What per week!!! The COVID-19 has positively rocked our world and yours, too.
Practically all of our weddings from now till early Could have been postponed or modified in a roundabout way. This week ought to have been spent designing for a busy marriage ceremony weekend crammed with a lot of flowers for 4 fabulous {couples}. As a substitute, I’ve spent all of my time this week with these heartbroken brides to provide you with options for his or her postponed dates.
Happily, most of those weddings have been postponed to our sluggish season in July-September. If there’s a silver lining, that is it. Our sluggish summer season season will now be our busy season and our busy spring season will now be our sluggish season. Hurricane season higher relax.
Sadly for these brides with weddings this weekend, I used to be unable to cancel their recent flower order. All the pieces had already arrived on Monday. We labored collectively and got here up with a sport plan in order that they might nonetheless take pleasure in their flowers this week.
Moreover, all in-person consultations have been canceled from now till mid-April. To switch in-person consultations, I’m providing telephone consultations. If you happen to’d wish to schedule a telephone session, please click on HERE and comply with the prompts.
Personally, I used to be struggling a bit earlier within the week. My canine of 13 years handed away on Tuesday and my youngsters are actually residence 24/7. It’s exhausting going by means of private grief and a disaster all in a few days. Nevertheless, I’m a powerful, pushed particular person and I allowed myself to grieve for a short while and now I’m again to downside fixing and getting the job finished.
Professionally, I’m surviving with ease. Sadly, my staff needed to be quickly laid off and my contract staff should not getting any work. Do not forget that silver lining I discussed? My staff will get hours and work they might not usually get throughout the sluggish season to make up for the loss we’re experiencing. I’ve an excellent help system from my husband and household…. that’s the plus facet to a household enterprise in my mother’s yard that’s been going sturdy for 20+ years!
Throughout this time, I will probably be working from residence and filling small orders right here and there. I will even be the first caregiver and instructor to my daughters whereas my husband works. No relaxation for pharmacists or mommas! Just a few hours of every week day will probably be devoted to helping prospects, creating proposals and all that different boring enterprise stuff. The remainder of my time will probably be spent educating youngsters and making an attempt to stay to a routine to salvage all of our sanity.
In case your in-person session was canceled and also you want to ebook our companies, please let me know as quickly as doable. We can have restricted availability throughout the fall season and into the spring of 2021 as a few of our occasions are being postponed to those dates. This is applicable to people who want to ebook our companies and haven’t met with me but.
If you happen to want something, please e mail me at randeethefloralcottage@gmail.com or thefloralcottageflorist@gmail.com. For fast help, please textual content me at 225-366-7415. I’ll get again to you as quickly as doable.
My apologies prematurely for the sound of screaming youngsters within the background of any telephone name!
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My workforce and I are right here that can assist you! We are going to get by means of all of this collectively and are available out of it even stronger.
Plenty of love and gratitude,
Randee
Proprietor & Head Designer
The Floral Cottage Florist
