I’d give 3.5 stars if that was an option. At the end of the day, my bridal bouquet was very pretty, if nothing else. Melissa was extremely friendly, and I was so excited to work with her after having seen her work from a friend’s wedding. Peonies are my favorite flowers, and she assured us she had a great contact from whom she always got peonies, and that it wouldn’t be a problem (my mom even asked her point blank in our first meeting what would happen if there were a problem with getting the peonies in March, and Melissa assured us there wouldn’t be a problem).
A day before the wedding, I got an email from Melissa that the peonies she received were tiny, and wouldn’t work for the bouquet I wanted. I was honestly shocked that if she had such a “great contact”, that she wouldn’t find out until the day before that the peonies were not good quality. She offered several alternative flowers, but they weren’t even close to what I was looking for. I did several hours of research calling different florists, and my amazing husband drove an hour to a flower shop quite a ways away that said they had white peonies of a decent size, and he dropped them off with Melissa. She reimbursed him for the flowers, which was kind of her, but not enough. She should have done that research instead of a bride before her wedding day.
I wasn’t going to leave a review at all until I reviewed the footage from the ceremony. I noticed that my now husband never got the flowers that we had paid for, which he was supposed to give to our mothers and grandmothers during the ceremony. I was very disappointed that this piece of our floral order was completely missed. On top of that, my bridesmaids’ bouquets had the completely wrong shade of pink flower (I brought a swatch to the meeting with Melissa, so this was surprising).