Wedding Flowers - Go Local

How kind of you to recommend your cousin's florist on your second post.

Dont happen to be said florist, do you?

Ummm no Hilary Jenkins is the florist in question. I wasn't her last time I checked!

Hmm and yet your first post was you kindly recommending a venue...

This is because a high street shop has overheads way over and above the overheads that you have when you work from home. This is why many high street florists are leaving the high street or going under because of soaring rent, rates, councils that do nothing to invest in town centres to draw the public in, energy bills, phone bills, ...... need I go on? It's not just florists who struggle on the high street, it's greengrocers, bakeries, greeting card shops, stationers, and the list goes on. I used to have my own high street shop many years ago but also had a landlord who, rather than negotiate the renewal of a lease that was in keeping with the foot flow of the town centre, he was quite happy to increase the rent to the point where I could no longer justify being on the high street so I made the move onto the internet. My shop stood empty for 4 years before another tenant took over. They stayed 6 months before they disappeared. This is the problem - greedy landlords and councils who would rather see properties empty than offer affordable rent and rates.

Regarding your comment "it did take time to hunt down the local non-hgh street businesses as they don't have a lot of money for advertising" - not true! We spend just as much on internet advertising as most high street florists if not more and we are very easy to find on Google as are all the other businesses who work from home such as builders, joiners, plumbers etc! ?