Falling Back in Love with Flowers

This bouquet is really special to me and I feel like I can see that in my eyes when I look at this picture— so I’ll tell you why.

I’ll be honest, after this full year in weddings, I was worn out. I wasn’t about to change my mind and do something else— I still knew I loved this job at the end of the day, but I was worn out. And if I’m really honest, a lot of days I didn’t love arranging flowers all day long, simply because I was just weary.

Since I started feeling that sense of weariness, I’d been praying for my joy to be restored in my work and in flowers. And over the past few weeks, I’ve seen that prayer answered abundantly.

From the daily flowers I’ve gotten to put together for friends + strangers to the arrangements made to send comfort to those in pain— I think I’ve realized that flowers aren’t just beautiful, they are important.

Flowers are both the celebration of a loved one’s special day and the words you don’t know what to say to a friend in pain. They bring comfort, joy and a little color to our lives that we sometimes desperately need. Sure they wilt and they fade but for a still, sweet moment, they have the power to be a difference maker. So yeah, I’m a little smitten with flowers these days.

This bouquet in particular was an absolute JOY for me to make. It’s kind of weird but honestly this picture leaves me a little misty eyed.

Yesterday morning I got a text from a friend needing a bouquet that day for a small wedding. Immediately Grant went to work clipping all the cuttable stems he could find around our home garden and I started arranging them. We worked side by side— with Grant running in and out of the studio with new, exciting flowers to add— and created something entirely grown by us. Nothing imported or bought in, entirely from gardens and dang, it brought us both so much joy.

Within an hour from the first text the bouquet was picked up and whisked off to that bride and we won’t get to see it again. But this picture we quickly snapped reminds me of that sweet moment where everything came full circle for me and I fell in love with flowers all over again💕

xoxo,

CW