Business: Budget Designer Florals
Location: Forest, VA USA
Type of Business: Wedding & Event Florist
About Me: I currently only do wedding and events along with a few funerals. I got into floral design by accident. My mother in law owned a flower shop in Camarillo, CA where I lived about 5 years ago. I was a an asp.net programmer at the time for a company called Engineering Management Concepts working on moving current Naval software to asp.net. Well, on my lunch breaks, I would go to the flower shop and hang out. Eventually, I ended up helping them on my lunch breaks making arrangements for orders and for the cooler out front. After a short while, I was coming in to help with weddings & major holidays as well. I moved down to part time on the programming job and worked at the flower shop the other half of the time. And then it became full time.
Well, due to rising costs in the area, my mother in law's shop had to close down. Big business moved out of the shopping center she was in and pulled away a lot of walk in traffic. Eventually she had to close her doors. Since then I have become educated on floral design and continue to learn as much as possible. I started my business in 2007 and have had a good deal of success so far.
-Leann
Location: Forest, VA USA
Type of Business: Wedding & Event Florist
About Me: I currently only do wedding and events along with a few funerals. I got into floral design by accident. My mother in law owned a flower shop in Camarillo, CA where I lived about 5 years ago. I was a an asp.net programmer at the time for a company called Engineering Management Concepts working on moving current Naval software to asp.net. Well, on my lunch breaks, I would go to the flower shop and hang out. Eventually, I ended up helping them on my lunch breaks making arrangements for orders and for the cooler out front. After a short while, I was coming in to help with weddings & major holidays as well. I moved down to part time on the programming job and worked at the flower shop the other half of the time. And then it became full time.
Well, due to rising costs in the area, my mother in law's shop had to close down. Big business moved out of the shopping center she was in and pulled away a lot of walk in traffic. Eventually she had to close her doors. Since then I have become educated on floral design and continue to learn as much as possible. I started my business in 2007 and have had a good deal of success so far.
-Leann
