Waterlily Pond Floral Design

A few months ago, I did a Google search on San Fran­cisco based florists. I wanted to find a florist whose work I admired, had a pleas­ant per­son­al­ity, and a brand that was con­sis­tent with ours. A brand that truly cared about their clients. I searched and searched, reworded my search, and went through web­site after web­site. Noth­ing grabbed my atten­tion or impressed me enough to excite me. That is, until I came across the site of Waterlily Pond Flo­ral Design. It wasn’t nec­es­sar­ily the web­site that attracted my atten­tion, but the voice behind the site. I could instantly tell that who­ever this florist was didn’t just put flow­ers together in a vase, they cre­ated works of art. That was my first attrac­tion and it caught my atten­tion enough to tempt me or allure me fur­ther into their site.

And that is when I found it, “The name Waterlily Pond came from deep pock­ets of my mem­ory – the lazy sum­mer days on the Dnieper River in Ukraine when I was lit­tle.” No won­der why I’m so attracted to this artist — they’re Ukrain­ian! This intrigued me even more and so I excit­edly scoured the entire site try­ing to get to know as much as I could about Natasha Lisitsa, the artist behind Waterlily Pond. By the end of my visit, I was con­vinced that we had to try and get in touch with her. I felt like it was a stretch see­ing that she was obvi­ously a very accom­plished artist doing works for San Fran­cisco Museum of Mod­ern Art as well as the deY­oung Museum. But I was too con­vinced, I refused to let my fears hold me back. I ran and told Vitaliy all about her and said that he had to con­tact her and demanded he write the email in Ukrain­ian. It was some­thing we had in common!

But before there was even time to get a reply, Vitaliy pho­tographed a wed­ding with Teresa Hal­ton. He came home with this absolutely stun­ning bou­quet of flow­ers and told me all about this amaz­ing Ukrain­ian florist that he met who had designed the flow­ers for the wed­ding. I, of course, began to freak out because my mind imme­di­ately ran back to the Waterlily Pond web­site and this line, “The name Waterlily Pond came from deep pock­ets of my mem­ory – the lazy sum­mer days on the Dnieper River in Ukraine when I was lit­tle.” It must be her!

Vitaliy being the won­der­ful hus­band he is, took it upon him­self to con­tact Natasha again after hav­ing a great con­ver­sa­tion with her at the wed­ding. One email led to another and a few weeks later, Vitaliy was pho­tograph­ing an event for her at the Menlo Cir­cus Club called Hol­i­days On A High Note to ben­e­fit the Fam­ily Ser­vice Agency of San Mateo County. As I looked through the images that Vitaliy took that day, they reminded me of every­thing I had felt the day I read through her web­site. You could tell by the smiles on her face that she delights in what she does. I could see from the ele­ments she chose for her pieces that she had a unique artistry. Natasha is bold; she isn’t lim­ited by any bound­aries in her work. She is truly inspir­ing and I would rec­om­mend any bride read­ing this to check her out. Here is a note from Natasha on her site, “I always chal­lenge myself to cre­ate pieces that are truly a reflec­tion of your style. The result could be Ultra mod­ern, or Asian Fusion, or Gar­den Lush. The pos­si­bil­i­ties are end­less, as my biggest thrill is to “get it right” for my clients.” If I am a bride, I want to know that my vendor’s main goal is to “get it right” for me. This is our out­look at Prokopets Stu­dio and this is why we respect Natasha.

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Feath­ers! How fun! I love every­thing about this piece.

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No bound­aries!

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I love that you can see Natasha’s care in her work down to the small­est detail.

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A red-haired Ukrain­ian! Doesn’t get bet­ter than that. Natasha, you are beau­ti­ful.