The Floral Hustle

  📍 Hello, flower friend. This is Jen and you are listening to the floral hustle podcast on today's episode. I want to talk about rental items and some of my key rental items and like the logic behind them. So I have curated my rental collections. So that they're cohesively together, but on trend to what is showing up on Pinterest right now, what is popular.

And with that, I am streamlining my proposals, I am streamlining my sales process, because I can just be like, okay, I have these beautiful bud vases, and then I have these beautiful taper candle holders that really go well together. We can get colored tapers and we can pop things off. So I want to talk about some of those rentals right now, uh, and with that, uh, one of my favorite weddings of the year, like it was this beautiful long table at the Four Seasons.

I've actually made a rental sourcing guide for you and you can find that at thefloralhustle. com forward slash rental. And I've put the links to every one of the products. It's where you can buy it and make it so easy for you to have a streamlined inventory. It has where I'm getting my candles. It has where I'm getting my pin frogs, everything.

So the first thing that I have done to curate my rentals is I've looked at like, what are trends right now? So to me, really showing up bud vases, pin frogs, taper candles. I have two different styles of bud vases. Uh, one of them I found on Amazon. It looks very similar to the accent decor. Uh, modern, I think they called it a modern bobble or something like that.

It's very similar, but it wasn't as expensive. And I can get more of them whenever I need, which is great. But, I then will pair that with my other rentals. So, I'm proposing it to my client. As a set, and so this table with these items costs this much and if you're really trying to streamline your proposal process you can have that just be a slide that you have pre done and you can cut and paste you've already figured out the pricing you've already figured out everything so I will pair my modern bud vases or I also have these ribbed Bud vases that were also like an accent decor bud vase that I found on walmart.

com. I have those paired with my clear yummy candle taper sticks. That I can just order whatever color taper because I think colored tapers are really on trend right now. I can um, you know, match their wedding. I can make more of a pop of color which I think in a candle is amazing. I can then pair it with my ribbed clear glass votives.

I bought, because I saw a couple florists have them and I love them, Jamalia's Garden has these ribbed votives that are just beautiful. But I've also found some pairs to it through Dollar Tree. So for 1. 25 they have these really cute ribbed clear votives. And then Coil Wholesale. It's just a different size.

So I have five different sizes of these votives. And so I pair saying three to five, depending on the centerpiece are going to be with that. So I can put my clear glass, modern glass bud vases with my clear ribbed votives. And then with my taper candles and on my proposal, I have a rental folder in Canva that I'm able to just pull that out.

Save it for a rainy day to just put that in there whenever I am selling that package. Then that will be like a third of the tables or half of the tables depending. Then I have my next centerpiece which will be a like let's just say a low floral. I could pair that with a clear 5x5 or 6x6 cylinder or I can use a pin frog bowl which is also very on trend.

I can take that pinfrog bowl, which I use these great cereal bowls that are a white. I have white and I have ivory. Uh, they're just cereal bowls from Target. And I think the ones I mainly use are like 2. So, the most expensive part of the thing is the pinfrog that goes in it. And I have attached those with putty.

But I've also just decided... That the little pin frogs just don't do their job. And so I put big pin frogs even in my smaller bowls. Uh, so that big pin frog is just, because it's heavy, it's not tipping over. Even with the putty I was just running into issues with them kind of being tippy when I put like a rose in it.

So I use that as another third of my centerpieces. Then, for the next third, if they are into a tall option, gold stands have been in for a while, so I have coil wholesale gold stands. If they have rectangle tables, I have the rectangular coil wholesale gold stands that match. If they have a head table, I can create like that dramatic 8 foot long, um, elevated floral runner.

Or, uh, I also have clear glass. So, if they want to keep with a clear glass seam, a great alternative to a third centerpiece that's tall is a nice extra large. You're using line flowers, you're using bulkier flowers, and you're using greenery to create like this big dimensional piece. I am using that and going in and um, making just a big hand tied vase, uh, arrangement.

Cutting the stem short and lining the top of the vase. With that Aspidistra leaf that is on a roll. And I'm taking that roll and I'm just like taking a sheet off of it and putting it in there. It is, it looks so good. And it is, you're not creating that structure. You're not using flower foam. It has a really nice airy, bouncy, very on trend look.

And I'm just making a big, huge hand tied bouquet. If you have a problem with your hands being small and designing that, you can just, uh, have a larger vase that you've designed the initial structure in and then you're just cutting the stems and adding them in, but the vase is supporting it. And then you're, um, you know, using your waterproof tape or your bind wire to go around the design.

I'm transporting it in a bucket. And then I'm cutting it even shorter and plopping it in my nice tall cylinder vase that's 24 inches tall. Otherwise, you also could do mini pin frogs. Mini pin frogs are very on trend right now as well. So I have their dip bowls from Target and they match my other white bowls.

And I think they were also 2 a piece. And I just have my pin frog in them. I can put two of them with a couple taper candles and some of my clear modem votives. And I've made this very cohesive set. One thing that I'm also really in love with right now are colored, um, pillar candles. And Yummy Candles has a nice slim candle that looks great and it has matching colors or correlating colors.

So I also can add that into my designs. I have in, um, my supplies folder, these are like my common candles. I have the vases already, I just order the slim candles and I pop those into my proposal as well. A really easy way to streamline your proposals, your pricing, your, you know, just general, like, you, if you have somebody assisting you packing the studio and doing all that studio.

Hey, we need the low, low pin frog bowls. We need the low pin frog cups. We need three, three tables, um, or whatever is going to have taper candle sets. So we need nine small, medium, large. And it's all just automated and easy peasy for you. Uh, streamlining so many of those things together so that your business is just running with ease.

It's, um, you're selling with confidence. You're proposing things with confidence because you're, they might even see that's showing up in your Instagram feed. Um, you could even have a day in your whole schedule that's just dedicated to talking about your rental inventory. Uh, and then one of my last rental tips that I want to talk about, it's not in my guide, but it is my go to, uh, kind of lower price point ceremony feature, is a copper arch.

I was gifted from a, um, Mother of the Bride, but they're, they're on Etsy, a two, um, pole deep copper arch. It's a little squattier and wider, so it is great for, um, Even almost fully covering the arch because it's really stable with having two, uh, extensions on it and not just a single arm going over. And with that, I can do the, you know, less expensive asymmetrical on it.

I've done full installations on it. I've done hanging things on it. That copper arch seems to be able to be really easily put together about anywhere, so I'm not worried it's going to take any more than... Five minutes and just myself to put the arch together But I've also like it matches most everything and people seem to be pretty open to the look and feel of it Especially in like industrial modern venues and things like that.

So please go download my guide. This wedding was stunning It was blushed and white and kind of a sandstone taupe But you can see the whole wedding the visuals with it the actual links to the bowl. So go visit thefloralhustle. com forward slash rental and get that free guide. It is amazing. And I know that those pieces, they will do very well in your rental inventory, which is what counts because you're here to make money.

📍 So have a great day flower friend.