Countryside Flower Shop, Nursery & Garden Center

We cannot recommend Countryside enough for your wedding day florals! From the beginning, the staff was incredibly friendly and knowledgeable. As someone who does not know a lot about florals, I brought in pictures from Pinterest of what I liked. I am thankful for Chris and her team for bringing our vision come to life from photos! She offered suggestions along the way and went above and beyond the day of our September wedding to make sure everything was perfect and secured properly on a very windy day! We will continue to recommend Countryside to our friends and family!

I Was blown away by our flowers! I came in with a vision for my wedding and wow was I blown away! They captured my vision so well and even way better than I could have imagined! They were super easy to work with and they truly did an amazing job! Everyone really enjoyed the work they did! I really liked getting to be surprised and ha ing an open mind as to let them do their job! They killed it!!! I definitely recommend using them for flowers!! They are reasonably priced and they do amazing work!!

Countryside Flower Shop was great to work with. They listened to what I wanted and suggested flowers to go with my vision. They came up with flowers I had never even heard of. My event looked great and the bouquets and corsages were beautiful. I definitely recommend.

Countryside Flower Shop designed mine and my husband's flower arrangements for our wedding this past September, and I cannot sing enough praises (neither could our guests)! Chris was our florist and she was incredibly attentive to the ideas I brought to the planning session. She took down pages of notes and helped me to sort through and solidify the visions I had. I came to my session with a half-dozen or more snippets of ideas, colors, and "feels" that I liked, but no actual clue how or if they could all somehow come together and NOT look like a hodge-podge mess. Chris was thankfully very patient with me as I walked her through my ideas. She asked relevant questions to confirm her understanding of my thoughts, made sure we were on the same page, then proposed ideas for the flowers and shrubs we could use, even bringing literal flowers from the shop into our meeting room to show me how they'd come together. She knew her stuff. Because I was pretty undecided on exactly what I wanted, Chris used her expertise and know-how to guide me to realistic solutions to the ideas I was throwing at her. She had good reason behind her recommendations and was able to answer my "why" questions. She of course took into consideration my ideas, my budget... took that input and returned her creative solutions to me. And on and on it went until we went through EVERY aspect of wedding flowers. I was very comfortable during our sessions and more importantly, I left Countryside after our planning sessions confident that I explained everything I wanted to, and that my floral arrangements were in completely competent and capable hands. Snap forward to wedding day and I was NOT disappointed. My bouquet was gorgeous - classy yet free-spirited, beautiful arrangement containing of ALL the elements I wanted... and even this amazingly cute succulent on the underside of the bouquet that I didn't know was there til days after the wedding! Loved that detail. The brass bullet shell case boutonnieres turned out so cool and all the guys really enjoyed wearing them. They stayed on all night and were well-balanced and proportional. The floral crowns and side hair pins fit wonderfully on our heads, not too bulky, classy, and I just felt so beautiful wearing mine. The colors were all on point. The centerpieces I know were a challenge to put together, and the end result was stunning and bold. It was clear Chris gave much of her time and creative energies into our arrangements, and I'll just say that I did give her some "interesting" (aka challenging haha) obstacles to overcome. I got SO many compliments and praises for all of the arrangements. She absolutely nailed it. All of the emotions that I had hoped to feel as I walked down the aisle, stood beneath the ceremony arbor, and dined beneath the centerpieces... I felt that day. I felt the arrangements really encompassed so many of the elements that I feel are representative of mine and my husband's personalities, which was so important to have present on my wedding day. Even the property manager who has been running weddings for 20 years at the venue, made a point to tell me the day after the reception that, in all her years, the arrangements I received from Countryside were some of the best she has ever seen come through. Countryside... Chris... our sincerest thanks for your amazing work, creativity, and exceptional delivery on our wedding floral arrangements

Chris was an absolute pleasure to work with. She put together such beautiful centerpieces for our winter wedding, it truly added to the vision we were going for. My bouquet was stunning and Chris delivered the flowers personally. I highly recommend Countryside and Chris for your special day. I'm a visual person and when we went for our first meeting it was in the Spring when they really didn't have the flowers that would be available for our November wedding. They were able to show me some pieces, but we gave them creative control and they absolutely delivered!!

Sandi made my bridal bouquet and it absolutely perfect. She took her time and was very thorough during the consultation. I gave her some key points of what I was looking for but otherwise let her have creative freedom and she went above and beyond my expectations. Highly recommend.

Working with Amanda at Countryside was the right decision for the flowers for my wedding! I was planning my Illinois wedding from Nebraska. My mom did the initial meeting and Amanda was very patient with having me on the phone asking a lot of questions and thinking I had an idea of what I wanted. I provided images for what I was thinking, a few other flower places we tried said they needed a specific image on what I wanted. But, I don't know anything about flowers/what I want and wanted to leave it up to them. Amanda was the only one who said she had ideas and could bring what she thought I was thinking to life! With those answers, I knew they were the right place to go. After that we met with Amanda two other times, with the final time two weeks before the wedding to confirm and have small changes. She talked us through everything both times to make sure we were all on the same page and nothing was missed. We also were able to make the flower boxes for our wedding which was important to us because we wanted things to be personal. She told us the dimensions and was able to make them look beautiful. I was amazed on my wedding day when my bouquet showed up. It was even better than I could imagine! I had greenery with white and pops of blue. It was perfect thanks to Amanda. We had three drop off spots the day of (the hotel, the church and the reception venue) all flowers arrived on time and they set them up. Would definitely recommend Amanda and Countryside Flower shop.

Omg is this place amazing! We met with Carleen about 2 months before our wedding and was she a pleasure to work with! When my husband and I first met with her, I didn't really know what I wanted, and she walked me every step of the way. Given that our wedding was at The Gardens of Woodstock, she knew the venue well and knew to ask the right questions. When I told her our wedding colors, her suggestion of burgundy gladiola with gold rocks in a cylinder vase was top notch. In addition, I showed her a picture of a bouquet I was looking for, and they basically replicated it! The day of our wedding, I was blown away. Countryside made our tent look magnificent! I could not have picked a better place and am beyond grateful for Carleen and her team. Also a big shoutout to Emily! She worked with me when Carleen was out and the service was just great. The best perk? They are so affordable, yet you get great quality! This is definitely the #1 floral vendor to choose from - you will not be disappointed!

Countryside was affordable and did amazing arrangements. If your a bride looking to get a lot of bang for your buck, I highly recommend Countryside. Emily and Chris were great to work with.

Love, Love, Love!!!! Countryside captured my vision perfectly for my wedding! I took them a picture of what I wanted and they did it perfectly! My centerpiece flowers were amazing and I love every piece they created for my wedding.

I cannot thank Countryside Flower shop enough for all the great work they did for our wedding! We had a lot of requests, and they did an amazing job pulling it all together, setting up, and tearing down and moving around flowers to fit our budget. I appreciate all the help that was put into the work they did for us so I had one less worry. I continue to get compliments on the arrangements they did for us, and I would highly recommend Countryside to any bride looking for flowers as they'll work closely with you on your budget and making everything go smoothly and beautifully!