OUR PHILOSOPHY

Postmark Flowers the boutique design studio of Floral Designer Shannon McCluskie.  We provide Greater Vancouver with hand crafted, one-of-a-kind, lush, nature-inspired, love-infused flowers.

We believe weddings can be beautiful and fun at the same time. We love having a good laugh with our clients. We want nothing more than to SHARE YOUR JOY. We care deeply about style, design, quality, responsiveness and trust.

We are a very passionate and high energy group of people and you can feel this vibe right when you meet us. We love to enjoy our work – we sing, dance and laugh. This is when we are in our element.

We feed off creativity, passion, ENTHUSIASM and dreams. We believe in cultivating a trusting relationship based on reciprocity. For us to understand and execute your vision, we rely on communication, trust and the unwritten agreement that you love our style because it matches yours.

We truly appreciate our sweet clients who trusts us to design and style their event beautifully.

SHANNON MCCLUSKIE

Owner & Head Floral Designer

Born and raised on the Sunshine Coast, Shannon grew up with a love for nature and the outdoors.  This was in part because her mother, an avid gardener, taught her to appreciate and notice the magic around her. After graduating from BCIT and completing her CMA, Shannon spent 10 years working for a socially conscious cosmetics company. 

She began her floral training in 2013 in Burnaby taking floral arranging courses with Debbie Neratini.  Seeking additional training in a more natural garden style of arranging, she traveled to Portland and Seattle to take workshops with Alethea Harampolis & Jill Rizzo at Studio Choo and Flirty Fleurs Flower School with Alicia Schwede.   She also studied with La Musa de las Flores here in Vancouver.  Most recently she was thrilled to have the opportunity to train with Holly Chappel and Hitomi Gilliam at a two day wedding intensive. She has trained in a variety of floral design techniques and styles and has taken away parts from all of them to create her own style.

With a passion for nature inspired floral design, she officially launched Postmark Flowers in 2014.  Postmark is passionate about locally sourced flowers and ethical growing practices. Postmark specializes in wedding and events in Greater Vancouver but, Shannon takes on a limited number of destination events in Whistler,  the Okanagan and Tofino.

OUR FLOWERS

ORIGIN MATTERS

Postmark Flowers was founded with an entrepreneurial spirit and a few crazy goals: offer affordable designer arrangements, empower local farmers, simplify sending flowers online and minimize the floral industries impact on the environment.

The mainstream floral and gift industries have many byproducts like pesticide pollution, dependence on plastics, underpaid labor, hazardous working conditions and excessive CO2 Emissions. 

We can minimize these negative effects by amending our practices to become sustainable ones.  For Postmark Flowers, sustainability means using methods that we can afford to duplicate without negatively affecting the environment and people around us. With a lot of creativity and research, we have been able to develop floral practices that allow us to do just that.

SOURCING:

British Columbia has some of the best gardens, greenhouses and flower farmers on the planet, but if you thought that the flowers in the supermarket or your local florist – or indeed online- were grown here…think again. The majority of cut flowers sold in Canada are grown in Latin America, South America, and Africa, where exposure to highly toxic pesticides, fungicides, and fertilizers and extremely low wages are serious issues for the workers.

Sadly, there are 15% less flower growers in Canada today than there were just five years ago.  We need to change that, and take back our Canadian floral agriculture.  100% of our flowers are grown in British Columbia.

PACKAGING:

Did you know that each year billions of plastic floral sleeves end up as litter?  At Postmark Flowers we do things a little differently.  Each of our bouquets is hand-wrapped in up-cycled burlap sacs donated from local roasters and fitted with a Eco Fresh Bouquet's floral hydration stem hydration pack to keep those blooms looking fresh until they get into a vase. 

WASTE:

At Postmark we select the most beautiful, seasonal and sustainable local flowers available and arrange them in our daily hand-tied bouquets.  By offering one arrangement each day, rather than the hundreds offered by the big guys, we are able to reduce our waste by 40%.  We pass these savings on to you by offering designer bouquets at affordable prices.

TRANSPORTATION: 

Ever wonder why flowers don’t seem to smell anymore?  We did,  and we found out that 55% of Canada’s imported flowers are from Colombia which is 6,760 Km away from Vancouver. Suppressed scent is a side effect of the powerful chemicals used to prep the flowers so that they are able to withstand being transported half-way around the world. We purchase 100% of our flowers within 400km of Vancouver.

We are proud to to say that whenever possible our Downtown Vancouver order are delivered by bicycle and deliveries outside of Downtown are delivered by hybrid or fuel efficient cars. Awesome right?