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    Sarah G. Sent on 10/25/2023
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    Highly Recommend!!

    Susan was absolutely fantastic! Very knowledgeable, talented, professional, and easy to work with. We spoke on the phone, I explained what I wanted and she totally nailed it. She brought my vision to life in such a beautiful way! We were on a tight budget and Susan was willing to work with us, and we ended up with the most beautiful outcome. She was very kind and truly has her customers best interest at heart. Highly Recommend!
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    Angela J. Sent on 08/13/2022
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    Gorgeous Flowers!

    Susan and her team did an awesome job with our flowers! She fulfilled my vision to a T and was very receptive to feedback, even a couple of weeks before. The flowers were even more beautiful than I expected and I LOVED the hex arch that we went with. Thank you!
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    Brooke D. Sent on 11/06/2021
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    Most beautiful arrangements!

    Susan really made our day so special with all her flower arrangements for our big day. We had flowers on the wedding arch, on our welcome sign, on all our guest tables, and the wedding party table. She really took our inspiration and ran with it in such a magical way. All the arrangements were full of color and life, and we wanted to keep everything when it was over. Thank you so much again, Susan!
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    Alena B. Sent on 08/27/2021
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    Gorgeous wildflowers!

    Sweet Lilacs provided the woodsy A-frame arches and wildflowers of my dreams! My bridesmaids loved their bouquets, groomsmen loved their boutonnières, and the arrangements were so colorful & creative - just what we wanted. Thank you, Sweet Lilacs!
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    Rosie S. Sent on 08/10/2020
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    The perfect florist

    Thank you Susan and team for the amazing attention to detail for my daughter’s intimate ceremony. It was a perfect day with perfect vendors. I would highly recommend Susan! My daughter and her fiancé choose to cancel their November wedding due the uncertainty of Covid and decided to do a small/intimate ceremony with family. I’m so grateful that Susan made sure that the florals were perfect! We have hired Sweet Lilacs for two family weddings and we would always choose Susan for all of our events!
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    Samantha A. Sent on 07/19/2021
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    Florals for wedding weekend

    Susan did the most incredible job on the flowers at my wedding last week up in Pinecrest, CA. Her work on the arch and surrounding stage was truly stunning --- and perfectly blended with the crane installation I had made. She found some of the most unique and striking flowers I have ever seen, all within the color palette I requested. It took my breath away to see it all come together.

    She also made my disco nature dreams come true with her decorations of the cables and disco balls in the tent.

    Susan is creative and tasteful. I had so much fun working with her and discussing different ideas over the phone. I couldn't recommend her more.
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    Christina J. Sent on 03/16/2020
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    Gorgeous flowers

    Susan did a fabulous job with the flowers for our wedding. We decided to add an arch with flowers for our ceremony since we were having it indoors and I'm so glad we did! I sent Susan some pictures of what I liked and told her our colors (shades of purple), and she ran with it. I was especially excited to see so many beautiful hydrangeas! We got so many complements on the flowers, especially the ceremony arch. We would definitely recommend Susan and Sweet Lilacs!

    Sweet Lilacs's reply:

    Thank you for this sweet review!! We truly enjoyed designing your wedding flowers and the color scheme made us so happy!! Best wishes to you.
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    Micaela N. Sent on 11/12/2019
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    Tremendously Talented and Sweet Florist

    Susan at Sweet Lilacs is so talented, sweet and easy to work with! I had a couple of calls with her and shared some inspiration pictures of what I wanted, and she totally got it. She executed to perfection, even when one of the main flowers I wanted (dahlias) were destroyed in wind and wildfires. She found substitute flowers that achieved the same look, and I was extremely happy with the flowers for my bouquet, the arch, and at the reception. I got numerous compliments at the wedding about the flowers! I highly recommend Sweet Lilacs!
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    Monica B. Sent on 09/23/2019
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    Beyond our expectations

    From our very first phone call with Susan we knew that she was the perfect florist. I know nothing of flowers and I thought that explaining my vision would be almost impossible...but not with Susan. She captured what I had in mind and more. She met with us at our venue, mapped out everything, and we were so beyond amazed. So professional, friendly, and an expert in her field. I highly recommend anyone to use Sweet Lilacs!
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    Rianna Sent on 07/25/2019
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    Beautiful flowers

    Let me just say that Susan is the sweetest woman and so easy to talk to about your vision. I spent quite a bit of time over the phone with her throughout the planning process, whether it was brainstorming with her and telling her what we wanted/liked, or changing numbers for centerpieces and flowers. We absolutely loved the flowers for our wedding - they were everything we could have asked for and more. I will always cherish the flowers we saved and photos from our wedding day with the beautiful flowers captured. I cannot recommend Sweet Lilacs enough for beautiful flowers for your wedding day. Thank you so much Susan!
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    Mandy B. Sent on 06/28/2019
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    Wonderful florist

    We had the absolute pleasure of having Sweet Lilac as our florist for our wedding on June 1st at Venticello. The owner Susan is so creative in her designs. She has an eye for detail. I showed her pictures of what I envisioned and she replicated the bouquets and table arrangements perfectly. She also put together the most gorgeous circular archway for our ceremony which was stunning. We received so many compliments on the succulents and greenery that covered this large venue. Susan and her staff are wonderful to work with. Coming from the Bay Area, Susan has extensive experience with high end weddings but is able to provide an affordable rate to her clients. We could not have picked a professional, caring florist for our special day. Sweet lilac, thank you for everything!

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    Thank you so very much Mandy! I absolutely loved working with you. Your look and style was so upscale, sophisticated and understated, with just a little touch of gold accent. Thank you so very much in choosing to work with us. Your look and style is quite unique for our area and it was our absolute pleasure to help design your wedding. Congratulations!!!
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    Danae S. Sent on 03/04/2019
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    The florist

    They did better than I could have imagined. We just spoke on the phone and she made my dreams come to life! They set everything up for us! They had such wonderful customer service and GORGEOUS flowers!
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    Alexa Sent on 09/17/2018
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    Susan made our wedding a dream!!
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    Angela Sent on 11/03/2018
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    Highly recommend

    Susan was awesome - kind, easy going, and so talented. She took our few / vague ideas and ran with them. Above and beyond what we expected! I would absolutely recommend her to anyone.
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    Morgan Sent on 10/10/2018
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    Working with Susan and her team was so easy and stress free. I called and told Susan that I did not really have a preference on flowers and she asked my colors and described a little of what she was envisioning and I trusted her along the way!! Come the day of the wedding when I got our flowers and saw the walkway vases I was in love. She created exactly what I pictured without me even helping her. I cannot thank her and her team enough for making our day so beautiful. Thank you, Morgan and Andrew, August 4, 2018
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    Rebekah Sent on 06/25/2018
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    Susan was absolutely amazing to work with and our flowers were more beautiful than I could have dreamed. I contacted Susan in mid-April for our early June wedding, frantic because my original plan for flowers had fallen through. She calmed me down and managed to squeeze our wedding into her schedule. We wanted unmanicured, wild flower arrangements and garlands for our outdoor, woodsy wedding and Susan more than delivered. I sent her a few inspiration pictures and what she delivered on our wedding day was better than anything I could have hoped for. When I walked into our reception I was blown away by the work she had done. Susan was also a joy to work with on a personal level and I couldn’t recommend her more.
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    Lacy Sent on 05/23/2018
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    Susan is amazing! I gave her a few details and ideas and let her run with it. She did and absolutely phenomenal job! I walked into my reception venue after she had been there and I was speechless! It looked better than I dreamed of! Not only is she amazing at her job she is so great to work with. She is nice and one of the happiest people I have ever met. I felt like she was just excited about my wedding as I was! She was easy to communicate with. She asked questions and requested pictures of different design pieces we had to make sure she was prepared. She set up and decorated the whole venue. She also brought extra and went around the venue and decorated signs and any spaces that seemed like they needed a little extra floral pop. I am so glad I trusted her to do what she wanted! It was amazing and I could not have asked for more!
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    Rachael Sent on 11/03/2017
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    Susan from Sweet Lilacs Studio provided the most beautiful and breathtaking flowers for my Yosemite wedding at the Majestic Hotel. Susan was very responsive, easy to talk to, and really understood my vision of what kind of flowers and decorations I wanted for my wedding. Our bouquets and boutonnieres were delivered on time directly to our room, while they set up the arch and reception table pieces. The flowers looked fresh and exquisitely presented. I cannot thank you enough Susan for bringing our bohemian, forest wedding to fruition.
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    Charlotte Sent on 08/07/2017
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    Susan is an absolute dream. We planned our wedding at Black Bear Inn in Arnold CA from across the country and she made it just the greatest experience. She is every bride's DREAM to work with. We planned our wedding with her 100% over the phone, and the vision changed from the beginning to the actual event quite a bit. She was always more than happy to change the vision at the drop of a hat all the way up to the day we had to give her our final choices to actually order the flowers, and not once did she make me feel guilty or bride-zilla-y, which happened to me more than I expected with some vendors. Susan is just so bubbly and wonderful. Every time we talked on the phone, she was 100% focused and present. I think our shortest phone conversation was like 45 minutes because she's just so fun to brainstorm and work with. We often went back and forth giving each other different flowers and things to google until we got exactly what we were both trying to say. In the last 3 weeks, she was even able to connect us with one of her employees who hand wrote all of our place cards with a gold pen on oyster shells AND made us this amazing giant photo backdrop that was personalized, and then covered with flowers.

    On the day of the wedding, Susan and a crew rolled in and set everything up by hand from buckets. I never thought I'd be fancy enough for that kind of service! she brought and set out so many extra flowers that when I was sneaking around the back of the inn to avoid the guests before the wedding, I got really upset because there were buckets full of flowers and I thought she was super behind, but they just came to the day of INCREDIBLY prepared!!

    I did not intend to spend hardly any money on flowers, but somehow our wedding was absolutely covered from head to toe, and it was so beautiful.

    If you're getting married in Calaveras County or Sonora County and you can afford Susan, you're absolutely CRAZY to not use her.

    An absolute DREAM DREAM DREAM!!!
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    Kyle Sent on 04/25/2017
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    I cannot say enough about Sweet Lilac! ABOVE AND BEYOND what we expected. They had great ideas, met every expectation and did an amazing job. We ask for "a few flowers sprinkled in on the mantle" and they made the mantle look amazing! Everything else looked amazing. They will be the first person I call next time I need a florist.
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    Karina Sent on 04/25/2017
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    I am so pleased with the florals that Susan provided for my wedding on 4/23/17 at Big Trees State Park! Not only were they absolutely beautiful, but she delivered and set them up before I arrived at the reception in a timely manner. It was the most magical surprise to walk into the venue and see all of her beautiful garlands everywhere! I kept all of the bouquets, garlands, and flower crown and draped them around my house so I can bask in the wonderful aroma for days after the wedding. Nothing but happy things to say about Sweet Lilacs!
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    Karlie Sent on 12/06/2016
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    There truly aren't enough great things I can say about Susan and her team!
    I'm not the bride that dreamt of her wedding day so when the time came to spend money on flowers I wasn't too happy about it. However, I contacted Susan and said "these are our colors this is my theme-you are the expert. If there is something you've been dying to do again or even try..our wedding is the one" there's something about giving someone with artistic abilities the ability to let themselves open up and have free reign. We can not express exactly how perfectly her ceremony space, center pieces, and sweetheart table decor tied in so perfectly with our theme. You MUST book sweet lilacs to do your floral for your wedding. Hands down. Thank you Susan for so gracefully tying together all the loose strings and completing our wedding look! It was. Breath taking!
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    Keralyn Sent on 06/29/2016
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    What a pleasure to work with Susan and her staff! They are talented, organized, and very accommodating. Our wedding had several glitches early on and after talking with Susan it was clear that we were in very qualified hands. She listened to my vision and I told her to run with it... what a beautiful turnout!! All of the flowers were simply stunning. :) Thanks Susan!
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    Described Our Desired and She Executed Nicely

    Susan did a great job with the flowers at our wedding. They looked great and matched the precedent images we provided. Susan provided great advice as to what was in season so we could get the best value.

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    Thank you so much for the wonderful review
    and posting photos of Emily’s beautiful bouquet. Best wishes to both you Tim and Emily!!!!
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    Annie Sent on 10/31/2023
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    Ghosted us with 90 days left

    After multiple planning phone calls, we asked Susan repeatedly to send a contact to lock in our wedding date and she always said she’d get to it right away. We had over 33 emails exchanged, inspiration boards shared, 3 or more phone calls, but no contract. Then, 90 days before our wedding, Susan completely fell of the map leaving us scrambling to find a more reliable florist. It was chaotic and overwhelming and completely unnecessary. I don’t recommend her services at all.
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