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A Flower Shop Reinvented to Reopen - The New York Times

Elizabeth Wardman opened Wisteria Rockridge in 2015, specializing in custom arrangements. She’s had to pivot to premade bouquets at the moment.Credit...Kelsey McClellan for The New York TimesShe tried anyway. When the store opened on Mother’s Day, Ms. Wardman did her best to nod to the county’s rules — or not completely flout them. The metal rolling gate out front was still down, and the veranda, usually overflowing with a colorful assortment of seasonal blooms, was empty. The store was selling premade arrangements, not its hallmark custom bouquets. Customers were not allowed inside. A wooden bench blocked the doorway. For a day, at least, she ran an open-air business.“I keep thinking I’ll get through this, and then I’ll think about how I’m going to approach the next step. Then the rules change, and so I have to make another adjustment,” she said. “It’s a very confusing time.”Wisteria, like other San Francisco Bay Area businesses deemed nonessential, had to close its doors when Alameda County, which stretches along the east side of the bay, and six other counties imposed shelter-in-p... https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/12/business/coronavirus-small-business-california-reopening.html

I’m a New York bride who had to cancel her wedding 6 days before it was supposed to happen. We’ve rescheduled, but the financial and emotional stress hasn’t gone away. - Business Insider

Jaclyn Regan of Staten Island, New York is one such bride: Her New Jersey wedding was canceled six days before it was supposed to happen in March. The cancellation has been emotionally and financially difficult for Regan and her fiancé, Angelo Fallacaro: They lost around $3,000 and are left with now useless, date-specific decor, from champagne flutes to personalized T-shirts. The couple has rescheduled their big day – and Regan says that compared to how others are suffering right now, they know their problems are small. Visit Business Insider’s homepage for more stories. On March 14, one week before our wedding, a manager from the catering hall where we were about to be married called and asked how we felt about postponing. At the time, the threat of the coronavirus was still very new, so while the outbreak was on my mind, it really hadn’t been a major concern. We live in Staten Island, where at the time only one case had been confirmed. It was still too early to grasp just how devastating this virus was going to be. So we sat down with our families, talked ove... https://www.businessinsider.sg/new-york-bride-postponed-wedding-due-to-coronavirus-2020-5

10 Florists Delivering Vibrant Bouquets for Mother’s Day - The New York Times

Fox Fodder Farm.Credit...Nicole FranzenA bouquet of seasonal spring blooms including daffodils, hyacinths and scented geraniums.Credit...Nicole FranzenFox Fodder Farm, New York, N.Y.In March, as businesses in New York began to close, Taylor Patterson, the founder of the Brooklyn-based floral design studio Fox Fodder Farm, which specializes in textural, naturalistic compositions of mostly locally sourced blooms, was sent a photo of one of her arrang... https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/02/t-magazine/mothers-day-flowers-delivery.html

A floral designer is beautifying the streets of New York with elaborate displays for health care workers - CNN

Lewis Miller Design, has long transformed the city's most grittiest spots into giant flower displays. He calls them "flower flashes." Miller said he just wanted to express his creativity and make New Yorkers smile. In recent weeks, however, he knew that these flower flashes could mean something more -- a tribute to those on the front lines."With the city being so desolate and people being stuck inside, and it being a cold, dismal spring, we needed hope," the 45-year-old designer told CNN. "Doing it for the health care workers was a no-brainer because they're the ones that are out there doing the deed while the rest of us are sequestered inside." For his latest flash, Miller and his team set out to the New York-Presbyterian Hospital on Monday and wrapped flowers in various shades of pink around a lamp post that stood outside the hospital. People admired it as they walked by, but even more appreciated it on Miller's Instagram. "New Jersey hospital worker here and I appreciate your commitment to making the city a more beautiful place," one person commented on Miller's post, which has over 17,000 likes. Like the rest of their flower flashes, Miller and his team didn't ask for permission so they were told by hospital security to take it down just 30 minutes after finishing their masterpiece. But the team quickly pivoted their plan to convert the flowers into bud vases and loose flowers to give out to the nurses, doctors and other health care workers passi... https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/24/us/new-york-flower-flash-displays-lewis-miller-coronavirus-trnd/index.html