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Recommend your florist please
So as you might (or might not) know my sister is planning her wedding right now and she's looking for a florist. I figured who better to ask than my NY nesties! So can anyone recommend a florist in Brooklyn, Queens, or LI? Preferably not too expensive as my sister and her FI are on a budget. TIA!!
Re: Recommend your florist please
I used a florist in Rego Park and he was fantastic with his end result and his price. But he scared the snot out of me as we went through the process. I didn't ask for a lot, and maybe that was part of why is was so scary. I didn't ask for test bouquets or sample centerpieces, etc, so I was kind of in his hands.
He was recommended in the budget wedding bio put together by nsgrahm. I can't locate that bio now, but it was pretty famous on the Knot NYC local board for a while.
The man's name is Donald Hedgecock and he has a dinky little shop on Queens Blvd, right by Woodhaven. He has an old book of pictures that isn't very isnpiring. (I am being very convincing here, aren't I?) But he is a wizard! A freaking wizard.
He is also the house florist for Sans Souci out on the Island and they do some swanky stuff, so his prices are dirt cheap. He did my rose centerpieces, my bridal bouquet, my BM bouquet, and bunch of corsages and boots, the table decorations, the room flowers, the chuppah and the chuppah flowers all for about $1,200. Seriously.
I brought in pictures of flowers I liked and talked about ideas and he just got it. I didn't do traditional centerpieces, I did martini glasses with individual rose heads in each one with votives placed underneath. The glasses then became the favors. I purchased the glasses and he set up all 115 of them on the day of the wedding, blowing up the fakokta roses so they were at their best. I didn't have a picture of what I wanted when I described it, just a concept and he nailed it.
Here is a link to a few photos I have on photobucket, if you scroll through you can see my bouquet, the bm bouquet, the centerpieces, the chuppah in the distance. The room flowers matched the chuppah. He also brought a ton of extras.
http://s132.photobucket.com/albums/q7/fuzzkit/Wedding/
And ps, his website kind of is generic and sucky. http://www.hedgecockflowers.com/rego-park-florist/wedding-4194c.asp
Let me explain that, he has a huge wholesale access, so it lowers his costs, even though the product he brings to the table is top of the line.
Im a wedding planner and will tell you this:
1. Most venues will include flowers (centerpieces) in their package. *As well as the cake, and most times chair covers. This is all negotiable. Has she locked down a venue yet?
2. I always recommend the floral district in Manhattan. Easy to haggle, but depending on the time of year/month that she's getting married, THAT is what dictates the pricing of flowers. If a flower is not in season at that time, the price goes WAY up. She should do her homework, and pre-plan: a. her color scheme, b. the flowers she likes, c. cross referencing them to see if they are in season.
She should always go out with a set budget in mind already...the most important thing is to know your price limit, this way you know how to play ball.
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