With Mother’s Day on the horizon, the rush and the stress of trying to find a gift can be tough. But for clients of House of Blooms TT, owner and founder Aliza Missire offered different Mother’s-Day-themed artificial flowers and balloon arrangements weeks before the celebratory day.
The 25-year-old found herself dabbling in these artificial flowers and balloon arrangements last February 14 – Valentine’s Day – since the job market has been so saturated since she graduated from UWI in 2019.
Her take on the trend of balloons and flowers is combining them, but not in a traditional way: rather, she puts the bouquet inside the clear balloons.
“It was really created as a unique twist of traditional flower arrangements and as an alternative to fresh flowers, because that may not be everyone’s cup of tea.”
She said in addition to wanting to offer artificial flowers over fresh ones, she wanted to add her own style – using balloons – since the events-planning and arrangement industry rapidly changes to keep up with current trends and the taste of her clients.
“Everyone I’ve met had this impression of amazement and wonder, so it’s really a fulfilling and rewarding job to create something special for someone who loves and enjoys it as much as I do creating it.”
Missire said out of all the businesses ideas she’d thought of while in search of a job in her field of biomedical technology, House of Blooms TT was the one that took off and was well received by first-time clients.
“I never wanted our page (social media) to feel repetitive, even though we only do the artificial and balloon arrangements. So I was always trying to find ways to put a twist on the arrangements, and while scrolling through Instagram one day, I saw someone put a wedding dress in a balloon, and it seems to be popular.”
For Mother’s Day, she decided to offer ready-made designs, but she said people are free to customise their arrangements to suit their style year-round in terms of colours and flowers.
“We try to accommodate all suggestions, because we want to make this arrangement something they would love. So we fully take all feedback, implement (it) and try to get it as close to people’s idea as possible."
"One fairly popular scenario that pops up is someone having a themed birthday cake or a modern one and they would send that to us and using the colour palette and the style of the cake as inspiration, we create a floral arrangement.”
She doesn’t have a base price, but said the price is determined by the style and material used to make the design a reality. Missire said she sources her material from various local stores and from online.
Missire could not give an exact figure as her imports and shopping vary depending on the requests, but Business Day found clear balloons can vary from US$10-$20.
[caption id="attachment_1015419" align="alignnone" width="1024"] Aliza Missire includes a Newsday balloon in a House of Blooms arrangement. - Marvin Hamilton[/caption]
She said the demand for her services is not as big as some would thin
