Overall, DBA did an absolutely gorgeous job with our very large, complex order for our wedding weekend flowers. We used DBA for our rehearsal dinner, wedding, and Sunday brunch. They also did the various signs for our events as well.
We especi...ally loved the flower arch for our ceremony, the seating chart with everyone's names on it, and the flower wall they created over an old, ugly curtain that was on the wall of the dance floor at the venue. (Especially since it poured halfway through our ceremony so everyone had to impromptu move inside to finish the ceremony on the dance floor with the flower wall behind us!) They also were able to provide anemones in August which I greatly appreciated!
There were a few items that were mixed-up day-of that we just wanted to touch on:
First, we had mix gendered wedding parties and my husband's wedding party was getting ready at his parents' house while my side of the wedding party was getting ready at the hotel suite. DBA mixed this up and did it traditionally according to gender- bringing all the bouquets to the hotel suite, and all the boutonnieres to where my husband was getting ready. This was lucky in the end, however, as they had messed up the order a bit. In order to "differentiate" sides my husband requested my side would have white flowers and his would have blue. The blue flowers in the bouquets for some strange reason were white flowers that had artificially been dyed blue which we very much did not want or request. So, in the middle of getting my hair done, I stopped and disappeared into the bedroom of the suite for about 30-45 minutes with my Matron of Honor redoing the bouquets by hand with flowers leftover from the rehearsal dinner we luckily had lying around, calling DBA, and coordinating with the deliveryman where which bouquets and boutonnieres needed to go. The hair and makeup artist also became visibly annoyed by this and kept insisting I come back outside the bedroom to get my hair finished which added more stress. Not to mention some of the white flowers in the bouquet were drying/dying a bit, but the deliveryman managed to get us new ones from the truck.
Additionally, I unfortunately did not get eyes on the flower girl's basket ahead of time but the ugly blue dyed flowers were in there as well. (I noticed mid-ceremony.) Luckily the blue dyed flowers didn't make it into any of the other wedding arrangements though.
Finally, I had asked for an oversize, cascading bouquet for myself and it felt a little skimpy and was not cascading, save for maybe one or two small vines that hung slightly lower than the rest of the flowers. It looked nice, but wasn't quite what I envisioned or requested.
It was quite stressful especially since I didn't have a wedding planner or coordinator that knew what the order was actually supposed to be, but luckily my Matron of Honor and I were able to fix the bouquets and reroute everything to where it needed to be. However, I would have preferred to have spent those 30-45 minutes with my family and wedding party.
With all of that said, I do recognize how large and complex all the arrangements were for the weekend so something was bound to be incorrect and overall we were very happy with how most everything came out aesthetically. If your order is big or complex, I'd advocate having a wedding planner who knows the ins and outs so you are not managing vendors instead of enjoying your day.
Thank you DBA for beautiful arrangements overall though!