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Florist gets cold feet weeks before a bride's wedding - WOWT

OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) -- A bride-to-be in Omaha thought she had everything ready for the big day, but her excitement wilted away when one vendor failed to come through. Not long after her engagement, Kamber Durham gave Toujours Wedding Planning a $230 deposit. “You don’t have a wedding without the flowers,” said Durham. She needed eight bridesmaid’s bouquets, 19 boutonnieres, seven corsages, and her own bouquet. “I was in sheer panic. I was 44 days out from my wedding and had no florals, absolutely nothing,” said Durham. Just a few weeks from I do’s she found another florist who did fill the order, but Kamper needs a refund from Toujors to help pay for it. “It’s not about the money it’s about the principle. I can’t operate my business doing that to customers,”... https://www.wowt.com/content/news/Florist-gets-cold-feet-weeks-before-a-brides-wedding--562569431.html

Four Floral Businesses To Receive The Century Award In Palm Springs

The 2018 Century Award honorees are: City Line Florist in Trumbull, Connecticut; Gould's Flowers in Lockport, New York; Janousek Florist & Greenhouse, Inc. in Omaha, Nebraska; and Lake Forest Flowers in Lake Forest, Illinois. "Each year when we gather at the SAF convention, we interact with business owners who have determination, vision and grit," said SAF Awards Committee Chairman Marvin Miller, Ph.D., AAF, of the Ball Horticultural Company in West Chicago, Illinois. "But to sustain that for 100 years or more is truly an impressive feat." City Line Florist Trumbull, Connecticut City Line Florist has been owned and operated by the Roehrich/Palazzo family since 1918. When Charles Roehrich returned home from World War I, he already had a family history in the floral industry; his grandfather had grown plants in greenhouses in Stratford, Connecticut, in the late 1800s. Charles borrowed a horse and wagon and sold flowering plants and cut flowers at the entrance of St. Michaels cemetery in Stratford, eventually opening up a storefront in Bridgeport, which sat on the city line of Stratford, leading to the name, City Line Florist. In 1975, Charles' son Bob and his grandchildren, Susan and Carl, decided to move to a new location in Trumbull, where they turned an old horse barn into a charming new florist shop. Bob received the Connecticut Florist of the Year Award in 2005. City Line, located in a quaint New England town of 30,000 people,  has been voted "Best Florist in Fairfield County" for several consecutive years and won the 2... http://www.perishablenews.com/index.php?article=0069973

Florists face Mother's Day coronavirus quarantine challenges - Yahoo Finance

Florists are doing their best to keep business from wilting during the pandemic." data-reactid="17" Florists are doing their best to keep business from wilting during the pandemic.Flower shops across the country face challenges ahead of Mother’s Day -- one of their busiest holidays of the year -- with limited access to fresh flowers as wholesale growers operate on a smaller scale. Some are providing contactless delivery, but it’s still not making up for lost revenue as a result of nationwide nonessential business closures." data-reactid="18" Flower shops across the country face challenges ahead of Mother’s Day -- one of their busiest holidays of the year -- with limited access to fresh flowers as wholesale growers operate on a smaller scale. Some are providing contactless delivery, but it’s still not making up for lost revenue as a result of nationwide nonessential business closures.That’s been the challenge for Beck’s, a family-owned florist and garden shop in Jackson, Mich. Last year... https://finance.yahoo.com/news/florists-face-mothers-day-coronavirus-195151555.html

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

Pay it forward with these beautiful bouquets - WTVD-TV

Stella Grey Blooms in Chicago's North Center neighborhood is selling Pay It Forward flowers.Owner Sally Hayes said the inspiration for the idea came from a fellow florist who lives in Miami."You send somebody flowers and you don't say who it's from," Hayes said. You write things like 'I hope these make your day' or ' I hope they brighten your day' and at the end, you just say 'Pay it forward.'"All of the bouquets are sanitized and hand-delivered."A lot of times I get a call of people asking who sent me this," Hayes said. "I say 'I can't tell', it's the whole process of it, it gets people reaching out to their friends and it sort of escalates from that."For more information about the Pay It Forward bouquets, visit Stella Grey Blooms' website. https://abc11.com/localish/pay-it-forward-with-these-beautiful-bouquets/6135376/

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

Saanich florist holds her ground in fight for roadside farm stands - vancouverislandfreedaily.com

Colleen O’Farrell never expected her flower stand to lead to a battle with Saanich council and a storm of media attention.The florist has operated Foxglove Flowers for several years but the COVID-19 pandemic has led to many celebrations that typically include flowers being cancelled. In an effort to repurpose her flowers, she opened a farm cart in her front yard in mid-March.However, Saanich bylaws don’t permit roadside farm carts in the Urban Containment Boundary (UCB) and on April 22, bylaw officers stopped by to give O’Farrell 30 days to shut down her stand.For O’Farrell – a self-proclaimed “behind the scenes person,” – going up against the municipality has been “an intense lesson in local politics.”She never set out to break the rules or cause problems – she simply wanted to keep making floral arrangements and bring colour to people’s lives. “I was literally trying to give flowers and smiles away,” before the stand grew into a revenue stream, O’Farrell explained. While her focus is typically on helping people celebrate big events, she’s shifted to the smaller moments that can still be celebrated such as a... https://www.vancouverislandfreedaily.com/news/saanich-florist-holds-her-ground-in-fight-for-roadside-farm-stands/

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