Ray’s Room Floral Co.

08/28/2024

I know it’s early, but the year is flying by and the holidays will be here before you know it! If you’d like to get a jump on your holiday decor, check out our Christmas preorder link in-bio so we can chat about all of your holiday needs.

From Wreath Decorating Classes for you and your friends, to full-blown installations, we’ve got you covered, AND you can save up to 15% when you book before October 10th!

A link for Facebook friends:
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08/26/2024

The best (and perhaps creepiest) thing about regular clients is when their friends order for them, you can recommend what will make the best gift based on the vase selection you’ve memorized in their home.
So a moment for a perfectly colorful birthday bouquet from wrap to vase, this gorgeous Lalique vase that lives rent free in my mind, and the clients that you get to sit and catch up with and wish them the happiest of days in person.

08/24/2024

It’s a rainy Saturday morning in August, which means fall isn’t too far away! 🍂🍁🎃
Friendly reminder, Ray’s Room is closed today (8/24)! So if you need flowers, check out these gorgeous luxe red bouquets today and tomorrow!!

08/20/2024

Still mornings in the shop >>>>
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08/17/2024

For those of you that don’t know me, I’m Ray, or Rachel, the founder of Ray’s Room. I specialize in foam free, sustainably-focused floristry. I serve clients all of over Oklahoma and beyond. While the primary focus of Ray’s Room is daily flowers, I do take on some weddings and events each year.

Here’s a little about me:

🌸I was born and raised in Oklahoma. I first fell in love with flowers through picking wildflowers for my mother.

🌸 I first started arranging flowers in high school as gifts for my friends, but didn’t start my floral career until after I graduated from OCU with a degree in Economics in 2020 (I took some victory laps 🤭).

🌸My style would best be described as “whimsical modern” or “bold whimsy.”

🌸I love all things color, and with the help of some amazing local farmers and wholesalers, I’m able to fill my designs to the brim with it.

🌸My biggest pet peeves in the industry are the use of nasty foam bricks, boring designs, and cookie cutter arrangements.

🌸 I love teaching floral design classes to share foam-free techniques and help you create fun memories with groups for all kinds of events!

🌸My favorite season is Fall, but in Oklahoma we call that “December.”

🌸My favorite part of this job is that I get to be immersed in love every day. From first dates to funerals, everything I do is focused around your love stories, and I find that to be an incredible privilege.

🌸 I started Ray’s Room with the vision of a space that is focused on community building, safety, and support of our local artisans. And as we build our catalogue of our wares and offerings, we’d love to hear from you guys what you’d like to see as gifts, or if you’re an artisan, to reach out and share your work!

08/15/2024

Gentle Reminder:
You should buy Mom flowers more than one day a year 😉

08/14/2024

Messy Studio = Crazy Florist

One thing I love about my studio/shop is that people get to see the magic come together. There’s no back room mystery for people to question the work that goes into my job. It’s all out in the open for them to see. And while some florists insist on keeping the mess and the busy chaos to the back, I’ve found that customers are often delighted to see the work come together into their custom piece. We have comfortable seating to accommodate them while they wait, but most tend to stand and stare at the mess of flying stems. So if you’re ever looking for cheap entertainment and what I like to call my own form of performance art, look no further than the Ray’s Room studio.

08/13/2024

She’s cute, she’s petite, she’s local! Bright and Blooming is the perfect little vase to send to your bestie, your favorite teacher, your mother, or even yourself to make any space just a little brighter!

08/10/2024

Dancing with the Cosmos on this rainy Saturday morning.
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08/09/2024

A Perfectly Pink arrangement! Shop on the site or give us a call to order!
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08/08/2024

Fuzzy lil sunflowers, gorgeously vivid celosia, and zinnias for some POP! The only thing non-local in this arrangement is the three stems of lisianthus. We’re soaking up all of the local stems we can get to make the most of our summer season, so stop by and join in on the fun!

08/06/2024

Unexpected closure today 8/6! I’m a bit under the weather and with a lot of nasty bugs and COVID going around, I’m going to stay home and focus on the mend today to make sure if it’s anything serious, it doesn’t spread! Still taking order for later this week as well as working on weddings, mood boards, and inspiration for your events! Hope to see you lovelies tomorrow when we restock the fridge with some exciting local product ✨🌸

08/04/2024

We had the BEST time celebrating the glowing bride with a private floral design class! Congrats again, I can’t wait to see all of the stunning photos from your big day!

07/31/2024

Looking for an earthenware piece that feels timeless to adorn your shelves or hold your flowers? The Athena is just what you need. She’s bold and curvy, but neutral and textured.
What I really love about it is how perfectly it fits a premade bouquet, or if you’re a DIY girl, a joy to design in!
There’s only three left, and at $46 + tax she’s a steal!

07/25/2024

I love when my clients share their stories for orders. This was an incredible piece I was able to make for a client with a friend in palliative care. The recipient used to own a Halloween store in Hillsborough, Texas—she loves green, orange, and black—everything wild and kooky. The client wanted to celebrate everything she is and loves, and give her friend something stunning to really take in while she was in the hospital.

When clients give me unique artistic briefs and tell me about what the piece means to them, it helps me breathe life and love into the arrangement, and this one had me welling up in the studio, guys. What a lovely and thoughtful gesture.

If you can dream it, I want to do it. Halloween in July? Interpreting a piece of art in someone’s home? An inside joke? Let’s make it happen.

07/23/2024

Are you a business/creative/service that would like to have florals in your office/workspace/home? Hop into the DMs and let’s chat! We’d love to work with artists, aestheticians/clinics, tattoo artists, stores, hotels, and restaurants to elevate your spaces and content!

And yes, we do trades 😏

07/19/2024

Life//Art
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07/11/2024

I’ll level with you guys. Sometimes, the world is unkind, people are unkind. We lose loved ones, friendships drift, lovers come and go. Hope and dreams and aspirations fly out the window.

When I started Ray’s Room, I was a woman just a year and some months from leaving a relationship with a narcissist. I had very little money. I had very little hope. I had relatively little experience. Nonetheless, I pushed forward, my heels dug in. I created my safe space, surrounding myself with flowers, telling the stories of other’s love, heartbreak, adoration, and everything in between amidst my own journey through fear, heartbreak, and abuse.

Why flowers? They don’t talk back, they don’t tell you that you’ll never be enough, and they very rarely betray you (and usually that’s your own shortsightedness or inexperience or incompetence when they do). They are medium, no different than paint, and it’s entirely your choice what to do with them.

Flash forward all this time later, and I’m in a storefront, and experimenting, but also experiencing. If you told 24 year-old Rachel, crying on the floor on her birthday, shuddering in fear and anxiety, that this is where she would end up, she would’ve laughed uncontrollably (trauma).

Since then, it’s been so many ups and downs, so many lessons, heartbreaks, and little joys, but we’ve made it this far.

Inside of all of us is this unfettered hope, and if we cling to it, that hope will take us so far. My dream was to create a space to thrive, to make art, to blast my music, to make others feel safe, to share my love, and create community.

Ray’s Room is so much more than a place or idea. It is a community.

All are welcome. All are loved. All are appreciated.

I suppose the end of this long rant is to tell you that you have to hold on. Life is so worth living. There is always new love, friendship, hope, and dreams just around the corner. Cling to the ones that love you most—I never could’ve made it this far without my friends and family, they are the foundation of my life. Keep your chin up, and your heart open.

Thank you for your support, for your love, for your kindness, and your business.

-Ray

07/10/2024

Summer Evening Soirée? We can work with that. 😘

We’re gearing up to launch our NEW WEBSITE!!
You’ll be able to order all of your pieces through the site, as well as inquire about private classes, events, weddings, and dinner parties, all in one seamless place.

07/03/2024

07/01/2024

Have an event for your small business or organization? Let’s chat about custom florals to make a splash in your branding colors! From centerpieces to full installations, we’ve got you covered.

06/27/2024

We are CLOSING EARLY TODAY (6/27) for a pet emergency! We’ll be back at 11am Friday for all of your floral needs!
Thanks for your understanding,
Ray

06/22/2024

SUPER SOFT STUDIO OPENING TODAY! 11-2 We’d love to have you in the studio, see what goodies and gifts we’ve been collecting to have on our new website, and come buy a plant in the cutest lil red planter on SALE!!!
We also have a fully stocked floral bar, so come get yourself a bouquet for you or a friend!

06/21/2024

A little flower frog design for my community! Happy Pride babes! 💎👗💙🗽🩵🦋

06/19/2024

This one’s for my Intersex and NB babies!!! I feel like you guys get forgotten in pride month art, so I tablescaped a whole fairy garden just for you! 🔆💟💛🔮⭐️☂️

06/13/2024

Let’s go Le****ns!!! Send this to a woman you wanna smooch 🤪💕🍊🌸✨🔥💖🔸

Happy Pride Month!! Starting off this series strong with a celebration of WLW, can’t wait to share the rest of this content! Do you want to see Trans, Bi, or MLM next?

06/11/2024

Garden Roses + Peonies + Campanula = Heaven

06/07/2024

For my fairy girls ✨🧚🏻‍♀️💕

05/30/2024

PSA: Trader Joe’s Peony Season is HERE!
However, here’s a kind reminder from a florist.

While yes, you can but 5 peony stems at TJ’s for $10, it’s important to remind you that their florals are a loss leader. Large stores like them can afford to:
1. Buy in such large bulk units they can keep the prices lower
2. Lose money on flowers as a reason to get you in the door to buy more than just flowers

Not only do florists don’t have the same accessibility to this pricing, but also floristry is our primary source of income. I can’t tell you how often I’ll get calls in and out of peony season with customers asking for peony-centered arrangements and they are often taken aback by the price point of such pieces. They’ll remind me about TJ’s pricing, and I have been told I am “price gouging,” and that they could do it for much cheaper themselves.

Let’s be so straightforward here for a minute—florists are a luxury service. We are dedicated professionals and artists, and we’re doing more than cutting the stems down and throwing them in a vase. We’re carefully curating an experience for you and your loved ones. We work long hours on our feet, we do dirty jobs, we spend days building proposals, and juggling clients.

It’s no different from ordering food on DoorDash versus cooking at home, or taking a vacation and staying at a 5-star resort instead of a motel.

And let me very clear—I don’t source my flowers from Trader Joe’s unless it’s an absolute emergency and I’m in a pinch, because I know these options are many people’s most accessible point to florals, and it feels unethical to capitalize on that for my own profit.

I offer as many wallet-friendly options as I can, including keeping my delivery minimums lower to make my services available to as many people as possible. I’ve always felt that everyone deserves to feel special with fresh florals delivered to their door—however, I still have to keep the lights on, pay myself, and put back money to continue to grow my business that I’ve worked so hard to build.

All of that being said, I’m grateful for the many clients I have that show me endless appreciation for my work and offer understanding.

Thanks,
Ray

05/24/2024

Peony lovers tap in!! How stunning are these farm-fresh blooms?