About this vendor
At Derby Farm Flowers, we will style your event with top-tier design, and will provide outstanding client services. Whether you prefer garden style, minimalist, or loose and wild, we can interpret your floral vision, and provide elegant European design work that is one-of-a-kind.
We are renowned for using local flowers as much as possible to create looks from the simple to the spectacular. We also adhere to sustainability principles, and do not use floral foam.
We have worked throughout the New England region—from historic farms and estates to private homes, urban industrial venues, hotels and country clubs.
Visit us at Capitol Square in Arlington, or Picadilly Sq. in Newton. And reach out to request a consultation with a lead designer (in person or on Zoom) who will guide you through the process of achieving your floral vision for your special event. Let’s connect!
Details
Business Attributes
- Hispanic or Latinx-owned Business
- Woman-owned Business
Decorations & Accents
- Aisle Decorations
- Centerpieces
- Flower Girl Baskets
- Pedestals
- Plants
- Vases
Flower Arrangements
- Bouquets
- Bouquet Wraps
- Boutonnieres
- Centerpieces
- Corsages
- Flower Crowns
Reviews
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4.8
out of 5.021 reviews
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I couldn’t say enough about how beautiful my flowers were for our wedding! Working with Marlene was a pleasure. She worked with me to stay within my budget, and I asked for a burgu...
ndy dahlia to be our main flower. I wanted loose and flowing bouquets, and was flexible about the rest. The flowers turned out so gorgeous! I couldn't have been happier! I highly recommend Derby Farm Flowers for your wedding and all floral needs.
The flowers for our wedding were amazing! From the bouquets to the table settings, such a beautiful, natural, and refined look that fit in perfectly with our vision for the wedding...
. They took a lot of care putting together the proposal and listening to our feedback. Strongly recommend!
Derby did a fantastic job with our flowers for our wedding at Moraine Farm. My coworker got married at the same venue and they used Derby and recommended them.
Right away, I felt ...
like Marlene really understood what we were going for. I wanted Mad Hatter tea party vibes, with a little bit of a jungle theme added in, but somewhat reeled in enough that it would still please the traditional-leaning parents. I found a bouquet that I liked color wise but it wasn't whimsical enough. I was stunned when I saw the flowers in person -- they were so much prettier than the references we provided! The peony in my bouquet was stunning and the pictures really don't do it justice. We got a lot of compliments on the flowers and one of our wedding guests will now be using Derby for her daughter's wedding. It brought in so much color, which we definitely needed because a sudden rainstorm moved our ceremony to the tent.
Most of these photos are from our photographer, Studio Nouveau, and a couple are from our guests.
We had an amazing experience with Derby Farm Flowers that completely surpassed our expectations. We had two in-person consultations with Marlene leading up to our wedding and I wa...
s so impressed by her expertise, care and attention, and it was so much fun to dream about what she was going to put together. I think it was one of my favorite parts of wedding planning. We felt so confident that she heard our vision and would be able to translate it beautifully. I went in thinking we would have to do the bare minimum of flowers, but found out we were able to do even more than I hoped within our budget. The flowers were stunning. Highly recommend!
I searched forever to find a florist. So many people would not work with us due to our budget. I randomly found Derby Farm Flowers through a Google search, and it was fate. Marlene...
was AMAZING. So warm, easy going and lovely. I honestly didn't even think that flowers were that important to the day, but I was so wrong. The flowers helped everything come to life. Everything we ordered was absolutely gorgeous. Marlene and her team went above and beyond. She totally understood and executed my vision. We went on our honeymoon after the wedding, but my mom said the flowers were still thriving at least a week later. I don't think you could find a better vendor. Thank you so much Marlene and team! It was perfect. Could not recommend Derby Farm Flowers enough!!
Had a really great consultation with Derby Farms and we were told to expect a quote soon. We were super excited to work with them because they immediately understood what we wanted...
and the person we met with seemed wonderful, but weeks went by without the quote despite being continually told it would be coming. Eventually, they just stopped responding to our emails and ghosted us. We are super confused about what happened, because the meeting was really great and we were assured that what we wanted was totally doable and in our reasonable budget. It seems like this isn’t a common occurrence for Derby Farms based on other reviews, but it’s the one we experienced so we figured we’d provide an honest review from our perspective.
Beautiful floral arrangements, reasonably priced.
Derby Farms did a fantastic job with the flowers for our wedding. Marlene and her team were wonderful to work with. They were great with walking us through what we were looking for...
, especially since we only had a vague idea of what we wanted. Our guests kept complimenting how beautiful the bouquets were. They fit the venue space and atmosphere perfectly! We couldn’t be happier with the results.
Definitely get your wedding flowers from Derby Farm Flowers & Gardens! They are absolutely incredible. From my first planning call to the day of our wedding, Sonia and Marlene were...
so wonderful, helpful, and attentive. They answered my emails and calls quickly, provided the most detailed flower proposal I have ever seen, and helped a very un-flower-educated bride have the most beautiful wedding flowers. I know nothing about flowers, but I gave them a few inspiration pictures and they made magic happen. My husband and I left for our honeymoon right after our wedding, but my mother gave the leftover centerpieces and arrangements to various neighbors and friends and has been getting calls and texts for weeks about how long the flowers lasted and how gorgeous they are. I can't recommend Derby Farms enough!
From the beginning, the team at Derby Farm were super welcoming and happy to listen to our needs and concerns for our wedding ceremony and reception. Despite multiple postponements...
due to covid, they remained flexible and professional. They were great at helping us decide what we wanted and suggesting different arrangements.
Finally, the team was phenomenal on the day. They arrived on time, set everything up beautifully and made sure everything was in its place. The arrangements were gorgeous and exactly what we had hoped for.
We couldn’t have been happier with how they contributed to making our dream wedding come true!
My now husband has ordered flowers as gifts for me a couple times in the past (and I loved them!) so we decided to look into them for our wedding. We ordered my bridal bouquet, fou...
r bridesmaids bouquets, the groom's boutonniere and five groomsmen boutonnieres from Derby Farm.
Marlene, Lucinda and Sonia were amazing! This shop is right up the street from our house so it was very easy to contact them and set up a consultation. They captured our vision perfectly and were able to keep pretty close to our budget. I loved my bouquet and I wish I could've kept it forever!
We had to pick up our flowers the morning before the wedding and Sonia was kind enough to meet us in the early morning before they opened to allow us to make the pick up. They were very well packed and lasted all through the wedding and even a couple days afterwards they still looked beautiful.
It is definitely worth the price and service to go through Derby Farm. I will continue to go through them for all my flower needs in the future!
Flowers were not in my budget at all, so a friend DIY'd all our centerpieces and bridesmaid bouquets. She didn't feel comfortable doing my bridal bouquet, so I called up Derby Flow...
er Farm which was recommended by a friend. Lucinda took the time to listen to my vision, though we e-mailed and talked on the phone a few times I never actually met her and the staff. My bouquet just appeared at the venue in a beautiful glass vase right on time on my wedding day. They managed to create exactly what I was going for based on my pinterest board and my descriptions over the phone. I got so many compliments on my flowers, and I'm glad I sprung for a professionally-made bouquet instead of DIY-ing. The price was very reasonable for the quality of flowers and the ease of working with Lucinda and her team.
Derby Farm provided flowers for our wedding and did an amazing job! The team was very thoughtful and responsive to our needs and questions. They helped guide us on what would look ...
good and were very polite in correctly suggesting that some of our initial ideas might not have been the best. I'm not great at imaging or creating a visual design, so they provided a lot of photos and examples, but also took control so that I didn't have describe in great details what I wanted. Our wedding was outside and we wanted the flowers to feel natural and like they belonged in the setting. Everything was gorgeous and we received tons of compliments on the flowers, especially the bouquet. Our wedding was in Connecticut but my mother lives in Arlington and Derby Farm was willing to transport everything to CT for a small fee.
We used Derby Hill Farm for our wedding flowers, and they knocked it out of the park! My mother takes flowers Very Seriously, and she wanted the works. We met with Derby Farms a co...
uple times to go through what we were looking for- they were good at guiding the conversation, even at times when my mom and I seemed to have opposite ideas. They executed beautifully- the bouquet, the big arrangements, the little arrangements- the flowers were exquisite.
The team at Derby Farm created a beautiful bouquet, boutonniere, and several small vase arrangements for our wedding celebration dinner. They required only a few weeks' notice and ...
designed the arrangements based on our invitation stationary. They did a beautiful job! They picked up not only the colors but the subtle shapes of the flowers in the invitations and the small arrangements really brightened the tables of our dinner venue. They made lovely gifts to guests at the end of the of night as well! The bouquet was perfect - fresh, dynamic, and the exact styles of flower and colors we discussed. The team was a pleasure to work with - reliable, creative, and talented! I would trust Derby Farm with any flower needs I have in the future!
I was over the moon about the flowers at our June wedding. Marlene and Barbara have impeccable taste and are so creative. They are also just lovely people and I enjoyed the planni...
ng process with them so much. I cried when I saw the flowers in the ceremony space. If you want a florist that will really listen to you and create a magical atmosphere, then these ladies are for you.
Derby Farm Flowers was incredible! I knew nothing about wedding flowers when I started this process and when I saw my sister-in-law's flower budget, I was shocked to see what weddi...
ng flowers typically cost. If I was going to spend money on flowers, I wanted them to be great. Derby Farm went beyond this and made them amazing. They understood exactly what I wanted without me being able to articulate it well at all. I was going for a more rustic/whimsical look since the wedding was in my parents backyard and Barbara, Marlene, and Lucinda knew exactly how to achieve that look.
They made beautiful bouquets and corsages. They even accommodated my weird request to incorporate a dried morel into the groom's corsage (he ended up getting tons of compliments on it too!). My dad built an arbor from branches around the yard and Lucinda did an incredible job at decorating it with flowers while still maintaining the look of the arbor (and keeping costs low). For the tables, to save money I just wanted a single stem per bottle (saved bottles for a year for this and it was so worth it!). We got so many compliments on the table flowers. They were perfectly whimsical while complimenting the rest of my parents backyard. I loved that they were flowers you don't typically see at weddings, they were very unique.
Michael (my now husband) was so opposed to flowers (if it was up to him we would have had no flowers at all) but he LOVED the flowers when he saw them. He said they were extremely tasteful and he has insisted on keeping them around the house even though many have died now (3 weeks later).
I cannot recommend Derby Farm flowers highly enough. Communication is great and they met with me several times before the wedding.
The flowers are our wedding were breathtaking. I have never seen flowers like this at a wedding. They were right out of Pinterest. Barbara and Marlene met with me twice to capture ...
my vision and they delivered. At no time did they push me to spend money, in fact, they helped me work with my smaller flower budget and prioritize what I felt would be important to the day. I cannot recommend them enough! I will be coming to them for everything in the future.
Barbara and her team were excellent to work with. I went for an initial meeting and discussion, and then their team came up with a proposal that didn't break the bank. Barbara neve...
r tried to push the more expensive pieces on us, and our flowers were absolutely gorgeous. We ended up ordering two alter pieces, centerpieces, groomsman boutonnieres, and bridal/bridesmaid bouquets. They got the colors just right and the pricing was excellent/reasonable. Definitely worth going to them and getting high quality flowers for less money than other shops charge. Derby was even kind enough to arrange pick up of the centerpieces and flowers and transport them to our hotel where we were hosting a brunch the following day for a very reasonable fee (many florists don't even offer this).
Marlene was wonderful! She worked closely with us and made changes very close to the date!
We came to Derby Farm about a week before the wedding since our order was quite simple (bridal bouquet, 2 boutonnieres, small bouquet for maid of honor). With pretty limited infor...
mation and a time constraint, she was able to put together exactly what we had envisioned. She was very sweet and attentive. We also got a great deal!
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218 MASSACHUSETTS AVE, Arlington, MA | New England
Derby Farm Flowers & Gardens