Friday, February 05, 2010

She hearts flowers


One of my best girlies, Sophie, is setting up her own floristy business here in Scotland and she is looking for ladies and boys who are planning their weddings on little budgets (or ladies and boys who are planing their weddings on big budgets but don't want to spend loadsa money on flowers) to help her build her portfolio.




In her words....
"I am looking for lovely brides and grooms who might like to save a little money on their wedding flowers. As I am currently building a portfolio I would be delighted to design the flowers for your wedding at a very reasonable price - just a smidgen over the cost price of the flowers. You could either spend your original budget on flowers and have so much more for your money or just simply save a penny or two for the cake, photographer, dress or a fabulous honeymoon. I am based in central Scotland so a Scottish wedding would be ideal, but I'd also love to travel a little further afield if I can."


Sophie and I met when we were in art school together. We didn't like each other very much at first but now we do. Lots. (Sometimes we grab each other inappropriately. This confuses my husband a little)
Sophie is the bestest. Not only does she have beautiful red curls, the cutest kitties, bring me flowers when I'm blue and know some excellent rude words (if you don't know how much I love a girl who loves rude words then you haven't been paying enough attention) but she was one of our bridesmaids a hundred years ago when we got married and she was the best bridesmaid ever. Top notch.





Oh, and she's very very clever with flowers. She made this prettiest of pink bouquets one evening at our house when she had the flu. About ten minutes after the boy finished taking these pictures we all passed out and died. Imagine what she can do when she's not dying....


It helps that she really loves flowers. She also really loves weddings. And people. I've been to a lot of weddings and I've met a lot of florists and I've been appalled at how many seem to really hate weddings. (The same goes for a lot of caterers, venues and musicians but those are stories for that blog I'm not allowed to write). Sophie loves weddings though and the thought of being part of someone's day really excites her. It's kind of sweet!


So please, go ahead and get in touch with her. She wants to make your pretty pretty flowers and best of all, she wants to do it dead cheap. She will be especially excited if your wedding is within the next couple of months as she's raring to get going.







You can email her at sophie [at] iheartflowers [dot] co [dot] uk and her blog is here. Tell her I sent you, she'll like that.





flower photos by The Boy. Sophie photo by me.

* yes, that's a cage in our living room. How else are we supposed to contain The Beast?

** I don't know how many of y'all readers are still brides-to-be, nor how many of you live in Scotland (which I would know if I looking at my analytics page didn't plunge me into a pit of dispair) but maybe still some of you engaged ladies are hanging on in here with us boring marrieds.









15 comments:

  1. i cannot hire her because i am no longer a bride, nor do i live in scotland... where apparently all the cool shit is. i will check out her blog, though.

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  2. Please tell Sophie that the bouquets are beautiful and I wish her the best of luck!

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  3. Hey there!

    Just wanted to let you know that I'm have a wine tote giveaway on my blog in case you were interested in entering!

    http://moonfaceon.blogspot.com/2010/02/giveaway-bloom-and-barnacle.html

    xo,
    Cassie

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  4. the flowers are beautiful - makes me (1) wish i had a sweetheart to marry and (2) lived in scotland.

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  5. Oh, I love the way you discribe your friend. So much love. If I lived in Scotland I'd so call her up and I'd stock you too (in a good way) so I could learn some cool new offensive language.

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  6. What glorious flowers, what a talent!

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  7. The flowers are splendid, and she is cute as a button...not in Scotland, but when I next visit, I will stop into her shoppe, oops, does she have a shoppe?

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  8. Beautiful arrangements - the girl certainly has a gift. And a wonderful friend in you. (And those are some positively cool red curls.)

    Next time I get married in Scotland, I will definitely have her do the flowers. And you and The Boy will have to take the pictures. Okay? Okay then.

    xo,
    -maria

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  9. well I don't live in Scotland but I am getting married there, and we don't have flowers sorted so good to know. But I am flower retarded and also lazy with no vision. I hope this is not a problem.

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  10. Aw what a shame - my wedding is going to be in Somerset, which I guess is a bit far...

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  11. Well I'm enjoying hanging with you boring married lot. Also I'm a bride-to-be in Scotland who hasn't settled on a florist yet - seems like I'm a pretty good candidate.

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  12. i need flowers and sophie's are beautiful, but i don't live in scotland. sad.

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  13. I'm engaged and wish I could use her but don't live in Scotland - and even though I'm marrying a Scotsman (yay!) we're doing on my side of the pond. Her flowers are lovely tho!

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  14. Hey all you lovely people - thanks for all the fab compliments on my flowers. I know some of you are a little further away from Scotland, but I have a little car which could transport me over to you. I'd love to discuss traveling a little further for a wedding, especially if L and L are doing the photography as it means I can take a little road trip with them :)

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play nice.