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Choosing your Wedding Flowers to Complement your Venue

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If anyone has ever planned a wedding before or helped plan a wedding, you would know that there’s always some sort of vibe, theme or feeling that the couple wants to achieve. As a wedding designer, I often meet couples who are still in the process of establishing the overall look and feel of their wedding, yet torn as to which direction to head in with their flowers. With so many inspirations available these days (Pinterest, Instagram, Google, etc.), it’s easy to get overwhelmed with ideas and want to do a little bit of everything. My advice to couples is to start with the venue! Your venue will automatically set the tone. Your job (and our job) is to then complement the space with your décor.
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Wedding Wire Couples’ Choice Awards 2016

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Wedding Wire Couples' Choice Award Badge - 2016

For the third year running, we are proud recipients of Wedding Wire’s Couples’ Choice Awards! This means so much to us. Only the “top five percent of wedding professionals within the WeddingWire Network who demonstrate excellence in quality, service, responsiveness and professionalism,” receive this badge. Warmest thanks to every bride who took the time this year to write a review.

Read all of our wedding reviews on our Bride & Blossom Storefront on WeddingWire.

Whimsical Winter Vow Renewal

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What could be more romantic than a wedding? This vintage-inspired vow renewal ceremony, designed by Dee Kay Events at Octavia & Brown Studio, will affirm your belief that love lasts long beyond the honeymoon phase. Mary and Eric celebrated their fifth wedding anniversary with a ceremony designed to honor everything they have gone through as a couple, and the strength of their still-deepening love.

Alisa Tongg led the couple in a hand fast, an ancient ritual that has been making a comeback in contemporary weddings.

Long ago, the exchanging of rings was only possible for the very rich. Ordinary people would pledge themselves to each other, often in a field, and symbolically have their hands fasted together with a piece of ribbon, cord or cloth. The phrases ‘tying the knot’ and ‘bond of matrimony’ are thought to stem from this practice. Alissa Tongg via Dee Kay Events

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Cornell Business Review Interviews Rachel Trimarco

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Cornell Business Review featured an interview with our founder and CEO, Rachel Trimarco, this month. Rachel speaks about the importance of web-based marketing and how the floral design and wedding industries have changed in the past few years.

Social media has really revolutionized the wedding planning industry and the floral industry as well because my brides share images. We get tagged, photographers tag us, we tag photographers. We have everything in our Instagram and Pinterest feed… The whole industry changed about three years into me starting my business which was right at the time when I was ready to start taking it to the next level.

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About Town & In the Press

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Glam, deco-inspired floral arrangements for one of our favorite wedding industry events of the year, a romantic chuppah for a Jewish wedding photographed by Sarah Tew, and our wedding-flower tips for allergy sufferers. Today we’re sharing our latest press clips. Click through for the full articles and more photos!

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The Best (and Worst) Wedding Flowers for Brides with Allergies
Achoo! If that’s you the minute spring is in the air, then wedding flowers may be a major concern. We sat down with Rachel Trimarco of Bride & Blossom in New York City to get her picks for which flowers you should embrace (and which to avoid) to help you breathe easier on your wedding day.  Martha Stewart Weddings

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Repeat Roses and the Hudson Guild

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An email from our friend Jennifer at Repeat Roses just made our week!

Great news! Your flowers have been collected, repurposed and delivered to share a little happiness in the world. Your beautiful donated flowers were delivered on Wednesday December 9, 2015 to brighten the day for many at the Hudson Guild community center in Chelsea.

We think it’s chic to share with the Hudson Guild because:
This organization provides everything from housing for formerly homeless seniors to hot meals for those in economic need. Formed in 1897, they continue to provide care and comfort to the community by serving over 14,000 individuals annually, including 8,000 mental health counseling sessions. Your flowers will make a bright and cheerful difference this week!

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