Jamie Wolfer describes a bride who received a dead bouquet from her florist an hour before walking down the aisle. She emphasizes why you need someone assertive on your wedding day, like a coordinator or planner, to demand fixes when vendors fail. Wolfer once left the hospital with sepsis to shoot a wedding.
I worked a wedding a few weeks ago and the florist delivered a straight up dead bouquet. It was horrible. The bride called and said, you have an hour to bring me a new bouquet or there will be an issue. And they did just that. But it was outrageous that they even delivered the dead bouquet to begin with. The original creator's like, how could you even deliver it? This is also another good case to making sure you have someone who can speak up around you, whether that's a coordinator or a photographer who's going to step in. Someone who would be like, no, we're not doing this. Especially if you're a type B baby girl. Okay? We need to make sure that you've got a type A and/or slightly more aggressive friend and/or wedding planner next to you to be like, "Hi, no, absolutely not." Or someone to step in and say, "Hey, florist, you don't have the flowers. I know you don't have the flowers because if so, you would be telling us that we could go pick up the wholesale ingredients or items from wherever we could pick them up, or you could meet us somewhere with them because the drop-off doesn't take that long unless you're doing a massive install and we'll wait." "Trust me, we'll get the florals from you if you have them. If not, there's going to be a bigger issue." I'm a florist. I can't begin to see how this would happen. I once signed myself out of the hospital with sepsis to complete a wedding and then went back to the hospital after. To not show up? Insane.
