After All, It’s Just a Business
It’s the most important day of your life.
It’s the day you’ll always remember.
It’s your “special day.”
These are just a few of the cliches you’ll hear within seconds of getting engaged. When you look at each statement, one word stands out:
It’s the most important day of your life.
It’s the day you’ll always remember.
It’s your “special day.”
Yep, brides and grooms, it’s all about you. And vendors know that.
In fact, if a vendor to bride conversation were to be entirely honest, it might go something like this:
Vendor: I really want you to choose Grown In My Backyard Flowers! We’d love to do your wedding! We’ll make it the most beautiful day ever! Your roses will be so fat that they’ll get approached by Weight Watchers! I am going to just keep talking until you tell me that you want us to do your flowers! Still talking! Yep, talking!
Bride: Um… ya. Sure. I’d love for you to do the flowers for our wedding. How much will it cost? Please keep it on the cheap. I’m already over budget.
Vendor: Here at Grown in My Backyard Flowers, we think that getting married deserves a twenty percent surcharge! If you were just throwing a regular party and not calling it a wedding, we’d probably give you the flowers for half price.
Bride: Well, that sounds reasonable… I guess.
Vendor: Great… the contract will be in your inbox tomorrow morning.
A week passes. The contract finally arrives. The Bride immediately calls the Vendor.
Bride: Hi, Vendor, I’m confused. The name of your business is Grown in My Backyard Flowers, yet you’re importing my roses from Sweden?
Vendor: Well, honey, you waited until the last minute to order. Roses are out of season.
Bride: But my wedding is a year away! And aren’t roses perennial flowers?
Vendor: Honey, all the good florists are booked by now. You’ll just have to add a little more cash to your flower budget. Call your daddy. I’m sure he’ll pitch in.
Bride: Wait… if all the good florists are booked by now, what does that make you?
Vendor: The florist that is going to have you eating SPAM out of the can for the next six months.
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Flowers are so expensive. Wait a second. Weddings are expensive.
Our florist was awesome. She actually let us share our flowers with another wedding! I know, I know, that’s sounds cheap, but it worked out perfectly and as you might very well know, flowers die!
Total waste. I had flowers at my wedding that were super expensive and I still regret it- Jenn
Gee-sus.
Ultimately most people won’t see the flowers, and if they do, only a very very tiny percentage will notice the detail of them….like most things, it’s not the extra little touches that make the event special, it’s having your friends and family there to celebrate.
Sadly, I concur with the above ‘dialogue’ - Weddings do seem to attract a % increase just because it’s a wedding!
Can anyone suggest a very good Florist near Greenwell Springs Louisianna ? i prefer one who specializes in Tulips.-’-