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    The Essential Guide to Buying your Wedding Flowers
    The Essential Guide to Buying your Wedding Flowers
    The Essential Guide to Buying your Wedding Flowers
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    The Essential Guide to Buying your Wedding Flowers

    By Vanessa Gill

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    A comprehensive, step-by-step Guide designed to help you to choose your Wedding Flowers. Full of handy tips & advice about Colours, Varieties & Styles to suit your theme and budget, including useful research lists to get you started. Genuine guidance from a real Florist with over 25 years experience, this manual will show you how to present your ideas clearly to your Florist, providing essential advice to help you find the right one for you.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherVanessa Gill
    Release dateSep 24, 2011
    ISBN9781466025660
    The Essential Guide to Buying your Wedding Flowers
    Author

    Vanessa Gill

    Hi I'm Vanessa, a Florist with over 25 years experience in the trade, 10 of those years spent running my own busy Florist and Wedding retail shop based in the West Midlands. Over the years i have helped dozens of Brides and Grooms to plan their Wedding Flowers and continue to do so in a remote capacity online, where i now sell artificial, bespoke designs. I live in Northern France with my long term partner and teenage daughter.

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      The Essential Guide to Buying your Wedding Flowers - Vanessa Gill

      THE ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO BUYING YOUR WEDDING FLOWERS

      BY VANESSA GILL © COPYRIGHT VANESSA GILL 2011

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold

      or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person,

      please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did

      not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to

      Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work

      of this author.

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      Table of Contents

      Introduction

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      Equipment

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      Chapter One: A Good Place to Start

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      Research List

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      Chapter Two: Choosing Style and Colours

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      Chapter Three: Budget

      * *

      Chapter Four: The Consultation

      * *

      Chapter Five: Finding the Florist

      * *

      Chapter Six: Making Lists

      * *

      Chapter Seven: Summing Up

      * *

      All in all, everything you need to do to get exactly what you want for your Wedding from your Florist

      * * * *

      Introduction

      Congratulations on your forthcoming Wedding!

      You are about to jump on the Rollercoaster of organising, choosing, budgeting and re-budgeting, probably one of the most exciting and the most stressful times of your life!

      My aim, in this Essential Guide, is to help you with just one aspect of all this, which is, in my opinion, one of the most important: your Wedding Flowers.

      We will deal with style, theme and colour and how to choose the right Florist, as well as how to gather all the information into an easy-to-follow instruction manual to enable you to get it all across to the Florist, which will ensure that you get exactly what you want and that it all goes where and when you want it to on the Big Day itself (a surprising element that doesn't bite you until the day, when you really don't want to be worrying about it)

      Before we begin, let me tell you a bit about myself and background in Flowers.

      I am a Florist with 25 years experience in the trade, 10 of those years spent running my own Florist and Wedding retail shop based in the West Midlands. During those years, I helped dozens of Brides (and Grooms!) plan their Floral arrangements for their special Day.

      In my experience, very few Brides arrive with an exact portfolio of their requirements. Most have an idea of how they want to look, or a theme they have to follow, but rely on me to advise them about shape, size, colours and varieties Many have no idea at all about flowers and one even said to me that she wanted some arrangements, but didn't like flowers so didn't want any in them at all! It never ceased to amaze me how many of them had been turned away from Florists who did not do consultations and wanted them to come prepared, knowing just what they wanted.

      It is this single fact that has prompted me to write this Book. Over the next few chapters I will share with you all my experience and knowledge and show you how to bring your ideas together so that by the end, you will have a comprehensive plan to take to your Florist, who will then be able to provide you with the Floral arrangements you've always dreamed you would have on one of the biggest days of your life.

      The most important thing to decide upon when you are choosing your Wedding Flowers is the Florist. We will discuss

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