Floral Theory

Floral theory was the perfect choice for my wedding. We had met with other florists before talking with Yasmin, but she was the only one that could almost read our minds. She knew exactly what we wanted, and then she made it better :) She brought so much creativity and joy with her that it made the whole planning and designing process more enjoyable.
Not only did she provide flowers for the wedding, she also created much of the overall design of the ceremony and reception. She came up with so many little details and elements that we had never seen before. Our wedding was the most special, beautiful, and spectacular day, and Yasmin had a huge part in making that happen.
We had high expectations, but Floral Theory went above and beyond anything we could have imagined.

I was really conflicted about writing this review because I had issues with Yasmin’s customer service. However, the flowers she provided for my wedding were lovely and exactly what I wanted.
So let’s start there. We bought milk glass for the centerpieces and had her fill them with arrangements, and also ordered bouquets and boutonnieres and flowers for my hair. Since there weren’t any ceremony decorations, it only came out to around $ 1200, which was reasonable. Yasmin’s assistant arrived right on time and set them up and they looked great. I had red, orange, and yellow dahlias, mums, billyballs, etc. I don’t know a lot about flowers, so I told her which flowers I liked and which I didn’t want, and what colors I was looking for and together we worked out a plan. Yasmin was great in the initial planning stage.
After that, however, she was difficult to get a hold of. If I asked her more than one question, she would only respond to the first one. I repeatedly tried to make plans to drop off the vases to her and was not able to until a few days before the wedding, which caused unnecessary stress. She explained her lack of return emails and lack of customer service by saying that she had a big wedding out of town. I understand that my wedding may not be a big deal to a florist who probably does much more expensive or extravagant affairs, but please do me the favor of not treating my wedding as less important than the more expensive ones. I didn’t get the sense that she thought about my wedding at all until a few days before the event after receiving her payment.
So in the end the flowers were beautiful, but the customer service left much to be desired.

Yasmin did a phenominal job with my May 2011 wedding florals. She was great to work with from the very start, understanding my needs, wishes and vision, along with my budget. Even during the wedding planning process when I wanted more florals (ie. expensive orchids, etc), she helped me get the best of both — more florals but within reason so I could stay within budget.
On my wedding day, I had a quick change and needed an additional floral arrangement. She was gracious enough to fulfill the last minute request and then some. My wedding bouquet and the bridesmaids’ were gorgeous! When I walked into my reception, I was blown away by the beauty of the centerpieces. She really has a knack at taking a vision and creating it into a visual masterpiece.
And an added plus, Yasmin has a great rolodex of vendors she works with too. When I was in need of a month-​of wedding coordinator, she suggested Bustle Events, who couldn’t have been any better. Erin of Bustle and Yasmin were like my wedding design/​coordination dream team.
Highly recommend Yasmin for any event floral needs!

Wildflower Event Florals did my wedding flowers for my recent wedding earlier this month, and I absolutely loved my flowers. Yasmin understood my vision when we first met on our initial consultation, and I immediately knew I wanted her to do my wedding. I really loved how our flowers looked on my wedding day! I thought everything looked pretty and just what I envisioned. I also loved my bouquet and all of my wedding party’s flowers. Her creations were definitely a big part in making my big day look and feel beautiful.

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I can only speak for my own experience, which was nothing like the other reviews here. You get what you pay for, don’t be fooled by the cheap quote.
In the beginning, I too was given the impression that Yasmin is dedicated and devoted. She pushed hard for the contract for my wedding, saying «I want to tell you how much I want your business», and promising that she would «work hard», that she was the one with the «vision and ethic» to get the job done. She said all the right things… but actions speak louder than words.
We scheduled several meetings. She cancelled the first meeting the night before because her son was sick. I can’t deny someone the right to take care of their son. We rescheduled, and at this meeting she arrived 20 minutes late. She texted me a minute before the meeting time that she would be late. When she arrived, it was a story about a broken printer, and sorry but she couldn’t print out the information for the meeting.
At this point I had a bad feeling, but she was so much cheaper than the other quotes, I was blinded by how much I would save.
I paid the deposit, which is a whopping 50% of the total. No other flower vendor I interviewed asked for that much up front.
Now the emails were returned slowly. It took several weeks to nail down the site visit. The evening before the site visit, I receive an email that she «has to cancel our meeting». This time, she had internet problems. Also she added that due to the Labor Day Holiday, she was not able to procure the flowers for the sample.
I tried to explain that cancelling a site visit 2 weeks before my wedding is not professional. Her response was flippant, and she did not take any responsibility for her actions. It was the internet, it was the holiday, it was the printer. Always an external force that ruined things, so that she was blameless.
She continued to say that «why couldn’t I be flexible» with the meeting time. It was shocking to hear a vendor, a PROFESSIONAL, tell a client to be flexible with a meeting THEY cancelled. I spent 20 minutes trying to explain that this was not ok – not 2 weeks before a wedding, and actually not really anytime is it ok to do that to a client. None of my other 10 vendors ever had trouble keeping an appointment.
At this point, I had completely lost confidence in her abilities. She seemed incapable of «getting it together». Not able to prepare for a meeting because of a printer, not able to plan around a 1-​day holiday to get flowers and not able to follow through on the site visit. How could I trust her with my entire wedding? I ended up taking drastic measures, which is a complete nightmare 2 weeks before a wedding: I had to get another florist.
I had some hope in Yasmin’s humanity, and thought I would get my deposit back. It was her unprofessional behaviour that led me to lose trust in her.
Of course, she refused to refund any part of the deposit. She said «I didn’t break the contract». She did, however, break the PROMISES she made, to «work hard for you», to have «the work ethic», «to complete your vision». I don’t know how people can feel good about getting paid for something they didn’t earn, but there you have it.
Yasmin will tell you what you want to hear. But let my experience be a lesson you don’t have to learn the hard way.

I contacted Yasmin early on in my wedding planning, 7 months before the big day, from her Craigslist posting. I told her that I had a small flower budget since we didn’t want to spend money on what my now-​husband considered «throw away costs». She sent me her average floral costs which was more than what we wanted to spend. I met up with her early January 2010 and told her I’m willing to streamline my floral ideas so I can keep within our budget. She sent me an estimate which was within our budget and booked her shortly thereafter. I had given her several photos of what I wanted the flowers to look like. For example, I wanted the boutonnieres to be small. I wanted my bouquet to be more organic-​looking and not the tight round bouquet.
In addition, our original contract stipulated that my wedding coordinator would pick up the flowers at some location (either her studio or elsewhere) by noon the day of the wedding. Of course this got changed. At one point she wanted my coordinator to pick up the flowers at 6am or 7am. After several back-​and-​forth emails, we finally settled on them delivering all the flowers to our hotel on the wedding day. By this time (2 weeks before the wedding), we actually ended up increasing our floral budget (i originally wanted a very small bridal bouquet but changed my mind and ordered a regular size bridal bouquet). Our final order was: 2 altar arrangements, 7 bridesmaids bouquets («small & lean», comprised of a few stalks of dendrobium orchids, ti leaf & peacock feathers), 11 men’s boutonnieres, 2 women’s boutonniers (for our mothers) and my traditional-​size bride’s bouquet.
I kept in touch with her for the next several months and by June we met up one last time — so I can give her the peacock feathers I purchased — which was to go with my bouquet, the bridesmaids bouquet and the men’s boutonnieres. During this last meeting I went over the «vision» for my bouquet — I had sent her photos of what I did not want (I did not want a round bouquet) — and she said she understood. I also stressed that I wanted the boutonnieres to be small. Meanwhile, Yasmin kept saying that she needed to have creativity in her work AND that she normally doesn’t work with someone who has such a small floral budget but accepted the work because «business is business». I was insulted with that comment but just brushed it off since I had more important wedding details to deal with than flowers.
Wedding day came (7÷10÷10)… My coordinator told me later on (after the wedding) that SHE had to drive over to Santa Clara because Yasmin and her team were «stuck» doing another wedding and had no time to bring my flowers. My wedding was in Palo Alto. Our contract stipulated delivery to our hotel. This was very inconvenient since I needed my coordinator at the hotel, doing last minute things for the wedding! When I saw the flowers, I was disappointed. First, my bouquet looked round & tight. She used all the flowers as indicated in the contract but I thought it would be more organic-​looking and natural. And I hated the way the base of the bouquet looked (not the ribbon-​wrapped stems — those were fine). I think she used ti leaves that tucked under to form some sort of round base, which added to the round look of the bouquet — which, if she really listened to me, was something I did not want.
Next, the boutonniers were *not* small. Each bout had 2 orchids that were sticking out when you pinned it to the lapel. By the time our reception started, most of the men’s boutonnieres had an orchid bloom missing or the lower orchid was drooping like it was about to fall off.
I liked the flowers she used (the blue-​dyed purple dendrobium orchids were beautiful). I also liked our altar arrangements and bridemaids bouquets. They were exactly what I wanted. The rest of the arrangements (boutonnieres for men & mothers, my bouquet) I wasn’t crazy about.
Although she was able to provide flowers for our wedding within our budget, some of the arrangements were not what I had hoped for and her attitude via email or on the phone was curt and gruff. Not to mention having my coordinator run over to her other wedding to pick up my flowers! If that doesn’t say «you’re not spending enough for me to give you any attention», I don’t know what does.

This May I hired Wildflower Event Florals to do my wedding flowers.
Yasmin is amazing!
She really captured my vision when it came to my wedding flowers. I wanted to go with a vintage rustic feel and Yasmin nailed it!
The bouquets were absolutely gorgeous!
She was very understanding of my budget which was something I looked for in booking a florist. She is also very easy to work with, and quickly answered my emails and calls.
I highly HIGHLY recommend her for anyone looking for an amazing florist!

Planning the floral look of our wedding ceremony and reception with Yasmin was a wonderful experience. My (then) fiancé and I left our initial consultation with Yasmin very excited. We thought we were all over the map trying to pull our colors and style together into a cohesive and elegant look, but Yasmin had great suggestions that helped assure us the result would be beautiful. She did not disappoint! My husband and I agreed that the results were spectacular. Of note also is that Yasmin was more than politely accomodating when it came to meeting our budget requirements. Use her services without reservation and with great expectations! We think you are awesome, Yasmin!
Pamela and Stephen

I picked Yasmin to do the flowers for my ceremony and reception after reading the raving reviews on Unilocal.Initially I sent her some samples of what I was looking for and she got back with an estimate which was in the range i was looking for. She seemed very thorough while we were going over the various floral arrangements.
Inspite of her enthusiasm I was still unsure if it will work out the way I wanted it to. To my surprise the florals were simply perfect. Exactly like the way I wanted — simple but elegant. She even managed to reuse the ceremony pews at the reception.
I so wanted to take all the flowers home, but we had to let others have a few coz we din’t have space in the trunk :(.
Am so glad I found her and highly recommend her. Thanks Yasmin!

Yasmin is a true professional. We had talked to many florists, in search of one that would meet our creative vision as well as budget and had been working with someone who had to eventually not sign a contract with us due to the reception time of another wedding being moved up. In my state of panic, my husband had found Yasmin on Craigslist for me to talk to two months before my wedding.
I had my doubts given the lack of credible referrals I personally had for Yasmin as well as the fact that not all of what I was hoping her to accomplish were things she had done before. However, unlike many florists out there, Yasmin has an amazing can-​do attitude and is willing to try everything as well as meet your budget. I believe we had spent nearly 3 hours in our initial session talking about all the options that would work for my vision of a modern, unique, and creative wedding inspired by orange and blue colors. Given that some of what I wanted her to achieve were new things for her, she even promised to make me samples before the big day to ensure that I was a happy bride. When the sample didn’t turn out quite as i had expected, she redid them and did not stop until she herself was happy with them. Yasmin even offered to set up the center pieces (minus the fresh flowers) the day before my wedding so as to ensure time for sufficient execution on the actual day of the wedding given the short lapse between my ceremony and reception.
On the actual wedding day, I was blown away by how gorgeous EVERYTHING turned out. I had so many people comment on how beautiful and creative the flowers were. From my amazing bouquet, the unique branch balls for the bridesmaids, the adorable ring basket, to the actual center pieces on the reception tables that had such whimsical touches on them as inspired by Yasmin’s sister, I was impressed at Yasmin and her team on their willingness to take the bride’s input/​vision and execute excellently.
Thank you Yasmin and team!

Yasmin was amazing to work with. She worked within my budget and blew my highest expectations out of the water. We e-​mailed back and forth up to the wedding day and she was always there when I needed something added or removed.
On the wedding day she showed up early (mind you, there was huge amounts of traffic and every other vendor showed up late). She added flowers and removed ones that were suffering from the heat. (again, one of the hottest days of the summer). She stayed until the ceremony was over. Yasmin is amazing. My flowers were breath-​taking. Everyone commented on how wonderful the centerpieces were, and at the end of the night there were fights over who got to take one home.
Thank you Yasmin for making my wedding day perfect.

I have been meaning to write this review since the day of my wedding, but wanted to have some pictures to prove how simply amazing Yasmin’s work is. The moment I met with her, I knew I wanted to work with her. She was very easy to talk to and spent a lot of time getting to know me and understanding what I liked and didn’t like. I really know nothing about flowers, so I put a lot of faith in Yasmin’s expertise. Leading up to the wedding, Yasmin and I exchanged many emails (I would hear from her within a couple of hours each time). Towards a couple of weeks before, I decided to add some more arrangements and had some changes I wanted. Yasmin and I spent 2 hours on the phone and even met up at the Flower Mart to pick out some things. She had gone way above and beyond what I would ever had expected from her. It was natural for her, she genuinely cared! So, now to the wedding… my flowers actually turned out better than I could have imagined. Each arrangement was made with some much care and attention to detail and it clearly showed. The table arrangements were exactly what I had wanted (yet, better).
I would not think twice about recommending Yasmin to do any floral arrangement. She is truly an artist and is such a pleasure to work with. Thank you so much Yasmin, for helping my day so beautiful!

I was referred to Yasmin & Wildflower Event Florals through a coworker who knew of her work. My coworker emailed me some pics from a wedding that Yasmin had done recently, and I decided to see if there was anything online about her. I found so many positive reviews on Unilocal that I decided to reach out to her. I was really concerned about my budget, wanted to keep things simple, yet beautiful. I loved how Yasmin was able to read my mind in the look I was going for with my flowers. I wanted something bright, modern, yet still bridal.
Yasmin not only was able to pull it off with her ideas and suggestions, but she managed to do it with the budget I had in mind. I never told her how much I wanted to spend. She asked me to put everything I wanted in, and she would give me a quote, and we would work together on what would be feasible and what could be dismissed. That put me at ease to know that she was willing to work with me and that we would work together on coming up with something that would be comfortable for me financially. When I received her quote, I jumped for joy! Everything I wanted, including my «nice to haves» were within my price range. Woohoo!
I got married on Saturday, May 2^nd, and it rained on and off for that entire week. I was planning to have an outdoor ceremony, and that was not going to be feasible with all the rain. I called Yasmin that very morning of the wedding to let her know that we were moving the ceremony to the barrel room of the winery. Her response was, «Don’t even worry. I already called your location yesterday to ask what the back up plan was so I can make changes.» Talk about music to my ears!
Yasmin was on point throughout the entire wedding planning process, she was a consultant in guiding me to what would be best for my situation, and she was a friend who even listened to me gripe about family & bridesmaid madness. I highly recommend Yasmin for her hard work, dedication and professionalism. I have already referred her to two friends of mine who are also getting married, and they thank me for the incredible florist I have recommended to them. I wish Yasmin continued success in her business and I will always refer her to anyone I know who is getting married and wants to have amazing flowers at their wedding.

Unfortunately, I took everyone’s good ratings for yasmin to heart & I ended up wasting quite a bit of time with her… I wish I had looked elsewhere.
She turned out to be highly unprofessional & just seemed a bit «slimy» with her business tactics.
We both got a sort of creepy vibe from her & are much happier that we chose another florist. Sometimes your gut feeling goes a long way, & we just didn’t get it with yasmin. Quite the opposite!
The florist that we did choose (not yasmin) did a fantastic job at our June wedding… especially considering the temp in San Ramon was in the high 80s that day!

Yasmin came to meet me all the way to Union City to meet with me while she was sick — that already showed me how dedicated and committed she was. She was great in customizing exactly how I wanted my wedding flower arrangements.
I can’t believe that anyone would go and right such a ridiculously ludicrous review about Yasmin’s non-​professionalism — there isn’t any! Professional florists from Paris couldn’t beat Yasmin’s upstanding consideration and attentiveness.
Anyone who would give Wildflower a bad review must either be mistaken with another company or is just blatantly lying.
Yasmin’s great and so is Wildflower’s service!

After reading the reviews on Unilocal I decided to get in contact with Yasmin. I got married June 6, 2009 and she decided to do the flowers for my wedding even though there was another wedding going on the same day. I was a little worried about how that would work, but everything turned out terrific. We had a big wedding and a budget. Yasmin worked in our budget and flower items that I thought I wouldn’t be able to afford, I was able to have. I emailed her all my ideas, all the different flowers i liked, and all the different styles. From there we were able to narrow down what kind of flowers we would use. I thought I would not be able to afford orchids for my wedding but all my centerpieces and main ceremony flowers ended up being orchids. Yasmin helped me so much with my wedding. For example, when I got engaged I was really nervous about how my wedding would turn out and if it would look beautiful. After my first meeting with Yasmin and planning it out I felt better. We went step by step though the whole wedding and what we could do and use. One could tell she has a lot of experience in this because she didn’t leave anything out and she knew what she was talking about. She even made me sample centerpieces before we even signed the contract. I thought that was awesome of her to do that because it showed me that she knew how to make the flower arrangement. Not only did she do the flowers but she helped me with some of the decorations and gave some other decorating tips. The pew decorations with the tulle and roses was beautiful. I didn’t expect it to be so beautiful. I was really worried about the pew decorations because that was the only part that I saw on the day of my wedding.
I don’t understand why someone gave Yasmin a bad review, she was extremely professional with me. Every time I would email her I would get a reply right away. I had vendors that would contact me the next day, but Yasmin was always available. When I met Yasmin, I only got good vibes from her and I am extremely happy that I did choose her and not someone else. I will post some pictures to show how beautiful everything looked. Also, her team was on time.
The bridal party flowers were amazing. I couldn’t keep my eyes off of how beautiful the flowers were and the girls bouquets were exquisite. I loved my peonies bouquet. She delivered the flowers to us 8:30 am and they lasted till after the wedding. At the end of the night my wedding bouquet looked as good as she had delivered it to me. I was shocked because usually by the end of the wedding the brides bouquets don’t look too good. I heard so many complements about the flowers and how it made my wedding very elegant. People are still talking about how beautiful my wedding was. I highly recommend Yasmin, she will truly make your wedding beautiful and she does all this in your budget. She also did the flowers for my wedding cake and it turned out beautiful. I had doubts and fears before seeing all of the flowers, but when I saw everything on my wedding day I was shocked. I am still amazed at how beautiful everything turned out. I would not change anything if I had the chance to go back.

Yasmin is absolutely amazing! I knew almost immediately that i wanted her to work on my wedding. I came in with a few ideas but she expanded and gave me so much advice! She’s super sweet, creative, and very accomodating.
I can’t say enough. Everyone loved all of the flowers. For my flower girls, she recommended pomanders and they were the cutest things ever! When my bridesmaids saw them, i think they got a little jealous! =)
She totally works with your budget as well.
ABSOLUTELY THE BEST!!!

I used Yasmin for my wedding in November 2007 and I cannot tell you how happy I was with all that she did to make our special day magical. She is beyond fantastic and so easy to work with. I found her on craigslist and we went back and forth through email where I told her exactly what I was looking for. To my amazement, during our 1^st meeting she actually bought a sample centerpiece which was PERFECT!!! The best part is that she will work within your budget and offer alternative suggestions to help get you there. I 100% recommend Yasmin to all future brides!!!

Yasmin is awesome in what she does. She is personable and professional. I used Yasmin’s services for my wedding on July 26 and it was beautiful. When I saw my bouquet that she designed for me. I almost fell over because it was so pretty.
What is wonderful about Yasmin is that she is willing to work with your budget. She is super responsive and does what it takes to get things done. I would recommend her to anyone who is having a wedding!

I used Wildflower Event Florals for my May 2008 wedding and can’t say enough about this business! I am actually getting going with my Unilocal reviews specifically to write a review for this business.
This business, and Yasmin, the owner, in particular were fantastic! They were professional, helpful, responsive and creative, and most importantly, the decorations at my wedding were gorgeous. Our photographer, who has been in the wedding business for years asked for our florist’s card because he was so impressed.
I was not the typical bride who has known exactly what I wanted since kindergarten, and Yasmin was fine with that. She helped us define a vision for our wedding by listening carefully to what my husband and I both liked and then made suggestions to help bring it all together. She was also great about staying within our (fairly modest) budget and didn’t try to upsell us at all, as most every other vendor we met with tried to do. In fact, she came up with creative ways to stretch our money, such as taking the flower arrangements from the Chuppah and moving them into a predetermined place in the reception. We remained well within our budget and still had a beautiful wedding!
Personally, Yasmin is friendly and easy to be around, and was great to have there on our big day. She was even so accommodating that she came to our house to pick up the vases we’d rented from her. I hope you’ll give her a call.
Best wishes with your big day!