Ava's Garden

Ava's Garden was the best florist I found after seeing so many in the area. Mary, the florist, helped me with professionalism in choosing my flowers, colors...and most important of all, she was very attentive and a great listener to what I wanted or what I had in mind for the big day. Mary was extremely flexible even though we signed a contract. She was willing to substitute some items I didn't need for other things I wanted to offer to my guests. I doubt many florists would have done the same. She even added petals on my cake as we didn't have any decoration for it. Thank you again for such a great job done. We really enjoyed working with you. I will definitely recommend Ava's Garden to families and friends for future events. Thank you,Priscilla

Mary was AMAZING!!! I met with her once over the course of wedding planning and went over everything that we wanted! She is super easy to work with!! She knew what I wanted and when I saw my flowers and when I saw how beautiful the beach looked (arch, isle) I cried! Her flowers blew me away! It looked amazing!!! All of my guests were completely impressed! She was on time and set-up as planned! Everything was done perfect! I can't thank Mary enough for being a great vendor. I will have some pictures in my Bio page soon if you want to see her work at our wedding...I have all my flowers in my freezer..I couldnt throw them away. I wish they could have lasted forever!I have referred her to two "brides to be" that plan on using her in 2010.

PERFECT!!! I loved working with Mary. She had great ideas and definitely "got it"! I especially loved her creativity and flexibility. I never felt like she was forcing my budget - as we added and changed things over the months before our wedding, she was very flexible and completely open to my multiple questions. It was a joy to work with her and just as important - the flowers on my wedding day were gorgeous, perfect - all I had ever hoped for! We received tons of comments from our guests about how beautiful and classic our flowers were. Ava's Garden easily exceeded my expectations!

I generally found it easy to find vendors for my wedding - except when it came to the florist search! I initially met with several "designer" florists who had gorgeous wedding portfolios - but they all came at a steep price $$$$. I just couldn't spend more than $4000 for a 75-person wedding. A photographer I'll splurge on - but flowers? Not for me. Next I interviewed a more "budget" florist whose portfolio included weddings from the 1980s - um, that was scary. Then I met two other florists who got great reviews on PW - but I just didn't click with their style and personality. After interviewing 7 florists, I finally met Mary of Ava's Garden. She was recommended to me by a friend and I am so glad I found her. I really liked her style and I was just floored by how reasonably priced her quote was. My bouquet was perfect and the arrangements looked so pretty on my wedding day.

I love Mary. She was by far my favorite vendor for our wedding. She is so easy to get along with, the best sense of humor and has a great eye for capturing "romantic" flower creations. I probably interviewed a dozen florists. I found myself smiling throughout my whole wedding whenever I saw one of her pieces. I loved loved my gazebo flowers, it was better than I had envisioned.

I did read a former reviewer's comments about bouquets and I have to say that my pre-wedding bouquet and my wedding bouquet were identical and I loved them both. But that's because we both took pictures of everything. You can't expect someone to memorize exactly what you want!!

Mary has such great ideas but she's also open to thoughts you have too. And last but not least, her prices were the best I found in the South Bay. I would definitely recommend her to anyone in the LA area.

Mary was my favorite vendor to work with. She's down to earth, funny and has many creative ideas to help create the wedding of your dreams! She has a knack for creating very romantic pieces and she is flexible enough to incorporate your ideas as well. She did a phenomenal job at our aqua and pale orange wedding, and I would definitely use her again for another event. Her prices are also very reasonable compared to other South Bay florists.

Mary was by far one of my favorite vendors. She was easy to work with, had very reasonable prices, her one downside is that she's a little disorganized. Other than that she did great on our wedding day. She provided 18 tall centerpieces (also stand rental), cocktail hour decoration, petals for head table, 4 BM bouquets, one bridal bouquet, 10 bouts, 2 mother corsages and 2 altar arrangements. ALL the flowers were beautiful but I was a little dissapointed with my bouquet. Mary provides a sample bridal bouquet and mine was BEAUTIFUL!! I asked her to duplicate it for my wedding day, well it was completely different, still beautiful but not what I expected, different colors and different flowers. She was also suppossed to provide pink pearls all around my bouquet and instead she put pink ribbon. I still give her an A and I still recomend her because she was super easy to work with and truly captured what I envisioned.

I used Mary for my wedding, and had a horrible experience. The flowers I received looked old and I did not receive the arrangements for my reception that we agreed upon. It was horrible. I called and left a message to try to find out what happened, only to never receive a call back.