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Reviews of Scarsella's Florist

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Clifford Sent on 06/13/2018
5 out of 5 rating
They nailed our wedding flowers. Within a few minutes of speaking with us, they completely understood our muted taste and made everything beautiful.
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Nancy Sent on 01/16/2018
5 out of 5 rating
Philp made my dream & vision come true. I have no words to express how happy I was with the flowers,the candles & tablecloths. It was magical
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Samantha Sent on 07/03/2016
5 out of 5 rating
Scarsella's was the florist for my wedding on June 11th and they were remarkable. My mother coordinated everything with them and they were not only willing to work within her budget, but created a beautiful atmosphere for our wedding. Our centerpieces were the most beautiful I had ever seen and different from the typical wedding centerpieces. There was a horrible storm expected to take place during our ceremony and cocktail hour, which were supposed to be outside, and after setting up everything inside, the team from Scarsella's worked incredibly hard to move everything outside once the sun came out. The team was sweating and running around, and the result was more beautiful than I could have asked for. While my friends don't usually comment on floral arrangements, many came up to me at the wedding to say how beautiful the flowers were. My mother worked closely with Carolyn for weeks who designed the most beautiful huppah of trees woven together with white flowers throughout. I cannot say enough how much my mother enjoyed working with Scarsella's, and how much we all appreciated their flexibility, patience, and most of all, kindness, to make our wedding day exactly what I had hoped it would be - and more. I highly recommend Scarsella's!
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User2476757 Sent on 12/21/2015
5 out of 5 rating
Scarsella made my winter wedding vision come to life. Our wedding took place through multiple rooms and the Scarsella team made sure the look and feel was cohesive throughout the evening.
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Nicole Sent on 07/07/2015
5 out of 5 rating
Carolyn is an artist and a sweetheart. She is the BEST florist you'll find anywhere: Super-caring, invested, creative and fun, she will take whatever vision you have for your event and make it real. Scarsella's is a total gem.
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Lisa Sent on 07/24/2014
5 out of 5 rating
Carolyn at Scarsella's *made* my wedding day. The whole process leading up to the wedding I felt like I was in great hands. She listened to my vision and kept assuring me she knew exactly what I wanted. The day of I was blown away. It was my vision and much much more. Carolyn took my ideas and tweaked and perfected them and created a fairy-tale setting for my wedding. I have received nonstop compliments about my wedding flowers. Seeing what Carolyn created was one of the best moments of my wedding day!
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Erin Sent on 09/14/2011
5 out of 5 rating
Scarsella's made our wedding!! Carolyn is such a visionary, she knows what you want more than you know what you want! She listens, she gets your path and your ideas and she takes it to the next level. I couldnt say enough good things about them!!! My mother in law also has used them for her own wedding as well as small events. I would not only recommend scarsella's but I absolutely incist that they are the ONLY ones anyone should use!
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Lindsay Sent on 08/18/2011
5 out of 5 rating
The minute you walk in, you get an immediate sense of the creativity that they put into their work. They flowers were fresh, they were extremely accommodating, and Carolyn even helped my mom with surprising me for my bridal shower! They were just so pleasant to work with and I would recommend them to everyone.
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Nick Sent on 12/07/2024
1.6 out of 5 rating

Would not recommend ever.

My experience with Scarsella had been a headache for nearly the entire experience. From booking, everything was fine, however, Phillip requested I reach out to him in March of ‘24 to do samples and discuss further details of our wedding, when I reached out it took nearly 2 months for him to get back to me. I called and texted and would get a response maybe 20% of the time, to which he’d say “tomorrow I’ll get back to you”, and he wouldn’t. I finally got through to him after saying I was concerned (rightfully so) and instead of apologizing he was arguing with me about how busy he is - meanwhile I’m an international corporate event planner with budgets of millions of dollars, and I wasn’t too busy to make time for him, which always happened to be in the middle of the work day.

I was 6 months out from our wedding at this point so finding another florist wasn’t an option.

We did our final meeting and discussed certain line items at length, to which I felt confident that he would get the job done correctly, I was wrong.

There were a multitude of things that were don’t incorrectly day of, my Father in Law wasn’t given a boutonnière even tho I made a point of it to tell him to make sure he had one at our final meeting.

My bridesmaids bouquets were wrong, they were full babies breath, which I had a full conversation with him about that they shouldn’t be only babies breath.

My 3x sisters and 1x SIL were meant to have plussed up bouquets, they didn’t.

My bouquet was smaller than the sample size, I asked if it would be larger and he indicated it would be and it was in fact smaller and didn’t have any babies breath at all when I had actually requested more.

The aisle was done incorrectly, the men’s boutonnière were meant to be on cards to stick in their pockets, they were pinned on. (This we discussed at length as well)

He added random vases at the end of the aisle, which I said I don’t like the look of vases stationed at the end of the aisle (and they were beach themed, which didn’t go with our wedding) and I had to have them removed.

He didn’t even deliver my personals, I didn’t see him once the entire day, this is an important part of the story.

We purchased a mirror, which I had commissioned a friend to paint a message on, and 2x large clamshell pots in which florals were placed in. When all was said and done - these 3 items went missing. It took us nearly 2 months, and 3 people reaching out to Phillip and his team to finally learn that they had these items. I only received 1 text message back from Phillip for the 6 that I sent him, received 0 phone call returns for the multiple times the 3 of us reached out. I finally lost my patience when I called the shop and asked them to look in the back right that moment after they went on an on about how busy they are - because apparently they’re the only people on the planet earth that are working & busy. FINALLY they located our items. It’s also worth noting that these items totaled $600 dollars and if we didn’t force them to pay attention to us, I don’t believe they would have returned them.

My husband went to pick them up the next day, and guess what - the messaging had been removed from our mirror. This indicates to me that he either used it in another wedding or planned to. My husband asked the shop to tell Philip to call him immediately. He did not.

My husband finally grew impatient after a week and called him himself. On this phone call Philip didn’t apologize, instead he made excuses of why the messaging was removed “there was water in the van, the wrapping took it off” both my husband and I work in events, and we both know that wouldn’t remove the messaging. Then he said “most people don’t care to have the messaging on it still”, which isn’t his decision to make as it had sentimental value to us that we won’t be getting back.

To take things a step further, the man was trying to manipulate the situation and tell my husband “your wife wasn’t smiling the whole morning of your wedding, I saw one of her bridesmaids tell her to smile before she walked down the aisle. I was standing in front of her and she didn’t even acknowledge me. Neither of you came to find me to say hello”

First off - who tells a newly married man that his wife wasn’t smiling on the day of their wedding. Secondly, this couldn’t have been further from the truth. Hair, makeup and my coordinator told me I was the chillest bride they had ever met and I had a smile on my face nearly the entire day, which I shouldn’t have to even explain myself about. We also hired 2x coordinators (who were amazing by the way eventful days you should hire them !!!!!) so we wouldn’t have to deal with anything with vendors, so it’s not unusual we wouldn’t have been seeking him out. Also, he never delivered our personals so when would I have seen him? The officiant before the ceremony even made a comment to me saying “your florist is such a miserable man”. So I highly doubt that I was the problem in this situation.

I would never in a million years suggest this florist to other people. He tried to take my happiness away from me post wedding and talk horribly about me to my new husband. Absolutely disgusting behavior.
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