3 minutes and counting...

The artists hard at work on site!

At a previous appointment  the blushing bride and I were having a ball connecting and seeing the same type of design and flowers! 

From the beginning the budget had been established and at the end I had come right under the numbers.  Feeling good about my connection with the bride I began to show them what their bouquets and boutonnieres would sort of look like.  

Unfortunately at that time the MOB (Mother of the Bride) asked me why at $20 a piece was the boutonniere so expensive!!!  

Since I had taken all of 3 minutes to put it together she felt that for the time it took to create it, it was not worth the $$$.  

Jamilla with PLE hard at work!

I remembered a story about how Picasso, the painter, valued his work; so I reluctantly explained to the MOB that it might have taken me 3 minutes to create a boutonniere, but more importantly it had taken me almost a decade, more than 10 employees and over 758 weddings to create that boutonniere in just 3 minutes! 

The value of my creativity is not measured by the time it takes me to create it but rather by the time I took learning how to do it right!

Needless to say, I am not sure if we are going to book that event but I did want to take the opportunity to express that sometimes us vendors make the mistake to make it look easy. To borrow a line from The Djay Company,  "In the end... it's results that separate the good, from the best!"

We love what we do and the result is a lifetime amount of happy brides!