The Garden Path Co.

he planning process leading up to our big day. She crushed it day of and we highly recommend using her for your big day. Was a pleasure working with Karen and stress free.

florist on my budget would be pretty simple. Unfortunately I was very mistaken on that - and found out many florists in CO will not consider projects under a certain budget. This lead to a lot of rejections, and the shops who were close to my budget would leave me waiting for a week or more at a time for a response. Basically - flowers became a very stressful part of my planning process. I've used Thumbtack many times before for housework/electrical, etc, and thought it might be worth a try for a wedding florist. Luckily - Karen at Garden Path Co responded the same day, and was very attentive to what I wanted - all within my budget! You probably need to be a bride to understand the relief it is when you find a great vendor - almost everything during planning increases or adds to your stress, and Karen immediately took so much stress off my plate. She got on the phone with me and spent over an hour of her time listening to what I wanted, making recommendations - and even gave me other great vendors to look at. In my budget ($1500 and under), every florist refused to come up to my venue to set up - so I pretty much knew I was picking up my flowers and going to have to decorate myself. Karen offered to make the 2-3 hr drive to set them up myself so I wouldn't have to worry about it. Ultimately I didn't end up needing her to do that because a friend of mine offered to set the flowers up for me, but it was so appreciated she was willing to do that! I also had wanted a floral garland for a wedding arch, and had been told that wasn't possible without paying for flower delivery and setup. I found myself trying to accept cutting out the wedding arch, flowers for my cake, and to tuck into my hair to try and cut back costs. Garden Path worked with me to make sure I had extra flowers for my hair, they let me borrow their wildflower vases at no extra cost (everyone else was charging $10+ per vase rental ontop of the flower costs), and they made me a beautiful garland for my arch and supplies to hang it up myself. This worked out perfectly, and my friend was able to hang up the garland with just some nails and garden wire the morning of the wedding. The flowers the day of were so beautiful and really brought the wedding together - it was mountain wildflower inspired, and the mix of wildflowers and beautiful arrangements were the perfect touch to our outdoor wedding. I am so happy with how it turned out, and really can't thank Karen enough for making my vision come true without having to compromise! I highly recommend working with Garden Path for your wedding - I only wish I had found them in time to have them be my day-of coordinators as well. Thanks Karen! *If you want to see some photos of the flowers - I'll go leave some on other websites/Thumbtack/Google that allow photos in their reviews

e envisioned on our wedding day. We had a strict budget that we had to stick to and she was great working with us to stay within that budget. Karen is so creative and has amazing ideas to bring your vision to life. Definitely recommend her!

She was very pushy about certain things and was less accommodating to what we envisioned. We were told we would be able to see an example of our centerpieces before the wedding, we never saw them. I was less than impressed with my bouquet. The discussion was cascading and it was literally just leaves flopping out. The day of the wedding I left a tote with all of my signs, decor, and things that needed to be laid out with a specific map. Everything was labeled with sticky notes to match the map. The shuttle sign that was supposed to be placed by the exit was placed inside in the back corner. She didn’t put my kids coloring pages out and told my mom they will just fight over them (their names were on them). During the reception I had guests come up and tell me Cards and gifts were blowing away, she left them outside after the ceremony after saying she would move them. Then when I went to take my pictures, she lost my thank you sign. My cake topper was never put on the cake either. We were told we would have a fiber optic wand exit... they were glow sticks. This was disappointing as this was discussed in the 5 meetings we had before the wedding. Perhaps the most upsetting part was we had several guests say how rude she was to them. The lack of organization throughout the process was also very frustrating. All you get is a word document that just continues to be updated without knowing when it was updated or if the price was updated. Although, the floral for the head table was gorgeous and the centerpieces did turn out good.

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ed with her immediately. Although she only charged us for day of planning, she met with us at least 5-6 times leading up, and responded to all my "nervous Nancy" emails within 20 mins every time. She calmed my nerves and reassured me every step of the way. Karen also handled most of our contacts with other vendors and was the main contact so everything went smoothly. When I saw my bouquet and my bridesmaids flowers on the wedding day it brought me to tears. She took exactly what I was imagining (even though I changed the flowers I wanted a handful of times) and created the most beautiful bouquets. When we got a glimpse of the reception area and center pieces prior to guests walking in, again, brought to tears. Everything Karen did for our wedding was absolutely amazing! She also led us to our DJ (Tasos Hernandez), videographer (Mark at Simply Love), and our caterer (Buffalo Gals). All worked their magic together and the wedding was seamless! I highly recommend them all!

smoother! I can't imagine what it would have been like without her! She completely captured the vision we had in mind for decor and provided beautiful flowers! The bouquets were some of the most beautiful I've ever seen! After reading this other review I made sure to stay in close contact throughout the entire planning process and I had zero issues! We loved working with Karen and would highly recommend her to anyone planning a wedding anywhere along the front range!

decorations. I would highly recommend her to any bride looking for a florist or coordinator!

ds for the wedding. She brought flowers and had most of them set up where they need to be. My bouquet was pretty, but not very fresh and one of my bridesmaids had to doctor-up all the other bouquets to make them look presentable. She was extremely unprofessional on the day-of. She was supposed to bring a pillow for the ring bearer but when she forgot, instead of taking the blame and apologizing she tried to blame it on me and on the wedding coordinator, despite there being multiple emails specifying that she was responsible for it. My brother's (a groomsman) boutonniere was completely smashed and dead which looked absolutely horrible. Also we paid for petals to be pre-scattered down the isle, but there were none and we did not get our money back, she just ignored the mistake. I would not recommend Garden Path to other brides.

condense it, she made us feel like our smaller wedding didn't matter to her business on multiple occasions and then, in the end, the flowers were neither what we asked for nor fresh. It was embarrassing to have them arrive to the venue and not be able to change anything. She was inconsiderate, and we felt her part of our big day was definitely the most disappointing. -We originally made contact April 2 via email (she found my event through Thumbtack). I noticed right away how unprofessional she was in her communication. -At the end of May, I reached out to her to see how everything was going. I made an appt. with her at her shop to bring in some vases for the centerpieces. I was asked when the wedding date was (again) which caused me to be concerned. -When I arrived at her shop the next day at the scheduled time, she was confused. She said "remind me again who you are." I explained who I was (which was odd since she's set up the time for me to come in), and she said "oh- I lost your order. When is your wedding again?" At this point, I was too close to the wedding date to fire her, so I gritted my teeth and went through all of it again. I asked her twice before I left that day how I was going to know if she'd forget or lose my order again. -July 15th was my wedding day. On July 13th, she contacted me via email in the following exchange: so i am confirming that you are picking up your flowers at shop at 9;30 on July 15! i do have another wedding delivery that day so i need to be sure that will happen at that time. the total due is 349.50 if you want to call me with a credit card today we will have everything ready! -Long story short, she demanded payment two days before the wedding, but was not available when I called to pay. She does not do Paypal. After several attempts, she finally answered, without apology. -This was the "itemized invoice" we received via email, not in a spreadsheet or any other known business finance form: your original costs were 242. with tax you added: 2 corsages 70.00 bouts for dads 37.50 107.50 total 349.50 -Who knows how the "original costs" were broken down? This is going to look great in our file. --My parents were picking up the flowers for us. I was still asleep on the morning of our wedding (I had a late night with my baby not being able to sleep at the hotel). Karen wrote that no one had picked up the flowers and she needed to leave, so she was leaving them on her back porch. "i cannot take responsibility for them once i leave them outside." - that should have told me a lot. I called Karen and she reiterated this sentiment- kind of an "it's your fault," shrugging it off. My father had misheard the time and arrived 15 minutes after she supposedly left the flowers on the deck. The flowers were already ruined, since one of the boxes was left in direct sunlight. -I didn't see the flowers until I arrived at the venue that afternoon. Everyone had been very careful to keep everything refrigerated. There was no saving these wilted flowers. -I had expressed originally how much I hate roses. There were roses in my bouquet, the wrist corsages, and boutonnières. -She was rude to me on my wedding day and we're fairly sure she just gave us poor quality ones because of our smaller budget. It was embarrassing.

s set up the other decorations we had made on our own. Sanctuary looked gorgeous with her special touch. Thank you, Karen!

ll. I would highly recommend!

ompliment it. She even managed to find fresh tulips (my favorite flower) in September! Our flowers came out beautifully, and I couldnt be happier with them.

r more strongly - thanks Karen!

wn with us to understand our likes and dislikes. She really went above and beyond to make the day special and was also our certified event planner on the day of. I'm still getting compliments on the flowers each time new folks see our pictures - I could not have been happier with how the arrangements turned out.

and did the centerpieces for my reception. Everything turned out beautifully. She set everything up and worked directly with the people at my venue and didn't bug me with a lot of questions. She delivered my bouquet to me in my room. She pinned all the boutonnieres and corsages. The centerpieces looked wonderful and the candles stayed lit throughout the whole reception. Karen did a wonderful job.

was incredible. I still have flowers 2 weeks later! Garden Path does not disappoint! High end, beautiful flowers!

did not want my bouquet to over power me and when she dropped it off the day of the wedding I was shocked. If I had wanted a 10 pound bouquet to swallow me up, I would have been happy. She just dropped all the flowers in the room without saying a word to us. Never put the corsage on my mom (which she claims is part of her job). I noticed part way through the night that she had never brought my toss bouquet. When I called her after the wedding she said she left it on the cake table. It would have been nice if she had told me - or even said two words to me at all that day. No one knew the bouquet was there and we tossed a bridesmaids, since we thought the sheer weight of mine would kill someone. The flowers, especially the boutonnieres looked like they were old and falling apart. Most did not stay in place during the night. I realized later looking at pictures that all the flowers on the ceremony chairs were purple even though I told her only white, NO purple, and they looked cheap. She did the same thing with my husband's boutonniere, even though I said only white, she used some purple. She aslo pinned his onto the wrong jacket. She pretty much just does whatever she feels like. She also used different vases then what we had discussed at the front for the main flowers. I felt her prices were reasonable, but I guess you get what you pay for.

ridal shop. Does not listen well. I said no bows on the bouquets and she did the biggest tackiest pew bow style bows on them. Things were not placed where they were supposed to be. Plus, she pulled me outside to a garage away from the bridal suite to see my flowers. She should have brought the flowers into my suite and given them to me and the bridesmaids. She never put the boutiniers on the groom and groomsmen like she promised. She left them in a box in a bathroom...so the men didn't have boutiniers for their pictures. Someone found them finally and put them on the guys but they were all mixed up. She couldn't get a certain flower and rather than informing me and asking what I would like to do she decided to spray paint some white flowers hot pink (completely tacky) rather then checking with other bridal shops to get the flower I needed. It was a basic flower that even King Soopers stocked and she neglected to make any effort to make sure I got what I wanted.