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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.
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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.
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