After meeting with a few florists, my then-fiance and I thought we'd have to settle for your run-of-the-mill large distributor florist to create something along the lines of our vision while stay within our budget. On our first meeting Freddy w...as very friendly, professional, unpretentious and overall pretty chill; he offered us coffee while discussing what we envisioned for our wedding day. Judging from his portfolio and the fact that he seemed to come up with other--for lack of a better word--vegetation and parts of the plants to use to compliment the floral arrangement, we knew that this was an art to Freddy and finally found the florist we wanted to work with. Freddy created centerpieces and bouquets that we never could have dreamed of! Our tall centerpieces were branches of preserved fall foliage with tea lights dangling, low centerpieces were a beautiful mixture of fall blooms, and the bouquets were seasonally elegant without having to use a rose...Freddy, instead, artfully substituted them with ornamental kale. Ornamental kale?! How much more unique and one of a kind can you get with that? I really regret not having a plan of how to preserve my bouquet, as we left the Monday after our wedding. My parents took home a low centerpiece though, and luckily it's been drying beautifully. My husband was excited that the boutonnieres were enhanced with blue thistle, which he and the groomsmen thought were cool. We also really wanted and hope that it was also fun creating these arrangements. The only detail that kept us from scoring the "value" portion a 5 is that we were missing a boutonniere for one of our ring bearers (we had two). With all the craziness of prepping, the the fact that the children (and everyone else for that matter) would not even notice, and the cost of the boutonniere in comparison to everything else spent for the whole day, I didn't bother worrying about it.