Rumphius Farms

12/19/2024

Three flower things we obsess over so you don’t have to. 👇

🌸 Form: As much as I wish that a perfectly curated order of cleaned and processed flowers magically arrived at my doorstep before every wedding, they don’t lol. The flowers we arrive with on your day are painstakingly planned to suit your style and have a balanced mix of color and form. I think very long and hard about what combination of floaty flowers we need vs. filler, what the best use of the showstoppers is, and whether a cosmo or a more linear flower would provide the movement I need in a particular location. While it looks a little bit like magic on wedding day, the floral order is a culmination of many many hours of planning, pricing, sourcing, ordering, picking up, and processing.

🌸 Hydration: You might be surprised to learn that many of the flowers prized in wedding work—I’m looking at you, sweet peas—don’t do well out of water or on hot days. What?! I know. It’s nuts. So we ensure that everything down to the boutonnières arrive in water to withstand the many hours of thirst that a wedding entails. For installations, we engineer foam-free/sustainable water sources so that even that rose hanging upside down in the air can get a little drink now and then.

🌸 Timing: This counts as probably my least favorite worry because we’d love to have endless time to create flower magic for you, but sadly, most venues provide about two hours (yes, two!) for all your vendors to get it done. On our end, this means appropriate staffing/help and extremely efficient unloading systems and plans. On wedding day, we are *hustling* babe.

If that sounds like a lot, it is! But we got the sauce, so you just get to forget about it and leave it to us. 😘

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12/17/2024

A little sweetheart take moment for L&C ✨.

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11/28/2024

Happy Thanksgiving!

I hope you’re surrounded by the people you love tomorrow, and get to do my six year old’s new favorite word—feast! I’ll be busy focusing all the culinary efforts I’ve mustered up for the year on a chocolate cake tonight. 🤞

Thank you for following along on this surprising journey.

And please enjoy this insanely gorgeous flatlay of a few of my favorite things by the coolest .
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11/16/2024

Why do I love what I do? This right here. The fairy dust, the magic, and the ear to ear smiles of wedding days.

Cheers to a long and happy life together, M&Q.

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10/29/2024

“Doing the flowers” for someone you’ve known as long as I’ve known these two just hits different. It was an honor and an *extremely* cool experience to try to interpret their vibe with some blooms. Thank you both for sharing these! I’m obsessed. 🫶
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10/25/2024

Fall in a bowl 🍂

So I guess it’s time for us to embrace autumn?! I tried with the last bits of the garden—some hydrangea beautifully painted by the weather, my last few zinnias, foxgloves, and dahlias, some wild aster, and some other wispy bits.

I can’t do this. I’m from MIAMI 😭. Halppp.

Have a beautiful weekend out there.
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10/22/2024

“What’s your favorite flower?”

It’s such an impossible question to answer because the truth is that I’m a fair weather friend. When it’s in my face, it’s my favorite, when it’s season ends, I’m onto the next. (Not recommended for human relationships.)

That said, there’s one flower that tests my fear of commitment over and over. Behold the garden rose. She’s a dream for wedding work. Ridiculously gorgeous, fragrant, and long lasting with nuanced color. In my own patch, they flower from summer to fall and I’m always a little sad when I see the last blooms fading around now. Until next year, pretty ladies. I’ll try not to let the peonies come between us. 🫣

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10/20/2024

Happy one year wedding anniversary to these two handsome gents. I loved being a tiny part of your day 🫶.

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10/18/2024

What’s the quickest way to take a centerpiece from average to 🔥?

Hands down—it’s local blooms. Nothing will grab your attention like a floaty cosmo grown a few miles from your wedding venue!

Most local flowers don’t ship well, so to ensure that they’re included in your day, find a florist who grows them or has connections to local flower farms. We’re extremely lucky to have a solid flower farming community here in New England.

I currently use a mix of local and imported blooms in wedding designs. This allows me the maximum freedom to curate a palette and vision just for you, to continue to do weddings outside of the local growing season, and to give you a pretty solid sense of what your flowers might look like ahead of time. It is my sincere hope that over time I’ll grow more again and use a greater percentage of local product because there’s really nothing prettier than a compote full of cottage garden blooms.

Want me to hunt down some special treasures for your day? Send me a message to get started on your perfect wedding florals.

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10/16/2024

It’s all in the details. ✨

And boutonnières are no exception. When it comes to selecting personal flowers for wearables, I try to include something special and uniquely you and your vibe. That might mean including a significant color, or flower, or a bloom to match a different piece. Bouts and corsages in particular also have to stand the test of time out of water because they’ll likely make their way into pictures all night. That means no delicate stems or flowers that can get crushed or snapped by a hug (or hand wiring those that might).

It’s a delicate balance that I *way* overthink to ensure the prettiest outcome.

Photo by me with my new baby film camera.
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10/08/2024

I am not and will not ever be over this portrait by . Timeless, romantic, tender. It’s ALL the heart emojis. Happy one year anniversary to the lovely E&S!
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10/07/2024

One year ago 💐💕✨

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10/07/2024

I’ve made no mystery of the fact that my micro farm went to the weeds this year. Sometimes life comes at you fast and you have to pivot.

But pivoting doesn’t have to mean completely giving up on something that’s important to you. For some florists, the draw is the art, the occasion, something else. For me, right up there with witnessing your day, it’s the magic and the beauty of the flowers. Growing flowers speaks to me in a soul way.

So while I didn’t grow a whole lot, I managed to salvage enough blooms through the mess to include something from the patch in every bouquet. And in doing so, I hope that I made them that much more special.

So if you’re looking for a florist who will geek out next level about your flowers, find one or two rare treasures to include, and pour a lot of love into every piece, message me. 💐

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10/01/2024

I’ve started this post dozens of times in my head because I struggle to convey how life changing it can be to have someone in your corner. So I’ll just say to the man in the picture, thank you.

Thank you for believing in me and my dream. Thank you for the pep talks, the long drives, the late nights, the endless trips into and out of venues and rental vans, the flower Tetris, the candle sorting, the chicken wire wrangling, the business advice, the life advice, the reminders to eat, the knowing my favorite treat, the hugs after all nighters, the braving cucaracha-filled hotel basements, the being the bigger person, the making sure I didn’t fall off ladders, the critiques, the encouragement, the fist bumps after a long day…just all of it. You were the silent force that kept this thing going and helped us make real magic. I could not have done this without you and I’m so grateful that I didn’t have to try.

With this wedding season over, I look forward to many, many weekends of down time and to coming back rested enough to tolerate your terrible taste in post wedding snacks.

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09/25/2024

09/23/2024

So you wanna repurpose some of your wedding flowers? Here are some things to consider 👇:

💐 Scale: Does the piece that you’re considering reusing “fill up” both spaces without overpowering them? For example, a bridal posy might look fitting in front of a human, but it would look minuscule in the center of a 10-person table.

💐 Viewing angle: Will your guests look at it from the same angle in both places? If not, that could mean more labor and product for your florist to make the piece look “right” in every context. Most florists will recommend using floor pieces only on the floor. There’s some flexibility there with stands in my opinion, but the point is that to get the viewing angles right requires lots of forethought and planning.

💐 Style: Maybe you chose a really lush ceremony design and went more minimalistic in your reception space. Does it make sense to mix those lush pieces with the simpler ones? Maybe!

So it’s not as simple as plopping pieces wherever and calling it a day. But if you work with your florist and remember that flipping pieces does involve more labor, you can sometimes get two times the impact from one investment.

Swipe to see how we reused Z & N’s fluffy ceremony floral meadows as elevated centerpieces, which really filled out their tented reception space at the beautiful .
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09/13/2024

It’s giving elegant Barbie 💕💐😍.

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09/10/2024

When the gallery drops and it’s straight joy. 💕

Congratulations to the lovely couple

And so many thanks to for sharing these beautiful images!

I had the BEST time creating these all white personals and surprising, colorful reception florals.

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