The first time we met Sally of Pink Dahlia Vintage, we knew immediately she was the one for us. It is very clear within only a few minutes of talking to her that she is EXTREMELY PASSIONATE about what she does. At all of our meetings, she rea...lly listened to us and our ideas to understand exactly what we were looking for.
Before we booked Sally, we had spoken to some other florists who all seemed to be a bit pushy. They tried to force us to do things that we just didn’t want to do. They tried to get us to rent a ton of items that had nothing to do with what we were looking for. They treated us like we were walking dollar signs. This was an immediate turn off to me. Sally did nothing of the sort. She didn’t try to force anything on us. She genuinely wanted to understand what we were looking for, not just to appease us so she could move on to the next client. She looked through all of our pictures, she responded right away to all of our emails, she helped us scour the internet to find exactly what we wanted, and gave us countless wonderful ideas based off of her professional and extensive knowledge.
The day of the wedding, I peaked downstairs as Sally was setting up and my heart stopped. She put in 100 times more work than I had expected. Everything was 100 times more beautiful than I had pictured in my mind. I was blown away and couldn’t decide whether I wanted to cry tears of joy because everything was so stunning or jump with excitement because I couldn’t wait for our friends and family to see the amazing job she had done.
Sally was extremely reasonable with her prices and went WAY WAY WAY above and beyond anything we could have imagined or asked for. Everything was delightful and represented my husband and I very well. Sally had showed us pictures of the many other beautiful weddings she had done, and she still managed to make our wedding unique and so meaningful. She doesn’t have one design that she uses for everyone, she builds each couples wedding differently to reflect their personality and style. We got countless compliments on all of the décor she so lovingly prepared for us. Sally made every idea we had stand out & come alive. She is truly and naturally talented. Her kind of talent and passion is not something someone can develop and/or go to school for. They are born with it – and she just has it.
Of all of the people involved in our wedding, Sally was by far our most genius choice. She was professional but made us feel like part of her family. My mother (who was part of our planning process) and I both said how sad we were after everything was over that we wouldn’t get to visit with Sally and her sweet kittie, Rosemary, anymore. Sally may just find us on her doorstep one day to take a peek at her latest brilliant ideas.
If you are looking for wedding flowers, Sally can do that. If you are looking for stunningly beautiful, creative, vintage, free-flowing, artistic, bohemian, antique-y, works of awesomeness SALLY CAN DO IT BETTER THAN ANYONE.
Finding a floral designer is definitely one of the harder decisions in your wedding planning process. Save yourself the time and effort….. and just book Sally. Then you can dedicate the extra months you’re going to save to finding a dress, photographer, shoes, etc.
We miss you Sally! - Krista & Peter