It started at my aunt's flower shop when I was nine. The smell, the color, the feeling that something beautiful was always happening in there. I didn't have words for it. I just knew I wanted to be around it.

Years later I was delivering for another shop when I knocked on a door and a woman answered who was sure I had the wrong house. Nobody had ever sent her flowers before. It was her birthday. I set the arrangement on her kitchen counter and noticed a photo of her with who I assumed was her late husband. She told me he used to pick flowers off the street on his walk home from work. She cried. Happy tears, she said. Memories flooding back all at once. I left with a feeling I'd never had before. Like I'd just been part of something that actually mattered.

That feeling never left.

The path here wasn't straight. Years in the industry, a pandemic, a rebuilt 1995 Ford Econoline, bouquets wrapped in brown paper bags sold at markets across the country. Eventually Dallas, a role as Head of Production at Dr. Delphinium, and in October 2024, Austin.

In September 2025, Floralyne became real. A few clients, a first wedding, and the first time in a long time I felt completely like myself.

Floralyne is built on the belief that flowers aren't decoration. They're intention. Every arrangement is thought through, personal, made to feel like it came from someone who actually cared. Because it did.

I started this because I wanted to build something that gives back every single time. To the people celebrating, grieving, loving, marking a moment. Flowers are how I show up for people. How I bring near the ones who couldn't be there themselves.

Floralyne is my way of doing that every single day.