The Enchanted Florist

I love the Enchanted Florist...I had first seen some of their flowers at Portos in Burbank, and thought they were beauiful. I grabbed a card and made an appointment with her later that day. When I walked into her cute little shop, I was like wow....I bet this is going to be really expensive. But, I went through with the meeting and had pictures and ideas, and Kim went with them. I felt instantly safe with her....like she would take my ideas and do a fabulous job. At the end of the meeting, the quote she gave me was very reasonable. Her centerpiece price was the same as one I made myself a couple days previous, and I loved her stuff much more then the centerpieces I had made on my own. I met with another florist, who listened to my ideas and wasnt as thrilled with them, and sort of tweaked them a little....his ideas were similar but I wasnt as happy with them...and his price was several hundred more then the Enchanted Florist.....So I have some thinking...but I am pretty sure I am using The Enchanted Florist.

I was hired to do a wedding and the rehearsal dinner one weekend. The Mother of the Groom was attempting to top the wedding. She hated the Bride's style and had decided to do the rehearsal dinner as a complete contrast to the actual wedding. Strangely enough, she hired some of the same vendors that were going to be used for the wedding. The Enchanted Florist was one of them.

The Bride had complementing tones of light pinks, lavenders and chocolate brown for her wedding. Sweet smelling lilacs, luscious, full bodied peonies and gorgeous tulips were used. The ballroom smelled fresh and delicious from these lovely flowers. Complementing them were votive candles highlighted with pink glass. The room glowed romantically. The flowers were stunning.

In contrast, the Mother chose a stark museum location for the rehearsal dinner. Her colors were red, black and white. It was reminiscent of the 80s. She had cocktail napkins covered in red hearts and white illet overlays on the tables. 105 guests out the 140 attending the wedding were invited to this event.

The flowers were beautiful - and completely different than the Bride's choices. There were two large arrangements of red tulips and red Gerber daisies. On each table there were three small arrangements - the largest was red tulips, followed by a smaller arrangement of red Gerbers, and the last was a small bud vase filled with a single red rose head. There were also votives on the tables with red glass. The Enchanted Florist had done a wonderful job.

At the end of the night, the florist's assistant arrived to collect a few items to use for the wedding the next day. Little did he (or I) know we would be recruited for delivery duty. The Mother announced that we were to deliver all of the flowers to the hotel to be used for the brunch the day after the wedding (she flitted off before we could protest). With 10 tables, there were 30 vases of flowers plus the two enormous arrangements. Neither the florist's assistant nor I had a delivery truck or the appropriate transport for all these flowers since it was demanded at the end of the night. My heart stuck in my throat as I imagined broken glass and water filling my car.

The assistant was a trooper. He helped us clear out the flowers, including the two large arrangements. He also seemed put out by the situation, but was still very nice about helping us.

When we arrived at the hotel, the concierge's eyes bulged as the flowers rolled in. Apparently, they weren't prepared for so many flowers either. Their solution was to put the flowers in a ballroom and turn on the air conditioning.

I'm not sure if the flowers survived with little water and only air conditioning to Sunday, but they sure were gorgeous on that Friday night!

Kim and her staff were great to work with. I would recommend them to anyone. I first heard of The Enchanted Florist on this site and read great reviews, so when our first appointment/consultation went well, we booked them. I'm so glad we did. I saw a beautiful sample about a month before the wedding and had a couple changes. They incorporated those changes and the wedding day flowers looked great! We decided not to decorate the church because they were really strict about what you could have in the church anyway, but we had 18 tables (7 tall arrangements and 11 short arrangements), sweetheart table, flowers for the cake, 4 bridesmaids arrangements and mine, 2 flower girl balls, 6 corsages and 8 pins for the guys.

The website is pretty crappy, but they were recommended to me by another florist who was well out of my budget. Kim and her team are really nice and really listened to my thoughts and ideas, suggesting others that were within my style without denigrating mine. You'd be surprised how rare that seems to be. The flowers that showed up on the day-of were better than I'd hoped for. Somehow she managed to take my spotty and vague description of what I was looking for and transform it into the absolute perfect bouquet. She even managed to find pale yellow roses for the bridesmaids, even though most florists will just throw in gold because it's easier to find. The odd boutonnieres we asked for came out gorgeous and unusual. The flower girls' baskets, which I had kind of assumed would be blah because I wanted to keep them cheap, were exquisite. I loved everything so much I actually used her a week after my wedding to send flowers to a client because I absolutely trust her judgment and don't think I can go back to any other florist.

Flowers are always coming to my office from Enchanted Florist and they are always amazing, so I went there first once I started looking for a florist. Kim was the perfect choice. I know nothing about flowers, but I brought in pictures of what I thought I wanted and gave her a general budget guideline. From those pictures she came up with an entire concept for the wedding and reception and once I turned over swatches from the bridesmaids' and mothers' dresses, she got really excited because the colors fit perfectly with what she had in mind. Our flowers were amazing, everything was exactly as I'd envisioned it. Her creations really tied everything together and she was affordable -- at least in the same ballpark as the other florists I interviewed. Definitely a vendor you can trust.