Hospitality Awards 2020

www.lux-review.com Page 13 LUX 2020 Global Hospitality Awards Designer Flowers is an award- winning company that began almost thirty years ago and has since bloomed into a leading supplier of stunning bespoke floral’s, theming and lighting for private and corporate events. Led by Shirley and Gerry Poyntz, the London-based firm is committed to creating amazing and memorable events for clients all across the UK. Designer Flowers Best Event Flowers & Finishing Touches Supplier – UK & LUX Distinction Award for Wedding & Bridal Services Oct20303 Established almost thirty years ago, Designer Flowers is a leading UK specialist in designing, creating and supplying stunning floral arrangements, as well as theming, lighting and linen and prop hire for corporate and private events. Designer Flowers also offers a venue finding service, rounding off its comprehensive offering of services for everything from parties, conferences, gala dinners and awards ceremonies, to weddings, bar mitzvahs and bat mitzvahs throughout the UK. Led by husband-and-wife team, Shirley and Gerry Poyntz, Designer Flowers has grown over thirty years from a flower company into one of the UK’s largest bespoke flower and lighting companies. Their floral arrangements are inspired by creative influences from designers and florists from all over the world, including Shirley herself. She began Designer Flowers in 1990, when she arrived in the UK from Bermuda where she ran an independent flagship flower studio in the capital. The original, awe-inspiring designs she brought with her continue to the be the foundations of all Designer Flowers’ designs and projects nearly three decades later. Along with their dedicated design and install team made up of talented and creative florists, designers, event crew and drivers, Gerry and Shirley take great pride in delivering beautiful, memorable events with the highest standards in customer service. Whether meeting at the client’s chosen venue or the firm’s own head office at the London Hilton on Park Lane, the Designer Flowers team will go above and beyond to ensure clients are satisfied with every element of their event. Designer Flower’s excellent location has meant that the company has hosted a whole spectrum of events at the magnificent London Hilton, in addition to other prestigious venues such as the Grosvenor House, the Dorchester, the Natural History Museum and the Celtic Manor Resort, to name only a few. The reputation that Designer Flowers has acquired over the years has landed the company an accredited place on supplier lists of hotels, venues and museums, making them a premier choice for any individual or corporation looking to host an event. For clients planning a wedding, it is the company’s personable service and meticulous attention to detail that makes Designer Flowers a firm favourite across the UK. Shirley has created an inimitable bespoke and creative bridal and wedding design service that will elevate the big day to even greater heights. For a bride, the bridal bouquet is the most important bouquet of flowers she will ever carry. Each bouquet designed by Shirley and her team is unique to each bride, with elements of the arrangement carried through to the buttonhole of the groom and his groomsmen, to the bouquets of her bridesmaids, to the decoration of the venue as a whole. Whether their clients are planning a church wedding, a civil ceremony, a religious ceremony, decoration of an Indian wedding Mandap or a Jewish wedding Chuppah, or the need to style a marquee in the garden, Designer Flowers’ vast experience and eye for creativity enables the team to create the perfect wedding location, with their added services in finding the venue, providing the lighting and more, the award-winning team at Designer Flowers is able to deliver a complete picture of their client’s vision. However, the impacts of the ongoing pandemic have been significant for Designer Flowers, which has seen venues and exhibitions closed and hundreds of weddings and events cancelled as a result, since March 2020. This has also included many exhibitions as well, including the Venues + Events Live at Old Billingsgate, the Olympia Meetings Show, the Excel National Wedding Show, that Designer Flowers was looking forward to being a part of with great anticipation. With venue restrictions in place until at least March 2021, the future continues to be uncertain for Shirley, Gerry and their team, who foresee events growing gradually again from the summer to the end of the year. In the meantime, Designer Flowers are planning for business as soon as it does resume, making sure they are ready as soon as the weddings and events that have been deferred to 2021, have been given the go ahead. Fundamentally, this centres on staying in regular contact with all venues, clients and suppliers through newsletters and social media, reassuring them that as soon as is possible, Designer Flowers will once again design spectacular weddings and events! Contact: Shirley Poyntz Company: Designer Flowers Web Address: designerflowersuk.com