Designs by Dara

Dara was recommended to us by our wedding venue coordinator and I’m so happy we were out in touch. Dara was a pleasure to work with and my flowers were gorgeous! She delivered my girls flowers to the house we were getting ready at and then handled dropping off and setting up the gazebo flowers with the venue! I highly recommend!

10/10! Stop your florist search now - choose Dara! You will not regret it! Dara was so easy to work with, so professional, and so accommodating. She was timely in dropping off our flowers to multiple locations throughout the day and she created gorgeous bouquets and boutonnières as well as decor for our ceremony and reception at The Mill in Spring Lake. I do not have one negative thing to say about Dara. I couldn't be happier with our choice! Thank you for helping to give us the best day of our lives!

Dara does great work and is very easy to work with! She stuck with us through all of our postponed wedding dates, and was flexible and accommodating with all of our needs and changes along the way! She worked with our budget, and was extremely affordable. We would definitely recommend her to other brides!

Working with Dara for my wedding floral design was both a breeze and a pleasure. We had a meeting in person and from that she was quickly able to perfectly capture the decor and ambiance I was picturing in my mind for my wedding. For the smaller budget I had she delivered a stunning, elegant, and romantic overall design that exceeded our expectations. She is very easy to work with and very intuitive and helpful. I was able to call her with thoughts and concerns and she advised me and worked with me, putting any concerns I had at ease any time I spoke with her. It is very nice to work with someone like Dara during your wedding planning as this can be a time of stress for any couple planning their own wedding! We are very pleased we found and chose Dara and would recommend her to any of our family or friends in the future! Thanks again!!!

Dara was the florist for both my wedding and my mother-in-law's wedding. She was laid back and creative, taking any stress or indecisiveness out of the planning process. We loved everything from centerpieces to the bouquets to the huppah to the smaller details like mason jars along the aisle hanging from the ceremony chairs. We couldn't be happier!!

Dara was so easy to work with for our wedding in August and so accommodating! Plus, she's a really great value. Honestly, she was one of if not the best-priced florist we looked at, but her work was just as good if not better than the others. We didn't look for much in terms of flowers; just bouquets of Gerber daisies, boutonnieres and a couple corsages and small bundles of sunflowers. Honestly, we were pretty much looking at the bare minimum of flowers, and simplistic ones at that, but Dara never made us feel like any job was too small. She was more than willing to work with us, and even gave us a few ideas that ultimately ended up in our final floral design. (For instance, we had rainbow bridesmaid bouquets, and instead of trying to dye and match indigo, she suggested subbing in bright magenta Gerberas instead. It was perfect!) She also helped give us a ton of centerpiece inspiration! We did not end up using her for centerpieces and instead DIY-ed them, but she does beautiful work and gave us plenty of inspiration and ideas. She also uses water holders for all the bouquets, so they stay fresh and healthy all night long, especially important with sometimes delicate flowers like Gerberas. They held on for days after the wedding and looked fantastic the night of! We were very happy with her work! She even tied matching ribbon around each bouquet to match the color and corresponding ribbon around each boutonniere. Her attention to detail really made it all come together. We also ended up using her for the cake flowers at almost the last minute. But for a super-reasonable price, she gave us extra flowers from the bouquets and she decorated the cake with them. It came out lovely and made our cake just perfect! Again, she was just so accommodating and made the whole process really easy.

I wasn’t sure where to start with my flowers, but picking Dara to do my flowers was the best choice I made for my wedding. Dara was welcoming and had amazing ideas when we first met. She really understood what I wanted. I had a mix of low and high assortments which incorporated beautiful white pumpkins and gorgeous flowers. The flowers were so fresh. I highly recommend Dara.

Though I do love flowers, I knew that I wanted to have a different look at my wedding. Dara created amazing candle and mirror centerpieces for the reception - the colors matched perfectly with the teal and ocean blues in my color palette. She also created stunning bouquets, boutonnieres and corsages for the wedding party using flowers that were both beautiful and had special meaning to me. Simple floral arrangements adorned the ceremony space and really put the finishing touches on it!

I wish I can post pictures of Dara's work as my comments simply won't due her justice. All I can say (without rambling) is that Dara is truly gifted at what she does. My wedding was fall themed. I wanted bright colors and rustic. When meeting with Dara I brought her pictures from Pinterest and my budget (conservative)we went over flower options, she showed me her books and really took the time with us. I am a visual person and was not able to see a sample but I trusted my gut and was so happy when Dara brought me my bouquets that I almost started to cry, they were breathtaking and EVERYTHING I had visioned. It doesn't stop there, my centerpieces were simple and classy, the garland on the gazebo was just amazing and brought the ceremony together the boutonnieres and wrist corsages were stunning. Everyone at the wedding complimented all of her work and I am so happy beyond words with Dara's work. My now Hubby and I applaud her work and would recommend her to anyone for any occasion that is looking for a florist.

I worked with Dara for my wedding at the Mill on 8/1/15. She was recommended by the venue and I had met her at their bridal show. When I went to meet her to discuss what I wanted she had tons of photo albums with ideas and I brought pictures of things I liked. She asked me my budget and then later sent me a "vision board" type document with pictures of what we had talked about along with the breakdown of cost. I do not know much about flower types and costs so this was VERY helpful to be able to visualize what we had discussed. She did the outdoor ceremony space, bouquets, boutonnieres, center pieces, and table runners all within my price range. When I first saw the bouquets I was speechless. They were exactly what I had envisioned, but better. The flowers at the venue were amazing too and helped tie together my theme. Thank you so much for helping making our wedding day so beautiful!

Dara did an absolutely fantastic job of taking my vision and making it a reality. From the first time that I met with her I knew that she understood what I was looking for and I was completely confident that she would deliver, but what she did on the day of was absolutely wonderful. From the bouquets to the extremely unique boutineers and the absolutely wonderful ceremony and table decorations it was a dream come true and absolutely everything I could have ever wanted.

Designs by Dara - Dara was the first vendor I booked. I loved her work shown on her website, and felt she would make a great fit to our style. Dara was very responsive to my ideas and offered suggestions as well. She clearly knows her stuff, from look and feel of the flower arrangements to time lines needing to be kept, etc... Dara was quite lovely to work with and her pricing was more then reasonable. I would suggest any friend/family member to use Designs by Dara for any occasion that calls for flower arrangements!

I met Dara at a Bridal Show and am so happy that I did. I liked her right away so I decided to schedule an appointment. We met at her home office, which was adorable. Her peaceful gentle nature put me at ease. She made the whole process so simple for me. She had great suggestions and it felt like she was in my head, seeing just what I was envisioning. She was so good about working with my budget and had an estimate to me the next morning that was spot on. She was there bright and early setting up on the day of my wedding. I walked in to the venue and the centerpieces and my bouquet took my breath away. The flowers really are my favorite part of the whole day! I couldn't have asked for anything more! It was just beautiful!

Dara is amazing!! She did a beautiful job for our fall wedding. Her ideas were perfect. We gave her some of our ideas and she took off with them. Everything came out just perfect from our bouquets to centerpieces!!! Thank you, Dara for your beautiful work!!! I highly recommend Dara for your wedding! Kelly & Dave Kraus