My nephew is adorable – and grateful to Mother Nature. As he said, he’s “hugging the flowers to thank them for being so beautiful.”
A worthwhile endeavor, indeed.
Be well, and love well.
-Dinah
Showing the flowers some love.
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Real Wedding Sneak Peek! LOVING this photo by Walter Wilson
March 31, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Talk about Palm Springs wedding inspiration!
More from this wedding coming soon! Stay tuned…
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Your Wedding In Palm Springs. No Question About it.
March 13, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“Oh, you got married in Palm Springs.” When your destination wedding is in Palm Springs, the natural beauty in your photos will give you away. Come fall in love with our mountains, the amazing venues, vendors, and of course, each other.
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- A My Little Flower Shop bride. In the Desert. Among the Palms. Oops, have I said too much?
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Classic Bridal Looks Never Go Out Of Style: The Claudette Colbert Edition
February 12, 2013 By Leave a Comment
I went to a screening last night of the fabulous, 1934 Academy Award winning film “It Happened One Night”. It’s always been one of my favorite “wedding movies,” with one of Hollywood’s most stunning bridal gowns, on the equally stunning Claudette Colbert. This bias cut satin gown, designed by Robert Kalloch, may as well be in the encyclopedia under “1930s wedding dress.” But here’s the thing: the dress holds up. A bride, this weekend in 2013, (provided she had the exact measurements as Claudette Colbert) could wear it straight down the aisle.
Claudette Colbert in her bridal gown from the film “It Happened One Night” circa 1934.
As you or a bride in your life shops for a wedding gown, think about 90 years from now. Will that dress you’re trying on still be a classic, or will it go the way of Princess Diana’s 1980′s explosion? (oh the flowers…don’t talk to me about the flowers…bless her heart).
Live well, and love well. (and dress thoughtfully).
-Dinah
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Hyelp! Hyelp! Why Yelp Is Frustrating Small Businesses.
February 1, 2013 By Leave a Comment
HYelp! HYelp! My Little Flower Shop is the latest in a long line of wedding businesses to find that Yelp! seems to have a really unfair, arbitrary non-algorithm that pulls down positive reviews left by real customers, leaving subjective, often unfair reviews to sink your online reputation.
Do you use Yelp, the crowd-sourced review website? Unfortunately, some vocal (and prolific) customers have taken the tool that’s meant to share information on local businesses with the community, and begun to wield it as a weapon against companies that have displeased them in any way whatsoever. Say, by telling them we are closed on a holiday weekend, and can’t take their flower order.
The My Little Flower Shop team shows off bouquets & centerpieces at a Bridal Show
So the kicker is, Yelp! knows that some businesses try to game the system with fake reviews, and pull “suspicious reviews” – often 100% true, from happy customers. To top it off there are “rumors” of Yelp! sales people who offer to wipe out bad reviews or restore good ones with the purchase of advertising. It’s gone as far as groups of small businesses suing the company for extortion. Patt Morrison, Southern California KPCC radio journalist, covered it on her call-in show, with this chat with Yelp! spokesman Vince Sollito. (Patt also has her own hot dog on the menu at Pink’s Hot Dogs. Now that’s an accomplishment).
My Little Flower Shop needs your help on Yelp! When you’re happy with our work, like we do your wedding or someone sends you flowers, please leave a genuine review for us. We’ll hope that some of them stick!
Be well, and love well.
-Dinah
*we posted a version of this in 2011 – history repeats itsyelp.
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When planning your wedding, as a woman in our society, you get to contemplate whether or not you will take your partner’s name. Some women have known all their lives that they’d be transitioning along the way, others have watched friends’ adventures as they hyphenated, kept their own, or invented new names. Some guys are very giving on this issue. My stepsister and her husband BOTH hyphenate. We have another set of friends where the gentleman (he’s the real deal, you’ll see) took his wife’s name so that her family’s line would not die out. Oh, that’s nutty, crunchy California, you must be thinking. But no – they are in that bastion of old-fashioned traditional behavior, Mississippi. A gentleman indeed.
So what to do? I spend a lot of time in this space talking about not following the crowd, and respecting your instincts as you make decisions about your wedding. I’d like to think that if you replace the word “wedding” with the word “life,” most of the advice can be extrapolated, since it’s mainly about being who you are, and trusting your choices. This decision requires you to flex those emotional muscles in the most literal way possible, and to think hard about what you need to “be yourself.” One thing I know: it’s not all in a name. Not by a long shot.
Be well, and love well.
Dinah
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Help Make My Little Flower Shop “Best of the Best” for 2013! Vote Now!
December 30, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Dear friends, fans and family,
2012 has been an AMAZING year for My Little Flower Shop. What with brides, meeting planners, romantic boyfriends, loving mothers and Valley residents celebrating just about anything- our clients are the cream of the crop! Thanks so much for being part of our success.
We’ve been proudly displaying our 2012 My Desert “Best of The Best” banner. We want to keep the title! Won’t you help us be the Valley’s favorite florist two years in a row? Vote every day between now and January 11th to make My Little Flower Shop YOUR favorite Little Flower Shop, too!
Thanks again for all your support – and Happy New Year! Vote Now!
http://bestof.mydesert.com/shopping/
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Waiting for a ring? Is he holding a box or a phone?
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I was chatting recently with my old friend Michael, who I hadn’t seen in a while, and told him I was writing a blog. “Is it too technical, or would I be interested?” he asked. I began to giggle. Why you ask? Because for all practical purposes, this is a wedding blog. And Michael is not the marrying kind. Now I’m not saying he’s gay, he’s dated women as long as I’ve known him. He was even engaged once, but he couldn’t go through with it. He’s just not cut out to function in the kind of arrangement that makes so many others so very happy.
I was delighted to hear yesterday that after all these years, he’d finally figured that out. He laughed too and shook his head – and basically said (out loud!) that he knew “it was never gonna happen.” He knows he’s not meant to be married, and now he’s very upfront with anyone that comes into his life.
In this season of romantic jewelry store commercials pulling at the heartstrings of women across America, (see above for the kind that used to absolutely kill me as a single girl, and which will be EVERYWHERE until Valentine’s Day) I caution “someday brides” to tune in to their partners; make sure you’re not waiting for a ring from a guy who’ll never understand the way you love, and need to be loved in return.
Live well and love well.
-Dinah
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December 3, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Many are afraid of losing the Twinkie to history. But the word HOSTESS brings on fear of a kind unrelated to chemically enchanced spongecake. Let me be clear: there is no reason to fear having guests. At it’s most basic, entertaining is simple. Order take-out, and be entertaining.
Guests today are not like those of the 19th century. They do not come to your home in white-tie expecting to be served a seven course dinner by your Butler. In fact, if you are clear when you make the invitation, they may not expect to be fed at all. Recently we had friends over and I invited them for drinks and dessert. They plainly knew this was not a dinner party, and were delighted with a special winter cocktail, and freshly baked cookies. But were you neither baker nor drink maker, there are goodies at supermarkets that are delicious, and flavored holiday concoctions that are very celebratory spiked or non! And truthfully, if there is enough food and booze at a party – everyone has a good time.
Cheers to not waiting for “perfect” parties!
As for being entertaining, you don’t need your own stand-up comedy routine. There are many easy games that take the pressure off you running the gamut from old fashioned charades, to a full on session of “Dance Dance Revolution,” or if you’ve got a more academic crowd, a rowdy game of Scrabble will do the trick.
So forget making everything perfect! Do you ever hear people say they went to a “perfect” party last weekend? No. Aim for Great! Aim for Fun! Chinese food on paper plates might be the best party you ever had. Take that Martha Stewart.
Live well, and love well.
-Dinah
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Holiday Cards? Already? Yup. It’s time.
November 23, 2012 By Leave a Comment
I have always loved photo holiday cards- especially the ones from happy newlyweds! The husband and I didn’t get our act together these past 2 years, but look out Holidays 2012! I’ve used a code on Shutterfly and ordered 10 free cards. It pays to be on their email list – they are always sending out codes for one free thing or another. We’ll see how it goes with 10 cards, and maybe we’ll order more. What I love about a site like Shutterfly is that all my info (and boatloads of my photos) are already in there, so yay! Less work for me! I thought I’d share our first ever card. Let me know what you think!
*Full disclosure, I’ll get a discount on my next purchase if I send them the link.
