It's nine o'clock right now,
but these are flowers from a wedding that
were collected last night at one AM.
And here we are, a few hours
later, everything is getting repurposed,
and these will be in the hands of residents later, everything is getting repurposed,
and these will be in the hands of residents
and patients in a nursing care
facility within a couple of minutes.
People are at the end of their lifecycle
and if they don't have
visitors or friends or hope
if we are doing one nice thing for them
because our clients decided to
donate their flowers, it means the world.
I used to be
an event planner, and I was that
person at the end of the night
that would see all of the garbage
and I would have to tell people, yup,
you can throw all of those flower out.
There are 2.25 million weddings
a year. The average wedding
will create about 400
to 600 pounds of trash. That is a
tremendous amount of garbage. So then I
started donating the arrangements
to nursing homes.
And then I started composting everything. to nursing homes.
And then I started composting everything.
And a lot of people think, oh it's so easy
just to drop off flowers at
a hospital. But that's not really what happens.
There's so much more to it, and that's why
I decided to offer it as a service.
Especially with newlyweds,
it's the first charitable act
that they've done, and they haven't even left
for their honeymoon yet.
"It's just so hard to choose."
"One of each?"
You hear the moaning, you hear the
sadness, you feel the heaviness
in the air
and there is just something about bringing flowers
that completely transforms
the atmosphere.
And flowers have the ability to do that.
And when you recognize
how much pain people are
in, whether it's mental, emotional
or physical, and you can do
one nice thing to help them
it means something.