06/26/2022
Happy Sunday! And what a beautiful Sunday morning this is! This is a long post, but if you're one of our 2022 wedding clients or an interested 2023
couple, please take a moment to read.
First, I would like to thank all our wedding clients for their patience. It is always challenging to be on top of the deluge of e-mails but I have been particularly slow at responding this year. The floral world has been very chaotic so far in 2022. The cold, wet spring really delayed the onset of
flowers. On a global scale, the flower world is experiencing many stresses, from limited production
that is driving prices up astronomically (one of our most used types of
greenery has almost doubled in price since April), to civil unrest in South
America that is affecting floral shipments. Never a dull moment and all
these issues mean that we're spending more time making sure we have flowers
and less time responding to messages. I'm sorry for any concern this may
cause - I have not forgotten you and you can be absolutely certain that you
will have my whole focus during the week leading up to your wedding!
We are receiving many inquiries for 2023. After so much inner debate, I
have decided that we will only be taking on a small handful of weddings in
2023, all in the Cowichan Valley. Night Song Farm has always been a family business and the daughters who have been the pillars of the business for the last decade, with their amazing creativity and artistic talent and
their ability to work under pressure and for very long hours, are ready to move on into the world with their own careers. For fun, I counted
the number of weddings that we've provided florals for since our humble
beginnings in 2011: 569 to date! So many fantastic experiences: the
wonderful couples; the incredible, supportive wedding industry partners; the
marvellous venues. It's been a life-changing, fabulous 12 years, but it
seems like it may be time for life to change again. I am hoping that this announcement today will steer couples to other florists rather than having
to wait for me to respond to their individual e-mail inquiries.
With much love and deep gratitude,
Linda
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