Prom Season!
I get so excited every year when prom season rolls around. All of the girls come in with their golden tans to pick out the perfect corsage to match the dress that they shopped for weeks to buy. They come in dragging their dates behind them looking for the perfect tuxedo and corsage.
Corsages are so different now than when I was in high school. You had three choices, roses, daisies or mini carnations. Boy are things different now! I whip out my John Henry Homecoming and Prom Flowers book and by page three the girls are mesmerized by the amount of choices that they really DO have. Orchids, freesia, gerberas…Oh MY! There are lights and glitter and wire and every other option under the sun! The girls often can’t choose between one and fifteen others and say there are too many choices. So I came up with an easy way to help them pick out the best corsage for them.
I give the “flower personality test” and can usually judge exactly what kind of corsage the girl will like after three questions.
1. What is your favorite flower? If a girl says daisy I know she isn’t going to like something really, really funky. She is more traditional and I can show her something like a mini gerbera daisy corsage that will knock her socks off.
2. What is your favorite restaurant? If a girl says a high end restaurant I know that I can show her an all stephanotis corsage with little rhinestones in the middle and she will feel like the belle of the ball.
3. What does your dress look like? If the girl describes it down to the “T” from the way the back is to the color of the rhinestones on the bodice I know that she has attention to detail and spent a loooonnnnggg time picking out her dress and she loves it. This customer is going to want something that matches exactly and is perfect.
So, if you are coming into the shop for prom think of those three questions because there is a good chance you are going to hear them! If you want to see more of our prom collection visit our prom section with images from our new PROM BOOK!!
Oh, I think I hear another prom couple looking through our books out front….gotta go!
