Preserving Flowers and keeping Memories
Preserved Wedding & Event Flowers
Hold onto memories through preservation. We take wedding flowers, memorial flowers and or event flowers and preseve them to have forever as floral art. The first step is deciding if you would like Dried Flowers verse Pressed Flowers. Below is an explanation of the two types of preserving. In some cases we create floral art with pressed and dried flowers all in one. Some examples of floral preserves are shadow boxes, pressed frame flowers, dried flower wreaths and keepsake decor (like dollies and or fabric).
Preserving Flowers and keeping Memories
Dried Flowers
Dried flowers are more crispy (hence dried) and more dimensional. This option allows the flowers to remain there shape and color. Best to showcase in a shadow box.
Pressed Flowers
Pressed flowers are just that. The fresh flowers are laid in a flower press for 6-8 weeks. This process than creates a flat dried flower while preserving the color.
Shipping Information
How to ship your bouquet
If you are not local and are looking to send your bouquet to us. You are responsible for sending your bouquet to us. You are responsible for paying the overnight shipping charge for your fresh flower bouquet to us.
When you purchse online, when checking out, you will be charged for shipping. This does not include the cost for you to send the flowers to us. Just simply the cost of us sending the final product back to you. When we send the final product back it will be sent with a signature required upon delivery. This ensure you have recieved the final custom design.
Fresh flowers will need to ship with Next Day Shipping and or within 3 days from the event.
If you already dried your bouquet you can ship dried flowers standard.
If you are shipping your bouquet to us below are instructions for shipping your bouquet to us without our shipping kit.
Instructions on how to pack and ship your own bouquet below:
1) Flowers should be shipped quickly (within 2 days of your event) in a cool and safe environment preferably overnight. Before shipping try to keep the bouquet in water before shipping. If you are able to cut the stems before placing in water this will help hydrate the flowers before they embark on there journey to us.
2) Remove any ribbons, keepsakes and papers etc. that you want to keep before shipping. If they are not apart of the floral frame then we will discard them.
3) Use and upright box. Mark the box with fragile stickers and or write fragile on the box. Please place a sheet of paper inside the box that has your name, address, phone number and email address. Also include a list of everything we should find in the box (if there is a boutonniere, a second bouquet, etc.)
4) Please wrap the bottom of the stems in a wet paper towel and apply a plastic bag around the paper towels with a rubber band around the stems. This is important as we don't want the water to leak out and cause the box to be come soggy. Place the plastic bag around the stems not the bouquet/flower itsself. Make sure not to wrap the entire bouquet in a bag or in any plastic. Keep the blossoms uncovered and away from moisture as they can mold.
5) Be sure to add packing peanuts, crumbled paper, and or dry paper towels to fill the empty space around the flowers to limit shifting. These options are better than plastic wrap. Plastic traps heat and moisture, which can ruin flowers. If its really hot like we are in a heat wave you can always send your flowers with small ice packets. Just make sure the ice packets are wrapped in paper and or paper towels. Wrapping the ice packects help make sure the flower blossoms dont come in direct contact with the ice packt. If the blossoms directly touch the ice packs it could freeze the flowers.
6) Head to your nearest shipping store and send to us:
Twigs et fleurs
Attention: Heather
50 High St. Waterbury, VT 05676
7) We prefer overnight or 1-2 day shipping, which can be expensive. If you cannot afford the cost of quick shipping, try a priority mailbox from USPS. This will bring down the cost, but will also get your flowers to us much later, which runs the risk of them coming in unworkable condition. Below is a link to UPS for estimate shipping cost.
Estimated shipping cost
https://www.theupsstore.com/tools/estimate-shipping-cost
***If the flowers don’t come in workable condition, we cannot proceed ***
We are not always available on Saturdays so please try not to schedule a shipment to arrive on Saturday. If this is the only day to ship, please reach out so we can plan accordingly.
8) We will let you know when we recieve your flowers and the fun process begins!
Expect to recieve your final product (floral frames) and or decor in 3-4 months.
9) If for some reason the final product package shipped becomes damaged. Please contact us immediately with images. We ask that you leave the piece as is, send us photos, an email and then reseal the box. If possbile email us seven images showing the damage. It takes seven images to submit a claim. Once you notify us we will send you a prepaid return label, repair the final product, and send it back to you as soon as possible. We will amend the damages.
