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Congratulations Matt & Meghan!

8 Bit Wedding Shower - Congrats

Yes, another party, woo! This time we are celebrating the marriage of one of our programmers, Matt to his wonderful fiance Meghan. Because they are both avid video gamers, their wedding actually had a gaming, 8-bit theme. We tried to continue this with the wedding shower decorations with 8-bit hearts and fonts.

8-bit Hearts - Gamer Wedding Shower

You can see the hearts are kind of squared, this is what 8-bit means. Think of the graphics of Mario and old Nintendo games. What a neat idea for a themed party or wedding, and just perfect for Matt & Meghan.

So BIG congrats guys, from ALL of us at FSN!

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Happy Birthday Girls!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY GALS!

If you’ve been following us on the blog or Facebook for very long, you know we love any excuse to bring food to work and party! November is one of our favorite months for birthdays! It just so happens, all of our website admin’s birthdays fall in the first part of November! That’s right!

Jill & Brenda from Flower Shop Network, Judy from FGmarket, AND Lacey from Wedding And Party Network all have birthdays this month!

Each birthday girl got her own personalized cupcake, and there was a yummy snacks buffet with morning foods, like muffins! We have a ton of other birthdays this month, so it definitely called for a party!

So, HAPPY BIRTHDAY from everyone here in the office and our friends online!

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2011 Halloween at Flower Shop Network

Flower Shop Network Celebrates Halloween

Halloween is one of our favorite times of year here at FSN headquarters. Our readers should know, the Flower Shop Network crew loves any excuse to celebrate! Just check out the fun, scary, beautiful and even a little spacey costume’s we’ve come up with this year. Lots of really creative ones this year!

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Happy Birthday Jason!

Jason's Birthday

If you’ve kept up with FSN’s blog much at all, you KNOW how much we love cake and parties around here! Today we are celebrating the birthday of a man who we could not live without — Jason! He is everyone’s favorite handyman, a true jack-of-all-trades. If something goes wrong in the office, Jason is who we call, not ghost busters! He keeps our building looking new and in working order. (He is also really good at fixing broken cellphones, a skill we are ALL thankful for.)

You might remember Jason from last year’s Halloween pictures — he was a rescued Chilean miner. As you can easily see, Jason is known for keeping us laughing and keeping it fun here at the office. I’m not sure what we’d do without him. So,

Happy Birthday Jason!

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FSN Events: Chris’ Baby Shower

Baby Cake at the Baby Shower

BABY TIME!

Here at FSN headquarters, we love celebrating – especially new additions to our family. Chris Jankoviak, our office clerk is having a baby girl in *wow* less than a month, and we are all so excited!

Baby Shower Food

Baby Shower

Of course the food was delish, the cake was as cute as can be and the flowers were gorgeous, but Chris herself was the cutest part of it all. Through the whole party, her smile was from ear to ear and beyond.
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FSN Floral Calendars

We are very excited to bring you our first set of FSN Floral Selection Calendars just for our member florists!

2012 Floral Calendars

Impress your guests with colorful arrangements and holiday reminders. Each month has a big, beautiful arrangement featured in full-color on the 10″ X 11″ personalized calendar. Floral holidays are clearly marked to remind customers when it’s time to send flowers from you. All of your shop’s information will be shown in large print on every page.

But the best part — they’re only $1 each!

That’s right! Calendars ship Nov. 5th, order NOW to reserve your quantity. These calendars are not only affordable, but also the perfect way to spread the word about your flower shop to your community. Pass them out to local and neighboring businesses, clubs and churches, customers, friends and family. You could also use these as a reward for a contest or quiz (think of the Facebook contest/quiz possibilities!).  Calendars also come with individual envelopes so you can mail them to your top customers!

To pre-order call your Flower Shop Network representative today at 800-858-9925 or order your floral calendar online! Last date to order is August 25th,2011.

Ordering for 2011 is over, but you can still order calendars for 2013.

Custom floral calendars are only $1.00 each*minimum order of 100
Plus $35.00 which includes a one-time setup fee & shipping
*sold in increments of 100
*mailing envelopes are included

Facebook Fun: Flower Arrangement of the Week!

Jerry's Floral - First Arrangement of the Week!We are very excited to start a new fun feature of our Facebook page. We know how much florists and flower lovers enjoy visiting our Facebook page for inspiration and ideas, and to encourage this, we are beginning a new weekly feature — Flower Arrangement of the Week!

For the new Flower Arrangement of the Week feature, we are asking our florist friends to share the favorite designs they’ve created during that week on our Facebook Page.

Every Monday, we will pick one of the photos to use as FSN’s new profile picture! The flower shop that created the design will be credited in the picture and a link to their website will be included in the caption.

Choosing the Weekly Feature

Although it technically is a sort of contest, I just want this to be a fun little feature of our page that everyone can get involved with. We at FSN want to showcase designs from all across the country, and show our visitors who aren’t florists the wide variety of designs available. Not only that, we are excited to have our wall covered in beautiful flower pictures from REAL florists and think everyone would enjoy this as well.

  • Any and all flower arrangement styles are welcome: everyday, funeral, events, etc.
  • We would really prefer arrangements made from the week prior, although any recently made flower arrangement pictures are fine.
  • We mostly want to keep with the feel of the season. You wouldn’t want to see a Thanksgiving cornucopia picture chosen in the middle of the summer. Remember, you want non-florists to see whats available to them right now, and hopefully be inspired enough to contact their local florist!

Fun For Everyone!

We want this new feature to be lots of fun for everyone, and hope the idea of seeing a new arrangements from fellow florists every week will be inspiring. We would also love your input and suggestions. How do you think we could make this even more fun? Let us know in the comments below, or email me at social@flowershopnetwork.com.

If you don’t keep up with our Facebook, (and just why not?!) we are already a virtual hub of florist activity. We are constantly sharing articles either just for florists, or ones great for florists to share with their customers. We also have a weekly feature, Monday’s Florist One-Liners. These are easy lines florists can use in their weekly promoting for things like, status updates, email subjects, even outdoor or window signage.


 

Introducing the NEW FSN Funeral Homes

We are so excited to present to you our newly re-designed FSN Funeral Homes! We have completely changed the look-and-feel, but also the motivation behind the site. We want FSN Funeral Homes to be a complete resource for visitors looking for information about funerals, funeral homes and funeral planning.

FSN Funeral Homes

The new layout features six, easy-to-navigate categories to easily help visitors looking for specific information on any aspect of funeral services. With new articles coming out each week, we are confident this site will become a top resource for funeral planning.

There is also a improved search bar at the top to search for a funeral home anywhere in the United States or Canada. This can be a big help to florists as well when you are looking for funeral homes in other cities. You can also send your customers here if they have questions or need help with funeral planning. If you have a topic or question you think we should cover, let us know!

We are very proud and hope you find our new FSN Funeral Homes to be both convenient and beneficial.

Royal Wedding Bouquet Winner — Perfect Rose Floral Design

Well, our contest has come to a close. If you haven’t been keeping up, we asked our florist friends to show us their predictions for the Royal Wedding Bouquet.  We had a lot of fabulous entries, but Royal Wedding florist, Shane Connolly took us all by surprise. The actual design of the Royal Wedding Bouquet was modest compared to what florists were expecting. Connolly used Sweet William, lily of the valley, hyacinth, ivy and myrtle — all have small white blooms, but deep meanings from the Language of Flowers, used heavily in the Victorian Era. Check out the pic of Kate’s bouquet on Flirty Fleur’s blog.

Because we couldn’t just have a contest without a winner, we took the closest 3 bouquets and put them to a vote! We chose these because they (1) used white flowers, (2) included small flowers, (3) had a slight cascade shape, although Kate’s was very slight.

Our Winner Is

Tina of Perfect Rose Floral Design, East Islip NY

Royal Wedding Bouquet Winner

Created by Tina of
Perfect Rose Floral Design, East Islip NY
http://www.perfectrosefloraldesigns.com/

Tina does fantastic wedding work! She also entered these two bouquets in our Royal Wedding contest:

Royal Wedding Flowers Created by Tina of Perfect Rose Floral Design, East Islip NY Royal Bridal Bouquet Created by Tina of Perfect Rose Floral Design, East Islip NY

Great work Tina! Congratulations!

This post is brought to you by Flower Shop Network, your source for REAL local florists.

Wedding Bells At FSN: Kelly’s Shower

If you can’t tell, we LOVE parties here at FSN Headquarters. Yesterday was a great one! The awesome head blog writer for Wedding & Party Network, our sister site, is getting married the end of this month, and we threw her a shower to remember! Kelly and her fiance, Bart, are gettin’ hitched on April 30th.

Congratulations Kelly!

Spring was the theme of this shower, and instead of the usual house-warming gifts, we had a Stock-The-Pantry party!

Stock-The-Pantry Party!

Everyone created recipe sheets with their favorite food dish and gave Kelly the dry goods to make it! Kelly’s fiance attended culinary school, and Kelly is a big-time party planner, so they both enjoy spending their time in the kitchen. Kelly received tons of yummy goodies from everyone! More pics after the jump! [Read more…]