About Eva

Eva, owner and head designer, loves creating floral designs for you, taking your own flower dreams and ideas and bringing them to life.

Eva is forever inspired by the woods and fields of her rural Vermont home. Growing up among her mother's lush and always slightly overgrown gardens, and wandering the wildflower-filled maple woods surrounding her childhood home, gave her a deep appreciation for the ephemeral beauty of nature.

She now brings this same thoughtful sensibility and attention to detail to her signature wild, lush, and intricate flower arrangements and bouquets. Growing a diversity of cut flower varieties in her wildlife-filled gardens is a natural extension of her love of the wild landscape and local ecology, and she loves bringing this ethic to Vermont wedding flowers.

Eva has trained with famed floral designers Ariella Chezar and Sarah Ryhanen of SAIPUA.

She is mother to a beautiful daughter born in winter 2023.

What We Do

We provide elevated, graceful wedding and event flowers, mainly via a la carte designs for pickup at our studio, for events throughout Vermont. We love creating lush designs in our signature organic, garden-inspired style using the most beautiful, sustainably grown local flowers from late May-October.

Sustainability: Sustainable farming and business practices are of utmost importance to us and we strive to work in the most ecological way we can. This means we:

• Use 80-90% locally-grown and locally-seasonal flowers and botanicals

• Create florals for events during the months of May-October when we have access to primarily local flowers

• Compost all natural materials (like flowers and foliage left from events)

• Rent and reuse vessels and candleholders, and construct installations and arrangement mechanics with reusable, minimalist materials. We never use floral foam, which is plastic.  

How We Work

For the 2024 season, we are mainly offering a la carte floral designs available via our Shop. Choose from the options we offer, easily order online, and pick up on the date you choose at our Craftsbury Common, Vermont private studio. (This function of the website is coming in late fall 2023).

Each year, we take a very limited number of larger events for which we provide custom designs. For these, You are the most important part of all this! Personal connection and talking about your dream and vision is the first step and one of the most fun and important parts of the process.

Once we know what you want and need for your event, we create a floral design quote, taking into consideration what flowers and foliage are in season, the mood, the location, and the timeline for making it all happen.

When you choose full installation & delivery services, on your wedding day, we will be on site early, setting up all the flowers and making sure everything looks just right. After the festivities, we return to clean up our work.

Have questions? Read on below for Booking Details, then Contact us to get started!

 A LITTLE ON PRICING:

Blossoming Bough takes a limited number of events per year so we can be fully focused on each one. For that reason, we have the following minimums:

We love to create a la carte flowers, with colors of your choice, for pickup at our studio. There is no minimum for this service. This is our primary offering for the 2024 season and possibly beyond. See our website shop after late fall 2023 to order your a la carte designs.

For 2024, full on-site delivery and installation of florals starts at a $5000 minimum, $10,000 maximum. We will be accepting 2 on site delivery events for 2024.

HOW IT WORKS:

We offer a la carte floral designs in our signature garden-inspired, whimsical style, available to order on our website shop beginning in late fall 2023. More info and FAQ’s coming soon!

Each year, we accept a very few events for which we provide fully customized floral services—we work with you, discussing your style, favorite flowers, desired ambiance, and budget range so we can provide you with perfectly aligned floral art, while keeping a careful eye on practical considerations.

We create using the best flowers, most locally grown from seed; provide you with a detailed quote from the beginning; and devote generous time to you and your design throughout your whole wedding planning process, with attention to all the details and changes that may arise along the way. If your priority lies in finding the finest local, super-sustainable, artistic and unique florals, we’re probably a great fit for you!

We are not the right fit if your priority is finding the least expensive possible wedding flowers.

Our offerings for 2024:

A La Carte Wedding Florals- More Details Coming Late Fall 2023

-You choose your colors, and we’ll create gorgeous, custom florals in our signature style, for you to pick up at our studio in Craftsbury Common, VT.

-Order on our website shop and select the pickup date (as long as it’s available) during the checkout process.

-Best option if you would like bouquets, boutonnieres/other wearable florals, and a few other things (that you can fit in your car).

-No minimum cost if you pick up at our studio.

-Dropoff of your flowers at your venue is available, if your venue is within 1 hour of Craftsbury Common. $500 minimum, no setup included.

Full Custom Design Service (very limited availability in 2024):

-You’ll receive our attentive, personalized services from day one— our major attention to detail, an in-person meeting after booking, and optional site visit.

-We work closely with you to arrive at the floral plans of your dreams. We’ll discuss your desires and needs with you; create a carefully considered quote with a page of inspiration images; and follow up regularly after booking to keep up with evolving plans.

-Your floral designs will be expertly delivered to & installed at your venue on your day. We’ll return the day after to clean up our work.

-Rentals from our vase, candleholder, and decor inventory are available to you (for less than you’d spend buying them on your own). Our container and candleholder rentals reduce event waste and elevate sustainability.

-Your vases/flower vessels and candleholders can be anything you’re dreaming of—we will work with you to find beautiful choices from our collection or from whatever source you wish. 

-Not available when any DIY florals are planned.

OK, this sounds great, now what?

For A La Carte floral designs, options will be available to purchase on our website shop in late fall 2023.

Custom Event Booking Process:

Our work is highly personalized for you. To ensure the smoothest and most stress-free process for everyone, we will generally do the following when planning to produce your event:

• Right away when you contact us, we’ll arrange a time to meet with you over the phone to discuss your details and consider inspiration pictures.

• We ask that you share your inspiration images with us at the beginning of the planning process.

• After our phone consultation, you’ll receive an itemized quote with 1 page of inspiration images included.

• To book our services, we require the signing of our contract and a retainer deposit, once we have arrived at a satisfactory initial proposal. The date remains open to new inquiries until the contract and retainer fee have been received.

• After the contract and retainer fee have arrived, we’ll continue to work with you in the months before your event to refine your flower plans, and we’d love to meet you in person!

Thank you so much for your interest and attention!