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A New Wedding Planning Firm Brings a Big Dose of Style and Ease to Small-Scale Affairs
Weddings Known as the Mainstay Collective, a group of top local vendors is joining forces to offer dreamy elopements and intimate celebrations. Photo by Stephanie Vegliante As the coronavirus outbreak continues to cause more and more local couples to abandon their...
Flowers continue to bloom despite pandemic
Many local florists have been forced to think outside the box to keep their businesses going during the pandemic. CASSI GROVES Flowers and plants have continued to grow and bloom, forcing many florists to lose product and revenue since business crashed at the start of...
12 Great Flower Gifts That Will Brighten Up Your Summer
They may say April showers bring May flowers, but it’s more accurate to say April pandemics bring summer blooms. With the ominous deck of cards the world was dealt in early 2020, it’s time to start looking ahead to a hopefully brighter summer.Let us...
Why Netflix’s The Big Flower Fight is so much more than a Bake Off with flowers
Try to explain the premise of The Big Flower Fight to anyone and there's little doubt you'll get some raised eyebrows. That's because Netflix 's latest reality TV offering delves its viewers into a whimsical, magical world in which flowers and plants reign supreme,...
Dawn Sheets, beloved florist, baker and seamstress, died of COVID-19
Dawn Sheets at her memory care apartment in Hendricks County. Dawn Sheets never hesitated to help a friend in need.Sheets, a lifelong florist, had no formal medical training, but when her friend Maxine Hessong needed kidney dialysis treatment, Sheets taught herself...
Where I Work: Jennifer, the florist delivering bouquets around London on her bike
Jennifer is the founder of Into The Wild Florist, which usually specialises in bespoke floral arrangements for weddings, workshops, and events – all of which have been cancelled (Picture: Into The Wild Florist) How has your working life changed due to the coronavirus...
Toronto florist gets lambasted after being mistaken for another company
Tonic Blooms owner, Michael Smaye, was feeling really good about how well he pulled off Mother's Day, but soon the complaints started pouring in. "It was starting to hurt our business. We got some one-star reviews and the impact on our business is tremendous,"...
Floral Dresses to Complete Your Summer Wardrobe
Welcome to The Essentials , our weekly series highlighting a must-have classic, key to building a timeless, pulled-together closet. Floral motifs have taken a lot of heat. They're often dismissed as predictable— especially for spring— when in fact, they can be...
Florists keep busy during pandemic
Brandon Carr/MDN Niki Nygaard, the owner of Flower Central, poses in front of her floral merchandiser while holding a bouquet inside her shop. Kathey Medlin Keller of Perfect Petals in Harvey had just filled her big cooler with flowers when the COVID-19 pandemic hit...
