It's been a while.
In fact, for many of you that might stumble onto this page, you may not even know that I started flowering weddings about 16 years ago and that my online presence was a blog! It was the only way that floral designers like me were getting our work out into the world. Well, that and a photo album with pictures printed and stuffed into plastic sleeves that I’d carry to consultations. This was before photography-focused websites were an option and Instagram wasn’t even a thought yet. Goodness, you’d think I’m 65 years old from the way it sounds, but truly, so much has changed in just 10-15 years in the wedding industry.
The business side of floristry has never been my strong suit, so that topic will most likely NOT come up very often here. I know enough to get by and then try to “hire to my weaknesses,” which means that there is someone working on a new website design right now while I write and do my creative part. What you WILL see and read about will be weddings and events that I’ve had the privilege to flower, thoughts on working in the wedding industry, maybe the occasional family life post because that is my life, and a little bit about owning and running a coffee shop with my husband, Lee. There will be an effort towards transparency and honesty. I will show you pictures of the weddings I’ve worked on, but you will also get an inside look at how the job went, the struggles, the victories, and the relationships involved.
This job is almost always an adventure. I went into labor with our second child while making bouquets for a wedding in my kitchen. Then after delivering said child I was on the phone with my sister from the hospital bed telling her how to switch a shoulder corsage to a wrist corsage. There’s a picture somewhere of me on a ladder with a large pregnant belly working on an arbor, and in the first 10 years of flowering weddings, I worked out of our tiny kitchen after the kids went to bed, sometimes working until 3-4am in the morning. Yes, that’s crazy, and no, I wouldn’t take it back. I take that back. I would do some things differently, but I wouldn’t change the struggle, because that how good change happens. These are the memories and stories of a business built with a family, how God provided for us in some stressful times, of creativity and relationships, and how it has changed and morphed into what it is today.
Welcome to my new blog that I’m calling a journal because that’s what’s cool now.
With all my love,
Melissa