📣Attention Engaged Couples 📣: Don’t forget to enter to win the ‘I Do’ wedding giveaway!@thebranch1501 is hosting this amazing opportunity for one lucky couple to get married in their space on March 15th, 2025. A group of awesome vendors has joined forces to give special deals and discounts to the winners, too!We’re offering 10% OFF wedding florals of $3500 or more, a FREE Boutonniere and $50 towards some cute Cocktail Flowers! And you could carry a gorgeous bouquet like these! To enter:* You must be following all vendors on their Instagram or Facebook accounts.@thebranch1501@elizabethjeanphotography@cutthecraphairlab@bellesandthistles@rasmussendiamonds@lilyandlilacdesignco* Like the giveaway post pinned to @thebranch1501’s grid.* Comment “I do” on that giveaway post.* Share this post.* Draw a picture of each other. Don’t worry! We aren’t judging on your talents! Just have fun and post a picture of yourselves holding the portraits, or get bonus points for posting a video of you both drawing the portraits. Use #idoweddinggiveaway in your post.Visit www.thebranch1501.com to enter and for more details.Good Luck! Can’t wait to talk with the winners to plan some beautiful florals!
Thinking about getting married in 2025? Then you need to enter this I Do Wedding Giveaway by The Branch at 1501! Find them on Instagram (@thebranch1501) for more details so you can win this amazing wedding package with a group of talented local vendors for a wedding held at The Branch on March 15th, 2025! Cant wait to meet our winner and get planning!
There are many components of floristry that appeal to us, but one of Jenn’s favorites is bringing a design concept to reality. Starting with a conversation with our couples, finding inspiration images to work from, landing on a desired design, then figuring out how to bring it to life. It’s a creative challenge she loves to work on! *When we talked with #bellescouple Kristen & Cullin they expressed the desire for a hanging floral feature that could frame them for the ceremony and remain in place for the reception as well. After reviewing the ideas we proposed they selected a Flower Cloud of assorted foliage and roses. Then it was game on! After we brainstormed a design and made a parts list we were off to the hardware store. We made a support structure, tested the concept, and later installed it on site. Next was just adding fresh product, and poof! Magic! Fun, beautiful, hands on problem solving at its best. Here’s a bit of how this piece came together, and apart again.
We were raised in the asylum called Campus Florist. It was a good, hard and crazy job! Working all night to get ready for Valentine's Day made us ready for any wedding craziness that might be thrown our way.
We’ve been busy out in the garage all week creating some new rental pieces. Did you know that we custom build all of the rental structures we offer? The Birch Arch and Birch Chuppah, Copper Arch and Copper Chuppah, Diamond Arch, Wood Arch and the White Pedestals were all designed and created in house. We have a metal Moongate Arch too, but we purchased that because we don’t know how to weld... yet!
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Sometimes we offer things that we don’t have in our inventory just yet, or we get asked to create something new by our couples, and then we get the opportunity to really flex our design skills. We’re pretty good at figuring out how to create unique pieces whether it is table arrangement or a suspended cloud of foliage. And we always enjoy getting to build things, work with our hands, and do some creative problem solving!
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The rental items we offer need to be stable enough to display a variety of different floral applications, withstand all types of weather, be easy to assemble and disassemble in many different terrains, and be
convenient to transport to events. After some research, design, and many trips to the hardware store we always end up with versatile structures we just love seeing get used year after year.
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Check out a bunch of ways we’ve used these pieces so far! Have a favorite?
Ground arch, Floral hedge, Meadow arrangements, whatever you call them, they’re fabulous for a ceremony! We mapped out this one in the driveway, making sure our 7 lush arrangements would give us the shape and fullness we were going for in event day. And our prep paid off with a gorgeous design, right? More of this please! 📍: The Haight
Trios of Cylinder Vases with Floating Candles are insanely versatile. And we have tons of them available in our rental inventory for that very reason. Without even getting into designs with Pillar Candles and other applications, just look at how many ways our couples have used these simple design components to add fresh floral touches and warm glowing candlelight to their reception spaces. You can submerge flowers, foliage and branches, add bud vases or larger floral arrangements, add loose foliage, blooms or rose petals around them. You can even add them inside of a larger container too! Which look is your favorite??
Today we were working on loading up some fun things. But for once it’s not our tool bags, it’s suitcases we’re packing. And we aren’t just hitting the road, we’re hitting the skies for a special trip!
You know we love a good bestie’s adventure, and our B&T work takes us all over the place, but this time we’re finally going on a legit :vacation: together! And the best part is it’s all thanks to our AMAAAAZING clients. Likely You, reading this right now!
For the last thirteen years we have saved all of the tips that our ridiculously lovely couples have generously given us, set them aside and planned to take a cool trip with them one day. Our daydreams of this vaycay have morphed through several different places, but we recently decided it was time to make something happen and we booked ourselves a tropical getaway! We are beyond excited to get some sun, sand and a good mix of adventures with total relaxation!!
So THANK YOU thank you thank you, so much, to all of our Belles & Thistles clients. For trusting us with your special events, for referrals and reviews, and for your extremely thoughtful generosity. We couldn’t take this time to live our best life without you. You fill our hearts with love and we appreciate you more than you’ll ever know. #BellesCouplesAreBest
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That being said, we’ll be out of the office for a bit so please be patient if you reach out. We’ll be back to work towards the end of the month, all refreshed and ready to kick 2024 AND 2025’s ass! #loveandflowersforever
To celebrate the upcoming Galentine’s Day holiday we want to do something sorta silly and sweet. We’re having a fun little giveaway, and it’s easy and free to enter! *For your chance to win these awesome Barbies just send us a postcard at P.O. Box 359, Glenwood, IL 60425 by February 29th, 2024. Tell us what makes your best friend so very special to you, (and include your contact info so we can notify the winner). We’ll review each entry at the end of the month and the best answer as determined by Emily & Jenn will win this PAIR of Barbie Florist play sets. They come with playdoh to make flower arrangements!! Bonus points for extra funny and super sentimental submissions. Winners will be notified on March 1st and we’ll ship your prize out asap!
Shoutout to all the small business owners who are getting ready to file taxes for the year. It’s not you, it’s the actual worst, so hang in there! We try to set little systems in place like keeping track of mileage, tolls and expenses right after each event. Even made these easy little forms to fill out real quick. But we’re usually in a rush to close one project and excited to get to work on the next, so by May last year Jenn gave up filling out her paperwork and just had to spend hours calculating all the things. Coolcoolcool. Here’s hoping your filings go smoother than ours! #smallbusinesslife
The Naper Settlement 2024 Wedding Show is next weekend, Saturday, January 20th. Visit us at booth #40 for a chance to win our Golden Ticket Package! 🌟Hidden in one of our new couple welcome packs is this golden ticket. Find it, schedule a consultation call and provide the secret code, then book your wedding ($2500min) by 01.01.26 to redeem! The package includes 3 free gifts/savings valued at over $250! Can’t wait to see you all there! *RSVP to the FREE event at the link in bio: http://bit.ly/37EPANJ
It’s official, our last 2023 #BellesCouple has tied the knot! It was a beautiful year for the most wonderful group of clients. Much love to all of you! Looking forward to creating more floral magic for 2024 and for years and years to come! #loveandflowersforever
We’ll never stop getting chills when we see our clients’ dream days come to life. Love and beauty at every turn.
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LAST CALL FOR WREATH ORDERS!!
Today is the last day to order for next Saturday delivery! Orders placed tomorrow through December 17th will be delivered on Friday December 22nd!
If you want to enjoy your wreaths and evergreen arrangements all season long - TODAY IS THE DAY!! Hot that link to shop small and support our local business.
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✨The magic of the holiday season is now officially upon us! Visit https://my-site-100972-107572.square.site/ to shop holiday wreaths, porch pots, gift baskets and seasonal florals! We have something for everyone on your nice list.✨
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🎄Order by TOMORROW, Saturday, November 25th for our first delivery date of next Saturday, December 2nd!🎄
We’ll fuel up on caffeine and snacks, hand make your orders with love, and you’ll be supporting our small, women owned business! That’s a holiday win-win.
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🎁As always we serve Illinois, Indiana & Wisconsin in a 200 mile delivery area for just a $10 delivery fee per date, per location.🎁
It’s almost time for Holiday wreaths!!
Getting professional wedding pics emailed to us from past #bellescouples will never not be exciting! Needless to say we were delighted when Rachel & Ryan sent theirs over a couple of weeks ago. We immediately saved a bunch and added them to our website so everyone can gush over how beautiful their day was. Here’s a little taste of Maggie Rife Ponce’s gorgeous work at our fave spot Revolution Brewing
