Happy Holidays! Our Favorite Holiday Decorations of the Season

Spreading Cheer with Our Holiday Decorating Services

This holiday season, we were overjoyed to help New York City prepare for Christmas. While all the wreaths were hung and all the trees sparkled with festive lights all over New York City, we sent joyful holiday greetings of gorgeous holiday flowers and delicious holiday gourmet gift baskets all over town.

Now that Christmas has come and gone and we have some time to relax, we thought we’d take a moment to reflect on the gorgeous holiday decorations that Big Apple Florist created for businesses, families, and homes this year!  Below are some festive photos of our favorite trees, wreaths, and arrangements from our holiday decorating services throughout New York City.

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It’s Snowing in September! A Christmas Decorating Services Dress Rehearsal

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It won’t be long before we’ll all be there with snow
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I want to wash my hands, my face and hair with snow
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I long to clear a path and lift a spade of snow
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Oh, to see a great big man entirely made of snow

Why on earth am I singing songs from “White Christmas” in early September? Because I’m a florist, that’s why! Oddly enough, here at Big Apple we began preparing for the holidays in July, like industrious little squirrels. We spent the summer shopping for gorgeous wreaths, trees, ornaments and bows to add festive sparkle to homes and offices when we offer holiday decorating services come Christmastime.

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The Time Is Near For Holiday Office Decorations

Holiday Office Decorations For, Well, Your Office Are Wonderful Things

Everyone knows the holidays are near when they spot the holiday office decorations around their desks, PCs, conference tables, and maybe even personal refrigerators.  The possible lights along the doors and walls are also dead giveaways of the coming celebrations.

But is this holiday office decorating executed appropriately?  Is the office looking too much like a scene from Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer?  Or is more like something Scrooge would appreciate in its barrenness?  What follows is a small but hopefully useful set of rules that will help you and your office to avoid these extremes and create a pleasant holiday work environment that is neither flamboyant nor desolate.  Holiday office decorations can and do reach a happy middle ground-it just takes a little bit of work and perception to get there.

Have Holiday Office Decorations That Are Holiday-Neutral

With holiday office decorating, it is important to remember that everyone in the workplace comes from various cultural backgrounds, and so a preference for one set of holiday colors over another is not likely to resonate with everyone (which is who the holidays ought to be about anyway).  You may consider selecting a color scheme that’s [Read more →]