Every Wedding needs Flowers, and before the pandemic, we all took fresh flowers for granted. As a Florist, we would place our orders, the flowers would get trucked in, we would make up the bouquets and event flowers, and the Bride has a beautiful Wedding, and everyone is happy. During major holidays like Christmas and New Year's, it is all a giant bucket of stress and nail-biting moments. Truck routes may get cancelled, shipments sent to Thunder Bay get sent to North Bay instead, and Hello, its Winter and accidents happen, and highways are closed. Trucking employees just want to put in their time and get home, so they don't read labels, and give your shipments to some other Flower shop. Other Flower shop refuses to answer their phone!!! More panic....So while a New year's Eve Wedding sounds lovely, just plan to hold your Wedding at some other time. These situations actually happened, just in case you think that we are just whipping up drama.
And yes, to top it all off, there is a Covid pandemic on, and the number of guests you are allowed to have can change overnight!
There is an alternative, you can use Dried flowers in your bouquets, or faux flower stems. Fresh local greenery (evergreens and balsam ) look and smell wonderful, and are plentiful in our Northern Ontario forests. If you decide you have to have fresh white gardenias ( see above photo) in your bouquet, it will be impossible to make this happen. However, a silk gardenia is possible, and here at The Camellia, we use the most realistic permanent botanical stems in our bridal bouquets. There are so many problems getting fresh flowers, that you may have a hard time finding a florist to design your Wedding flowers.
