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07/02/2024
BTS snaps from the U.S. Conference of Mayors and boy, did we have a fun palette work with! Color-blocked and bold shapes was the name of the game…how did we do? Always wonderful working with who continually throw superb and outside-the-box events!
Thanks Floraloom team!
06/04/2024
Last month, I was so honored when Emily and Ellie, the hosts of asked me to speak on the theme: VIBRANT at . I’ve been going to Creative Mornings for about a decade back when I lived in LA. It’s the most incredible group of creatives coming together to learn, inspire, and connect — so this was a real gift to be able to share with and meet so many of you who attended! Thank you for coming and bringing your energy!
And a special shout out to the featured artist of the event - if you don’t know about her, you absolutely need to! She’s vibrant on the inside and outside and real joy to be around! Plus her work is just the most colorful pieces of art!
Thanks for the fun photos and all those who make the event happen every month so we can all get inspired and meet new friends:
05/15/2024
This Friday, I’m excited to be speaking on the topic VIBRANT 🦋🌈🪲🪻🌼 at at Crossroads Hotel. The featured artist joining me will be the wildly talented
The event is free, but you will need to register. Hope to see some of your faces there!
A few days ago, Ellie and Bryan celebrated 1 year together since this colorful wedding day and during that year welcomed their sweet little boy! Such a joy flowering for you both and excited for your beautiful family!
Hey Floraloom Fam! Colleen here 👋🏼 It’s been a minute since I’ve popped in with some life and business updates! So thought I’d do a spring check-in:
🌱 For those of you new here, welcome! Glad to have you join in the Floralooming fun. Good things coming on the horizon!
🌱Last year I moved out of my studio of almost three years at .ex (so many great memories and a wonderful work family!) and now working out of my home studio (aka garage and converted basement) for the time being with baby (ahhh, the learning curve of being a mama and business owner is REAL! Welcome any all advice from all you fellow mamas out there!).
🌱 This year, I’m just focusing on event and installation work and pausing on retail florals so I won’t be offering Mother’s Day flower deliveries but can recommend so many other amazing local florists who are!
🌱Some of you know me from my bouquets. After three big beautiful years, I had to take a step back in the fall after having baby girl and .floral is now the new florist in-house there! Be sure to stop in and grab one of her lovely blooms.
🌱 Grateful for so many of you trusting me with your projects and spaces to create for you, especially now that I’m juggling a tiny human in the mix. I feel incredibly honored to be part of your visions and excited to keep growing as an artist this year!
🌱And thank you to all of my Floraloom fam here for continuing to follow along with me. I may not be posting as much on Instagram these days to connect with you, but when I do, it’s wonderful to hear from you! Your thoughtful comments make me feel so supported and motivated to keep Floralooming! And of course, my favorite is when we meet off the gram in person. Face-to-face chats is my love language. But until that moment comes, sending ya a big 🫶🏼
04/26/2024
Give me all the fruity table moments 🥝🍓🍊🍇🍒🍑🫐
04/05/2024
Can’t wait to have a cocktail in this swanky bar at KC Current
Limited collection available. Swirly gold bird of paradise leaf with luxury blooms all in a curvy modern vessel for your sweetheart who craves a little touch of art in their space.
01/22/2024
Give a piece of art to your sweetheart! Will be sharing Floraloom’s exclusive Valentine’s Day flower drop soon. Here’s a sneak peek. Focusing this year on funky shapes, mod vessels, and of course, that color pop to brighten up these icy winter days! 🟠🟡🟣
12/25/2023
Sending you joy Floraloom fam from my cozy lil’ fam! Beginning 2023, I had no idea the wonderful gifts that laid in store this year, from some of the most fun and challenging projects I’ve designed, including a new human! Thank you to all of you who have continued to root on my business and supported me in my new mom journey. 2024 is going to look just a little different, balancing mom and business, but I know we’re going to create beauty together!
Much love and Merry Christmas, Colleen 🫶🏼
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12/07/2023
After three years of flowering with , I’m taking a step back to focus on events and passing on the baton to .floral who will be taking over both the Midtown and new Leawood location.
It’s been a pleasure flowering for all of you! From holiday pop-ups, to “just because” and “self-care” bouquets to brighten up your day, to workshops, and partnerships with and local flower farmers, I’m so grateful for the opportunity to have brought a slice of Floraloom to you. Billie’s, thank you for being a launch pad for small businesses to share their creations with the community of Kansas City! Love your mission, food, and people. You’ll probably see me around still popping in for my favorite sugar cookies 🫶🏼
11/30/2023
Honored to be part of such a supportive community! Thank you to Wed Kansas City and all my talented colleagues in the Kansas City event industry who nominated Floraloom for two very special awards: Florist of the Year and Trailblazer Award.
So grateful for your trust and the opportunity to create experiences that wow and inspire!
11/16/2023
Hey there! Colleen checking in 👋🏼This is my official OOO post until baby arrives V soon and closing out these last few weeks preparing all the final TO DO’s for new mom life AND learning a new skill (making my own ceramic floral vessels) that I’ve been dying to do and just never had the time to do it (thank you baby for this time to slow down!). Grateful for the BEST teacher for her guidance and expertise teaching us over 4 weeks in the wonderful space.
And can I just say, I have some amazing classmates like and .kc who are keeping the energy bumpin’ — and speaking of bumps. So ready to meet this little Floraloomer.
Thanks for all the love and support and all my flower friends for jumping in and helping me out with projects while I’m away 🫶🏼
11/08/2023
Wreath Szn is here! I’m going to be making a limited collection of these in different color ways for baby Floraloom’s diaper fund. If you’re interested in a little color pop on your door, shoot me a DM! Happy to customize colors. I’ll be sharing the order link on my website soon. This one I’ve had on my front door (outside!) for almost two years and it’s still going strong!
11/06/2023
Another year with who knows how to throw a killer party! This year’s theme: Midsummer Night’s dream was so fun to run with for designing! The Polsinelli event team always comes through with a fabulous evening
As soon as guests arrived they were given a flower crown while they rang a bell on the secret garden wall where mysterious hands passed them a bubbly glass of champagne!
The reactions of guests did not disappoint and these pics only capture a few 😆
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10/26/2023
Are you ready for a tropical getaway?! Last week, the Floraloom team came in strong with this gorgeous colorful explosion at in for a very special celebration honoring a wonderful client!
This is my last big event before I go on maternity sabbatical for a bit and get ready for baby coming in about 6 weeks! So grateful for all my clients who give me the creative freedom and trust to design experiences like these for them and I’ll be coming back strong in 2024 🙏🏻
Huge thank you to my team who helped bring this tropic oasis party to life and all my wonderful vendors who helped me source the most gorgeous tropics and shipped to Kansas City:
Beautiful table rentals from and
Catering:
10/24/2023
Always a gift to get to create with Newhouse Shelter survivors
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10/10/2023
Spotted in the wild: tiny Floraloom delivery gal 🌿
By way of and
10/06/2023
Elegance perfected 🤌🏼
These stunning bouquet moments with the beautiful bride were captured so poetically by
10/04/2023
Table details from the Dutch Master’s inspired wedding dreamed up by the beautiful couple Tess & Cody! Such thought and detail went into every single moment — from the color palettes, varieties of flowers chosen, to the selection of fruit. We were delighted to bring such an exquisite vision to life!
🌿Captured by
🌿Full wedding & coordination by
🌿 Venue at Mission Hills Country Club
Thank you to my team who helped transform these tables with artful creativity!
09/20/2023
Mmmm, mmmm, mmmmmm. Almost the end of the season for these Queen Lime Zinnia. They really do like to show off 💅
09/20/2023
Hairy ball season is here! (Those like green flower balls) aaaaand this coming Friday is the Art Fair which means we’re getting pumped over here to flower once again for so thought I’d share a throwback from the first one we did a couple of years ago. Can’t wait for you to see the theme this year!
09/15/2023
Happy Red Friday Kansas City!
Throwback to when we Floraloomed up the red carpet for the this past spring for with .paper x . I don’t recommend doing this while in your first trimester of pregnancy when the nausea is at an all time high 🤢 Luckily, had an awesome team to help .ex .skiggity
09/14/2023
Mmmm, wanna know my favorite thing?! That color 💥POP 💥 against a neutral backdrop and was the perfect setting to make this rainbow wedding impactful. Brooke and Ty were intentional and kind throughout the whole process of designing their wedding and I think we, together with the rest of the amazing vendors, created some pretty epic magic together!
This ceremony backdrop was my favorite because it played such a big role throughout the day, from the ceremony, to the photo-opp, to the dance backdrop.
Thanks to these wonderful florists for assisting this Floraloom dream:
Planner
Rentals .table
Venue
Cake .cakes
Photography
HMUA
DJ
09/12/2023
Nothing more romantic than walking down a meadow to marry your sweetheart…*cue* Tom Petty’s “Wildflowers”
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09/11/2023
22 years ago…9.11.01 🇺🇸
09/08/2023
Eat your cake however you want, but personally, “go big or go home” cake moments are kinda dope 🍰
Can’t wait to share more next week of Brooke and Ty’s mega fun wedding.
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Can’t wait to have a cocktail in this swanky bar at KC Current
Brooke (@pogue_o_stick_)+ Ty were a total vibe and we knew it the instant we started conversations about their love for fun and funky floral! Floraloom isn’t for everyone, but when we do click and get to go bold and colorful we’re speaking the same love language! 🩷💚💛🧡
Floraloomed up an otherworldly set for the launch of @flwrpwrclub by @matt_ogutu beautifully captured by @k_reckd at @blackbanner Artful modeling and choreography featuring @jordankaya_ and @mrgocrazy80 Big thanks to @samuel_bricker for all the set design assistance!
Tomorrow, Saturday, Feb 11! I’m popping up at Billie's Grocery from 10am-3pm. Come smell the roses!
The Billie's Grocery x Floraloom Valentine Shop is now open! Pre-orders will be offered until Feb 3rd at 3pm with pickup on Feb 13 + 14.
Order link: https://www.billiesgrocery.com/catering-store-v2/billies-grocery/menu
In addition to ordering a fresh or dried arrangement, you’ll always have the option to include special Add-ons like:
🌹Gorgeous locally made vase by Convivial Production
🌹Donation to Newhouse Shelter
🌹 Treats galore by Billie’s Grocery
Holiday bouq drop at Billie's Grocery is here! And I’ll be restocking again tomorrow as well! Happy celebrating time with (hopefully!) some of your favorite people. 💓 Pink symbolizes kindness, so thought we’d include a pop of it in these blooms to pass it on to others this week.
Winter blooms for Parachute Home opening up at Country Club Plaza
Was making a Frida Kahlo inspired headpiece for @yolitortilleria to wear during her cooking presentations at the @nelsonatkins for the Día de los Muertos festival. I was so excited that I accidentally made the crown a month too early in September instead of October (🤦🏻♀️) and so TRUElove Coordinating & Design decided to use it for a WAY fun flower crown photo sesh with @mcbride.photography and @westrose_photoandfilm - Talk about spontaneous creativity! Look what they created with a lil’ pop of Floraloom!
It’s a new day in Kansas City and we’re still celebrating the KC Current groundbreaking last week for the first stadium ever built exclusively for a National Women’s Soccer League, let alone for any women’s professional team anywhere in the world! And it’s being built right here in KC at the Riverfront.
We teamed up with CollectiveEX to create 35 centerpieces for the VIP tent in honor of such a big milestone! What a dream to be part of this special achievement ✨
Thank you also to @sunnysidemakery @_kortney_jean and @sbhr2991 being part of the process and helping bring these art pieces to life!
Pumped to be included with two other female-owned businesses in the East Crossroads downtown Dance Fit Flow and KC Wineworks for an event we are hosting together on October 16.
Details below:
Ease into fall with this one of a kind collaborative event experience. This event includes 3 sessions wrapped up into one afternoon. You will rotate through a wine tasting session, a floral design class, and a gentle flow class. Each participant will get plenty of keepsakes to take home including a stemless KC Wineworks wine glass, a gorgeous duo set of gold and terracotta vases with your everlasting stems from yours truly, Floraloom, a canvas East Crossroads reusable tote, and an intention setting card. The event will run from 3-5:30pm on Saturday, October 16th located at Dance Fit Flow in the East Crossroads.
Tickets are on sale NOW: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/flow-into-fall-collab-event-tickets-177600356447. Early bird pricing is first come first serve. Use the promo code "EARLYBIRD" for $20 off your ticket!
Tag your friends that you want to go to this event with. Treat yourself and join us, we cannot wait to ~flow into fall~ with you!
Hello! I’m Colleen Monroe, the creative director and owner of Floraloom Studio. We’re a Los Angeles design studio focusing on custom florals and decor for experiential events, installations, retail and media projects, and our recently launched workwear line of consciously-made, well-crafted clothing for women on the go, Untucked by Floraloom.
At its core, Floraloom brings abstract ideas to life through story-driven design. I began in costume & production design for film and TV, working alongside top creatives for HBO, Warner Brothers, Fox Studios, and Mattel. Design always began by understanding the story first. At Floraloom, we approach design in the same way, designing with our client in mind and the message they are trying to communicate.
Beyond film, I took up floral design with leading designers and event studios in Los Angeles, including R. Jack Balthazar, Mark's Gardens, and Walden Floral LA, where I assisted in executing designs for companies like Netflix, Roxy, WeWork, and Create & Cultivate.
Weaving all these experiences together, I started Floraloom Studio, and together with my team of talented carpenters and assistant designers we create not just beautiful flowers, but moments that elevate, transform, and inspire.
If you would like to set up a consultation or have any questions, please send me a message. I look forward to hearing from you!