FRAUD ALERT

If anyone gets an e-mail like the one below, beware. It's a scam. I had a similar inquiry last year about this time. It ended with them sending me a fraudulent cashier's check for about $3000 more than my asking price and them telling me to wire the extra money to their band in the UK.

"Good day!

My name is David Robben, i'm french by origin. I live and work in the UK (London) with my fiancee Isabella Penny. My fiancee and i are moving to the US as I just got a new job in Denver, CO which I'd commence by the 2nd week of January, 2011. Just before then we are getting married on the 26th of November, 2010. We need your services to design our wedding with flowers for a beautiful and memorable wedding as we are in love with flowers and our wedding flowers should be very special. Our wedding ceremony and reception would take place in the same location because we are inviting just 100 guests which 80% of the guests are foreigners from the UK , France and other parts of Europe .
We are interested in a personalized/customized floral design package according to our flower needs. Our favorite flowers are roses though we love so many different flowers too like calla, orchids, hydrangeas, carnation, dembrodium and tulips which are the major flowers you'll base your quote on.

We are thinking of doing the wedding planning ourselves because we don't want to pay much extra for that but we'd employ the services of a planner on the Day of the wedding to supervise all vendors, prior our wedding we shall make a visit trip to the US in early-October to meet with vendors ourselves for face to face consultations and if we're employing your services we'd surely meet then.

Please let us know if you can help decorate our wedding ceremony and reception with flowers!

Enjoy a wonderful day!!!

Best,
David."

These Boots are Made for Walking!

This past weekend our staff walked an estimated 20 miles during the course of our wedding flower deliveries in Denver and Boulder. And we're just getting warmed up! Here is a preview of the work we're doing to create gorgeous wedding flowers all over Colorado.

Brilliant Blooms is a custom wedding florist in Denver and can provide perfectly for all of your wedding flower needs.

Contact us at www.brilliant-blooms.com or 303.514.4704

Cherry Blossom Inspired Wedding at The Denver Botanic Gardens

These fabulous wedding flowers incorporated the clean lines of "cherry blossom trees" hung with glass lanterns, vibrant shades of hot pink, and the intoxicating fragrance of stargazer lilies. Stefanie chose her wedding flowers with the spring blooming season in mind. We knew that real cherry blossoms on the branch might be hard to come by in mid May, but she was graciously open to the idea of using real branches decorated by silk flowers. The effect was stunning, and Mitchell Hall at the Denver Botanic Gardens was splendid. We alternated the wedding flower centerpieces by placing tall trees on half of the tables and short vases filled with lilies on the other half. Stefanie's wedding bouquet was composed exclusively of stargazer lilies as were the ceremony decorations. Matt's cute little boutonnière was a bit more understated. We used hot pink button mums and curly willow to create a complimentary look.

Brilliant Blooms is a preferred vendor at the Denver Botanic Gardens and can provide perfectly for all of your wedding flower needs.

Contact us at www.brilliant-blooms.com or 303.514.4704

Featured Vendor: ShutterBooth...aka Super Fun at your wedding reception

I only wish I had heard about ShutterBooth sooner! What a unique, fun and interactive way to create your guestbook! Randy and his photo booth will be a feature at our next special event for sure. Read on to see what he has to say for himself...

At ShutterBooth Denver we are committed to providing a unique, quality experience and exceptional service for any special event. We are a nationwide service company with 28 markets across the country. ShutterBooth will fascinate and excite every single guest at your event. By featuring a Shutterbooth at your wedding reception you will create a phenomenal opportunity for quality candid photos, which would otherwise be missed. Shutterbooth will set up the booth, print high quality photos and build a beautiful guest book for you...all on site the day of your event!

If you want an exceptional event that your guests will be talking about for years to come make it a ShutterBooth event.

Check out a few links below to learn more.

Our Website - http://shutterbooth.com/

Our photo sharing website - http://shutteryou.com/

Our newest video - http://www.vimeo.com/8826435

Raving Fans - http://shutterbooth.com/denver/a-proven-record/

Call Randy at 303.590.4874 or email him at randy@shutterbooth.com to schedule a short meeting.

As always, Brilliant Blooms is a vendor partner with ShutterBooth and can provide perfectly for all of your wedding flower needs.

Contact us at www.brilliant-blooms.com or 303.514.4704

Now Featured at The Magnolia Hotel

Never seen flowers by Brilliant Blooms in person? Now's your chance. Our work will be featured in the lobby of The Magnolia Hotel in downtown Denver. You can view a new arrangement each week. By the way, The Magnolia is a fabulous place to host your wedding or special event. Their event spaces are gorgeous, modern, elegant and fun. Their event staff is amazing, talented, creative and attentive to all of your specific requests. And, their location in the heart of downtown cannot be beat.

For more information or to book your event at The Magnolia contact Kate Kelly kkelly@magnoliahotels.com 303.607.1227

or Sidney Stoper sstoper@MagnoliaHotels.com 303.607.1230

As always, Brilliant Blooms is a preferred vendor for The Magnolia Hotel and can provide perfectly for all of your wedding flower needs.

Contact us at www.brilliant-blooms.com or 303.514.4704

Featured Vendor: Footers Catering...Yum!

Take a look at this info from my favorite caterer: Footers Catering

Since 1981, Footers has been the premier Denver catering company, offering a range of catering services to clients for special events across metro Denver, the front-range, and the mountain regions.

Footers Catering is renowned for our commitment to quality and service. As a top Denver caterer, we use nothing but the best, catering the freshest foods cooked on site, creating specialized festive atmospheres for any event, and bringing fabulous personal service to our clients.

Fun Tidbits:

1. We have been serving Colorado for almost 30 years with the same head chef leading the kitchen for 15 years and creating custom menus for every event.

2. We cook all of our food onsite and specialize in making a kitchen anywhere whether in a field, backyard, or loading dock of a building.

3. We own many of our own rental items including, tables, chairs, china, glassware etc.

4. We have two former Footers brides who are now active members of the team.

5. Our owner, Jimmy Lambatos also started Quizno’s and started in their commercials as Chef Jimmy.

6. We served fabulous, fresh, innovative food to over 53,000 people in 2009.

Footers Catering is a fabulous choice for your wedding or any other special event! Brilliant Blooms has worked with Footers many, many times. Their service is fabulous, their food is amazing and I cannot recommend them highly enough!

For more info or to schedule a tasting contact Colbert Callen at colbert@footerscatering.com 303-762-1410 x13

As always, Brilliant Blooms is a preferred vendor parter of Footers Catering and can provide perfectly for all your wedding and event flower needs. Visit us at www.brilliant-blooms.com or call 303.514.4704

Denver Botanic Gardens: Art in the Gardens

Denver Botanic Gardens is not only the most beautiful place to have your wedding ceremony and reception in Denver; it also currently houses a stunning collection of Henry Moore sculpture.

Convex surfaces and concave interiors play against the texture and scale of the natural world in “Moore in the Gardens” – a truly significant presentation of works by acclaimed 20th century British sculptor, Henry Moore

(1898-1986). Visitors will find monumental reclining figures and colossal abstracted forms throughout the Gardens’ York Street location.

http://www.botanicgardens.org/content/henry-moore-exhibition

To find out more about how to book your wedding at the Denver Botanic Gardens contact

Jennifer at SelphJ@botanicgardens.org

or

Keisha at makonesk@denverbotanicgardens.org

Brilliant Blooms is a preferred vendor at the Denver Botanic Gardens and can provide prefectly for all your wedding flower needs.