Lauren Marie Atkinson Designs

nd postponement, and the LMA team created something even more beautiful than I could have imagined for our special day. The vibrant colors and elegant design of the florals matched the joy and awe that we felt at our wedding - thank you so much!

the same vision for our wedding as we did. When making changes or eliminating certain things at our wedding, the team was very quick and easy with creating new invoices. They were easily able to add several little things the week of our wedding, which made for a great memorable experience. Overall, we couldn't have asked for a better floral experience at our wedding.

he venue setting, for the emotion and style I was trying to achieve - was what excited me most when choosing her as my florist. Then COVID. Lauren was able to adapt to my new backyard micro-wedding, including building a beautiful backyard arbor to get married under. She also was accommodating in her 2021 schedule and I cannot be more excited to work with her again for my one year celebration!

rose the day-of when my mother-in-law felt the floral team was rushing to leave during set-up, which led to some hurt feelings and a hurt cake topper! At the end of the day, though, our centerpieces and bouquets were beautiful!

xtremely skilled at their craft, they listened to everything we said we liked and made it happen. Their attention to detail was truly amazing. We enthusiastically recommend LMA!

t knowing much about my vision other than our venue and the color palette for the wedding, and Lauren was able to provide guidance and options that fit the style we were going for. She was also responsive when we had changes to the order, or questions about particular elements we wanted to change. The only thing we had to do on our own was order our own votive holders since we weren't in love with the rental options she had, but that was a quirk of my and my mom's preferences rather than anything LMA did or didn't do. Sometimes communication was a little slow, but I had faith that Lauren was going to nail it on our wedding day, and she did!

us a design board after our meeting and was super receptive to feedback and tweaks. The flowers for our day, including the bouquets, table arrangements, garland rows, and wreaths, were all BEAUTIFUL and exactly what we wanted. I highly recommend working with her if you get the chance.

gold accents we requested. The brides and brides maids bouquets as well as the corsages and boutonnieres were perfect. Even though peonies were not in season Lauren managed to obtain them for my daughters bouquet. She accommodated our changes and made it all affordable as well as beautiful!

. Lauren, who was recommended by my wedding planner, acknowledged my requests in person and in writing four months out from the wedding. I was very specific about what I wanted, and she said she could deliver. I waited and waited for a sample photo, which only came two weeks prior to the wedding. The bouquet in the photo was nice, and I was even told by Lauren the actual bouquet would be bigger. However, on the day of my wedding, the bridal bouquets were sad and totally not cohesive- there would be a green bud of a rose on one side and a full bloom on another- some of the flowers had browned edges and I had specifically emphasized over and over NO GREEN stalks. But, tons of green was visible. the groom's boutonniere was missing a flower- there was supposed to be a rose and freesia- there was no rose. Worse, I was treated with total disrespect on my wedding day when I dared to question the arrangements. Lauren argued with me in an extremely defensive tone in front of all my friends. Everyone was trying to keep me from bursting into tears even more while getting my makeup done. Even one of the make-up artists commented to a member of the bridal party that Lauren was totally out-of-line with her attitude. The general consensus were the flowers were substandard by anyone's measure, not just me being picky on my wedding day. As a result of the bouquet disasters, my wedding planner had to rush out to buy replacement flowers. The end result was improved, but not fixed. All of those bouquets are now immortalized in my wedding photos, and remind me of how horribly I was treated. I do realize flowers are flowers. They grow how they grow. Lauren and I had this exact conversation when we met in April because I didn't want any yellow in my daisies and she indicated she would pick out the ones with the blackest center possible but, some yellow may be present. If the flowers I picked out came to Lauren sub-par, a professional florist would have contacted me or the wedding planner and suggested alternate flowers and/or come up with a plan B. But, if this is the case, she didn't do or say anything. Recently, the wedding planner discussed the issue with Lauren, who apologized and agreed to refund the bouquets. However, I never received an adequate explanation of what happened or why I was treated so poorly. I also recently received pictures from my photographer of the flowers at the reception. After the bouquet disaster, the day of the wedding I tried not to even pay attention to the reception flowers because I didn't want thoughts of how they were or weren't to ruin my evening and take away from everything else. The pictures of the flowers- even when done by a professional photographer still have the flowers looking sad and pitiful. I can not believe Lauren delivered the flowers she did and assumed they would be acceptable for anything much less a wedding! So, so disappointing and frustrating considering how much of an important piece flowers are to a wedding.