Man, good things keep happening to Tiger Lily! A couple weeks ago we were voted Charleston's Best Florist for the 10th consecutive years. We were notified yesterday that we were chosen as the knots! Best of Weddings 2009. What a great honor. We won it in 2007, then were told we won it again in 2008 but never received the official email. There may have been confusion, or a glitch in our email. We were too busy to follow up on it. It was great to be recognized again this year.
As the knot! said in the notification "What sets this award apart from others is that it is not your colleagues (or even the knot!) bestowing this award on your business. The recognition comes from real brides who were thrilled with the level of service brought to their wedding day." That's what I'm talking about!
Also, last week Bride Magazine featured our work in their current issue. It was a photo of our bouquet made of entirely of seashells. We designed it for a bride last fall, a photo of it got out on the internet and it was traced back to us. They asked us to re-create it and send it to them. We did and the rest is history. I'll make a seperate blog entry about that recognition once I get the photo scanned.
So 2009 is looking better already. We have a lot of awesome weddings planned in the next few months and that's exciting. What is that saying "Love springs hope eternal" or something like that? That's certainly appropriate for our times. Inspite of what we hear about our future on cable news channels, that human quality of hope or love or faith or humor or whatever you want to call it maybe just the thing that gets America through it current challenges. Rock on!