HARVEY FRAND
October 3 1940-July 23 2009
After 30 years in retail, you don't always love everyone you deal with on a daily basis. It's a fact of life. Most are great, some are impossible and a very few are just so wonderful.
Sometimes clients are so kind and easy and fun that when I see them walking down the stairs into my store, I put everything else aside and just enjoy them.
Harvey came in on Saturdays, and loved flowers. He would come in and chat and browse and ask questions and listen, and be interested, and ulimately, be interesting. Harvey was a funny, kind and gentle soul. He was an Orchid kind of guy, which in my world is a cool thing...
I knew that Harvey worked on Battlestar Galactica, but it wasn't until after he passed that I realized he was"The Producer". I didn't know much about his personal life, and we weren't great friends...but I miss him & Saturdays haven't been the same since he's been gone.
When I am arranging the Orchids for his Vancouver memorial this weekend, I will be remembering him, and thinking of how he touched so many people in such a beautiful way.
My sincere sympathy to Bill, and all of Harvey's family & friends.
Rest in Peace
What a great gift & legacy to leave behind...that so many people thought so much of you.
Snowdon Mums, Dendrobium Orchids, Roses, Trachellium, and pearl baubles...
Winter Greens...textural and fresh.
Snowdon Mums, Avalanche Roses, and pearl Baubles....
Winter Cherry scented candles poured into beautiful red or silver chrome glass and packaged in red velvet boxes. This makes me want to redo my whole house into red & silver!!!
A beautiful natural & organic winter palette of chocolate browns, ivory, and gold. 
And then there is the campy & fun Christmas for non traditional fashionistas...
Hydrangea, Roses, Orchids, Lilies, and Bittersweet 
Orange Mokara Orchids & Monstera Leaves 
Last weekend we had a part in decorating Cecil green Park House for the wedding of Darren & Francesca...A sea of 1200 stems of Sweet Avalanche Roses locally grown in our own Fraser Valley, along with another thousand combined stems of locally grown white Avalanche Roses, celery green Annabelle Hydrangea, white Hydrangea,and pink Winter Berry plus (imported from northern California) heavenly scented Stephanotis blossoms.
We worked with Maurizio & David of Debut Event Designs to transform the rooms into a romantic setting based on the traditional & romantic floral paintings of traditional Cuban cigar boxes 
God is in the details....
Cake by Indulgence Desserts...Decor by Debut Events, Flowers by Hilary Miles, and photography by the lovely Tristan Casey.
Okay, so I am browsing The Yaletown Wedding Gallery Blog checking to see if there are any recent photos of weddings I have worked on....The one I was looking for isn't posted yet, but as I scrolled back I came across some beautiful photos of a wedding from June 2008...
Fereshteh & Kouros are from from San Francisco (my second favourite city)
Timeless white Tulip Bouquet...and Persian sweets.
The Reception
