Mrs Bee's Flower Company

26/08/2024

This beautiful, sunshine filled bouquet belong to Cherie and had a starring role

24/08/2024

Bright colours are all the rage this year. This beauty graced Normanton Park Hotel this week. This was a quick snap just before delivering on Wednesday. Thank you to the lovely Debbie for bringing me on board with this wedding. I love collaborating with you chick ❤️
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16/08/2024

I've got to say this, if you are looking for a wedding florist, please ask questions about what training and experience your florist has. Do your homework, check out their social media pages, see if they are connected to local venues and other suppliers know them, and comment on their work.
In my book, your wedding day is way too important to risk using someone with little or no training. Your bouquet will feature in so many of your photos, and you need any installations to be safe and secure. Ask to see their public liability insurance so you know if anything untoward happens, you are covered. I am happy to help mentor new florists, but I will not allow the industry I am passionate about being devalued by those who don't believe that training is an integral part of their career.
Image, which is a doozy by the totally gorgeous
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21/07/2024

The award nominations are coming thick and fast this year. Regional finalist for The Wedding industry Awards, named as one of the 100 Faces of Floristry and now nominated as Wedding Florist of the Year.

08/07/2024

Not all bud vases are equal! These beauties adorned and what a beautiful location that is! Nestled in beautiful countryside surrounded by nature and wildlife.
Now back to the bud vases! These are a cost effective way to brighten your space but people often baulk at the price. You can indeed do them cheaper yourself but with respect they won't have the beautiful selection of flowers that Laura and Tom chose for their reception. As florists we have access to beautiful flowers some grown in my garden, some from local growers and some from further afield.

05/07/2024

It's a busy wedding week, but yesterday saw a micro wedding for a local lad and his incredibly beautiful Canadian bride. I was recommended by the uber talented (thanks muchly) and delivered their flowers to the incredible Airbnb , what a great location for a family get together sleeps 17 in beautiful surroundings.
Back to the flowers a stunning mix of roses, astilbe, cornflowers, sanguisorba, eucalyptus, freesia and lisianthus

29/06/2024

I love to do something a little different, so what do we think to our shotgun buttonholes? Complete with a stunning Flinders Lane spray rose.

27/06/2024

We are well into an incredibly busy wedding season, and that means our admin lead times have had to increase. If you are waiting for proposals and mood boards, I promise I am grabbing every spare minute I can but my focus is rightly on the weddings that are coming up. Have a little look at how beautiful Lisa looks from her wedding last week with her classic white rose bouquet

10/06/2024

This is a wonderful opportunity for you to show some love to your favourite florist, whoever they may be. I have nominated several and they really do make a huge difference to a local business. So if you have loved the flowers, the service or anything else follow the link and get nominating.

Nominate your Florist of the year and recognise your excellence in service to her customers, clients and community

04/06/2024

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT
It was respectfully requested by a town councillor that I remove the post about not working at the Town Hall anymore after my experience there on Saturday. After an investigation speaking to staff, reviewing their procedures and reviewing CCTV they have decided that I was completely mistaken with my version of events and that I should withdraw my allegations of unprofessionalism by their staff. I have complied with their request and wholeheartedly apologise for my complete confusion over the unfolding of events.
Obviously hardworking small businesses such as mine would choose not to work with any wedding venue without good reason.
Just so we are crystal clear I will not be taking weddings at Stamford Town Hall. Please do not comment on this post for fear of even more correspondence coming my way! They clearly have their version of events and I have mine and we will have to respectfully agree to disagree.

04/06/2024

Why am I a florist? We'll thats down to two of the most amazing people My Dad and his younger sister Queenie (isn't it the best name?) So every weekend my Dad would take me out into the Countryside and teach me the names of the flowers and trees, we would watch the hares box, identify birdsong, fish for minnows and he left me with an abiding love of nature which still makes my soul sing.
Queenie loved flowers and taught me the name of garden flowers, she had pink nerines in her garden which I thought was terribly posh and exotic! She had a friend called Newton Flanders who owned a florist and he taught me to make carnation buttonholes with silver paper on a roll to wrap the stems and I was hooked! I was 6 or 7 at this point.
Lots of bench training and courses later and here we are, I have worked in some of Stamford premier florists, The Flower Gallery, Stamford Designer Florist, Pacey and Canham, Flower by Mandy all long since gone and now I work from my home studio. It still fills me with joy and excitement and thats why I'm a florist.

24/05/2024

Very proud to say I have made it through to the final selection. Flowers are who I am, its what feeds my soul and fills up my happy meter.
I'm honoured that you choose me to make your wedding flowers, your birthday bouquets for your best friend, your farewell flowers to your loved ones, its always an honour.
What lots of you don't know is that I also beaver away in the background writing articles and resources for other florists, mentoring and training new florists and running Facebook groups for professional florists. To be recognised by my peers is huge for me and I'm very touched to be nominated. Competition is stiff so we will have to wait to see what happens. National Florists Day is 8th June so keep an eye out for something special to celebrate from Mrs Bee's

07/05/2024

My first wedding was a beauty. Cool blue and white bouquets for bride and maids and scented white freesia Boutonniere for the boys. The sun shone, the birds sang and my right hand man was en pointe as ever! Perfection.

Dream photographer too Georgi Mabee Photography

2025 is booking up all of a sudden so if you would like scented relaxed florals within a reasonable budget reach out.

01/05/2024

Pretty in pink for a beautiful intimate wedding . Just because you are having a small wedding doesn't mean you can't have beautiful florals. Bonus, I got to work with

21/04/2024

Don't you love these as an alternative to buttonholes? Pocket Boutonniere are the new kid on the block and give a smooth, sophisticated look.Now they don't work on every style of suit, but when they do WOW! Artfully captured by
So what do you think traditional buttonhole or pocket Boutonniere?

20/04/2024

Are Imported Flowers so Bad?🤔

It’s a big question (huge even) and (unsurprisingly) it doesn’t have a simple answer. But Viv Bradford of Mrs Bee's Flower Company goes into a little detail on a few questions on the topic in this latest blog post over at The Club 🌸

🔗 https://www.floristrytradeclub.co.uk/post/are-imported-flowers-so-bad

07/04/2024

A beautiful Springtime bouquet of lilac, Dorchester & Faith roses, waxflower, freesias, wedding pink lisianthus and the most luscious butterfly ranunculus. Lime and Pink are a match made in heaven.

03/04/2024

Very proud to say I have been nominated in the 100 Faces of Floristry for The National Florists Day on June 8th. I am very humbled by the recognition from my peers not only for my Floristry skills but also as a floral educator within my industry.

28/03/2024

Mrs Bee's Flower Company is fully booked for weddings for 2024, which is a wonderful problem to have! I am taking bookings for 2025 so if you are watching from the wings get in touch and let's chat!

27/03/2024

Mrs Bee's is now fully booked for weddings for 2024. Still taking orders for 2025 weddings.

10/03/2024

To all the lucky ladies who received a bouquet of flowers from hard working florists, please look after your flowers. Remove them from the wrappings and place them in a clean vase of fresh water. Change the water regularly and your flowers will thank you for it. Enjoy I plan on a little bit of work and a lot of sleeping.

09/03/2024

Really brave choice for Amber and Aaron yesterday. That blue and orange really zing. If you are waiting for me to get back to you I promise I'm on it from Monday now that Mothers Day is out of the way. By the way I did snip that long bud off before delivering!
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08/03/2024

Just a little message to all my beautiful brides and grooms. If you have messaged me this week I promise I will reply by Monday. I have had a large wedding today and it is Mothers Day weekend so I am flat out, hope you understand but this is any florists busiest weekend of the year.

10/02/2024

First wedding of 2024 was a peach at Burghley House. Hannah and Will were a joy to work with and chose beautiful shades of blush, rose and a little bit of masala to spice it up! Beautiful Spring flowers like hellebores, ranunculus, roses and some very sexy orchids.
These amazing images are courtesy of who is a master of his art (and a lovely chap to boot)

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07/02/2024

Can I just say if you have had an enquiry form from me and would like to chat about your wedding flowers, please,please get it back to me. I send enquiry forms and price lists out daily, and I'm not going to be everyone's flower fairy, but your date is only yours once you have paid the booking fee. All wedding suppliers are saying how busy this year is, and none of us can (or will) hold dates without a consultation and that booking fee. If you've had an enquiry form and I'm not the florist for you, that's absolutely fine too I hope you have an amazing wedding day.
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04/02/2024

Little throw back to my cousins wedding. We are incredibly lucky in this area that wedding suppliers work with an amazing band of photographers who capture our work beautifully. They then kindly share their images with us, so let's have a massive shout out to the lovely and her professional generosity! Look how much these images scream warm summer day.