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A big ‘thank you’ to Catherine Duffy and Newsday for their recent article on ‘doing-it-yourself’.  The article highlights brides in the Long Island, NY area who opted to use their own creativity and talents to save money on their big day.  To view the article, please click on the following link:

‘Learn How To Create Your Own Bridal Bouquet’

The Grower’s Box offers a large online catalog of packages of premium wedding flowers which are perfect for the DIY (do-it-yourself) bride.  Our packages are designed around the needs of DIY brides and consist of many very popular varieties of wedding flowers including roses, orchids and calla lilies which are coupled with fillers and greens into very affordable packages.

Please do not hesitate to give us a call or send us an email if you have any questions about our packages of wedding flowers.

Arlena Schott is one of our regular customers and has ordered from us on multiple occasions for her weekly shows and special programs (Garden Wise Living with Arlena).  In her most recent segment she provided tips on how to make the holidays special using fresh cut flowers from The Grower’s Box.  To view this segment, please click on the following:

Holiday Decorating with Arlena Schott on NBC

Programming for ‘Garden Wise with Arlena’ is based out of Wisconsin but is aired across the country and even in Canada.

Thank you Arlena for your business and for the friendship that has grown over the past few years!

My husband and I ordered the flowers for our August 2009 wedding reception through The Grower’s Box and couldn’t have been happier with how they turned out.  All my fears about ordering flowers online have been blown out of the water.  What a deal, and I will be proud for the rest of my life about how beautiful they were.

We ordered 200 bi-color yellow-red roses, 100 snapdragons, and the myrtle as filler, to be arranged in pitchers for the reception tables.  They were delivered on a Tuesday morning, as promised, for our Friday evening wedding, which seemed early, but we trimmed the stems, kept them in air-conditioning and buckets of water as directed, and they continued to blossom right up to and through the reception, and even into the next day.

We did remove some browned or spotted outside petals from the roses on Friday morning as we were arranging them, but this is typical from the shipping and they really did just look fine afterward.  Some of the snapdragons wilted, but because you have to order a minimum of 100 stems and we only need about 70, this was fine; we had a built-in buffer.

If you’re thinking about doing your own, I can only counsel: keep it simple when it comes to which flowers, and practice with a variety of vases and types of flowers from a deli or something before you decide on what you want, but it’s absolutely worth it.  We received many compliments on how nice ours looked, and with absolutely NO prior experience in flower arranging!

The Grower’s Box customer service was exceedingly responsive and careful; I called three times and actually spoke with the same man each time.  He was friendly and courteous and offered good advice.  Throughout what could have been a very scary process, I never felt like we were on our own.

Can’t recommend this company more.  They were great.

To see this review an other reviews from Yelp, please click here.

Recently while on a flight on Southwest Airlines, we picked up an issue of ‘Spirit Magazine’ and came across the article ‘There Must Be 50 Ways To Woo Your Lover.’ It is a fun article and recounts someone’s attempts to ‘woo’ their lover 50 times on a trip. When we hit the author’s attempt #41, we found a reference to fresh rose petals and freeze dried rose petals from The Grower’s Box!

The article is a fun, informative, and humorous read and provides some fun and creative ideas for trying to ‘woo’ your lover all over again!

The Grower’s Box recently published an article titled ‘Wedding Flower Tips and Trends for 2008: Budget Conscious Brides, Do-It-Yourself Wedding Flowers, and The Grower’s Box’. The article highlights trends in the wedding flower industry and provides useful tips for budget conscious brides and those endeavoring to take the do-it-yourself approach to wedding flowers. Excerpts from the article are below:

With Valentine’s Day now passed, many brides-to-be have begun looking forward to wedding season 2008. The date has been set, the reception location confirmed, and the bridesmaids’ dresses picked out. With those tasks aside, the focus now turns to the selection of the wedding flowers! However, with the ever-rising costs associated with weddings, the expense of hiring a floral designer can often be overwhelming. To cut costs, the trend among budget conscious brides is to order wholesale flowers in bulk from online sources like The Grower’s Box (www.growersbox.com) and create their own arrangements of wedding flowers.

The budget conscious bride (Bride-on-a-Budget) and the idea of arranging your own wedding flowers (DIY Wedding Flowers) is becoming more and more popular throughout the wedding industry. On average, brides spend 8% of their total wedding budget on their wedding flowers. This can mean spending up to $1,000 to $4,000 for flowers alone! Many brides are going the way of do-it-yourself wedding flowers because of the significant cost savings and because they it provides them with the freedom to create wedding flower arrangements that truly reflect their own personality and style.

To read the full article, please click here or visit http://www.prweb.com/releases/wedding/flowers/prweb701483.htm.

September 15th, 2007

American Heroes!

Dinner and Party

American Legion Post 14

Inland Northwest Veterans History Project

The evening’s activities included beautiful wholesale long stem red roses from The Grower’s Box.

The wholesale rose represents the deep love for our country, but more importantly we believe this was an act in representation and understanding within the hearts of The Grower’s Box… a statement saying “Thank You” to all of our American Heroes.

The giving of a rose has many faceted expressions as well as lasting impressions.

A rose, member of the ‘Rosa’ family, rosaceae meaning a genus of erect (to stand tall).

We give roses for Love, for Life, and in Remembrance. These beautiful red roses were given to each guest. First to the Ladies ,and then to the Gentlemen and family members. Each rose representing Love of a Mother and Wife, Life for a Father and Mother, Loss for Comrade in Arms, Remembrance of the Crimson Tide paid by those who gave the ultimate sacrifice to preserve and protect the freedoms enjoyed by all who love, work, play, protect, and call home:

The United States of America.

Standing Tall.

Mackenzie Sala is the genius behind the custom invitations at KenzieKate.com. She also runs a blog where she finds and posts products and inspiration for modern weddings, parties, and big to-do’s.

Mackenzie posts on The Grower’s Box here.

Mackenzie writes:

“If you’re looking to save money on flowers you might want to check out Grower’s Box. Loads of different floral varieties are available in bulk, all waiting to be shipped to your doorstep, all you have to do is arrange them. Granted, not all of us have the time or inclination to create our own flower arrangements. Even if you are hiring a florist, consider supplementing with a box of 10,000 rose petals.”

In March The Grower’s Box worked with Arlena (host of ‘Garden Wise with Arlena’) and provided her with a number of different flowers including Tulips and a variety of flowering branches. The show was an overwhelming success and she in turn received over 200 emails regarding that one segment! We want to say ‘thanks’ to Arlena for her support and for the beautiful arrangements she created and the brilliant ideas that she shared - all while using our wholesale flowers!!!

For more information on ‘Garden Wise with Arlena’ visit http://www.arlenagwise.com