February 2017 - Allen's Flowers

Celebrating the Oscars with Luxurious Flower Arrangements

This year, the Oscars are on Sunday, February 26th, which means it’s time to plan your viewing party and think about how you can create a special look and feel that reflects the elegance and glamor of those movie stars you’ll see at the awards show. Whether you want to create custom flower arrangements with our floral design team or you select some of our luxurious flower arrangements, you are sure to add a sophisticated look to your Oscars viewing party with these beauties. Here are some great examples of luxurious flower arrangements that would look great for the big event: California Gold brings together elegance and artisanal beauty with blue and green hydrangeas, roses, and succulents in a burlap-wrapped vase. The Garden Elegance Basket features roses, calla lilies, orchids and other garden flowers in shades of green, pink, and purple. It comes in three sizes. Prestige showcases premium flowers like oncidium orchids, hydrangea, roses, and tulips. It’s a true stunner! Vivacious offers hot pink roses, pastel gerbera daisies, and stargazer lilies in a designer vase. Go with a sophisticated look of all white with Calla Me Crazy, which comes with 20 full-size calla lilies and foliage in a rectangular glass vase, or Snow White Tulips, which are bunched together with wire and arranged in a rectangular glass vase lined with river rocks. These will look great in a foyer, buffet table, coffee table and even outside on the patio if you plan to take the party outside to enjoy a beautiful San Diego sunset on commercial breaks. Remember that you can order by phone, in our San Diego flower shops, or online through our website. For custom orders, you will need to make an appointment to come and work with [...]

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Celebrating National Wedding Month in San Diego

February is National Wedding Month, which means it’s time to think about an engagement, wedding, or wedding planning for the upcoming spring and summer wedding season. Recently expanding our locations with a new spot at Liberty Station and opening our distribution and retail locations provide us with even more options to help you plan that perfect wedding. Plus, we have an extensive floral design team that has worked on all types of weddings and events. Our staff also includes numerous coordinators, which means that you can have a dedicated member of our staff who takes care of you throughout the planning process and coordinates all the wedding flowers, delivery, and set-up so you don’t have to worry about any of it. Instead, you can enjoy your special day. Having served the San Diego area for so long, we’ve been able to partner and get to know all the wedding venues throughout San Diego County for both indoor and outdoor ceremonies and receptions. That means we have a good understanding of how many flowers you need, what works well, and how it can all work within your budget. Having these long-standing relationships with all the wedding venues means that coordination can be seamless, creating a stress-free wedding day for you! We also have a dedicated wedding flower website, which is where we suggest you start your research. It features regularly updated content related to wedding planning tips as well as offers a portfolio of wedding flowers from other weddings that provides you with good ideas and illustrates our floral artistry. The wedding flower website includes numerous examples of wedding bouquets, wedding party flowers, cake flowers, ceremony flowers and reception flowers. Contact us now to reserve your free wedding consultation!

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Making Good Use of Our New Central Design Center on Valentine’s Day

This Valentine’s Day was one of our busiest yet in our nearly 40 years of doing business in San Diego. We’ve come a long way from the point where our family was selling roses on the streets of San Diego some 38 years ago. Our family is so proud to see how much we’ve grown and flourished thanks to the loyalty of our customers and their ongoing referrals to their friends, family, and colleagues. We couldn’t do this without you! It’s been a special year already with our opening at Liberty Station. Plus, we opened a central design center that serves as a production and distribution facility. Dubbed “AC/DC” (Allen’s Central Design Center), we were really glad we opened it just before Valentine’s Day because it really helped us satisfy this year’s customer demand. Being the largest provider of flowers in San Diego means we need a lot of space to house and create our one-of-a-kind flower arrangements. We create hundreds of flower arrangements every day. Plus, during the time leading up to and including Valentine’s Day, we did literally thousands of flower arrangements each day. Now, as we recover from Valentine’s Day, we are excited to put our new floral center to work for other occasions, such as the upcoming wedding season, local San Diego events, conventions, and all the special requests from our customers. We were even covered on our local San Diego television news this year. Be sure to check out the video that features our incredible team. You’ll see all the mayhem that defined this year’s preparation for Valentine’s Day!

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Visit Our New Location at Liberty Public Market!

We are excited to share the news that we have opened a new location at Liberty Public Market here in San Diego. On February 1st, we opened the doors to a new flower shop location at this seven-day a week public market and event venue. Located at Liberty Station, 2820 Historic Decatur Road, this is a great marketplace to experience various types of food, beer and wine, produce, desserts, arts and crafts and more. There are spaces for pop-up dining establishments, educational events, and a test kitchen. We chose the location for the unique concept and the fact that it matches our own mission to create special experiences for our customers. We are joined by so many other extraordinary vendors within the market and can’t wait to have you visit to experience this concept for yourself. Like our other San Diego flower shops, we have readied our Liberty Public Market space for Valentine’s Day with fresh flowers and unique designs that are the hallmarks of our florist and what has given us the title of Best Flower Shop in San Diego for the last few years. To get you in the mood for your Valentine’s Day shopping and to tempt you to come see us at our new location, check out these Valentine’s Day flower arrangements from our current collection: Rustic Roses offers red roses and purple cymbidium orchids in a metal container. Lavender Luxury contains purple tulips, purple and green hydrangea, and a succulent. Tulip Romance has red tulips and purple phalaenopsis orchids in a white container. Rustic Garden Romance features gerbera daisies, tulips, garden roses and many more flowers in various shades of pink all arranged in a tin container. We have a wide selection of roses in numerous [...]