Tom Armstrong is a judge who is retiring from the bench after the end of 2010, and his main business will be weddings. He officiated our 9/24/10 wedding and I can't rave enough about our experience. We didn't actually meet him face to face until the actual wedding day, about 30 minutes before our ceremony, but we communicated with him via email and he was able to take the ceremony we put together and perform it as if he'd rehearsed it with us a million times. He made us feel so at ease that the actual ceremony portion of the wedding was probably the one part that we never worried about! He's a true professional and he will help to make your ceremony everything you ever imagined it could be!
Colleen runs her business out of her house, so she does not have the overhead of other florists you will meet. Her prices are so incredibly reasonable that you will have no problem fitting them into your budget! My husband and I sat down with her several months prior to the wedding. She asked us all kinds of questions about us and about our wedding, had us look through pictures of her actual work, and I gave her one must-have (hydrangeas) for my bouquet. As we talked about our wedding, she just wrote down ideas the whole time. By the time we were done, she knew exactly what she needed to do to meet our desires. I was speechless on the wedding day when my bouquet was handed to me - it was absolutely stunning! The quality of the flowers could not have been beat, and the beautiful way that she arranged each of the bouquets was true artistry. I had ordered a flower girl bouquet about a month before the wedding, and when I inspected it closer, she had even put a beautiful little butterfly in the bouquet that matched the flowers. It was perfect! If you are getting married in the Twin Cities area, I urge you to schedule an appointment and talk to Colleen. You won't be disappointed!