When you knock on the door…

…and your community answers

It’s a pretty scary thing to put yourself out there. To put your vision, your ideas, your heart into something, then open it up to the world as if to say,

“All right everyone, what do you think?”

It’s way easier to sit in a comfortable place, and not open yourself up to criticism. And the thing about me is, while I come across as having a pretty tough exterior and bounce back pretty quickly after getting knocked down, inside I might be a little softer with a bit more of a gooey center than I let on.

But sometimes you just believe something is right, and you throw caution to the wind (okay really there were MONTHS of financial analysis and research prior to signing the lease), and just decide to go for it.

So I did.

I went for it.

I opened up a flower shop, in Granger, a town I genuinely love. A town where the community members are my neighbors, where my kids attend school, where we have chosen to raise our family. I opened a flower shop, filled with items I hand-selected, with flowers and gifts that make ME happy, and invited our community to visit and enjoy [and also maybe judge just a bit].

And visit and enjoy, they did. Our Grand Opening took place on April 22, 2025, and we had a better turnout than I could have hoped. Our community showed up with their families and their friends, to cheer us on, check out the flowers and wonderful products. The feedback we received was SO kind, and helped affirm what I have believed for years:

Granger, Indiana, needed a flower shop like ours.

What meant even more to me was, not only did we get to meet new friends and customers, as well as start getting to know our neighbors within the Mirador at 23 complex (spoiler alert: they’re fabulous), but we were able to see so many familiar faces were there as well.

Friends, family members, old classmates, former brides from Cherry Road Florals, their families… I can’t even begin to say what it meant to have so many people who have stood behind me on my journey here show up for our Grand Opening.

It’s been seven weeks since we opened our doors, and I invited Granger (and surrounding cities as well - we love you, too) in to see our new flower shop. Many of you who visited the Grand Opening asked me how it felt to have the doors open for business. Did it feel wonderful to see my dream become a reality? Did it feel like I had achieved something amazing?

In truth it feels like we had achieved something, yes, but it felt more like there was still SO much work to put in. We want to be the flower shop you visit to find the perfect flower bouquet, the special centerpiece, the freshest blooms. We want to be your go-to Granger flower shop for Valentine’s Day, their best friend’s birthday, or an every-day bouquet.

But first things first.

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I knocked on our community’s door, and you answered.

Now we get to show you what we can do.

Your Bouquet of Granger team, (left to right): Karinne, Trudi, and Kaitlyn

All photos in this blog post were taken by Katya Dolgykh Photography.