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As this is my first posting I was not aware that posting in this section would bother anyone, I was looking for a supplier and the forum section said...Flower & sundries Suppliers..( said nothing about shops only ).

I would have thought anyone with a floristry shop would use a wholesaler and I wouldnt be ordering from one of those anyway as I stated before, i'm unlikely to be stealing anyones prized contacts as I am small scale, I am not trying to take away business from a shop I am purely creating flower designs from home for friends and family and NOT make a profit!, this is a hobby i am passionate about I do it because I love flowers and because I love creating beautiful pieces for people I care about, hense why I dont want to walk into my local very expensive unfriendly florists and order a huge amount of flowers for a friends wedding and have to hand her a huge bill when I could have ordered the flowers from elsewhere.

your quite right it doesnt, but please understand, that it is a public part of the forum, NO business in their right minds would advertise a wholesaler online or offline that would sell to someone who is not a registered business..... Im sure there are plenty of homeworkers on here who will be glad to help you, there is even a group set up for u.

Like I said have no wish to get into any arguement over this, it has already been done and dusted on here more times than I can remember and only results in a "US and THEM" scenario and doesnt do anyone any good.(u can search on the subject and you may understand what I mean)

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Hi,
Whereabouts in Northants are you? I am really shocked that you have said your local florist is very expensive and unfriendly Most florists even in Northants will bend over backwards to help a customer but if you are going in there and advising the florist that you are making all these wedding flowers so as not to make a profit then maybe, just maybe, you have pissed the florist off. We rely on weddings and funerals to pay for our shops i.e rent/rates/water/insurance etc...And thats another thing have you obtained insurance for doing these weddings. Nobody on here would dream of taking weddings without lots of insurance as things can and do go wrong. Our contacts are not "prized" as you say but we do not just give them out to anyone and everyone who asks on here...It seems to be the case that people are coming on here posting a couple of times always wanting to know our suppliers, tricks of the trade and such and then bugger off never to be seen again. I am not saying that is what you are doing but you are not helping yourself by getting stroppy when someone on here has tried to help you by pointing you to a different area of the forum which may actually be more helpful to you. As for saying you will not be ordering large amounts let me remind you that your first post on this thread said that minimum amount wasnt an issue I may have read it wrong but it seems to me that you do want to buy wholesale amounts of flowers without actually being a business paying your way. I wish you well but I agree with FBA that this is the wrong section for you.

i'm not aware that I have to be a business in order to buy large amounts of flowers as long as I am not trying to buy from a wholesaler, which I'm not.
I use a wholesaler and import for my design business because I legally can for that, this however is not work its a hobby and I am not trying to make out I am trade.I will happily do down the right route to find a supplier.

i'm not earning anything but experience out of what I do therefor there is no need for me to call it a business and register, I wouldnt have time to run a Florist business and do my day job, I do what I do for my friends because I want to when I'm able to.

I am insured as I do Party planning and work as a designer,I did check that I am covered for the floristry element also,however luckily as I only do flowers for friends its unlikely that anyone would want to make a claim anyway.

As for the local florist I have in the past given her alot of work from the party planning and passed on her number when I have been asked to do flowers and been uable to due to work travel commitments and meetings.

perhaps the other newbies who asked questions and info and then never came back had their heads biten off too! bless.

Do you own your own party planning business?

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Perhaps next time someone posts something innocently in the wrong place the mod should just move the thread to the correct location as on all other forums.

Hello Funky,

I worked as a party planner for a hotel and then set up a business with a group of friends from uni.

I work full-time as a designer so I currently help with the party planning but am more involved with bookings and passing on contacts than being hands on at an event anymore.

Are you a party planner also? x

No im aflorist...reason i asked if you owned it, maybe if you got a florist to recommend doing the flowers for your function, maybe the when your doing your floristry they could help you out.......just an idea....


Also you could claim a commission from the florist some accept this, some dont

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Woohooo Thank you Mod,!

Hiya forget me not, im confused ( don't take much as the others will say ) earlier in the thread you say you wont use the local florist because of the standard of her flowers, but then in another post you wrote that you pass lots of work her way when doing the party plan but im sure there are quite a few florists that way who come on here maybe they could help

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