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#1 In this episode of Collective Questions: a wedding show, Mckenzi interviews Brittany Lo. Brittany is a Las Vegas photographer who has also started a new business with her husband called Little Lo Floral. Through her new business, Little Lo Floral, she preserves flowers or bouquets for brides.

SEGMENTED TIMESTAMPS:

00:00 About Brittanny

02:15 About her idea of bouquet preservation

04:28 The oldest bouquet she has preserved

06:00 The process of drying the flowers

12:07 How does she design the product

20:42 Brittany shows some samples of her work

35:26 How to contact Brittany

36:10 Giveaways for lucky winners

EPISODE SUMMARY:

Her idea of bouquet preservation

Brittany has been working in the wedding industry for six years, and she was always getting the same questions from brides, "What do I do with my bouquet?" A lot of the time, the couple go straight on their honeymoon right after the wedding. If they wanted to save the flowers for a keepsake, it was not feasible to air dry them. So, Brittany came up with the idea of offering bouquet preservation to the clients.

She says, "So I just take the bouquets and start the preservation process for them so they can go drink, have fun, be with their new husband, go on vacation or do whatever they want to do. And you don't need to worry about bruising your bouquet or leaving it somewhere at the bar. I try to handle that for you."

The Process of Bouquet Preservation

Brittany says, "When people look at the final product on her Instagram account, a lot of them think they look like big fresh flowers. They are actually all dried. You cannot preserve anything in resin that's fresh. It will, over time, get all moldy inside. It's just organic matter. It can't thrive like that. So, we dry them. Our drying process just saves their color and their shape.

The only difference with an air-dried bouquet is that it has already got the color and shape it will be. We can still cast it and preserve it in resin. But, I can't make it look fresh again." The oldest bouquet that she has preserved was 13-14 years old.

How does she design the product?

She doesn't use all of the flowers in the bouquet. She dries out the whole bouquet and uses the best flower, the best rose, the best carnation, the best eucalyptus, etc. Some brides want it to be jam-packed, full of every single flower possible. But the shape depends on how the bouquet was preserved.

How do clients contact them or give them the flowers?

Clients can reserve their date with Brittany through their website. There are two options. First, the client can either leave the bouquet at their hotel at the Bell Desk after buying the front concierge for $75 pickup, and Brittany and her husband will email the instructions of what they need. The second option is that the clients can also drop off the bouquet at their home studio near the airport. 80% of clients like to take the second option. Brittany and her husband are still able to take last-minute clients, but she doesn't plan to do so in the future.

USEFUL LINKS:

Brittany Lo on: 

Instagram: @LittleLoFloral

littlelofloral.com

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