Sending Smiles ~

It's that time of year again - time to show your admin's you appreciate all they do for you.  Dating back to 1952, Administrative Professional's Week is the time to show your secretary, administrative assistant, or executive assistant that the work they do is valued and important.  After all, the business would not work without them.  This holiday was created to recognize administrative professionals and let them know their work is crucial to the company - so show them you care!  Did you know the most common gifts for Admin Week are:  flowers, cards, candies, and assorted gift baskets- and guess what?  We have them all here at Monday Morning Flowers !  AND we do same day delivery if you order by 3PM.  But don't wait, Administrative Professionals Week is April 22nd-26th, so take just a minute to browse our website , and see what you think your admin would like. We have everything from gorgeous floral arrangements to gourmet fruit, snack, health and junkfood

Have you ever seen a flower like this? This is a pincushion protea and the variety of this one is called Tango. Imagine including this in a Bridal Bouquet or a High Style Floral Design? Orange is a popular color for event design and even many of our daily designs are showcasing orange flowers.  I especially love the combination of roses, berries and protea, like this arrangement that we recently added to our website. A great floral gift for man, don't you think?  To see this and more of  our floral designs, visit our website at www.sendingsmiles.com - we have so many floral gift ideas and we are always adding more! We want to be your local florist! 

When I talk to people about their floral designs , whether they are for a wedding or just a floral gift, they often say ~ "I don't need those exact flowers, you can change the flowers to lower the cost". Here it is in a nutshell folks, changing the flowers, changes the look. Changing the flowers changes the texture and often changing the flowers changes the ability to make an arrangement in a certain color theme.  If you could create a very artsy, unique looking arrangement by using common flowers instead of expensive rare ones, everyone would do it, right? Take the bouquet in the picture below. This bouquet is created with quite a few different flowers such as scabiosa pods, mini calla lilies, spray roses, tea roses, hypericum berries and seeded eucalyptus. If you wanted to make a lower cost version of this bouquet, you probably could change out some of the callas with carnations but the calla lily has a very unusual shape and nothing else, with a lower cost, real

As our "High Tea and Hands On Design" event gets closer, we are getting more and more excited!  Tea service for the event will be provided by Taking Tea In Style , and we can not wait to have all the delicious goodies that will be served! Gourmet sandwiches and desserts with fresh brewed teas and special jam, this is going to be an afternoon delight.  Along with a lovely afternoon out to relax, we will be teaching how to create your own charming tea cup floral arrangement.  Perfectly dainty and a fabulous decoration for the house, you will love to make these at home as your  Spring decor .  Space is filling up, but we still have room for a few more participants, so call our shop at 609-520-2005 today to reserve your spot!  This event is only $45, so make it a ladies afternoon out and bring a girlfriend!  Enjoy tea, get crafty, and don't forget - bring your big hats in honor of Will and Kate's upcoming anniversary - it's going to be a blast!

This weekends wedding for Lisa and Bill was especially fun to design. The bridal bouquet consisted of 3 different colored gerbera diaises - coral, light lavender and medium pink. Accents of baby's breath was added to break up the colors and along the outer leaves we added loops of ti leaves to add a cool edge.  The bridal party consisted of 6 brides maids wearing black gowns. 2 brides maids carried coral gerbers, 2 carried light lavender and 2 carried medium pink. The stems were wrapped in black satin ribbon to allow them to disappear into the dress and not take away from the gorgeous flowers!   I am especially fond of the coral colored gerbera ~ this variety is called Bismark and these flowers are grown in Canada. They are especially hardy, which is perfect for hand tied bouquets like these.  The babies breath is called Party Time and has big, fat florets and they looks especially nice paired with the gerberas. I think these are the perfect bouquets for an April

Roses for $5? You got it, each Friday at both our flower stores located in  - Princeton, NJ and Yardley, PA we have what we call $5 Flower Fridays. Each week we offer a great fresh flower deal and today's special are rose bouquets. You don't get flowers this fresh at the Super Market and our goal is to bring you fresh product at a great price so that you can treat yourself. We think everyone should have fresh flowers in the house and we would love to sell them to you!  Our Princeton shop is open until 7 PM and Yardley until 6 PM. We'd love to see you and remember, Shop Local! 

Wow, that sounds so ominous but truly, most couples that I meet have not given enough thought to how much they can spend on their wedding flowers. When you began your wedding planning , did you set an overall wedding budget for all elements needed for the day? If not, that could be a problem down the line. I won't tackle that in this blog because I'm not a wedding planner but this statement comes from years of seeing families struggle to come up with the money to have the wedding they envision. If you don't have a working budget in the beginning and don't allocate dollars for each item needed, you are definitely going to exceed what you can afford. Here's a great worksheet that shows you most, if not all of the elements needed in a wedding. Easy Budget Wedding Spreadsheet ~  I'm surprised how often couples tell me they are already over budget and did include a line item for flowers! That's like going into a car dealer and saying I have no money t