MODA BOTANICA

The only flower my god daughter (Rebecca) told Baily that she really wanted for her wedding was the Mango Cala Lily. They also picked out half a dozen other flowers to use in the wedding. When I talked to Baily he had no intention of using the Mango Calla until I insisted. He said I could use it in Rebecca's bouquet exclusively. When he decorated for the wedding he was commissioned to make 35 arrangements using the flowers that they had agreed on. Instead of doing 35 arrangements he told me on the phone that he had to buy nine foot birch logs for another wedding he was doing later in the month, so he thought he would use the nine foot logs as table runners in the middle of Rebecca's tables. This was the night before the wedding. I told Rebecca, but there was nothing she could do at that late hour so she just said, "oh well." He did have a few arrangements at the wedding that were not filled with any of the flowers they had agreed on. They were filled with filler background greenery. The tables had these enormous birch logs on them and he used some dried hydrangeas with brown leaves randomly scattered all over the tables. Not fall colored leaves only brown. It looked like he had gotten the entire load of decorations from his back yard. He did not spend more than $200.00 on the floral for her wedding. I don't know what he charged her, but I know there was a $10,000.00 deposit. Baily was supposed to deliver my flowers on Thursday or Friday for the Saturday wedding. I did not receive the flowers until 6:30 PM Friday night. I had to leave immediately for the rehearsal dinner after the flowers arrived. I had to have all the bouquets and boutonni res done and delivered by 4:30 the next day. When the flowers arrived I was told I owed $1,000.00. I was sick. These flowers were not worth $200.00 retail, much less wholesale. The flowers were also in terrible shape, but it was too late to get her flowers anywhere else. I paid the bill. It turned out none of the flowers he delivered were the ones she had picked out. I ended up throwing out half of the flowers and running around the next morning buying all the flowers I could get my hands on. I even cut branches out of my backyard to use. I also found out later that night that he had told Rebecca that I had agreed to make arrangements for the synagog. Baily and I had briefly discussed it and we agreed that we were not going to make arrangements. I couldn't tell Rebecca this, it would make her feel bad. So on top of all the bouquets and boutonni res, I had to make 2 arrangements for the synagog. He also told her I would redo the sukkot. I never agreed to this. I would have done it, but I literally was out of time and flowers.