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What are the drawbacks of using a flower shop?

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Petals Edge
Petals Edge Floral Design
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Petal's Edge Floral Design, LLP specializes in custom floral design for weddings and special events. Using the best and freshest flowers available, Petal's Edge excels in the planning and creativity necessary to bring style and panache to your event - no matter how big or how small. Founded in 2004, the women-owned and -operated company supports environmental practices through composting and recycling of renewable materials. Petal's Edge has been featured in The Knot, Brides Washington, I Do for Brides, and Engaged! magazines. Speaking engagements have included a demonstration of floral design techniques for the <a>Smithsonian Institution</a>, a <a>Fox 5 News</a> feature on weddings, and a discussion on emerging trends in floral design at George Mason University. The company was voted one of the area's best florists by Washingtonian magazine (2006-2008), was named "2007 Best of Weddings Pick" by The Knot magazine, and is one of only three florists in the Washington, DC area to be featured in Grace Ormonde Wedding Style's 2007 Platinum List.

What are the drawbacks of using a flower shop?

In this video, Gerry Rogers, co-owner of Petal’s Edge Floral Design in Alexandria, Virginia, discusses how to hire a florist for your wedding. This video series reviews how to find a florist, discusses differences between flower shops and event florists, suggests how to prepare for the consultation and to budget for wedding flowers, and finally, reviews expectations of what happens after the florist is hired.

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Host: What are the drawbacks of using a flower shop?

Gerry Rogers: A flower shop while they are very well equipped to deal with very simple weddings, they are sometimes not well equipped to deal with very large extravagant event. They may not have the same array of props and specialty products to offer you for your wedding. Some of the hard to get floral supplies such as fiddlehead fern curl, some of the trendier floral items. A flower shop is not generally going to have access to or regularly get in. They may even charge you more for those things. if you need extravagant hoopas, wrought iron stands, candlelobras, things like that are not the kinds of things that a flower shop will have on hand. Also flower shops tend to send delivery people for their weddings, not all, but this is something you should probably ask about and if they are just sending a delivery person to drop off your flowers and you have a last minute need that needs to be fixed, that delivery person is not going to be able to fix that the same way a florist doing the delivery would be able to.

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