Blue Orchid

I went online last minute prior to our flight for Kauai looking for a place to get a few gorgeous leis for a birthday celebration and scored big time with The Blue Orchid in Koloa. Not only less than a mile from our rented condo, but the ladies who work here are so nice and welcoming. I scheduled a pickup time for 3pm the day before the celebration and the leis were perfectly boxed and were fresh and beautiful ready to wear. Mahalo to the ladies at The Blue Orchid!

If you’re looking for a florist for your wedding or for any other events, please stop here and contact Arlene. She is one awesome lady!
As a typical bride, I was nervous, anxious and stressed over the wedding details that I had to plan for. Arlene was able to put all that stress and worry by understanding what I wanted for my reception. The only thing I regret was to not have found her first so that she could have done my bouquet and my bridesmaids bouquets.
Although the communications we had were few and at times hard to get a hold of her but when we did connect, it was great. She’s a very busy and popular lady who runs her business with heart and kindness.
She is not all about money and will help you in any way she can.
I really, really appreciate all that she has done and would have loved to thank her in person before I left Kauai.
Mahalo Arlene!

Thank you Arlene for making beautiful flower arrangements for my sister’s wedding on 5÷15÷15. You were simply wonderful. Thank you also for the beautiful lei for my mother who had passed away. I would highly recommend you to anyone looking for a florist for any occasion. Your personal touch and kind heart definitely made the ceremony even more beautiful. Everything you made was just absolutely beautiful!

Awesome! I ordered a Kaua’i maile lei and had it shipped to ‘Oahu. The lady was friendly and helpful as she took my order and it arrived exactly on the day she said it would. Very reasonable prices and the lei was beautiful.

I got flowers for my wedding. They were absolutely beautiful and just what I wanted the centerpieces were stunning. The bridal bouquets were bright and beautiful. The lady that I worked with about the flowers I believe she was the owner was very genuine and honest and was Open to negotiation about different flower arrangements.

This place was a life saver. They were supposed to be closed and as I drove by and saw someone in the store I decided to check it out. I needed to pick up some flowers for a VIP and I need them now. Well fortunately the lovely ladies were in the store and kind enough to help a girl out. They put together a gorgeous vase of purple flowers for me, and quickly. I was so thankful for their service and help today. I will definitely be coming here anytime I need flowers!

Mahalo Lorraine for your kindness during our visit to your beautiful island! We enjoyed your store very much, the lei smelled wonderful for days. The wooden red rooster is very happy in our family room wearing the Ti leaf necklace, we will think of you fondly each time we see him :) Hope to be back in the future!

The day before our wedding we stopped in Blue Orchid to see the flowers that they were going to use in my cascading bouquet, but unfortunately not all of the flowers had arrived yet and their refrigerators had stopped working, so needless to say they were all slightly stressed about saving all of their beautiful flowers that had been shipped in from all over. Arlene insisted that everything would be exactly as I had requested and I had no doubts. The next day, we stopped in at noon to pick up the bouquet, matching boutonnière and two leis for our wedding ceremony that day at 4:30pm. Unfortunately they were still trying to get the star gazer flowers to open up for my bouquet but Arlene said that they would deliver them free of charge to us at the Grand Hyatt within an hour, which was still plenty of time for our ceremony. I still had no concerns. Arlene made me feel at ease and I knew that she would make something beautiful.
When the flowers were delivered I was getting my hair and makeup done but when I arrived back at the room and saw the beautiful cascading bouquet, boutonnière and leis I was MORE than pleased! They were all so incredibly beautiful and very fragrant. I had asked Arlene to just make the bouquet very bright in colors and to have the boutonnière to match… she made that happen and all of the flowers made our pictures even brighter in so many ways!
Thank you for all of your hard work and thoughtfulness that you put into these flowers for our special day!

Planned wedding from Colorado. Arlene was great, made you feel like Ohana! Wanted tropical flowers for bouquet and leis of all varieties. Arlene and staff made a beautiful plumeria bouquet that lasted for several days! Gorgeous! Mahalo Blue Orchid.

Arlene and her staff at Blue Orchid Florist in Koloa, Kauai (HI) provided my bridal bouquet, several floral leis and a traditional kukui nut lei, and loose flowers for my bridal hairstyle and my mother’s updo.
Arlene and the ladies in the shop are very sweet, laid-​back, and instantly felt like family the moment my mother and I walked into the shop in Old Koloa Town.
My bridal bouquet was just beautiful and included some wonderfully fragrant gardenias grown in one of the ladie’s home garden. She kindly gave my mom some extra gardenias to take back to our rental house «just because» she and my mom bonded and my mom told her that gardenias were her special wedding flower. It was so hard leaving my beautiful bouquet behind when we left Kauai! The roses, orchids, and greenery last for several more days after the wedding and graced the counter in our rental home’s master bathroom.
Blue Orchid was even able to custom create the ilima lantern, tuberose, and blue orchid lei that my fiancé just HAD to have ;-) They also customized my parent’s leis.
The prices did seem a little high for the leis (averaging about $ 50 a piece except the kukui nut lei which was a reasonable $ 12) although this might be the norm for the island. This is the one and only florist I contacted so I’m not the best source of information about the value of their services and products.
Blue Orchid is conveniently located next to the Koloa Wine Shop where my fiancé and I had our wedding license application certified by Ellen O’Connell.

Planning a wedding from afar can be a bit stressful. I can’t say enough about the service from Blue Orchid. Arlene has such a talent as well as a warm heart. Not only did she take a few suggestions and run with them, she made all of my arrangements better than I could have picked out myself. I gave her a budget and she stuck to it. She made my church ceremony as well as my reception beautiful. I would highly recommend for any occasion. Plus, Arlene makes you feel like family! Thank you Arlene!

the owner, Arlene, is a wonderful woman with wildly exquisite floral skills. she has a wide range of creativity and is able to not only meet your standards but surpasses it as well. she’s very lively, generous, and. she is able to make any bouquet or arrangement you’ve got on mind and turn it into the real thing. got a wedding you wanna do? the blue orchid is the place to go!

I thought I could assemble my own bridal bouquets the day before my wedding and Arlene Carbonel saved me from a bridezilla meltdown! She saved the day and created gorgeous wedding bouquets & leis! She was kind, funny, and took away my stress. Her creations were stunning and I cannot thank her enough for my beautiful wedding flowers!

Awesome. If you’re looking for a friendly, well-​stocked florist with a talent for unique, artistic arrangements, look no further. Arlene and her staff are fun, down-​to-​earth, and really LOVE flowers. Blue Orchid delivered on our out-​of-​season requests in less than 24 hours, and delivered (right to our hotel room) an amazing arrangement that far surpassed our expectations. They even had the foresight to throw in some extras that we actually needed in the end. I wish I could find a florist like this in Los Angeles, but I’m sure if I did, they’d charge four times what Blue Orchid charged us.
Thanks Arlene and crew!

We found this shop after visiting the wine shop next door. I needed flowers for our Church ceremony which my mom was going to arrange. We met Arlene the owner of the flower shop, which come to find out she was our florist for our wedding the following day. (Worked through a coordinator) I told her I didn’t want to spend alot, gave her a budget and she stretched that budget! Although I said my mom would arrange them, she went ahead and did it for us and was super quick!
Through our coordinator, we also ordered 20 or so leis, 5 bridesmaid bouquets and my bouquet. I was very impressed, they looked like the pictures I sent and my bouquet was just gorgeous! Highly recommend this place for your florals. Also, I’d suggest working with the florist directly to ensure no miscommunication and you get to meet this awesome person!

The Blue Orchid is a cozy little florist in Koloa, yet makes a BIG impact with it’s flowers!~ LOVED my wedding bouquet they made me. Lovely arrangement. There website is on mark and very professional, which made it easier to choose my bouquet without being there in person to choose (I live in Brooklyn). They are the BEST!

We chose Blue Orchid to do our flowers for our wedding on 10÷5÷11 and they did an amazing job. We sent them some pictures of the type of bouqets we wanted and they replicated them spot-​on. Everyone commented on how beautiful my wife’s bouqet was. The centerpiece they created for our table was a true work of art. We’re so happy we chose Blue Orchod for our wedding.

I have been using the Blue Orchid for 8 years now and I think that they are the BEST, I would not thing of using anyone else. I can not tell all of the stories of my very happy brides.

Blue Orchid was closed when we tried calling on New Year’s day, so we were really bummed out because we needed last minute flowers for our elopement the following day. The Grand Hyatt concierge saved the day! They were able to reach Arlene, the owner of the flower shop and my new hubby was able to order me a wedding bouquet and leis for our lei exchange.
I wasn’t picky and didn’t have any specific requests or colors in mind, so I was a little worried about the final product would look like. Silly me! The bouquet was absolutely gorgeous composed of purple and green orchids with white roses, that was bound together with satiny white ribbon with pearl accents that was a nice touch. Days later, and they still look great despite the beating they got sitting in the trunk of our rental car all day and then with the flight back over to Honolulu.
We also got a beautiful christina lei and the hubs got a tea leaf lei that were strung a mere couple of hours before the ceremony. This was all for $ 200 with our last minute order while they were closed and delivery to the hotel. Although our ceremony was just for the two of us, having the beautiful vibrant flowers really added to the occasion. Thank you Blue Orchid!

I got my wedding bouquet and boutonnière here.
The bouquet was very pretty, although not exactly like the picture online. The boutonnière was also very nice looking.
My big problem was that I specifically asked to have plain green wrapping around the flowers. rather than the big giant white bow and ribbon that is shown in the picture.
1. I was wearing an off white dress… not white
2. I think bows are hideous
My officiant picked up our flowers and brought them to the ceremony site. When I arrived, what was waiting for me? A big bright white ribbon and huge ugly white bow around the stems.
I pulled off the bow and unwrapped the ribbon revealing a little bit of green tape holding the stems together. That had to work.
The bouquet alone was $ 150, and on a day when you want everything perfect, it was disappointing that they messed this up.