We are delighted to have been awarded the “Wedding Wire” Brides Choice award for 2013 . Thank you to all our lovely brides that made this possible.
Meet Tiglet and Bagglins
We would like to introduce you to the newest members of the Flowers By Lesley family, Tiglet and Bagglins. They are kittens who are approximately 5 months old. How on earth did a flower shop end up with not one but two kittens you may be asking? It is not so long of a story. There are some stray cats the live around the shop and when one of them had kittens and decided she couldn’t take care of them rather than abandon them she chose to slip in the door and drop them off. Well, we have never been able to turn away an animal in need so it was off to Pet-co for kitten milk, cat litter, and all sorts of other supplies. We called our vet to come up with a plan of action and we had quite a few Google searches on care for infant abandoned kittens.
The plan was to get them healthy and find them a home. Sounded simple enough however, few things in life are as simple as they seem. They were quite poorly and needed a few rounds of different medications for different ailments and illnesses. There was a few times when we really were not sure if they were going to make it, they lost almost half their body weight in the last round of illness. We brought them home with us to make sure they ate and drank enough to keep up their energy. It was a very stressful and worrisome time for us and our families who like us had gotten quite attached.
Now they are nice and healthy with cute pudgy bellies, the thought of adopting them out to someone else is, well to be honest heart wrenching. After nursing them back to health and getting so deeply attached we could not bear to part with them. They may not help with centerpiece making or any wedding flowers for that matter but they are great company. They make the work day more fun they love to play in boxes and chase leaves and just love to be made a fuss of, and they love to make a fuss of us so we make quite the perfect family.
Tiglet checking out the new lamps.
Bagglins spying on Tiglet checking out the new lamps!
Its August Already!
Well its the first week of August and we will be busy with some weddings for local brides and destination weddings. The weather report has us a little worried and we are really hoping that tropical storm Emily stays off shore so the weddings this weekend won’t be forced inside.
Bobbing along at the bottom of the beautiful briny sea
We had another event with Eric Karter from Florida Event Decor, the theme was under the sea. Last time it reminded us of Back to the Future when Marty Mcfly goes back to the dance where his parents fell in love, this time we were singing songs from Bedknobs and Broomsticks when they fall in to Naboomboo Lagoon. But enough of what we tortured the other vendors with (we are florists not singers). The event was beautiful and this time we brought the real camera so we have nice pictures to post not ones from our cell phones. We hope you enjoy the pictures.
News from the shop
We had another busy weekend at the shop. We again got to work with our favorite vendors which is always fun, its nice to quickly chat while setting up tables and decorating.
On Saturday we had a wedding at the Lake Mary Events Center pictures are in the Blog Lovely words. We also got to work with Plus Catering at a wedding at the University Club in Winter Park here are a few pictures.
On Sunday we had a wedding at the Winter Park Wedding Chapel a lovely place for an intimate ceremony. (You should have a look at their facebook page) Here are a few pictures;
www.winterparkweddingchapel.com
We got to start our work week with a wedding at Cypress Grove Park working with Carrie Engler of Destination Occasions and Jim and Isabella of Creative Cuisine.
Lovely words
We do a lot of weddings but hey that’s what we specialize in. Our creative energy is put into making each couples wedding flowers exactly as they imagined them to be, to make the flowers of their dreams.When we hear from brides that we have done just that it really makes our day. We did a wedding at the Lake Mary Events Center on Saturday and when we checked our e-mail Sunday afternoon this is what we read;
Lesley,
I just wanted to thank you from the bottom of my heart! Each arrangement was flawless and exactly what I wanted. I received so many compliments and I am so lucky to have worked with you!
Thanks again
Cristina
Here is a photo of the tables at the reception.
Florida Tribal Dance Event
If you read the blog a few weeks ago you would have seen we were doing the stage set up for Florida Tribal Dances spring show “An Evening Of Tribal.” Well here is a couple of pictures of the stage we did in April.
Lacey Sanchez Director of Florida Tribal Dance
Florida Tribal Dance
Under the sea
We had another busy week last week at the flower shop. Usually our big events are on the weekends but last week we had a busy Wednesday. We went under the sea with Eric Karter and Florida Event Decor; think back to the future and the enchantment under the sea dance. Of course we didn’t have the Dolorean we had to use a delivery van, sure it would have been great for time travel but it didn’t have much storage room! Seriously though the event was a lot of fun and a great way to get over the mid week doldrums. Hopefully we will have some pictures up here soon to share with you all.
Happenings this week
We are looking forward to another busy week at the flower shop. We have weddings and events this week which means for us a variety of flowers, styles and people to work with.
We had a fun time making center pieces for Florida Event Decor. The centerpieces will be on their way to Ft Lauderdale first thing Wednesday morning with Eric Karter who enlisted us for this event.
We have several destination weddings this week for Elegant weddings, Crownline and Get Married in Florida. We always enjoy creating wedding flower designs not just because they are our specialty but because we get to be an important part of a couples special day.
This weekend we have the pleasure of working with Florida Tribal Dance. We will be providing the stage decorations for their spring show “An Evening Of Tribal”. This is an event that we look forward to every year, we get to put our talents to work decorating and then we get to enjoy a wonderful showcase of different belly dancing styles. This is an event we make sure to purchase our tickets to when we are asked to design the backdrop decorations.
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