r/FloralDesign

Hi! To start the base of this, I’ve been working in Floral design for about three years now I started off with making rose bouquets and very simple mixes in the past couple years. I’ve really enhanced my designing with using local grown flowers and very different design, tactics and design ways. I’m recently starting to freelance more for my own experience. And I’ve signed up for two really big freelancing jobs ones. I’ve never been familiarized with before. This was initiated through Instagram.

Where hopefully they saw my profile. But these are a bit more larger scale, using more premium flowers and more intricate designs. Now I’ve become very, very worried that I’m not able to execute these designs. It’s a lot of groundwork. And a lot of installing I have made some fun designs.

I’ve gotten traction that people do like. And this florist actually commented that she liked my work a lot. What should I do? Should I cancel or should I go through with it and learn some things however I do not want to mess up someone’s schedule due to my unexperienced self I will post some pictures of my work.

I made a post a few days ago about being offered a floral manager position at a big box grocery store, I was previously assistant for floral manager for about 5 years well they initially offered me a $0.50 cent raise to take it on with inventory problems and staffing problems as well they JUST counter offered me a raise of $1.75 bring my pay to $24.75 an hour. Same things still apply work every weekend and have hit and miss days off during the week till I get the new full-time designer trained and taught. Our first homecoming starts up in about 2 ish weeks and goes till the end of October!

Is it worth taking?

I am planning my colors, florals, decor, etc for my wedding right now, and I realized I really want to incorporate rose of sharon into my bouquet somehow. After a quick search though I realized that would be incredibly difficult because my wedding is June 25th, 2027 so they will not be in bloom, and even if they were, they're super prone to wilting.

I really want to include them because my grandma passed away 4 years ago from cancer and she was a huge gardener. Her name was Sharon and she planted rose of sharon bushes all around the perimeter of her yard. They're beautiful and I think it would be a great way to honor her at my wedding. I thought about even using the leaves or closed buds as greenery in it, but they're really woody stems and I don't know if that would work.

So my question is would it be difficult or look weird if I incorporated some high quality faux rose of Sharon flowers into a fresh bouquet? Or do you have any recommendations that's would make it possible to include fresh ones? Or any flowers that would pair well with greenery and buds from the bush? I don't have a preference on flower colors to go with it or anything. I would honestly be okay with center my color scheme around it so whatever you think would look nice that would be great! I am not afraid of color either so go for it!

Thank you!

Ive been in floral business for 6 years working in a big chain grocery store (we actually have one of the biggest shops in the chain) and also a fairly busy shop in my city, anyhoots I actually resigned from the job as assistant floral manager because it was just not a great environment (again we are a fairly busy shop lots of funeral work and event work etc) the inventory is also pretty bad as well we are suppose to have our numbers at a 45% and they are usually around a 20-25%. Also I was the only fulltime person besides the floral manager she also doesn't design so all of the work is put all on me and most days I was running around the shop ragged trying to keep up with orders.

Fast forward I get a call from my store manager telling me the floral Manager is stepping down from her position and they offered me the floral manager position. My pay before I resigned was $23.00 an hour and they offered me $23.50 so only a 50cent pay increase to take it. Also my schedule is gonna be crappy for the next few months I will Have NO weekends off for the time being, Also they hired a fulltime floral designer that has NO experience as well so if I took position I'd have to teach/train her (which isn't a problem) and I'd be also going back to being short staffed, a very busy next 3 weeks because we have 3 big university events that are back to back plus a wedding and going to be getting into homecoming season in the next couple weeks then holidays. And they also want me to immediately start working on getting the inventory up as well because it is pretty bad.

It's almost like I'm being set up to fail before even stepping into the position. I would appreciate some advise. Should I take it or walk away from it?