Hudson Flowers

If I could give this place a –5 stars I would. HORRIBLE is the only word to describe the arrangements they did for my cousins funeral… Unless you prefer horrendous, or just plain ugly.
Yellow roses with purple wax flowers with the usual fillers of baby’s breath, ferns
a pretty vase were requested… instead we got roses thrown in the vase (really, no arranging at all — think about picking up a bunch of flowers at the supermarket and tossing them in a vase w/​out cutting the stems, etc) with no additonal flowers/​filler. Then I think they looked around to see what was left over from Christmas and threw it in too: One tall spire of sparkly gold branches, some plasticy-​beady-​charmy things errupting in a clump from the ugly grey glass vase (ok, I know the vase part is subjective — but is it appropriate with yellow roses?), glittery gold sprayed greenery, two random sprigs of clear glass beads on a stick, and a spray of plastic (yeah, plastic) ivy trailing down the side.
My cousin was a sweet, innocent spirit who loved rainbows so the cousins requested flowers in the shape of a rainbow. Silk flowers were ok’d but what we got was a monstrosity of cheap, cheap, cheap silk flowers (think the exact opposite of NDI if you know anything of silks) glued onto hard styrofoam packing material. (apparently this florist has not heard of floral foam) In addition to the blue ribbon pinned to the foam behind the rainbow (becuase they couldn’t be bothered to cut it to shape) they added to the mess by a making giant loops of bulbous blue ribbon on top because, although we asked for it to be about 2 ft. wide, I guess they didn’t think it was big enough at the 3+ft. wide that they delivered.
Am I a flower expert? No. Am I a florist? No. Am I an interior designer with a good eye? Yes. Could I have created something twice as nice at a quarter of the cost (which was $ 267.50 + delivery fee, BTW)? Yes.
If you don’t want to be embarrassed at your next function, go elsewhere. The taste police are coming for this guy.