Ambiance Flowers & Rentals

Hi, I'm Daisy with The Valley Wedding Pages and we're so excited to be launching The Valley Wedding Pages show. Today we have an amazing first special guest. This episode is to give Brides a few tips and so you can also meet our vendors. To start off this episode we have Leslie Chavez, owner of Dream Weddings and Ambience Flowers and Ranchos. And we also have Sammy Perales, Director of Sales and Customer Service at Dream Weddings. So welcome, welcome to our first episode with The Valley Wedding Pages show. How are you all doing today? Good, thank you for having us. Good, thank you. We really appreciate the opportunity. So Dream Weddings is a rental business. We also do flowers. We're known for having a wide selection of linens, furniture, chairs, just great taste. Now you did mention design and I think that'something that's a new trend before it was just wedding planning, let me book everything and that's it. But now it's moving into design. How do you all help these Brides create that dream wedding that they want to have? So one thing that we've noticed and this is industry-wide is that Brides walk in with huge ideas and Pinterest boards and a very fixed idea of what they want to do. So our responsibility is to understand what they want out of our business and then tweak a little thing, Now how involved are you all when a Bride comes in with the whole planning process? We actually take it very personal, How can a Bride be different when they already have a venue that kind of provides some or most of the rentals? There's a lot of things that are incorporated. There's room for creativity and having distinctive accents in a few tables. So it's not necessary to spend on chairs for all your guests if the venue already includes that but there is definitely room to include a few accents to achieve that look that you're looking for and again, Sometimes we encounter couples who bring you large ideas. How do you all manage to create those ideas? Can you all make it happen? Of course, absolutely. Actually 80% of our clients, we have a lot of stuff that's actually custom made for our clients. For example, there's a particular client that asks for a tree. It's actually a 20 foot tree that we have custom made just for this particular client. That's why we have a full time synchris on staff. I know we've been talking a lot about dream weddings but I know you also have ambience flowers and rentals. Can you tell us a little bit something about ambience? So we share the same inventory but we have different people designing events in dream weddings and ambience and I think we cater to different demographics. I think dream weddings appeals a lot to the domestic clientele and ambience has created a very strong connection with foreign nationals and younger millennials. So you would tell them that you can find the same inventory. If they see it on dream weddings but they want to stop at ambience, they can do that vice versa. Correct. So I think one of the most important questions that I guess we have to ask to all businesses is what sets you apart from competitors or from other people in the same industry? Well I can speak for myself but I think there's a lot of passion going into what we do and there's a lot of emotion and gratitude and we share that moment with our brides. Looking back, when I got married it was a little more transactional and I think that is one of the greatest differentiators. We build relationships. We passionately care about our brides. This isn't just, I don't wake up in the morning and say I have to go to work. This isn't my, I've never felt I have to go to work. This is my passion. I take pride in what I do. Every single one of my clients that leaves here has my cell phone n I'm not at the office from 9 to 5, 9 to 6. No, I mean, send me a text, Sammy, what do you think about this? Should I go with these shoes or even wardrobe? I'm not a makeup artist or do I want to but I know many times we think bigger is better. What can you tell us about big flower arrangements, small flower arrangements? What can brides do differently or give us some tips on that? That's a fun one. If you are looking for something large, of course we can create something large and if that's how you want to distribute your budget, But if you've been following trends on, I think that would be the trend or at least something that I would recommend our brides to at least explore. Don't focus on the size of the arrangement, rather focus on the elegance and the design of the arrangement. So now for the viewers, where are you located at? North of McAllen, we have one of our offices and that's 1305 Pecan Boulevard and our second office is 1514 North Clawsoner. That's in Edinburgh, we're about a mile north of the courthouse. And can you tell our viewers where they can find you on social media at your websites? Yes, we actually have Facebook and Instagram accounts for both of our businesses, ambience and flowers and rentals. For ambience, you can find us as ambience flowers and rentals on Facebook and ambience flowers that rentals on Instagram. And for dream weddings, you can find us as dream weddings RGV. Well, Leslie and Sammy, thank you so much for being here today and I know if the viewers share this, they can get something, right? Yes, Make sure to follow us on Instagram, Facebook and YouTube and hope to