She’s also very excited by the shift in people’s senses and sensibilities towards sustainable, seasonal choices in food and floristry. However, one of the best wedding stories Jess shares in her softly lilting Scottish accent is of an August bride whose mother carried Lily of the Valley in her bouquet many years before. A proponent of supporting seasonality in florals—mimicking the seasonality Jess observed during her many years of working in fashion—she knew that Lily of the Valley was a spring flower and very unlikely to be found in time for the late summer date, but that didn’t mean the bride would have to go without this important piece of her family’s story.

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