we have two weddings this weekend got one on saturday and sunday so we're just doing a little centerpieces for the right of the subways the fun part putting things together it's just it's an unspoken magic i guess you know someone receives flowers they just automatically take up to go with take a breath and go oh they're so lovely just make somebody feel really special so there are so many different reasons why you can give people flowers you know could be as simple as hey i'm thinking about you or i really wish you well you know here's something to brighten up your day and it's i guess it gives me so much pleasure when we do send them out and when we do hear our customers coming back and saying oh my gosh that really made her so happy and she felt so loved and it just makes our day tour and who would be going to well we've had the shop for about three years now but the idea started way back when we were living in england because we were just surrounded by this gorgeous flowers all year around so i would help out friends with their weddings and some other events and things so the passion really started there and then we moved over here and we kind of noticed that there was a bit of i don't know there's a bit of a need for that local flower shop and  i just couldn't find one really so just humming and hawing and thinking about it and we wait until the right place opened up rather it was available and the sweet little shop became available we saw the we had the vision for it renovated it painted and and so my little victoria blooms journey began i grew up in the ukraine gorgeous ukraine and i just remember as a little girl picking wildflowers and daisies and my shop we really do do it all so it so it was always important to me from the start when we opened up that we cater to everyone because you never know one person coming in to buy a single platter one day they might need to throw a big lavish party the next and so it's important to establish that relationship we like to know people by their first names and we love seeing people come back and hear about their event how it went so yeah we do the everyday small warders a little pudge base here a little order there and then we also do the grand events huge wedding the big corporate events a gala name and there are so many things to take into account so many different factors that we think about we think about whether someone's style is more modern or traditional so when you factor in the occasion with something happy that we try to you know like a birthday or a get well we try to brighten it up to fit the occasion or something romantic then we do more like monotone or like all whites or creams or some things like a passionate occasion like an anniversary or valentine's day then we go for the lush colors the deeps the deep colors and  has become a big factor in brides ideas so they get a lot of ideas off pinterest but then what we do is we kind of take the bright ideas the pinterest ideas and we come up with our own so the new trends now is just kind of going away from that compact really tight arrangement and just letting it speak for itself letting each flower kind of be highlighted so it's a little bit more loose a little area and whimsical so that's the current obviously very important to start to know what that vision is and we take you know take a lot of time and effort and our planning and design ideas and the concepts to make sure everyone's on the same page so we have how often have the bride coming in several times we do examples of what she's to expect for her or  then we tweak it until it's just right but there's a lot that goes into weddings or we get a lot of time it's not just the day before the day i mean it's a good good couple weeks beforehand when everything really truly starts eleven of these  to do the first wedding and after we get the vision just right then we go ahead and order flowers and that's always tricky as well it's knowing exactly how much to order so it's always best to get more than not enough and then they have to be right that something's not up to par in our quality then it goes back there's nothing sadder than a wedding day and the flowers being mediocre they've got to be perfect the downtown is the best it is great being down here we feel like such a part of the community there's all these different events going on we're friends with so many other local businesses around here everyone knows each other which is wonderful so we all support each other it's very important for us to feel part of the community and i'm i'm very much a family person  remember just visiting the ukraine few years ago and i saw my grandma's hydrangeas and just the connection was there a felt good to do something that you love and it feels good to know that you're you're meant to do this and for a while like you know i wasn't sure what it is that really what i was meant to do and then it just everything fell into place and it feels so right trust in the florist because they know what it is and get some more often you know it doesn't have to be just for birthdays anniversary or valentine's day think outside the box get it on a random day during the week and say i think i was thinking of you today i love you