Just do it!
Just do it. Annie and her team truly delivered the dream.
I am in the event industry and have very high expectations and a critical eye. I had a very specific vision for the floral design for our wedding, which overall would truly bring the event from beautiful to magical. It wasn’t the typical rustic wedding or black-tie design, and what I was asking for was very specific from the types of flowers, to the filler, right down to matching a color swatch from the bridesmaids dresses. Floral Sunshine delivered on all points.
I began my floral company selection process by sourcing three vendors who I felt were the most well respected and well-known floral designers, coming with recommendations from my friends in the industry. Floral Sunshine was one of the three, specifically Annie Chen, the owner.
With each company, I went through the interview process over the phone and met with them in person, and my experience varied greatly between all three. It’s important to note that at first, I really thought they were all overpriced, but after going through each of their proposals individually, I realize that they all cost about the same, it’s just the way they draw up their quotes.
Annie spent the most time on the phone and via email, communicating in detail and via images to ensure she fully understood my vision. She really just wanted to be able to give me my dream and she worked hard to make sure she understood what that was. She always followed up in a timely manner, showing me that my business was important to her, and she fine-tuned her proposal to include options that met my budgetary needs, yet still aligned with my vision. She was careful to not over-promise and by doing this, she ended up delivering EXACTLY what I envisioned, and within my budget! My husband doesn’t really appreciate or notice flowers, but when he entered the room he was absolutely floored. His reaction was one of my very favorite parts of our wedding. It’s two weeks later and he (and his groomsmen and family) are still talking about how amazing everything looked and a huge amount of what contributed to that was the beautiful floral design; he specifically called out the beauty and fragrance of the flowers, and our guests were talking about them, too. His dad even called him up later and asked him if we were running for King & Queen, ha! They were truly a lovely and unique design. She is an artist.
Not only did she deliver just what I wanted, Floral Sunshine also executed extremely professionally and efficiently for the event. She ensured everything was on-time and as specified, she prompted me for diagrams with enough timing for me to think about it and get them to her, she asked the right questions to ensure she was prepared and I had thought through everything, and she gave great suggestions, based on her experience doing weddings, to help improve our plan. To top it all off, she even went the extra mile to help us get the floral home after the wedding. I just can’t say enough about how amazing she was.
On the one special day where everything seems so dramatically important leading up to the ceremony, and so many unexpected challenges arise, Floral Sunshine is not going to be one that challenges will arise with. They are truly event professionals and deliver on all of their promises. With all of the chaos of the wedding day, I am just so very thankful that I could count on her and her team to handle everything that they did. I can’t say the same for all of our vendors.
My advice, if you’re planning on doing the table décor yourself, just don’t. Pay Floral Sunshine to do it for you. The floral is obvious, but they’ll handle the candles, accents, etc. if you order them from them as well. All you need to do is provide them your vision and they will make sure it happens the way you want it, and you can relax and enjoy your day knowing everything you worked so hard planning and buying is going to actually be put to use for the enjoyment of you and your guests.
Stop calling around, just give them your money. You won’t regret it.