09/15/2025
We said goodbye to our trusty Mercedes Metris last week. She was my first big purchase after founding Cherry Road Florals, and had transported MANY a wedding floral set up to and from our events.
It was bittersweet telling her goodbye, because she was so tied to my beginnings as a florist and as a business owner. But truthfully, we had outgrown her. We had been sending multiple vehicles to setups when one larger van should have handled it all. We could have started renting UHauls for events, but truthfully I like the control of having our own van to get to know and love.
So I bought one new van for our team, and traded in the Metris.
Then, I bought one more. Because we're there. We're creating beautiful florals for enough clients, that we often have teams going to more than one venue on a day. I love connecting our flowers with amazing brides and grooms, which is keeping us busy as a full-service wedding floral team.
The biggest perk of our new vans? They're fully EV, meaning Cherry Road Florals just turned the corner to becoming even more sustainable as a business. Did I run out of charge on the battery less than a mile from our home driving home from the car dealer near Chicago and have to pull over in a parking lot to charge one of the vans for an hour to get it home? Yeah, that happened. I'm learning.
And we're growing. We have been doing wedding florals for three years now, almost to the day. That's hardly any time at all in the grand scheme of things, but with a hunger to grow the business and a passion for creating amazing florals for our clients, it feels like much longer. We are constantly improving, and while we do still make mistakes (we are human), as a team we push ourselves to be better for our clients with each event we create.
I'll get logos on the vans soon, and plan for the smaller van to be shared by for our deliveries throughout Granger and the rest of our community (sorry, Kaitlyn; you're about to be driving a tank!). I'll also have to learn to subdue my "assertive" driving just a bit as folks start to recognize us, and the vans, around town.
Don't need to be cutting off any slow-pokes in our fancy new vans, eh?
