Anthony Gowder Designs

Overall, I probably wouldn't recommend Anthony Gowder. They were a recommended vendor through the Grand Piazza, and I had a very positive experience meeting with them and during the showing. The wedding day was a different story. For the high price we paid for the flowers, we did not get what we paid for.

1) Centerpieces

a) They had even less flowers in these arrangements than the showing, after they ended up charging me $10 MORE per centerpiece to add more flowers to make them "tighter and modern" as in my contract. I feel like the bait and switch was pulled here as these did not look tightly mounded or modern to me as promised (again with the $10 extra for this specification). Plus, we took out the seeded eucalyptus in our initial showing because I did not want greenery in my arrangements. For some reason it some type of green leaves replaced the extra flowers. I was very disappointed when I saw those leaves. When I complained about these to at least get my $10 back for not being as promised and having less flowers, I was told that "the recipe used for your wedding and there were not less flowers used." I had 5 other people at my showing that say otherwise and agree with me and my husband.

2) Many of the flowers were already wilting/dying at our 3:00 mass

a) The bouquets were beautiful, but you can see in all these pictures that they are dying and wilting

b) My grandmothers wrist corsage fell apart during church.

c) All of the boutonnieres completely fell apart. Our pictures look terrible with the flowers. I couldn't not get many of our photos enlarged due to the wilted flowers

When I complained, I was told that "-Regarding the bouquets and boutonnieres, the handling of the bouquets and the temperature in which they are handled effect the flowers. Since they are a natural, organic material, these things effect them. If the bouquets are set down on a hard surface, some bruising may result."

I can tell you that these bouquets (especially mine), was not set on a hard surface. The only place it was set was on my lap. I was so embarrassed that my flowers had died. I have never seen such a thing at a wedding, even friends that have paid half the price for flower.

We went over our budget for flowers because we felt like we were going to get such high quality flowers, but this was definitely not the case. Let me know if you would like to see any of the photos of the flowers, I'd be happy to pass them along.

The flowers were so fresh and they were so flexible with our needs.

Beautiful flowers. Greta was great to work with. Our flowers looked amazing. My bouquet was prettier than I could have imagined. We had a lot of say as to the the flowers used, but also relied on their expertise. They were also able to keep the cost within our budget - without compromising on the quailty or look.