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The My Little Flower Shop Blog is now featured on Dwellable.com!

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Palm Springs is definitely a prime vacation spot. We’ve got fantastic hotels and resorts, but did you know we’re also chock-full of vacation rentals for folks who want to rent for longer term stays?  And for local businesses, we certainly want to encourage visitors to stay, play and SHOP! So where do people look to find vacation rentals in the area? Dwellable.com!

Dwellable.com is a fun, easy to navigate website that compiles area vacation rentals for a growing number of resort areas, including Palm Springs.  And now, My Little Flower Shop is one of their featured blogs

521 Magnolia Private Pool Vacation Rental

! We’re looking forward to helping entice more vacationers (destination brides & grooms!) to our beautiful valley with many blog posts to come.

Check out the site, and all they have to offer!

Be well, and love well.

-Dinah

I Want My, I Want My, I Want My…R.S.V.P!

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Vintage Lace Response Card
Vintage Lace Response Card (Photo credit: blush printables)

Why guests don’t reply to wedding invitations? An age old problem. How do you get them to RSVP? Here are some proactive tips for couples:

  • Leave enough time: You’ll read in books that invitations are traditionally sent 8 weeks before the event.  With guests behaving as they do, that’s bullfeathers. Allow yourself plenty of time, and then tack on 2 weeks to chase after people. Don’t add stress by cutting your window too short.
  • Double check your response cards: There are too many couples who happily seal their invitations only to turn around and see extra sheets of stamps – they’ve forgotten to stamp the return envelopes. Have a second set of eyes check that everything looks A-OK.
  • Enlist the cool kids: Get point people to set a good example- if there’s a family matriarch, see if you can get her to RSVP early and let everyone know that’s what’s expected.  Have your wedding party spread the word among friends, etc.
  • Relax A Little: In the end, there are going to be slackers.  You’re going to have to have your Mom, and close friends work the phones a little anyway, no matter how hard you try, so there’s no point in fretting that your cards aren’t coming back fast enough.

There you have it! Now all you have to worry about is seating everyone. Piece of cake. Unless you haven’t picked a cake. Which is nothing to worry about – THAT’S a fun one!

Be well and love well.

-Dinah

Horror Stories Are For Halloween! Not The Bride!

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Did you hear about the bride whose dress was burned in a fire the night before her wedding? Did you hear about the groom who locked himself in the hotel bathroom and missed the whole reception? As a florist in an ideal destination wedding location like Palm Springs, I understand why people are compelled to share bridal nightmare tales with wedding vendors. They know we’ve dealt with our fair share, and in their own way, they are showing  respect for the sometimes challenging, but always rewarding, work that we do.  But for goodness sake people, please stop scaring the brides!  Lord knows they’re a skittish bunch, so don’t follow up “Congratulations on your engagement!” with some tale of a wedding gone horribly wrong.  It may be funny to you, but to this person diving into the difficult planning process, it’s no laughing matter.  So have a little heart.  Save the bridal calamity tales for the bridesmaids. Now THAT’s your demographic!

Nightmare's Reality
Don’t freak out the bride, please. (Photo credit: Vineet Radhakrishnan)