Sending Smiles ~

It's another busy weekend here at the shop and had to share one of this weekends wedding bouquets. The bouquet below is for the bride and is made using cream garden roses, beige colored Sahara roses, craspedia and chocolate cosmos. Not only is this bouquet pretty, it smells amazing!  I personally am in love with these bouquets of "ring of fire" sunflowers, hypericum berries and Black Bacara roses for the brides maids .  Wow, talk about drama!  These are going to look amazing in the photos, wouldn't you agree?   To see these and more of our Fall Wedding Designs be sure to visit our wedding website at www.perfectweddingflowers.com and if you are getting married in 2014, now is the time to book your wedding date with us before they are all gone! 

If you follow along with our blog and our Facebook Pages, you may know that we have started having fun contests that pit our Designers (and Non-Designer Employees) against each other in a contest to find the most popular floral designs . Well, this time the winner was Kristin who is our Sales and Marketing Assistant at the shop. Her brightly colored cube arrangement was chosen the favorite by our Social Media Followers and now will be added to our website for the Thanksgiving holidays. Along with giving Kristin the kudos here at the shop, Meg Smith of Yardley Pa was the winner of free flowers ~ just for voting!  Look for our next contest to start soon which will be to "Name the Arrangement" for your chance to win Free Flowers ~ just like Meg did! 

This past Wednesday, Oct. 23 rd , we had a great time at our Pumpkin Floral Arranging class.   We had a great turnout of 13 ladies, and everyone created a beautiful floral arrangement in a pumpkin to take home.   Just in time for the holidays, we drank, ate, and had a blast creating a festive arrangement for Halloween.   If you missed out on this class, don’t worry!   We have a ton of fun events coming up!   Come in to our store on November 17 th from 10AM-2PM for a Bee-utiful Sunday!   Join us in our Princeton location and see how your local honey, honey comb, pollen and premium honey bee wax is made.   Demonstration (and enclosed bee hive!) presented by Yellow Bee Honey of Princeton, Pennington and Lawrenceville.   This event is free to the public so grab the kids and make a day of it!   Of course, we will have all of the local honey you need to pick up! Join us on November 25 th for Thanksgiving Centerpiece M...

It's mid October and it's finally beginning to feel like fall ~ just in time for this weekends weddings. Our bride Rebecca chose brightly colored oranges, yellows and rich reds for her wedding flower color palate and we could not have been happier with the the finished looks of these amazing bouquets. Below is the Bride's Maids bouquets of roses, spray roses, berries and solidago.  Rebecca's bouquet included soft ivoy Vendela rose that really lightened up the overall colors in her bouquet. Relying heavily on roses, this bouquet really speaks to the month of October in NJ!   Another pretty shot of Rebecca'as Bouquets . The two toned roses are called Circus and are one of our favorites all year round and especially lovely to use in our wedding designs.   Our designers finishes the bouquets and then moves on to creating the "wearable" flowers such as the boutonnieres and corsages.   To see these and more of our wedding designs be sure to v...

Sunflowers – gorgeous, uplifting and perfect for fall (yes, that’s right, not only a summer favorite!)  The sunflower is a happy, bright and beautiful flower that is not only used for its aesthetic appeal - although they look very cute with a eyes and a smile in this arrangement, "Six Pack of Sunshine," made by Designer Norman. Cheaper than olive oil, sunflower oil can be used to make butter, margarine, peanut butter, “sunflower bread”, biodiesel, and was used by American Indians for bread, ointments, dye and body paint.  With its big, bright appearance, the sunflower always adds a little bit of joy to any floral arrangement. Grown all over the U.S. (Jersey too), sunflowers are unique and really stand alone in appearance.  Have the designers at Monday Morning Flowers add them to an arrangement of summer colors for a “bright and cheery” look, or oranges and reds for a fall, seasonal style.  Pick up a single sunflower to make a statement, or a bouquet...

Well, it finally felt like fall around here this past weekend, starting with Wei Jen's bridal bouquet of mango mini callas, rust football mums, solidago, seeded eucalyptus, red carnations, hypericum berries and spray roses. The mums really help with the texture and keep the cost down while the mango mini callas and roses make for a more upscale vibe.  I especially loved the bouquets we made for Colleen's brides maids ~a simple hand tie of 3 medium sized sunflowers. Affordable and super cute! A great bouquet option if you have less than $25 to spend on each attendant.  Here's another affordable brides maids bouquet idea ~ 3 anthurium tied with grasses. Small but with a tropical, funky feel, these ran under $40 per maid.  Looking for something unusual? These bouquets of all pincushion protea really give variety and depth of color all in one very neat flower. Although not as low cost as those above, these bouquets are sure to stand out and get noticed in picture...

Join us on November 25th from 6 - 8 pm at our Princeton Forrestal Village shop to learn to make your very own Floral Centerpiece for Thanksgiving. First we mingle, drink wine, have some light fare and then off we go into our Production Room to show you how to Floral Design . This class in hands on and interactive and you leave with your very own floral centerpiece to grace your Thanksgiving table. Space is limited so reserve now ~ only $75 per person and that include $15 worth of the Monday Morning Money to spend in the store that night or at any future time. It's truly a great deal! Click here to reserve your place directly on our website!  To view this or future classes be sure to check out our website at www.sendingsmiles.com or our facebook page at www.facebook.com/localflorist and www.facebook.com/sendingsmiles