“It was between you guys and Costco.”

Micah Glenn said it like it was obvious.

She had spent months pricing wedding flowers in the New York and New England market. “I mean, we were seeing packages that were $10,000 to $18,000 for much less than we got with Poppy.”

She looked at other options, too. Micah makes arrangements at home and knows her way around a stem, so Trader Joe’s was on the table. But the logistics did not add up: a two-and-a-half-hour drive, no cooler, and family flying in from Florida, South Carolina, and Trinidad.

Costco made the shortlist, but Poppy won. She chose Poppy because she knew exactly what she was getting.

Finding Smith Farm Gardens

Micah knew the look she wanted before she had a venue.

“Timelessness. That was very much the aesthetic that we were hoping to go for.”

She pictured something Nancy Meyers-meets-Martha Stewart: natural fibers, wicker baskets, and a setting that felt classic and intimate.

She and Bryan drove from New York to Connecticut the day after their engagement to tour two venues. At Smith Farm Gardens in East Haddam, she knew right away.

“And when we pulled up to Smith Farm Gardens, I mean, immediately my heart started racing. It had the cutest little hand painted sign of the property out in front of it as you drove up the driveway. And it looked like something that my mom would have painted when I was a kid.”

Their wedding would be the first of the season at the New England farmhouse venue. The team at Smith Farm Gardens told her almost nothing would be blooming in late April, since it was still too cold, and that the property focused on seasonal, native plants.

We explained what would be in season for Micah’s date and how specific requests would affect the price, then suggested alternatives. Micah grew up identifying and foraging plants with her father, so that seasonal honesty felt useful.

The Color Change

Micah originally planned something more colorful.

“I did want a lot of white and greenery and all of that, but I was going to go more of a colorful route, actually.”

After a couple of site visits, she changed her mind. With the white farmhouse, green lawns, manicured hedges, and first spring blossoms, the property already made a statement, and color would have competed with it.

At the last design-change deadline, Micah said, “I think we need to take it to just like white, cream, and green.”

“And my Poppy designer was like, okay, all right, we’re gonna completely switch gears… and it ended up being the best decision. She made so many incredible choices for us, was able to get that ranunculus in there.”

Ranunculus was on Micah’s list from the beginning. She found it on Pinterest and loved its layered texture. Learn more about ranunculus wedding flowers →

We kept it through the redesign. We designed the white and cream wedding flowers around butterfly ranunculus, solomio, lisianthus, stock, and Playa Blanca roses, with Italian and Israeli ruscus, salal, and parvifolia eucalyptus.

We used an ikebana approach for the welcome-sign florals and farm-table arrangements. They were spare and structural, with negative space as part of the design. That restraint matched the wicker and natural fibers and made the reception feel intentional.

The One Flower That Isn’t White

Bryan’s boutonniere had a purple La Paz mini calla lily, his favorite flower. Micah tucked the same bloom into her bridal bouquet.

It was the only color in a wedding kept to white, cream, and green, and a detail that was all theirs.

The Day Of

Micah’s bouquet arrived ready to go. She and her family assembled the rest of the florals in the living room the night before.

“My dad actually helped a lot. He spent time as a teenager working on a rose farm and doing floral deliveries.” He had also arranged her mother’s bouquet for their own wedding.

One bridesmaid, Jen, noticed the quality right away: “These stems are so thick.” Micah noticed the petals. “The petals were bright. There wasn’t a single one that came with any browning, wilting… there was quality when they packed this.”

As for the wedding day itself: “The entire day there was not a single mishap that I had to hear about.”

Micah booked her flowers for $2,436, in a market where she had been quoted $10,000 to $18,000. “This price is unbeatable. Like I couldn’t get it anywhere else.”

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For anyone reading while deep in their own late-night spreadsheet, she had this advice: “Prioritize your food, your flowers, and your venue. Those are the biggest things that if you cheap out, people are gonna know. Except for... I guess nobody knew with Poppy that we paid a lot less than we probably should have.”

Then she added: “It’s the marriage comes first… it’s the person that you sit there and flip through that album with years later that, you know, is the priority.”

Vendor credits: Photography: Ariel Gonzalez (@itsarielgonzalez) | Venue: Smith Farm Gardens, East Haddam, CT | Florals: Poppy Flowers

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