I am the owner of A Private Estate Events a wedding venue in Germantown NY. Yesterday Ailish Florist, also located in Germantown NY, provided the flowers for our wedding couple. As a former florist and lifelong gardener I was impressed with the quality and variety of the flowers Elizabeth selected. I was able to speak at length with her today when she returned to pick up her flower vessels. I learned she sources most of her flowers locally. I had no idea how many different varieties are grown within reach of our venue. Her taste is exquisite and her skill remarkable. She worked with several very fragile flowers such as violas and geums and they looked perfect. If you are looking to support local small floral growers pick Ailish Floral. Not only will you have wonderful long lasting flowers but you are going to have beautiful arrangements too.

I truly cannot recommend working with Elizabeth and Ailish Floral enough. She took the mood board my husband and I laid out and what we were envisioning and created something even better than we could have possibly imagined! We are so grateful to have partnered with Ailish and are so unbelievably pleased with the final result. Our flowers were ten times lusher than I had expected (the floral arch was absolutely breathtaking) and people could not stop talking about the beautiful tablescapes. Not to mention – Ailish focuses on using in season flowers, reuses the glassware from arrangements, and composts everything after the event. The focus on sustainability made us feel even more like we had chosen a partner that understood the vision for the day we were trying to create. Elizabeth’s creativity is truly a gift and I wholeheartedly recommend hiring her for making any special occasion beautiful!

I never thought about flowers much before my wedding. In all honesty, I was thinking “how can I get flowers at a reasonable rate to fill my tables?”

And now, after my wedding day and the flower arrangements that Ailish Floral had delivered, I am now a fully converted Flower Person.

Elizabeth was one of the only florist I reached out to that was willing to work within my budget. Even though we went above my original budget (only after I had requested to order ceremony decor with extra room in my overall wedding budget), she was upfront, realistic, and very understanding of what we were working with. When she initially spoke to me, she asked if I liked these washes of color, and I truthfully did and didn’t think I could afford it. After seeing the flowers delivered to me, I would’ve guessed I had paid twice the amount I did for flowers. The flowers were the perfect color I didn't know I needed.

Elizabeth is an actual ARTIST. I’ve never seen such beautiful flowers in my entire life. After requesting a ceremony piece so close to the wedding, all I gave her was a rough sketch of an idea, and her team built the most beautiful piece I’d ever seen. Blossoming cherry branches! When my bouquet was delivered to me, I didn’t even go to grab it immediately because I was thinking, “I can’t possibly be allowed to hold something that beautiful.” I almost cried when I had to part with my bouquet. Thankfully I’m getting the flowers pressed and preserved so I can have them forever.

Some people actually thought the ceremony decor and floral centerpieces were fake, not because they looked anything other than real, they just couldn’t understand how we had gotten such beautiful flowers in March. I truly don’t understand either. They had also brought flowers to place on my cake. I could cry about it to this day.

If you need a florist, Ailish is the way to go!