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A funeral director for the community - Dallas Voice

While other kids were playing cops and robbers, he was playing funeral home. And, yes, he does understand how disturbing that is.When he was 16, he applied to work at a funeral home near his house in Joplin, Mo. They turned him down suggesting the local McDonalds was hiring.“If I wanted to work at McDonalds, I would have applied there,” Lewis said.So when he was 18, he applied again and this time the funeral home hired him. He said he even lived above the funeral home and did everything from polishing the floors to emptying the waste baskets to assisting the funeral director with the bodies.He also began taking mortuary classes at Missouri Southern.Then he moved to Dallas and began classes at the Dallas Institute of Funeral Service on South Buckner Boulevard and did much of his practical work at Sparkman-Hillcrest to earn his associates in applied science.He met LaFleur 16 years ago. LaFleur was is in retail and isn’t a funeral director. They met at JR.’s.“We stared at each other from across the room,” Lewis said. So one day he finally walked up to LaFleur and said, “Are we going to just stare at each other across the room or are you going to ask me out?”LaFleur gave him his email address. Lewis went right home and sent LaFleur a message and the email bounced. LaFleur insists it was an honest mistake.They met up at JR.’s again the next week, exchanged phone numbers and made a date to see each other the following weekend. Lewis said they ate dinner, watched a movie but he left, and they didn’t see each other for another four years.LaFleur was diagnosed with cancer and then he left for Louisiana to take care of his mother. When he returned to Dallas, they met up again on MySpace and have been together ever since.A few years ago, Lewis, who’s a member of the Turtle Creek Chorale, was talking to another member, who is also a funeral director, about how hard it was working for a funeral home owned by a large corporation.“I still want my own place,” he said.“I know a place in Ferris for sale,” the other member told him.A year passed before he decided to at least check out Ferris. The funeral home was still for sale, so on a Sunday morning, he drove to Ferris just to take a look even though he knew the place wouldn’t be open.As he was driving through town, though, he noticed signs for an open house. He decided to stop in and maybe get a feel for... https://dallasvoice.com/a-funeral-director-for-the-community/

What Ellie Goulding did with her wedding flowers will make you emotional - HELLO!

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's decorations at Windsor Castle in 2018. The mostly white flowers Ellie and her new husband Caspar Jopling chose were both tasteful and stunning, so it makes sense that they didn't want to see them go to waste. The entrance to York Minster was surrounded by a flower arch Instead, the florists who took down the arrangements after the ceremony gave them away to members of the public who had stood outside to catch a peek of the happy couple and their celebrity guests, who included actress Sienna Miller, comedian Jimmy Carr, and pop star Katy Perry and her fiancé, Orlando Bloom. Princess Eugenie and her husband Jack Brooksbank were also in attendance, alongside Princess Beatrice and Sarah, Duchess of York.READ: Ellie Goulding chose her close friends as bridesmaids - find out whoPhotographer Paul Ratcliffe took to Twitter to share photos of the flowers he was given after the wedding, and he was clearly touched and impressed by the kind gesture. He wrote: "How lovely is this. The florists dismantling the arrangements at York minster gave them away to crowds who had watched. So I now have a lovely vase full." Ellie, 32, and 27-year-old art dealer Caspar got together in 2017 and announced their engagement in August 2018 via an announcement in The Times.How lovely is this. The florists dismantling the arrangements at York minster gave them away to crowds who had watched. So I now have a lovely vase full pic.twitter.com/CJ8p8onKT6— ?? Paul Ratcliffe ?? (@pdratcliffe) August 31, 2019The couple generously gave away their flowersThe performer wore a breath-taking bespoke Chloé wedding dress designed by... https://www.hellomagazine.com/brides/2019090177167/ellie-gouldings-wedding-flowers-touching-gesture/

Florists reopen ahead of Mother’s Day, planting seed for non-essential businesses’ comeback - Boston Herald

Business is finally blooming for florists.Gov. Charlie Baker’s newly loosened restrictions on some small businesses arrives just in time for Mother’s Day.“We’ve had customers looking for flowers in general the entire time we were closed,” said Central Square Florist manager Jackie Levine who can now open up her Cambridge store. “We kept watching and hoping something would change.Change came Monday afternoon, when the Baker administration quietly updated its essential services guidance to allow a limited number of employees of florist shops and other businesses to reenter closed stores and warehouses to fulfill and ship orders taken over the phone and online.[embedded content]“It really is just an unbelievable feeling after so much negativity,” Levine said.Handling enormous demand for contactless deliveries for Mother’s Day, flower shop owners could lay the foundation for other non-essential businesses to come back from weeks of lockdown.Florists said calls, emails and online orders for bouquets flooded in immediately. https://www.bostonherald.com/2020/05/05/florists-reopen-ahead-of-mothers-day-planting-seed-for-non-essential-businesses-comeback/

No Brunch, No Worries: This Melbourne Florist Is Delivering Blooms and Local Treats for Mother’s Day - Broadsheet

Mother’s Day is just around the corner, but unfortunately the customary cafe brunch is off the cards this year. Cremorne-based florist Superbloom has the next best thing, though: a chic bouquet – plus some locally sourced treats – delivered to your mum.Superbloom’s new gift packs – which have names such as “Shhh … Do Not Disturb”, “Quaranqueen” and “There in Spirit” – include bright, bold floral arrangements, plus chocolate, candles, booze and even hand sanitiser produced by Melbourne-based companies. Each set comes with a quirky, colour-blocked greeting card. (Choose from seven slogans, including “Thanks for putting up with me Mum”, “Sending you hugs” and “There’s no one I’d rather be isolated with”.)The “Sweet Tooth” ($150) includes a potted orchid, a block of Hey Tiger chocolate and a stack of Hunted & Gathered choc-chip cookies. The “Stiff Drink” ($295) is a solid option for mums moonlighting as homeschool teachers: there’s a lush bouquet of flowers, a block of limited-edition Hey Tiger chocolate and a bottle of Four Pillars gin (choose from four varieties, including in the popular Bloody Shiraz). Go... https://www.broadsheet.com.au/melbourne/art-and-design/article/no-brunch-no-worries-melbourne-flower-shop-delivering-blooms-and-local-treats-mothers-day

FiftyFlowers Is Still Shipping Flowers From Partner Farms to Doorsteps During Pandemic - Business Wire

Roeser.About FiftyFlowersFiftyFlowers is an online company that provides wholesale flowers delivered fresh from their partner farms to your doorstep. DIY Couples, event planners and florists come to FiftyFlowers for the variety of flowers available, excellent customer service and dependability of a company that has delivered premium, fresh cut flowers for over 100,000 events. With years of experience, FiftyFlowers is the expert in farm-direct wholesale flowers. Visit: www.fiftyflowers.com or call 877.507.6737. https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200330005469/en/FiftyFlowers-Shipping-Flowers-Partner-Farms-Doorsteps-Pandemic

Pandemic impacts flower supplies ahead of Mother's Day - KSHB

We'll do our very best to make sure it looks like the picture," she said.Most major online services have existing substitution policies allowing florists to change colors or flower varieties in arrangements. Teleflora's website currently says that "due to flower supply challenges, our florists may make substitutions." Regardless of where you shop for flowers, you may notice a steeper price on bouquets because there's so much demand for a limited supply. The Fiddly Fig bumped its prices up by about 10 percent, but that still doesn't cover the true costs. "It has gone up a little more for us, but we're always in the market for making people happy, so we're doing our best," White said.If you order flowers before the close of business on Thursday, consider selecting delivery for Friday instead of the weekend, as White said that will take a bit of pressure off your local florist. —... https://www.kshb.com/news/coronavirus/pandemic-impacts-flower-supplies-ahead-of-mothers-day

Local florists find ways to adapt, overcome as pandemic stretches busiest season - The Independent

Peg opened the business in 1979.And right now, she really misses that second family.For the past two months, Shea and florists like her have had to transform their way of thinking as, much like every part of the hospitality industry in Southern Rhode Island, the coronavirus pandemic has closed all floral shops to in-person sales.It might not seem like a major barrier to customer service in 2020 but with most of Shea’s clients coming through her doors as unplanned walk-ins — and with big floral events all canceled for the foreseeable future — it’s a disruption that will likely have a wide and long-lasting impact on the floral business, particularly in tourist-heavy South County.“It’s definitely changed the dynamic of our industry,” Shea said this week. “Never have I seen it like this. Ever. But it’s making us be more creative. We have to learn to be more descriptive when we speak to our customers over the phone. We’ve had to learn how to speak colors, speak vibrant colors instead of just saying something like ‘Oh yeah, I’ve got orange and yellow.’ It’s helping us to learn how to communicate better.”She is not alone.Ten miles south from Bert & Peg’s Tower Hill Road location in North Kingstown, Joy Rich works in her office at Flowerthyme in Wakefield fielding the same types of phone calls on a daily basis and doing her best to stay positive as she guides older customers through her freshly-updated website for online ordering and curbside pickup.But finding the silver lining is all in a day’s work for Rich, who says while things are tough now, they were a lot more difficult at the start of the pandemic. She points to the early days of shutdowns as the hardest as many of the region’s top suppliers – like Fall River Florist, Bay State Florist Supply Inc., RJ Ca... https://www.independentri.com/arts_and_living/article_83d8d81a-9007-11ea-9059-d38083c995f3.html

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