- Anna Beall
- Nov 19, 2025
- 3 min read
AND WHY THAT MAKES PLANNING EASIER, NOT HARDER
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One of the most common questions we hear during wedding planning sounds reasonable on the surface.
Can you guarantee these flowers?
It makes sense. Couples are asked to make dozens of decisions months or even years ahead of their wedding day. Of course they want certainty. Of course they want to know what will show up.
The challenge is that flowers do not work the way most of the wedding industry does..
Photographer: La Vie En Rose Photography
FLOWERS GROW IN WINDOWS, NOT ON COMMAND
Flowers bloom within specific windows of time. Those windows are shaped by temperature, light, weather patterns, and the pace of the season itself.
Some flowers bloom early and disappear as soon as heat arrives. Others need long days and warm nights to perform well. Some overlap briefly. Others never overlap at all.
This is not a failure of planning. It is simply how plants behave.
When flowers appear consistently outside of those natural windows, something else is doing the work. Usually imports. Usually long supply chains designed to smooth over seasonality.
We do not work that way.
WHAT WE DO NOT GUARANTEE
We do not guarantee specific flower varieties, no matter how far in advance a client books.
That includes flowers we grow ourselves.
Why? Because even the most carefully planned growing season is still shaped by weather and timing. Guarantees assume control that simply does not exist in a locally grown system.
Promising specific stems months ahead would mean replacing flexibility with force. That is not something we are willing to do.
WHAT WE DO GUARANTEE
We guarantee color.
We guarantee overall mood and design direction.
We guarantee that your flowers will be built around what is strong, fresh, and truly blooming at the moment you are getting married.
That distinction matters.
When planning starts with specific flower names, everything feels fragile. Will it be available? Will it look the same? What happens if it does not perform well that year?
When planning starts with season and color, the energy shifts. Decisions become easier. The design becomes more resilient. The flowers feel more natural to the day itself.
A SMALL STORY THAT EXPLAINS A LOT
An engaged couple once asked if we could use ranunculus for their September wedding. An engaged couple once asked if we could use ranunculus for their September wedding.
I said yes. We grow ranunculus every year.
Just not in September.
Ranunculus blooms here in late winter and early spring. Once the heat comes, it is gone. The couple loved ranunculus. They just did not realize it was not a late summer flower.
And why would they? Most people learn flower availability from inspiration photos, Pinterest boards, and vendor galleries. In much of the wedding industry, flowers appear seasonless and interchangeable.
Imported flowers make that possible.
Working with local flowers flips that expectation.
Flowers are not chosen from a catalog. They are chosen from a moment in time.
WHY THIS MAKES PLANNING EASIER, NOT HARDER
Not guaranteeing specific flowers does not take control away. It removes unnecessary pressure.
It allows us to respond to the season as it actually unfolds. It creates room for unexpected textures, fleeting overlaps, and combinations that could never be planned on paper.
It also means that when something shifts, the design does not collapse. It adapts.
That flexibility is what allows locally grown work to feel honest rather than forced.
WHO THIS APPROACH IS FOR
This approach works best for couples who care more about when they are getting married than about what is trending.
For couples who want their flowers to reflect their exact moment in the season, not a borrowed one.
For couples who trust that design is not about checking boxes, but about paying attention.
We do not guarantee specific flowers because we care deeply about the result.
And what we guarantee instead is something far more meaningful.
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