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At Huisman Flowers, Our Caring Flowers are Perfect to Celebrate International Day of Friendship on July 30th.
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At Huisman Flowers, Our Caring Flowers are Perfect to Celebrate International Day of Friendship on July 30th.

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At Huisman Flowers, Our Caring Flowers are Perfect to Celebrate International Day of Friendship on July 30th.

Huisman Flowers provides local same day and express flower delivery service to Christ Memorial Reformed Church

Celebrated on July 30th each year since 2011, International Day of Friendship has become a popular worldwide holiday. There is so much diversity in this world with cultures and beliefs. Having an Internationally recognized day for people to stop, celebrate and promote understanding in human differences is valuable. The main purpose of this day is to help all of us appreciate the differences in our cultures and try to unite. What a great time to pick out a caring and beautiful flower arrangement professionally prepared by a Huisman Flowers floral designer.

In honor of International Day of Friendship, numerous governments, individuals, and community interest groups work scheduled events that are designed to kindle friendships within their communities and extending outside of their communities. Parades displaying multiple country flags followed by music festivals hosted by multi-cultural bands are commonplace. If you are looking for some fun things to do on International Day of Friendship, below are a few ideas you can encourage children to do.

Make goodie baskets filled with special treats and give them to friends.
Make homemade friendship bracelets
The kids can create a friendship class book.
Create a book filled with photos and stories about your special friendships.
Create a big poster symbolizing all of the values of friendship.
Have kids write about what a friend means.
Ask the kids to share stories about friends and try to find common things.

Starting kids out early learning the value of friendship and embracing differences is important. However, adults can get to together with friends and create strong friendship bonds as well. Let’s face it, the world we live in today possesses an elevated level of miscommunications, mistreatment, lack of trust, discrimination, and cultural discord. The value of a day like International Day of Friendship can go a long way to minimizing those issues. Peace in our global society, while difficult to obtain is still a worthy pursuit. The United Nations can be thanked for introducing International Day of Friendship in 2011. They experience every day the value of building bridges among cultures, countries, and even ideologies.

As far as simple things adults can do to foster better friendships, below are a few ideas:

Share a meal – If you have not seen friends in a while and want to re- bond, planning a lunch, dinner or happy hour can be a great start. Do it in the name of International Day of Friendship to add meaning to the occasion.
Attend a community cultural celebration – Nothing says I want to make new friends and experience different cultures than attending an event that is out of your norm.
Send a greeting card – Pretty common and simple gesture is to purchase or make a nice greeting card. Let friends know on International Friendship Day that you truly value your relationship.

Friendship and connections will break down barriers and differences. That is main purpose of International Day of Friendship. Once others realize how open you are to new learning and respecting new cultures, deeper bonds will be established. The elimination of negative biases and feelings towards the views of others can go a great distance in unification and an attempt to create peace and harmony in the world.

As you get ready to celebrate this meaningful day, please be sure to stop into a Huisman Flowers show room and speak with one of our super talented floral designers. They will be delighted to help you select that perfect flower arrangement to make your friends feel the love. Here are just a few of our many choices:

Lakeshore Burlap Chic

The award-winning floral design staff at Huisman Flowers created this Chic Bouquet. This exclusive design features bright yellow Sunflowers, beautiful orange roses, stunning yellow roses and various other chic stems. All of these stems, blooms and accents are artfully designed in a cylindrical vase, with a burlap wrap. This arrangement works for Birthdays, Anniversaries, Graduations or sent as a Get-Well gift. We guarantee this bouquet will generate a big smile.

Huisman Flowers International Friendship Day Flowers

Huisman Flowers provides local same day and express flower delivery service to Christ Memorial Reformed Church, located in Holland, Michigan. Our firm is your local Holland, MI flower shop. We have operated for many years as Eastern Floral Lakeshore. Last year, we changed our operating name to Huisman Flowers. We are the premier floral brand in Holland, Michigan. The address for Christ Memorial Reformed Church is 595 Graafschap Rd, Holland, MI 49423. The main phone number for this house of worship is (616) 796-3370. The church is a Christian based organization, and as faithful followers of Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior, they embrace and proclaim God’s work of creation, redemption, and the fulfillment of His eternal purposes.

We employ an award-winning floral design staff. Our floral delivery team is also one of the best in Michigan. Our Holland Flower Shop is located at 11595 E Lakewood Blvd., Holland, MI 49424. Christ Memorial Reformed Church is located approximately 6.7 miles from our beautiful Holland Floral Design Center. It takes our delivery staff approximately 13 minutes to make the drive from the flower shop to the church. Christ Memorial Reformed Church generally accepts flower deliveries to the administrative area, Monday through Friday, from 8:30 am to 5:00 pm. Deliveries can be made to the church on weekends for events or special occasions.

100% Customer Satisfaction Guarantee

If for any reason you don’t absolutely love the arrangement we have created and delivered for you, just contact one of our floral design centers. We will replace that floral bouquet with one of equal or greater value. That new arrangement will be designed and delivered absolutely free of charge.

Dancing in Daisies

Daisy days are here again! Reconnect with an old friend by sending this enchanting array of white daisies and red alstroemeria in a sparkling clear glass vase. They’ll love it – and you! Expect a phone call. This delightful bouquet includes red alstroemeria and white daisy spray chrysanthemums accented with assorted greenery. Delivered in a classic urn vase.

Huisman Flowers

(616) 399-5060

11595 E Lakewood Blvd Ste 10
Holland, MI 49424

By Steve Lein|2022-07-25T17:25:52+00:00July 25, 2022|Grand Haven Florist, Holland MI Florist, Huisman Flowers, International Friendship Day Flowers, Same Day Flower Delivery, Uncategorized|Comments Off

Send Huisman Caring Flowers to Honor Parents’ Day on July 24th

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The fourth Sunday in July is the special holiday created as National Parents Day. In 2022 the date is July 24th. This is a time when we can all pay a tribute to our parents for their contribution in raising us and preparing us for success in the world. Always a rock we can lean on our parents deserve to be recognized with National Parents’ Day Flowers. The best place to shop for flowers is Huisman Flowers. Our Floral Designers have prepared caring bouquets and arrangements that will delight any mom or dad.

On this day, many organizers gather nationwide to prepare celebrations to commemorate parents everywhere. This has been a tradition since 1994 when President Bill Clinton signed a Congressional Resolution that effectively created National Parents’ Day. President Clinton felt it was important to publicly recognize the supporting role all parents play in the rearing of their children.

In addition to beautiful and caring flowers from Huisman Flowers, you can also do other things. Have a backyard picnic, spend time researching family genealogy, do some baking with mom and simply say thank you to mom and dad for all of the wonderful memories and sacrifices. All of these will go a long way to making National Parents’ Day very special.

Giving a beautiful and caring flower bouquet from Huisman Flowers to your parents is a great start. You might want to hand deliver as an in-person visit is always welcome. If it is not geographically practical to visit in person, then have the Huisman Flowers conveniently same day delivered and add a phone call as an added touch. The caring act of showing them how much they mean will be so powerful in their hearts.

At some point in many adolescent lives, teenagers may feel like their parents are out of touch. As we look back on lessons learned and sacrifices given from parents, it is easy to see that they really did understand and were very wise.

What a perfect way to celebrate a holiday. Perhaps you could arrange a small gathering for a Parents’ Day party. Bring out some of your favorite photos and cook their favorite foods. They will have a good time and so will you. Not to mention you will make a new lasting memory.

Most of us cannot remember swaddling clothes, being fed and burped or long nights where our parents stayed rocking us back to sleep. If you have kids or grand kids, you no doubt grasp the full personal sacrifice of sleep deprivation. And how many times when you needed a friend and unconditional love did you seek advice from a parent regarding problems at school or just in general?

So, on this upcoming National Parent’s Day, find a special way to reach out to your mom and dad. The wonderful and talented floral designers at Huisman Flowers are eager to assist with the most caring flowers you will find.

Check out some of our caring flower arrangements:

Classic Dozen Light Pink Roses

For classic romance, a dozen roses are always the perfect choice. One dozen long-stemmed roses in an elegant glass container with premium foliage accents.

Huisman Flowers National Parents’ Day Flowers

Huisman Flowers provides local same day and express flower delivery service to Christ Memorial Reformed Church, located in Holland, Michigan. Our firm is your local Holland, MI flower shop. We have operated for many years as Eastern Floral Lakeshore. Last year, we changed our operating name to Huisman Flowers. We are the premier floral brand in Holland, Michigan. The address for Christ Memorial Reformed Church is 595 Graaf Schap Rd, Holland, MI 49423.

The main phone number for this house of worship is (616) 796-3370. The church is a Christian based organization, and as faithful followers of Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior, they embrace and proclaim God’s work of creation, redemption, and the fulfillment of His eternal purposes.

We employ an award-winning floral design staff. Our floral delivery team is also one of the best in Michigan. Our Holland Flower Shop is located at 11595 E Lakewood Blvd., Holland, MI 49424. Christ Memorial Reformed Church is located approximately 6.7 miles from our beautiful Holland Floral Design Center.

It takes our delivery staff approximately 13 minutes to make the drive from the flower shop to the church. Christ Memorial Reformed Church generally accepts flower deliveries to the administrative area, Monday through Friday, from 8:30 am to 5:00 pm. Deliveries can be made to the church on weekends for events or special occasions.

At Huisman Flowers we back all of our products with a 100% Customer Satisfaction Guarantee. If for any reason you don’t absolutely love the arrangement we have created and delivered for you, just contact one of our floral design centers. We will replace that floral bouquet with one of equal or greater value. That new arrangement will be designed and delivered absolutely free of charge.

Lakeshore Lavender

This gorgeous fresh flower bouquet features beautiful purple roses, lavender alstroemeria, full bloom hydrangea and floral accents.

Huisman Flowers

(616) 399-5060

11595 E Lakewood Blvd Ste 10
Holland, MI 49424

By Steve Lein|2022-07-18T14:08:44+00:00July 18, 2022|Floral Designers, Grand Haven Florist, Holland MI Florist, Huisman Flowers, National Parent's Day Flowers, Same Day Flower Delivery, Uncategorized|Comments Off

Contact our Talented Wedding Team in Advance to Plan for Wedding Flowers

Huisman Flowers provides FREE wedding consultations

Obtaining Wedding Flowers has become more difficult in the past few years. It is very important that if you are wanting to have a wedding in the next 6-9 months, now is the time to visit your florist. Huisman Flowers has a wonderful selection of flowers and a professional and caring team of wedding planning experts. We would be honored to get started planning your wedding.

The flower shortage facing all florists is a culmination of several factors. One thing is for sure and that is many florists are feeling the pinch and doing their best to find ways to continue servicing their client base.

Global Pandemic – We all understand the impact this horrific event had worldwide. This 2020 event snowballed into effecting many different industries including Wholesale Flower Growers. Many had to shut down farms due to quarantine requirements. This in turn resulted in laying off many workers and destroying tons of flowers. Some farms have not reopened and appear to have gone out of business.

Breaking it down further to real numbers, the National Association of Wholesale Distributors reported that there were 5.64 million employed in the US floral industry at the end of December 2020. That was a drop of 247,717 jobs lost between 2019 and 2020. This is the lowest level of floral industry employment in the past seven years. Then furthering the problem was the reduced number of flowers that were grown.

As people have returned to normalcy, they have begun planning events again, there are now fewer flowers and workers to load trucks. Sadly, many flowers are left to die in the heat because they cannot be loaded onto trucks.

Environmental Changes – Climates in some regions where flowers are grown have changed. In South America, they are reporting colder nights and more rainfall which has negatively affected flower production. Then domestically, many farms are located in California which as we know has been suffering from severe drought conditions.

Foreign Political Pressures – In many parts of the world there is current political unrest. This is true in Ecuador which is a major supplier of wholesale flowers. There are many protests that have blocked major transportation routes. Numerous flower farms are unable or finding it difficult to transport their flowers to shippers.

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Increased Number of Weddings – There is a huge increase in the number of weddings. Many were postponed due to the Pandemic. The U.S. Wedding Report study reported that in 2021 there were an estimated 1.93 million weddings scheduled. That number for 2022 has climbed to 2.47 million. This increase in the demand for wedding flowers coupled with the supply issues is making the problem worse.

Huisman Flowers, like the majority of US Florists, is forced to adjust normal day to day procedures in order to best serve customers. Below are a few of the steps we have taken to best serve our customers in these difficult flower supply conditions.

Accurate Expectations – The last thing we want to do is over promise and under deliver. When we set up a wedding consultation, we will provide honest and reasonable time frames to ensure your wedding flowers arrive on time and looking beautiful.

Early Wedding Bookings – Your wedding is a most important day. Due to all of the issues we are all faced with regarding fresh flowers supply, we strongly encourage advance wedding planning.

Possible Substitutions – Unfortunately, it may be necessary to be flexible with wedding flower choices. While you will have first choices for your dream wedding flowers, it may not be possible in all cases to obtain those exact flowers.

Our mission is to do our very best to find alternatives to try and meet your expectations. One thing we are good at is flexing flowers. This is a technique that makes different varieties of flowers appear similar to the variety you are wanting. For example, Roses can be flexed to look like a Peony etc.

Huisman Flowers Wedding Flowers

Welcome to the Huisman Wedding Flowers site. This year, we begin an exciting new chapter in our journey. We will be updating our brand, operating our Grand Haven and Holland flower shops as both Eastern Floral Lakeshore and Huisman Flowers.

Our new brand will maintain and continue the long-standing tradition at Eastern Floral Lakeshore of providing the great floral products, same day delivery, affordable pricing and incredible customer service. Adding Huisman Flowers to our brand will allow us to introduce to the world to the family who has stood behind the Eastern Floral Lakeshore name for many years.

We continue to operate two beautiful flower shops in the Lake Michigan Lakeshore area. Many of you have shopped with us at these two floral design centers over the years. Our Eastern Floral Lakeshore location in Grand Haven is located at 556 N Beacon Blvd Grand Haven, MI 49417.

The phone number for our Grand Haven floral design center is 616-842-4340. Our Eastern Floral Lakeshore location in Holland is located 11595 East Lakewood Blvd Holland, MI 49424. The phone number for our Holland floral design center is 616-399-5060.

Huisman Flowers creates gorgeous wedding flowers. We have a team of highly skilled wedding flower designers. These folks are some of the most skilled in the Grand Haven and Holland area. If you are getting ready to plan your wedding, we encourage you to reach out to either of our two floral design centers.

Huisman Flowers provides FREE wedding consultations. During your wedding consultation, we will start by listening to your vision for the wedding flower package you want.

Then our wedding planner will help you with every step of the process. We offer affordably priced wedding flower packages and are large enough to handle weddings and events of any size.