Crab Apple Floral Design is the West Coast of Vancouver Island’s most popular flower shop for Tofino and Ucluelet weddings. Started in 2000 by Camilla Thorogood, it was originally begun as a favour to the owners of one of the world renowned resorts in Tofino, British Columbia. With the shed in her back yard and later with the addition of her garage for space, Camilla’s work quickly grew in popularity to encompass all the biggest and most popular resorts, restaurants, and galleries in Tofino.
Year by year, the resorts began referring more and more of their hundreds of wedding guests to Crab Apple Floral Design for their wedding flowers and decor. As the best established flower shop on the West Coast, Crab Apple Floral Design now prepares the wedding flowers and decor for well over 200 weddings a year!
Wishing to go into retirement, Camilla handed her flourishing flower business to an employee of hers. Mathieu Amin, started working for Camilla delivering the flowers for corporate, personal, and wedding clients and…doing the dishes. It didn’t take long for the 33 year old to fall in love with the world of flowers and along with the award-winning team Camilla had put together, he took over Crab Apple Floral Design in 2008.
As the exclusive florist for most of the resorts and wedding venues in Tofino and Ucluelet, Crab Apple Floral Design has leaped forward into the world of magazine distinctions. Their floral designs and artistic decor was featured in Weddingstar Magazine’s 2010 issue in an exclusive photo shoot at a famed resort in Tofino.
Mathieu and his team have been moving towards more eco-weddings as well as more green business functioning. From using their West Coast organic design flair to recycling their flower boxes, Crab Apple Floral Design’s future is also moving towards growing a lot more of their flowers within Clayoquot Sound. Located literally at the end of the Trans Canada highway, most flowers are imported by courier from the Mainland. In order to cut down on their carbon footprint in the summer months, locally grown flowers such as hydrangeas are a staple in their summer bouquets and arrangements.
Crab Apple Floral Design works with each individual couple in bringing their vision together for their big day. From using locally handpicked ferns to incorporating family heirlooms and wheat grown on the family farm, we are experienced in all styles from the traditional to the modern, from the clean-lined to our own brand of West Coast rainforest style.
Tofino weddings take place on one of the region’s magnificent beaches such as Chesterman Beach. Rainforest trails just off the beach also serve as wedding photo favourites. Ucluelet weddings take place on one of the area’s beautiful rocky shorelines with waves crashing and spraying high into the air. When it comes to a romantic destination wedding, few places in the world can offer what the West Coast of Vancouver Island’s natural surroundings inspire.
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