type in the address where we’re trying to send flowers to, and then nearby florists.”She says the company kept a cut of the money as his commission. “[My boss] would be on top of us in order to make that percentage every day. Anywhere from 40% up was perfect.” For example, if a customer ordered a $100 bouquet from Troys, she says she would place an order for $60 and Troys Florist would keep the other $40.The arrangement we bought from Troys cost $62 including tax and delivery. The Fort Worth florist who delivered it, said the order they received was for $30.More than 350 people have filed complaints with the Better Business Bureau; the agency has given Troys Florist an F-rating. According to the BBB profile, Troys operates under several names including Logan’s Florist, Paxton’s Florist, Rudy’s Florist, Americana Flowers, and Yarpo Management LLC.The BBB issued an alert about Troys in 2015 about a pattern of complaints filed against the business. “Consumers have reported deliveries of flowers that were completely different from those ordered (type of flowers, vases, arrangements), being charged for flowers that never arrived and requests for refunds not being honored. BBB did not receive a response from the business.”We tried to reach Troys Florist and its owner Perry Kessisiades multiple times but received no response.When searching online for a florist, be sure to verify its physical address and look for customer reviews. Experts say when ordering flowers, make it clear that you do not want any substitutions. Most reputable florists will contact customers if changes are necessary. You can also use a local florist to send flowers elsewhere; many of them are part of a network of s... https://dfw.cbslocal.com/2020/02/12/cbs11-investigates-online-florist-with-hundreds-of-complaints/

Demanding Answers: NJ Company Accused Of Posing As Local Florists Nationwide - CBS New York

EAST BRUNSWICK, N.J. (CBSNewYork) — Customers nationwide are accusing a New Jersey company of posing as a local florist.They say instead of getting the flowers they ordered, they’re left with disappointing bouquets and broken hearts.When his local florist closed, Brian Woodruff, of Toms River, ordered a $70 “Ruby Romance” bouquet for his wife from TroysFlorist.com.“When I send her flowers, they’re usually nice and bigger. They’re big,” he told CBS2’s Lisa Rozner.Pictured on the right is the $70 bouquet Troys Florist customer Brian Woodruff ordered online, pictured on the left is the bouquet that was received (Photos Provided)His wife ended up receiving something worth a fraction of the price.“Very simple, very cheap, very disappointed,” Woodruff said.It was the same story when Susan Hatch, of Texas, thought she was sending a $100 “Beauty in Bloom” for a relative’s 105th birthday.Pictured on the left is the $100 arrangement Troys Florist customer Susan Hatch ordered online, pictured on the r... https://newyork.cbslocal.com/2020/02/12/troys-florist-scam/

Obituary: Charlotte G. Poulin - Lewiston Sun Journal

Services will be held in the spring.In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to either Rockin’ T Equine Rescue, 60 Edgecomb Road, Lisbon Falls, ME 04252, or to Midcoast Humane, 190 Pleasant Street, Brunswick, ME 04011.Condolences may be found at www.Albert-Burpee.comCharlotte G. PoulinInvalid username/password.Please check your email to confirm and complete your registration.Use the form below to reset your password. When you've submitted your account email, we will send an email with a reset code.« Previous Obituary: Frank Carlyle Mottram, Sr.Next »Obituary: Rita Y. Bolduc... https://www.sunjournal.com/2020/02/06/obituarycharlotte-g-poulin/

Keep Your Valentine Flowers Looking Their Best - TAPinto.net

For them, select non-fragrant varieties and other flowers like hydrangea, alstroemeria, gerbera daisies and lisianthus that lack a strong fragrance.Sign Up for South Brunswick NewsletterOur newsletter delivers the local news that you can trust.You have successfully signed up for the TAPinto South Brunswick Newsletter.Select their favorite color or perhaps one that sends a message. Red is often used to represent love and passion, pink for happiness and sometimes love, yellow for friendship and cheer, and peach for gratitude. Include a card to make sure the message and sentiments are received.Roses are a Valentine favorite, but a dozen may be out of reach for your budget.  A single rose in a bud vase or large bloom floating in a shallow vase can bring a bit of beauty and lots of enjoyment to you or the recipient. Or add a few roses to your bouquet of other colorful flowers.  Once you make your selection, ask the florist to include a packet of floral preservative and wrap your flowers. This protects them from extreme temperatures and jostling during the ride home.Extend the life of your floral gift with a few key steps before placing the flowers in a vase.Remove the lower leaves, so just the leafless stems are sitting in the water. This minimizes bacterial growth that can shorten the vase life of cut flowers. Recut the stems and arrange your blossoms in a clean vase filled with fresh water and floral preservative. Cutting the stems on an angle increases the amount of exposed surface area to absorb water. Change the water, clean the vase if needed, recut the stems and add floral preservative every two to three days. Remove any flowers that have faded to keep your arrangement looking its best. Doing this can double the life of your cut flowers.Further extend the vase life of cut flowers by displaying them in a cool, draft-free location. Or move them to a... https://www.tapinto.net/towns/south-brunswick/sections/home-and-garden/articles/keep-your-valentine-flowers-looking-their-best-11

Three Glamorous Gardens for Your Outdoor Wedding Celebration - Boston magazine

Photo by Haven PhotographyGREENER PASTURESSkip the florist and go right to the source at the Greenhouse at Highland Farm in Scarborough, Maine. A multigenerational family business, the flower farm added “wedding venue” to its impressive resume after the couple that owns it decided to host their own nuptials on the property, inspiring them to open it up to others who want to do the same. Walk down the aisle in the greenhouse, complete with a translucent roof and retractable walls, or say “I do” on the verdant lawn, surrounded by wildflowers. Once the cake is cut, sneak off to Legacy Grove, where the farm permits couples to carve their initials into one of the trees—and live out their teenage dreams in the process. Not ready for the night to end? Cozy up to the fire pit: a surefire way to keep the party going without catching a chill.REHEARSAL DINNERPour a pint and toast your guests at Nonesuch River Brewing, the first (and only) craft brewery in Scarborough. While you sip on IPAs and ales, dine on beer-battered Maine haddock in the semi-private, post-and-beam mezzanine space, which connects to... https://www.bostonmagazine.com/weddings/2020/11/30/new-england-gardens/

Canceled fundraisers leave surplus of poinsettias as Fairfield, Manchester florists seek new markets - Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel

Longfellow said. “It’s going to be interesting to see how we do.”Like Sunset, Longfellow’s is also considering charitable fundraisers at the store and are meeting with Mid-Maine Chamber of Commerce to brainstorm.Until now, the pandemic hasn’t been so bad for Sunset.“We’ve had our best spring season ever,” Benner said. “We’ve had one of our best fall seasons ever. We’ve been lucky until this point.”Ellis expected little business during the pandemic, but instead business boomed. Sunset closed for a couple weeks in the spring at the outset of the pandemic, but then the business thrived.“When we did open up, it was just crazy,” Ellis said. “We became essential.”Customers clamored for seeds and seedlings as at-home gardening took hold. “That was a tremendous boost,” Ellis said.Benner, whose mother and uncle own the company, has worked at Sunset “his whole life.” Of the 11 employees, all but one are family members. There are 20 greenhouses with about an acre and a quarter under cover.Sunset wholesales to other florists, but many of them are not having the same business.A variety of poinsettia plants Wednesday at Sunset Flowerland and Greenhouses in Fairfield. The family owned and run business has a surplus of 1,000 poinsettia plants after recent orders were canceled due to fall out from the pandemic. Rich Abrahamson/Morning Sentinel Buy this Photo “It’s kind of a snowball effect,” Benner said.Sunset grows a variety of colors of poinsettias. They grow four shades of red, two different pinks, a few white shades and a variety of novelties, which are mixed colors.Typically, poinsettia plants are used for fundraisers. The flowers are planted at the greenhouse in July, and in a normal year, they sell 4,000 or 5,000. This year, they’re hoping to sell all of them, but the business has to get creative. Up to 80% of the poinsettia plants grown yearly go to fundraisers.Overall, sales are up for the year, but the owners are concerned there may be a net negative by year’s end.“We’re really concerned that this poinsettia thing is going to destroy what we thought we made gains on,” Ellis said.What’s most important to the business is positively impacting the community.“We want to turn this kind of negative into a positive and help out people,” Benner said. “We’ve sold quite a few, but we do have a lot left.”Related HeadlinesInvalid username/password.Please check your email to confirm and complete your registration.Use the form below to reset... https://www.centralmaine.com/2020/11/26/canceled-fundraisers-leave-surplus-of-poinsettias-as-fairfield-manchester-florists-seek-new-markets/

Fitchburg’s Cauley’s Florist and Garden Center is partnering with Operation Service to provide free trees to vets - Sentinel & Enterprise

Joe tells you that this program can become even bigger and better, and that he thinks you can help, it’s an absolute no-brainer – you want to get involved.”Landry said Cauley’s has remained busy throughout the pandemic, beginning in the spring with people “stuck at home” looking to start their first vegetable garden, decorate their new home office with plants, clean up their landscaping, “or simply just adding some colorful flowers to have a nicer staycation.”“Those trends have continued through the year and now that the holidays are here we are doing everything we can to provide our customers the seasonal products they come to us for, and help them have as happy and normal a holiday season as they can,” Landry said.Christmas trees arrived at both Cauley’s and The Gardner’s spot last week. Veterans and military members have stopped by the locations to pick out a tree to take home, and Landry said they are excited to be a part of it.“Hopefully becoming a part of the Trees For Soldiers program will not only let us help those who have served or are currently serving feel some extra holiday cheer this year, but let them know how much this community appreciates their sacrifice and their service,” Landry said.For more information call 978-342-2300, visit cauleysfloristandgardencenter.com, and follow Cauley’s Florist and Garden Center on Facebook. For more information on Operation Service email joe@operationservice.net, visit operationservice.net and follow Operation Service on Facebook. https://www.sentinelandenterprise.com/2020/12/02/fitchburgs-cauleys-florist-and-garden-center-is-partnering-with-operation-service-to-provide-free-trees-to-vets/

Roses are red, violets are blue, chances are, the Flower Lady knows you - Kamloops This Week

Over the years, the music has changed. The bars have changed. The people have changed. But, until the pandemic arrived, her business remained. Selling about 120 flowers a night at $3 a stem — a price that never rose with inflation — Chernecki said she made about $1,000 per month selling roses. Red roses, the flower of love, is her bestseller, while yellow was not part of her rotation because they “look funny” in club lighting, she said. On flower-selling nights, Chernecki leaves her house at 10 o’clock and stays out at long as it takes, until she sells all of her roses, sometimes until near bar closing time. On one occasion, she walked into a bar at the beginning of her shift and somebody bought the entire inventory. She sold out within 22 minutes — her record — giving her the rest of the night off. She stayed and had a drink. Always dressed to impress, wearing head-to-toe gowns, Chernecki insists it takes only seven minutes to get ready: a swipe of lipstick, a bit of mascara, a spritz of perfume and the dress, which she purchases second-hand. “The roses are the jewelry,” she said. But every rose has its thorn. For every nice bar patron, there is the other guy. Chernecki said she ran into the odd altercation. On one occasion, a man pulled down her dress. Bouncers keep their eyes out for her, but she said she doesn’t need their help. “I had my fingers in his eyes, my knees in his crotch and I had him bent over the back bar of Cactus Jack’s,” she said. “Jack Daniels, maybe at that time. I had him over the bar and I lost it on him. They said, ‘You could charge him.’ I said, ‘Oh, no. The humiliation he got from me was probably enough.’” Her job makes her a fly on the wall at bars — oh, the stories she could tell. She can rattle off old bar names and old bar owners. She said she believes in love, happiness and spreading joy to others, including “crazy-ass people.” She’s seen new relationships blossom and others go stale. She has seen people walk away from each other, only to get back together years later. In her experience, sometimes love simply works and sometimes it doesn’t. A rose doesn’t hurt. Chernecki is proof that a rose is more than a stereotype when it comes to love and that many couples have yet to blossom without her roaming the clubs in Kamloops during the pandemic. https://www.kamloopsthisweek.com/community/roses-are-red-violets-are-blue-chances-are-the-flower-lady-knows-you-1.24216291