So do you use the clear boxes or the paper boxes? I don't think I''d like the bag in a clear box. I spray mine with Crowning Glory and never hae them dry out on me.
clear cello corsage bag clear corsage box. I alway drench them in clear crown too. In Durango when I first came to work there there was another designer who thought she was the bees knees. Anyway, we had like 7 weddings one weekend. She made up the corsages and bouts for them. I told her to spray them with crown, bag them and box them. But she didn't. She put that paper shred stuff in the bottom- "Cause that's what she's always done...And she used to own a flower shop....so she knows what she's doing."
Guess who had to remake all those bouts and corsages the morning of the weddings. ME! that's who. I learn from my mistakes. My mistake was not forcing her to do what I told her to do. She was old enough to be my Mother- maybe even grandmother so I didn't argue with her. After that when I told her to do something- she did it, but she quit with in the first month.
Now, with that said- I think the corsage should speak for it's self. I know it's a gift, but....... I read something once a zillon years ago and it has always stuck with me.
Madonna (the pop singer not the mother of Jesus) was asked what was her favorite gift she has ever recieved. This was back in like 1986 or 1987. Her answer was "A hand full of sweaty rubies, diamonds, saphires and emeralds" they were given to her by some middle eastern prince or sultan or whatever. Anyway I was all of 15 or 16 and I thought- Humm, it's not about the packaging, it was the gift it's self.
In 2008 when I won the CRFA bridal bouquet contest in Denver we could make any type of bouquet we wanted and we were told to display it the way we would to the bride.
OK.
So I brought a plain white box that we put them in with some cello in the bottom of the box so the box wont get wet- Just like I would when delivering it to the bride or if she came and picked it up.
Some of the contestants had all sorts of props and fabric draping over pillars and river rocks on the table and matching bouts, blah blah blah. All of them had "jazzed up" The space that we were provided to set our bouquet.
And then there's mine. Laying in a plain white box with cello. At first I was like "Oh sh*t! Maybe I missed something." So I re read the description of what they wanted in the rules. But I didn't. The point is- the fluff didn't matter. The girls don't wear the fluff. They wear the corsage.
I know they may want to keep it, but the way I make my fancier corsages- the flowers are removeable so the girl has a really nice keepsake that she can actually use instead of dried up crusty flowers sitting in a plastic box with shredded up paper.
PLUS my theory is anything you do to the box or the packaging costs money and time. It's not practical to me to add extra money and time to the boxes. The one thing I do add to the boxes is a 'Flowers By Martha Lee' label and a business card at the bottom of the box.
I've had parents come in after the fact with the business card and order flowers. ANd once I forgot to put a label on a wrap of flowers I did and my customer drove back to the shop to get the label because his woman actually would look for the label!
Anyway- We all do things differently. And that is why I do what I do as far as packaging is concerned.
