A wonderful, collaborative experince - Ann is a dream to work with!
Our experience working with Ann Manby was absolutely wonderful. We came to her with an unusual set of requests - we asked her to help us select and source our wedding flowers, but we wanted the experience of arranging the flowers ourselves into the 100+ antique glass vases we’d collected, one-by-one, in the year leading up to our wedding.
When we first met with Ann, our only directive was that we wanted lots of bright, mismatched (though harmonious) colors and varieties. After a handful of phone meetings and emails (with Ann in Livingston Manor and us in Brooklyn), we ended up with an amazing lineup of colorful, whimsical flowers, which Ann sourced in bundles and brought to our venue the day before the wedding. Not only did she do an incredible job of selecting a range of stems that, though mismatched, lived in perfect concert with one another, she loved and encouraged our idea to arrange them ourselves. In fact, she even brought us clippers and gave us some much needed arranging pointers before leaving us to it. And when we found ourselves with extra vases at the end of the day, Ann cheerfully returned with additional material so we could fill every last one.
Though we did the table vases ourselves, Ann took care of the absolutely gorgeous bouquet (which every guest commented on as the most joyful bridal bouquet they’d ever seen) as well as the boutonnieres for all of the men, all of which she dropped off the morning of the wedding. Throughout the process, she was a calm, easy-going presence, and we trusted her completely. She so perfect translated our wedding vision - simple, colorful, elegant, and friendly all at once - into a flower collection. (And there was the added bonus of supporting a local business in the Catskill community!)
We loved working with Ann and Sugar Blossom Flowers, and can’t recommend the experience highly enough!