Month: December 2017

Not only do flowers add colour to any occasion, they also make up an important part of the decorations that give way to setting the right mood. After you budget out for essentials such as attire and food, flowers will be your next most important investment towards your wedding day. A good florist who understands your sense of style and taste will know just the kind of blooms to enhance your day. Read on to become familiar with what to look out for when hiring a florist to help with your planning.

 

Do Your Homework Before You Settle On a Name

Many websites that promote various aspects of weddings will usually have a separate listing for a wedding florist. The listings usually come with pricing and pictures from previous weddings for you to have a look and decide if the styling is compatible with the theme you hope to carry out. If you cannot find sufficient images of their work most florists would have their official social media accounts where you could view their latest work. Before you and your fiancA� decide on a florist it is best to book appointments with at least four more florists in order for you to compare.

Pay Attention to the Details during Appointments with the Florist

Assuming that youA?ve done your homework and have narrowed down your search for your ideal florist, keep in mind to pay attention to the details in the florista��s office or shop during your visit. Not only is it important to listen to what your florist is saying, but it’s also important to be able to take cues from the layout of the floristA?s surrounding to understand what kind of style he or she professes. Do the floral arrangements in the shop window interest you? Do the flowers in the cooler look fresh? How clean is the store?A� If you answered these questions positively theyA?ll give you an insight about the florist whom you hope to hire.

Bring Samples and Be Prepared To Share Ideas

Another point to remember is that you should look to make every visit worth your while irrespective of whether you have time to plan your wedding or not. Before you make an appointment with a florist make sure to take swatches of fabric from your wedding gown, your bridesmaida��s dresses, and pictures and clippings that you like to show the florist. Another idea is to periodically email your florist links to ideas and beforehand take printouts of those images so that the both of you can discuss and have an exchange of ideas. The more ideas and information you have to go on the more fruitful your search for your florist will be.

The florist you will eventually choose should be someone whom you can trust completely. Also, you should feel comfortable enough to share your opinions and views and not feel bad to speak up if you don’t like what you see. At the end of the day, the florist is hired to work towards realising your vision, for your big day.

Here are some pointers that will make you start using reusable bags instead of paper bags or plastic bags, almost immediately!

It Is Safe For Animals and the Environment

Bringing your own bags to the store means you would not get to buy any more plastic bags and endanger the environment. These plastic bags will probably end up in a landfill or even other places where it is exposed to innocent wildlife where they might consume them or become entangled in them.

You Save Money When You Bring Reusable Bags

It is true that many grocery stores and even supermarkets offer a discount when you take your own eco-friendly produce bag. When you check out make sure you ask the cashier if the supermarket offers any discounts on eco-friendly bags.

It Is Super Convenient Activism

If you go ahead and get some totes with a specific message, you can act like a billboard for your own cause. These reusable bags might go great with your relaxed attire too!

It Provides Solid Transport for Valuable Items

The cloth totes or the reusable bags are great for transporting heavy items. Unlike the flimsy plastic bags or paper bags they do not tend to cave under the weight of whatever is in your bag and you get to use these great bags over and over again too! Is there anything else like this?

They Help With Keeping the Clutter to a Minimum

When you use plastic bags the chance that the items in the bags get cluttered is extremely high. You might purchase or take the item with you but not know where it is. You do not need such a mess in your life!

Plus these plastic bags tend to gather at all the nooks and crannies of the kitchen or your dining room or specifically under the sink perhaps. If you are planning to get rid of these annoying plastic bags that seem to pile up all over the house, go ahead and recycle them! It is a great idea to get rid of them and it will make way for you to start using the reusable bags!

Quick Decomposition!

Did you know that a plastic bag can spend from 15 years up to 1000 decomposing and breaking down, depending on the condition of your environment?

Plastic bags are not bio-degradable unlike paper bags. However they tend to break down the process of photo degradation. This phenomena is mainly induction of the decomposition process via the exposure to light. Once the bag is exposed to light they happen to break down into miniature toxic particles.

You Get To Stop Feeding Animals Plastic

According to an estimation, around one million birds and around 100,000 turtles and an innumerable number of other sea creatures die due to ingesting plastic. These animals confuse the floating plastic bags with edible sea creatures the likes of plankton and jellyfish. And once the animals ingest the plastic bags they starve to death as the plastic happens to block the digestive tract.