SWP Episode 008
On this episode we have Joanne Morris. Joanne is the owner of Twig & Bloom. Twig & Bloom is one of Saskatoon’s premiere florists. We’ve had the privilege of photographing many weddings over the past few years and always enjoy seeing Joanne and her team on site, setting up some of the most beautiful flower installations we’ve ever seen.
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Matt: Hello, you are listening to The Sask Wedding Podcast. If you're a bride to be, or just love weddings, we created this show just for you. I'm your host, Matt Ramage. I'm the owner of MJ&Co. Stories, a photography and film company based in Saskatoon. On today's episode, we have Joanne Morris. Joanne is the owner of Twig & Bloom.
Twig & Bloom is one of Saskatoon's, premier florists, and we've had the privilege of photographing many weddings over the past few years. And I always enjoy seeing Joanne and her team onsite, setting up some of the most beautiful installations we've ever seen. Thanks for being here.
Joanne: Joanne. Thanks, Matt loved that kind of intro music. Very inspiring.
Matt: I'm vibing. It's good. It's good. Yeah, I'm really excited to have you here. I wanted to have you here because you're one of the vendors we've seen very often this past summer. And we love your work and you're definitely an expert as far as it comes or when it comes to florals.
Yeah. Tell us a little about Twig & Bloom.
Joanne: Oh it's great to be here. And yeah, I love when we get to work together. That's awesome. So Twig & Bloom started in 2016. It was December of 2016. When I put the website live. I took my chance and yeah. And haven't looked back since we've just been growing and I absolutely love it.
So we started doing weddings probably before, actually 2016, for friends, for people that I knew. And then I just knew that this was something that I really enjoyed and so decided that I was going to take this leap. So yeah, that's how Twig & Bloom got started and you've
Matt: built. Quite a powerful reputation in the city, in my opinion.
And even talking to our brides they just love your work and yeah, you have definitely made an impact here.
Joanne: Oh, that's awesome to hear. Yeah.
Matt: I thought we could chat about some trends coming up for the next wedding season here. Get your advice on that. You always come like we've done the SK Modern Wedding Summit with you, and we've done a bit of work just for you and your brand, and you always tend to have great ideas and helpful ideas for brides.
So I thought you could share on some of the trends.
Joanne: Thanks. Are signature look would be classic, romantic, elegant timeless. Those are the words that I use to describe our brand, but what I'm seeing in trends for 2022 and probably 2023 is going forward with bridal bouquets centerpieces and things like.
With less greenery, which is very interesting because for a long time we had very both. Looking florals with lots of greenery eucalyptus and things like that. So moving toward kind of a modern kind of contemporary look with less greenery and it's absolutely beautiful. It's so stunning at first I was a little bit nervous, I T in 2020, I worked a lot on my designs without greenery, just to experiment with it, to see what it would look like, how it feels, how it photographs, and I absolutely loved it.
Loved.
Matt: No I'm going to maybe take us back to one, one thing you said to me, you studied with Sinclair and more. Tell me
Joanne: about that. Oh my God. That was like an experience of a lifetime, honestly. Like they are an iconic brand, huge florist in the floral industry there. Top-notch where are they based out of in Seattle?
Yep. In Seattle. And so I flew down there to take a workshop. I was really nervous cause I was pretty green. Like my business was pretty green, no pun intended, but yeah, so I, I just took the chance. I thought like, why not learn from the best? It would be an honor. So I did. I went down to Seattle and took this workshop and it was amazing.
I learned so many things. I was inspired, he. Really encouraged us to dream big, which then solidified my thoughts, my goals, the things that I wanted to do with my brand. And yeah, that's probably the one thing that I learnt the most or like the thing that I took away would be that my brand is everything and my brand needs to lead the way.
So I always ask myself, in this business does it make sense with. Does it align with my brand? If it doesn't let it go. And if it does go for it and yeah, so it was wonderful. He had so many beautiful florals, so many great tips and yeah, it was just amazing. I wouldn't have changed it and I don't I have gone to other workshops since, but I would go back in.
As soon as he has this next one.
Matt: So do you still see them as like mentors and do you look to them for inspiration? Like I know the Pacific Northwest is Seattle Portland area and like I know photographers. Like central Canada to Western Canada, like they've definitely had an impact on the trends we have in photography.
So yeah, with at least a lead, your inspiration of what you do,
Joanne: and he is a mentor, really, like I, because I was in the workshop and we got to meet personally and we spent time together. I was at his home, met his children, his wife we sat and had a meal together. So I can. Messaged him on Instagram and ask them questions and we can chat and things like that.
Yes. And then all the ladies, the other florists that I met at that workshop have been huge points of contact for me. And, they've all got my back. I can, ask questions or talk about designs and what have you done? What are you seeing? And yeah, we just share, it's like a little community.
It feels so good to be supporting.
Matt: I love it. And so you got, you have a Facebook group, you're all in that you keep in touch with or Instagram group chat or...
Joanne: We don't, but we all follow each other. So we talk to each other all the time. Oh yeah.
Matt: So when it comes to trends then obviously there's different types of trends and you mentioned your brand and I would say your brand is like when we were looking at it at our own company, when we were looking at MJ&Co., we're like Twig & Bloom is like nailing it.
Like they have a very clear vision, a very good like we definitely look to you for inspiration, even for just like how clear you are with your market. But when it comes to trends and stuff do you find you have a particular flavor that you're aiming for, or are you trying to trend set yourself?
Joanne: That's funny that you should say that because I see trends when I look back at our designs, like I see trends, but I never intentionally designed with that trend in mind, it's I choose. I love looks that I like things that inspire me and I just hope that they also inspire others or that others are just as attracted to those designs as I am.
And that's been great. It's been working lovely. And yeah, I think that it's really important to stick with your brand. Cause we can get so easily distracted because there, All different kinds of foods. You like all different kinds of florals. You like different styles are changing all the time.
So it's important to be brands aligned.
Matt: Now when it comes to having a couple reach out to a bride or groom do you find. They're coming to you for exactly what you do, because you're so clear about what you want to present on your like social media and your website. Do you find that's been
Joanne: beneficial?
I'd like to think so that's what the feedback we're getting is a lot of, they liked what they saw on social media and that's why they reached out to contact us. So I think that definitely plays a big part in how our businesses.
Matt: Awesome. You mentioned like playing around with these new florals, less greenery.
How much do you play around?
Like
Joanne: I play around a lot because I want to be good at my craft. I want to be the expert. So I'm just taking the time every once in a while to get creative, to try something new, to step out do something different. Also solidifies what I like to do and what I don't like to do, what I'm attracted to.
So it really. I think it makes me a better designer when I do try different things. When I do practice, when I take the time to be creative the other day it was a slower day. It was a Friday it, and we had a few leftover flowers and I said, let's go down into the studio. This was with my team.
Let's go down into the studio and let's just get creative and. We'll put it live on Instagram and people can join us if they feel like just watching and I can give us a challenge. And then I said, okay, so here's the challenge. And this is the product that we have. Let's do it.
Matt: And each one of your team members had to do their own arrangement.
Joanne: Yep. It was so much fun. And what came out of it was so beautiful. Each person had their own kind of take, which is lovely, even for weddings and centerpieces and things like that because it's not all replicated exactly identical. It has the same colors, the same textures, the same elements, but different designs.
There's variances. They're not like copycat replicated centerpieces. And that's what I love because your guest gets this view and they see this side of the arrangement and then, somebody else is seeing a different perspective and I love that.
Matt: That's cool.
I like that. We're going to talk about your team in a bit. But first I wanted to ask if you had any advice for. A couple who wants to do their own florals?
Joanne: Oh yeah. Yeah. There's a couple of different options. Sometimes budget, there isn't the budget to hire a florist or to get all of your florals from a florist and that's okay.
I think that it's important to stay. Within your budget and within your means. So we often we'll give suggestions. Sometimes we do bouquets, boot nears, like the wedding party florals, but then they will outsource or do their own centerpieces or things like that. Which is great because they get the professionals Take the bouquets, the things that are in the photos, the images, are professionally done, but then their guests are experiencing a little bit of their own creativity and things like that.
So yeah, we always have ideas and different things that we offer to our couples. And if you are, there's so many budget friendly ways to go. Costco has does flowers. There's Kelly Flowers. There's so many things, so many places that you can go where it is very economical, very budget friendly for those people that want to do it themselves.
My only I guess caveat to that is that it's a lot of work and I don't know. People anticipate how much work goes into it. And that flowers are, they're only here for a short time, so you really have to be knowledgeable about how long they're going to last their baby's life and things like that.
How you can design with them because each flower, honestly, when we get our florals for a wedding, they come in, we process them each differently. They each get a different way of processing and then we babysit them. And I know that sounds a little odd, but literally. It is monitoring. Yeah, it is monitoring how they are growing and how they are maturing.
And so sometimes we want to speed up the maturing process for Saturday, because if there's a Saturday wedding, we want them to be at their peak for wedding day, which means that we need to. Mature them quicker and some are maturing too fast and we need to slow down the maturity process, the maturing process.
So yeah, it is literally tricky. It is moving things in and out of the cooler daily, sometimes hourly, they get to a point and it's whoa, we'll hold them back. And then you're putting them back in the cooler and. So there is an art, there is like an expertise too.
Matt: And you can't just do this the week before you have to do this.
Joanne: Oh no. This is like hours before date, like the day before. Yes. Now in my wisdom, I would think when you're having a wedding the day before your wedding, all your family's coming into town, you're doing rehearsal. You're busy. I can't imagine wanting unless you really wanted to just do it yourself cause you like it, it seems having someone else help with that?
Yeah. I don't know if I told you this map, but my son is getting married this summer and we're doing his florals, but of course, as the mother of the groom, I am not doing the florals. I want to, as the mother of the groom, be a guest at the wedding, I want to enjoy my family, my friends, this celebration of my son and his fiance.
Be there and be present and not be thinking about what I have to do next, or, oh my gosh, we need to set this up or anything like that, to me, I think that is invaluable. Like I want the professionals to look after it and trust that they are, everything's going to go as planned and then I want to be yeah.
Present with them. Yeah. And my family,
Matt: I think when I think that's a good idea.
I find like we, we have this thing. So we do a wedding day timeline with all of our brides. And one of the things we always tell them is we don't want to have to ask you a question on your wedding day. We don't ask, like, where do you want to go?
Who do you want in your family photos? Any time I find a couple would have to like, answer a question like that they're taken out of that fun moment with their friends or parents or family or whatever it is. And the other And, they're not the expert on where to go or, they've never had a family grouping set from a wedding unless like a sibling did it.
And so we're we do what we can to make it. So the couples don't have to ask us a thing. They just, smile and. You don't have a drink. They like, their only choice would be like, do they want to drink or not? And when they go to the bathroom,
Joanne: it's hard for them to make a decision on the fly like that.
That's something that you want to think about too, that you want to consider and like you said, they're not the expert and they, that's why they've hired you is to make those decisions and to be prepared. For wedding day, you should, we hope that we ask them all of the questions that we needed to gather and that, then we take it from there.
I never want to buy. A couple either or the mother of the bride. We do it as if they are all guests and we'll look after it for you. Yeah. Yeah. I think
that's awesome. Okay. Yeah, your son getting married. That's exciting. And so you're not going to do it. Now you have a team I'm assuming your team is going to take care of that.
Matt: Tell me a little bit about your team.
Joanne: Oh my gosh. Okay. For, we have. Team for everyday florals and, in the business all the time kind of part I guess I should say part time. We have a team of three right now and then myself. But for weddings and special occasions and things like that, we have contract workers that come in and help us.
And they've been doing it with us for years. So they know the drill, they know how it works, they know how to green out the installations. We've taken the time to train them on processing and things. But they just work with us in the summertimes. And so our team. Onto site. That is the best part I love coming onto site.
It's I feel like I'm really a part of the wedding that I get to see what it looks like, what the bride is going to see when she walks in. Seeing the gentlemen all dressed up and looking so handsome. Seeing the bride and her bridesmaids it's just a wonderful thing to be onsite.
And you're lucky too, because you get to do that in your industry, but yeah, so our team comes out. We look after everything from delivery to set up creating the installations, moving or repurposing flowers. The only thing I think that we don't do is the takedown, which usually happens at the end of the night.
And that is usually the wedding planners or sometimes family and friends and things like that. That we'll do the take-down, but everything else we are there behind the scenes, you can sometimes find us in a back room if we're waiting between ceremony and reception and yeah, we love it. It's just so nice to.
Really see it all come together and know that everything looked exactly how you wanted it to look. That's important for me as I'm a business owner that I don't want to give that to somebody else to represent us. I want to do it. I want to be there. I want to see it. I want to know it's exactly what I imagined.
Matt: That's why, yeah, I was saying in the intro, like I'm always seeing you. We always get to weddings when the brides, about a half an hour before she gets her dress on. And so when we go into the venue, like I remember the last time I think was the Barnett one's edge and we walk in there and you're getting you're in there with your hands, with your team and just got your glasses on your hairs, tucked behind your ears and you're go.
And it's really cool to see. I wanted to ask about installations now. I got married in 2006. And, I feel like back then installations. And this is just my experience, but installations like have definitely over the last 15 years. So it just started to ramp up and like more people do them.
Everybody would get the bouquet and maybe some bridesmaids flowers in a boot and air, and then, centerpieces. Usually pretty popular, but over the years, like the installations I've seen I'm trying to remember the one, I can't remember whose wedding it was now, but you had the one over the head table, like a huge installation there.
I've seen you do the back, the backdrop for the wedding instead of just or a drape it's now it's like a custom,
Joanne: bringing a little bit of nature into the venue and blurring the lines between outside and indoors, and yeah, I would say installations have become a big thing.
They're used as alter kind of backdrops. They're used to frame the head table at the reception and they are a great place for photos. I always say the only time my family, lots of times, the only time that we're all dressed up at the same time is if we booked. Photography like to get family photos, or if we're at a special occasion, otherwise it's, we're not already or there's someone, so anyways, having that kind of beautiful backdrop for people to take photos or family photos, or just, reconnect and see people that you haven't seen for a long time and capture a photo on your phone is so beautiful.
And. Yeah, so installations have been really big. We have done everything from yeah. Hanging gardens over the head table, which is really popular and is oh, so beautiful. Oh, so beautiful. It feels like I don't, it feels so special and chanting romantic. It is amazing. We've done arches and different things like that.
We have so many things in our. Bag of ideas, is that a
term
that we want to do? And so we're going to try some of these this time, this year with 2022 brides. And I can't wait for people to see them because I'm so excited and I think that they are things that will really take off, people get. We often find that brides are inspired on Pinterest or Instagram and things like that.
And that's where there are a lot of magnificent kind of installations big installations, beautiful, luxurious, lots of garden roses, things like that. And so we want to be able to bring those ideas and things to Saskatoon brides.
Matt: Here's one way that you just brought it up earlier. The using the floor florals as a backdrop, like these installations every single time let's say partner wins edge.
For example, like after the ceremonies done, people go up to that, the front of the wedding hall and they, they're just taking cell phone pictures with themselves in front of it, with their family or the friends they haven't seen in a while. And and yeah, if it's a cooler. Definitely. We are going to be taking some, maybe some family photos in.
But what I like as a photographer is you have these venues that are, super popular and it lets the bride really get what's the word I wanna use? Like a very like signature, like they're linked to the place. Like it puts a bit of a fingerprint on it and it makes their wedding. They stand out.
So yeah, for food photography and just the guest experience, like it's really. And I've had a lot of I've really liked having that, those backdrops, instead of just a white wall or something like that it's really pretty. So yeah, for those winter weddings, especially where you're not trying to go outside as much.
Yeah. Yeah. Do you find Do you find that people want them more in the winter, even in the summer or,
Joanne: no, I think that it's equal. Yeah. People were around. Yeah. And they want it to look romantic. Yeah, beautiful installations, but also the one great thing, I think that. That we have made a priority is repurposing those florals.
So if it is outside on an, a wedding arch or something like that, then we will stay onsite until after the ceremony and then repurpose those florals for the reception. So it's not money just sitting on the arch, the yeah. And so that's been really a great way to extend the client's budget and make it a little bit more accessible.
Matt: So tell me, talk to me about that. Are you guys coming back, like your teams on standby to move them from outside to inside?
Joanne: You know what Matt, sometimes we are going between three weddings and it is timed to the minute to the minutes. Maybe not quite the minute because there's always, time to stop for a diet Coke, but yeah, we schedule it and that's how we build our schedule too.
So as brides are inquiring, we look to see the timeline and whether or not we can. Fit that into the timeline and more often than not, we can. And we yeah. And so it's so much fun. It's hustle. Like we hustle it's exhausting, but getting to see the three different looks or being so extremely creative in one day is so rewarding.
And at the end of the day, when we're debriefing and going through how beautiful everything was and what we liked about the day. And sometimes lessons learned because we always go through those at the end of the day, you think debrief. Yeah. Like you do a debrief and you go, okay let's do this next time.
It would make our job a little easier or, we're always learning. And. But yeah, we scheduled them in so that we can come back and repurpose those flowers and stretch them out a little bit.
Matt: Awesome. Is there anything else you want to share about re-purposing is there any like tips you have or
Joanne: We pretty much do it.
Like we we do it for them. They never see it. The one thing that I would say is to allow enough time for brides to allow enough time between the ceremony and the reception, because another kind of priority to Twig & Bloom is that we want it to be magical. We want it to you to walk in and see it and not know or not see the building of it.
Yeah. We just want it to be a surprise. And then same thing for when we're repurposing. We never really like to have guests watching us do that because it loses the magic. It loses that kind of oh my gosh, this is so beautiful.
Matt: Ever film brides seen the space for the first time.
Joanne: Like we don't because we're so busy on that day. But yeah, it's funny because we probably should. Like we usually get their, their feedback from the wedding and Even going through the photography. So the galleries that the photographers will send us or the brides will send us. I love to go through that gallery because I get to see what she experienced on the day and how the florals, contributed to the beauty and the overall look and feel that their guests experienced, the florals.
Aren't just for the couple they're also for the guests, they. That kind of day and make it feel extra special, and that's often where I say for couples to put their budget is. Where the guests will notice it because it is extremely lovely to sit at a table with family. You're all gathered around.
You're telling stories, you're laughing, there's good food, good wine and beautiful florals to enhance your experience and create a more.
Yeah, people love them. I know when we go to weddings, like we're there later than you obviously photographing, but it's pretty common for couples to just people will raffle, like I've seen draws on who gets to keep the florals or, I don't, it's never too hard to give away the florals at the end of the night.
And and I think the couples all enjoy that when their guests can keep them, and these look, these arrangements often. I mean like a week or two after the wedding
day. Yeah. So we do that as well. So we offer, our centerpieces are created in our vessels. We don't charge for rentals, but they're created in our vessels.
And so if the bride or the couple wants to. Give their florals away at the end of the night. We'll create them in an insert so that they can just literally lift it up and take it along with them, take it home. And the vases are there to be returned. So it's really easy and simple. And that's another thing that people really is it's not just for the day.
You can take them away and have them afterwards too.
Matt: Yeah. I love it. I love it. Okay, this is this is my controversial question. Not really, but
Joanne: are we getting serious?
Matt: But in your opinion, what's the biggest mistake brides make when it comes to flowers on their wedding day and florals in your expert opinion?
Joanne: Like I think that a lot of people are afraid of color. Like a lot of couples are afraid of color that it's going to look too bright. Too bold. And I don't think that's what happens. I think that you can still have color while keeping it soft and romantic. It's just different hues or different tones of those colors.
So yeah, I would say don't be afraid of that. When you look on those inspirations, Platforms like Pinterest or social media. That's what you're seeing. That's what you're really attracted to. But yet you're asking for less, so stepping out and going let's let the experts do what they do and see what they come up with.
We provide every couple of storyboard. Several months before their wedding so that they can see the color palette, the flowers that we're going to use, the overall inspiration. And we collect photos that inspire us and we'll help us as we're creating, designing and things like that.
Yeah, so they see that storyboard. So right away when they see that storyboard, they feel a lot more comfortable. You can tell that they just go, okay. Yeah, that's exactly what I wanted. Being a little bit more daring with color. That's what I would say.
Matt: I love it. I know you said with the wedding trends, less greenery, more flowers, yeah, you could definitely play and I've over the last while I've seen everyone.
I say last while. Since I start. Yeah. I think when we got married, it was like red roses were like, yeah, but that was the thing. And then you'd take a photo and you'd have your photographer make everything black and white except the flowers. Oh my gosh. It's so funny. But yeah, definitely. I've seen a few things go through and I think, if the florals really, add a lot to like to the photography and in your videos and your event it just makes it definitely improves on the vibe.
As a guy, I tend to not see those as much as let's say my wife, for example, photographs with me. And it's but over the years, I've definitely started to appreciate it really makes everything better. Like it makes it, it adds flavor and beauty to the photography, it adds to the guest experience.
And it really adds to, any, anything we produce, like videos and the photos. It just. It just adds to it all. So yeah, I like it. Yeah, that was awesome. I'm just going through my notes. Sure. I don't want it to end, but we're almost at that time, like not quite yet. Not quite yet. You got any tips for keeping your flowers?
Let's talk about budget and then some tips on keeping your flowers fresh on your wedding day. You want to start with, let's start with, let's start about tips with your flowers, keeping them looking good. Yep. I'm no expert, but I've learned enough that they, Dick flowers don't like cold and they do like water and that's all I know.
Joanne: That's pretty much all you need to know. We've processed them in a way that they're fully hydrated and going to last for as long as they can, just even taking the time. Between your photos or the reception, or, when you're doing your makeup or, and things like that, to put them back in water, that's really important because the more hydrated they are, the better they look and they will last longer.
So yeah, keeping them high hydrated whenever you can. Yeah. And
Matt: so even five minutes, is that helpful? Sure. It'll be happy. Like this last year was a drought. It was like the hottest, every weekend was blazing, hot and beautiful. It was good for photographers. Terrible for farmers. I'm assuming the flowers
Joanne: were good.
Flowers were good. They needed the water. Yeah, they did. Because, especially when it's so warm like that, you just, yeah, they need the, and Saskatchewan elements look so flowers outside, not in water, wind and things like that. They are going to take a beating. But yeah, that, we want to keep them as fresh as possible during the.
Matt: Yeah. So keep them in the water until you have to take them out.
Yeah.
Joanne: That isn't that easy.
Matt: Yeah. Now how do you not get water on the bridesmaids dresses and stuff?
Joanne: You dab them? Yeah, we just we actually provide a little towelette that it comes with their package so that they can wipe off the bottom and that's another thing too.
We never use dyed flowers because of the dyes that could drip out that could leak out. So it's all natural product. But yeah, you can just dab them off and dry them off and they're good to go. They just need a little drink, it's hot outside. And then
Matt: in, in winter like this winter has been cold so far.
Gosh, do you kinda do you have advice for that?
Joanne: Do you want little tricky, the bottom line is you want your flowers for photography. Like you want your flowers in all of the photos and in freezing temperatures, that's just Going to take its toll on the flowers. So I suggest getting your photos done.
And then as the flowers they will show signs of being frozen. They will start to turn a little brown letting that go. That's the, that is where we live. That is the conditions. And that is the winter wedding experience. You can't change
Matt: that for, to make sure they use them at the right time.
Yeah. Not at the end of the wedding photos.
Joanne: So if you are having an, obviously you're having an indoor ceremony, if you want to have the ceremony and then the pictures after that's fine because they're indoors, but once they've been outdoors, they're not going to look back great. For any more photos, some will we try and choose our florals for weddings specifically for, the plan that it's going to be very cold.
Although lots of times our brides want, those florals that aren't quite as Hardy, so we'll use them, but then we always mix in a few of them know that, this is the expectation and yeah, they always look nice. They always look,
Matt: especially like with a white, like our last wedding was new year's Eve.
And with the white, like that was a really cold day. And, it was very snowy and, brides, dresses, white, it added so much life to the photography and yeah. Anyway,
Joanne: it really is pretty though in the winter oh gosh, skin
Matt: tones come out a little more and flowers. Yeah. Yeah. We were pretty happy with everything.
Yeah. Talking about budget.
Joanne: Okay. That's a tough one. Budget for couples. I usually suggest that you figure out your, your entire wedding budget. What are you going to spend on this wedding? Whether you pick a number and a. And start at that starting point or whether you've allotted funds for each kind of area.
But I, I suggest 10 to 20% of your overall. Be designated for florals. And that, I guess depends on how much decor you're going to do. If there's any other decor. If you have a really beautiful venue, maybe you just want to let the venue speak for itself. If you want to add to the ambiance and add to the venue and depending on.
You know what other decor you have, but 10 to 20% is usually I think a pretty good point. Of course, there are always people that will spend over that, that say they want flowers to be a big part of their wedding. They want it they just love them. They want it to be a big part, then go for it, because you, I don't think you'll ever regret.
I've never heard somebody say I regret spending so much money on my floor or. Never I've heard people say, I regret that I didn't get centerpieces. I wish we would have done this. I wish I would have. But yeah, deciding how much you're going to spend on it, based on your overall budget, a percentage.
Okay. And
you
Matt: work with the couples to come up with ideas and great expectations of what thing, like what they can get for what price range.
Joanne: Yeah. Yup. And sometimes we have ideas that we can stretch the budget, maybe you do centerpieces, but only on every second table. So you're still getting that kind of look, but maybe it's not every table.
That's crazy. Yeah. Yeah. And maybe use candles on every other table or you use something that the venue has, a lantern or something like that. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. So there's always ideas and suggestions. That's another thing too, when you go to the website and you fill out that online form that we require before providing a quote.
It doesn't have time in there, or I guess all of those questions and suggestions that we might have. So we do the quote based on what you've selected, but then we some like to have a meeting or maybe a consultation where we can talk about some other options for you.
Yeah. For a person like me.
Matt: We bought a brand new house a few years ago and moved in. And I'm the kind of person I don't want to, I would, they didn't even include a towel racks. This home builder didn't do that. Oh, it's such a simple thing. Yeah. And everything else was done. And yet that was overwhelming to me. I was like, I don't want to pick things like that.
So I'm that kind of person where I like to just lean on the, I would lean on. Yeah. Do the design. I would have my ideas, but I, I wouldn't even want to, I almost wouldn't even want to taint you with my ideas. I'd rather just have you come along and give me a recommended.
Yeah. So that happens with you and the, like you do a consultation, like they go to your website and do a form and then they connect with you then.
Joanne: Yep. So yeah, there's a couple of different options. You can just get wedding party florals if you're going in that direction or you can do the full on wedding florals form.
And then usually we want to meet with those brides because there's ideas there's different things. Like I said, that we can suggest and get creative and help them. Or maybe there's even something that we. This venue could really use something right in this spot, like this location or the arch is larger in this location.
So there has to be more florals on that arch in order for it to look significant enough for, things like that. Yeah we like to chat with them and hear what their overall floral vision kind of dream. Perfect ideal wishlist is, and then we get it down. Yeah. Get it down to what we're going to do and how it's going to look.
And, yeah. Awesome.
Matt: So how do people find you?
Joanne: On our website www.twigandbloom.ca, or you can find us on social media, we have an Instagram and Facebook account. So Instagram handle is @twigandbloomyxe .
Matt: I - definitely, if you're watching this or listening, definitely check her check.
Joanne's Instagram out. It's amazing. I think you can, I'm sure you get, you have such a huge following and I'm sure you get a million saves on all your posts, but yeah. Yeah. That's awesome. Thanks so much for for being here on the show today. It was great, Matt.
Joanne: Yeah. Awesome. Yeah. We'll chat soon.
