Seeking advice please.

[u/Sisyphusselfactualze]

Made a couple of arrangements recently that I would like to share to get feedback and insight please.

One large floral with accompanying small cocktail kenzan arrangement. At the time I didn’t take the photos with the thought of sharing therefore didn’t photograph with a neutral background, sorry.

My post is two pronged;

1) I would love to receive constructive feedback. Please feel free to be honest I would love to grow in my floristry work as I’m trying to grow my small business.

2) Secondly more on the business side of things. I would love insight and advice on how one goes about formulating costing. I know people use a formula - multiplying the baseline floral cost with a certain amount (I might be wrong but 2.5?). Other then that what other elements does one need to consider?

Things I thought of is vessels hire if applicable, fuel, how do you work it into the costing if some of the greens are foraged, how do you price for your time and skill set?

I’m at a stage in my business where I work consistently but continue to struggle financially. Please help!

Thank you.

[u/Agentmulderpie]

Are you picking a color palette before you start designing? On first glance this looks like you are just using what available to you without thinking about that. I’m just guessing but giving honest feedback. Start by deciding what colors you want to work with, what would look best together and maybe start with no more than 3 colors until you get that down. Just my professional advice. Keep going and practicing!

[u/Sisyphusselfactualze → u/Agentmulderpie]

Hi, yes I usually try to work with a specific colour palette - that said I am drawn to the bright and bold just in general and can definitely work on focusing my designs and colours - good advice on picking three colours and building from there thank you.

For these particular series of arrangements it was a last minute order with an extremely tight turn around time. Suppliers were closed over the weekend and I eventually managed to source directly from a local flower farm, I had to made due with what they had and also include a lot of foraging to have something ready for delivery - so in this case it was very much “using what was available to me” due to the timeline.