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Here at Life In Bloom, our “off-season” is anything but slow for our event designers. This time of year, our designers are busy meeting with new clients and booking events for the upcoming year. As we meet with so many engaged couples, one thing we remind ourselves of is that wedding ceremonies come in all shapes and sizes.

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Here in Chicago, you can throw a stone in any direction and hit ten wedding florists, many of whom will describe themselves as a luxury event florist. It’s certianly a unique industry with a relatively low “barrier to entry”. There is no license required. No official certification. So in a way, I get it. But […]

Here at Life In Bloom, our “off-season” is anything but slow for our event designers. This time of year, our designers are busy meeting with new clients and booking events for the upcoming year. As we meet with so many engaged couples, one thing we remind ourselves of is that wedding ceremonies come in all […]

If you are in the middle of wedding planning, you might be wondering how to transform your venue in a way that is both dramatic but also interesting. Gone are the days of putting flowers on the table and calling it a day. Every blog and wedding magazine is plastered with gorgeous floral installations from […]

This past year at Life In Bloom, we invested in some flexible and customizable bar bases. We typically rent bars out on over half of our weddings. But the inventory in the Chicago market is limited and you can only use the same wedding bar so many times before it starts to feel stale. So […]

Do you ever feel as though the holidays creep up on you? The big festive parties, tree-lighting ceremonies and endless dinner invites pile up all through November. All of a sudden you blink and it’s December 1st. You haven’t decorated the house, planned your Christmas celebration and have no idea what holiday trends to keep […]

After many of our couples tie the knot, we often get an email a week or two later either from the bride, the mother of the bride, or even the long lost aunt of the groom, inquiring about the best way to “preserve” the Bridal Bouquet. And while the intention of preserving the bouquet is […]

Escort card displays have become a novelty in weddings. If you think about wedding decor, most pieces are fairly standard. Sure, you can have a unique arch in your ceremony, or unique flowers in your centerpiece, but you most likely have seen something similar. The escort card display is truly the one piece of wedding […]

Chuppahs are the four-post structures that a Jewish bride and groom traditionally get married beneath. From my experience, it is important they have 4 open sides and a covered top, but besides that you can pretty much design them how you would like. A wedding chuppah is quite large in size because you must fit […]

Crafting a Bridal Bouquet with Your Style in mind One of the most exciting design elements to pick out for your wedding day is your bridal bouquet! This is where you get to show off your colorful style or your timeless and elegant look. At Life in Bloom we make your bridal bouquet personalized just […]

Morgan Manufacturing – The Space One of our favorite wedding venues, Morgan Manufacturing, is an industrial space in the West Loop neighborhood of Chicago. We have had the pleasure of working at the space multiple times per year, with each wedding looking different than the next. When you work in a space often and see […]

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