Becoming The Bride's Floral Mortician
The name, The Bride's Floral Mortician, is a business name, but also a Title I've taken on.
I am The Bride's Floral Mortician.
How the name The Bride's Floral Mortician came about
The idea of a Floral Mortician came about 20 years before it was ever used. A Client came into the flower shop I was working in and was so upset that we cut all the flowers and didn't allow them the opportunity to grow in nature.
I explained to her that I didn't personally cut them and rip them from their home. Really I was more of a Mortician because they already arrived to me dead. It was my job to make beauty with them.
Now the idea, feels especially appropriate- taking Bridal Bouquets at the end of the events they were intended for and preserving the flowers to "live" on in art so Client's can enjoy them for years.
Who are "The Brides"?
The Bride's is a play on my Last Name and our Client's. Although we do Memorial Pieces and other type of designs, we generally came up with the concept of preserving Bridal Bouquets first.
I love the floral macabre approach to life and have absolutely run with idea in my own personal aesthetic; Floral, Dark, full of nature.
Photos by Jess B Photo
Video by Cutroom Productions
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