When we had a sched­uled wed­ding on a Sat­ur­day after­noon in San­ta Bar­bara, we invit­ed our mom, Chris Cole­man, to come out from Vir­ginia and help out! Since we had to stay up in San­ta Bar­bara for the hours of the wed­ding (not real­ly a hard­ship), we thought it would be a fun oppor­tu­ni­ty to spend time with our mom, have din­ner and catch a movie — all while earn­ing a few bucks! Mom also got to rem­i­nisce about when she and her fam­i­ly lived in San­ta Bar­bara (she was five years old at the time).

The point of this to all you “would be” florists out there, is to accept the jobs that might be a two hour dri­ve from your home base. Charge for deliv­ery and time accord­ing­ly, but make the most out of it, too. In this case, we had to stick around so we could pick up the bam­boo gaze­bo we made for the wed­ding pic­tured above.

We had a great din­ner at the Hol­lis­ter Brew­ing Com­pa­ny in Gole­ta, CA and then saw the won­der­ful movie Julie and Julia — which we loved, too.

So take those out of town jobs and have fun!