Hi there! Lauren here. I’m so grateful for your interest.

Please note that
I am no longer accepting any new orders for the year 2024 or beyond.
I apologize for the inconvenience.

If you’re interested in learning why, you can continue reading.

If you don’t care, I get that! I know you’ll find someone to preserve your memories and I wish you the best. Apologies and thanks again.

I started FLX Flower Preservation on January 1, 2022. I had been playing around with resin and took a couple “orders” in Fall 2021, but hit the ground running at the turn of a new year. With my background in the wedding industry, I knew the people to get in touch with, and I took to social media and Facebook wedding groups to get my name out. Being the first resin flower preservationist in the ROC area, I had dozens and dozens of referrals from florists and planners almost immediately.

Within a few months, I literally went zero to 100. In my first year, I had 120+ clients. And I did it again in 2023.
(FYI - a normal “one person” team/vendor, like a photographer or makeup artist, usually has a MAX of 15-30 clients a year.)

It was unbelievable! People liked my art and I was honored to be able to say yes to so many people! I took just about every order that came in to save as many flowers as I could. This was supposed to be my “full time gig”, so orders coming in also meant money coming in. Business!!!

But at some point around August 2022… I was not feeling so incredible.

I started drowning. I had so many flowers coming in, I barely even had time to work on the orders I had drying. I was only one person, and all I had was a 100 square foot room (still true, that hasn’t changed). My timelines and expectations were COMPLETELY inaccurate. There was never any ~”scaling”~. I had no idea what the hellll I was doing or what was going on.

My mental health (and even my physical health) TANKED. I was chronically stressed and anxious, and my body started breaking down. Because not only did I just take on way too much, not have the space or time, have personal stuff, yada yada… I also knew how special the items I worked with were to clients, and there was pressure – not necessarily coming from clients – but in the sense that I knew I couldn’t fuck around. I HAD to take time to make these items as perfect as possible because of how important the flowers were to people. So I did – I took the time. But that backed up my already unrealistic newbie timelines, and I didn’t communicate well as a business owner. So I was physically and mentally unwell and I was letting people down.

And in 2023 it only got worse hahahahhhhhh (laugh so you don’t cry, you know?). I crashed. And now we’re here.

This is NOT a pity party, so I’m not going to say any more. But I’m being (overly) honest to give some context.

Real quick, I do want to note: despite my lack of business-owner-skills and my delays… no one’s flowers were effected in terms of quality of finished products relating to longer turnaround times. Maybe I’m bias; you don’t have to believe me! But I’d like to think that things were still worth the wait.

I love what I do. I love the meaning, I love the final product, and LOVE being able to do this for people.
I don’t WANT to stop preserving flowers.

However. How I was doing things was not sustainable or good for anyone.

So as of March 2024, I will not be accepting any new orders for the year 2024 or beyond.
I will be continuing to focus on my current clients’ orders, but not accepting new.

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This has been an incredibly difficult decision, but is for the best for my current clients’ orders and my current (and future) life circumstances.
I am unsure if I will “officially” “reopen” my books in the future.
I wish I could preserve ALL the flowers for EVERYONE, but I’ve learned that I simply cannot.
Luckily, there are so many other talented artists out there who can do this type of art!

I truly, genuinely apologize for the inconvenience, but thank you for your interest and I wish you the BEST.

*For anyone reaching out regarding Memorial Orders:
Please send me an email here and I’ll see how I can help: flxflowerpreservation@gmail.com