Never Again!

I'm feeling a little down at this time, due to a wedding I did recently for a friend's daughter.  I don't think she was too happy with my work and decided to take her bouquet to someone else to "fix it" or someone else that "understands her vision".

My frustration is this!  When a bride shows you pictures of what she wants...let's say a bohemian look, garden look or even a Victorian/vintage look...that's what you do! BUT when you have the bride watching you make that "look", says she LOVES IT and says "make it BIGGER"!  What do you do?  MAKE IT BIGGER!  She LOVED it...and took pictures that night.

A week later it was expressed to me, by the mother of the bride, that the bouquet was TOO BIG and TOO HEAVY, so she wants it smaller and tighter.  Well, the BIGGER it is the HEAVIER it gets! Keep in mind that she wants the "garden look", not structured...she wants it to look like she picked it out the garden. When making a vintage/garden look the flowers are different lengths and NOT a round nosegay. Well, the bouquet was made with the help of the mother and sister!  Let me tell you it is NEVER good to have family involved in the workroom when doing wedding work! There are too many ideas and opinions which makes it VERY DIFFICULT on the designer. The mother then says to me that her daughter wants it tighter!  When making it tighter the flowers get lost because not all flowers are the same length due to the bride wanting the "WILD LOOK".

Needless to say, I go to the wedding reception.  I greet the bride and to my surprise the bouquet is totally different.  It is a NOSEGAY with additional flowers added to it. The brides comment to me is "my husband added the flowers for me and I LOVE IT!" I'm glad she loves it, but her husband didn't do it!  It was taken to another designer and remade because the bride changed her mind!  Lesson learned: Never do a wedding for friends when the bride, mother of the bride or any other family and/or friends of the bride are involved in the creating of the bouquet.  It makes for a disaster!