A crew of flower lovers, but beyond that, a crew of people people. The human experience is something to be celebrated. We believe in elevating not only life's big moments, but the journey getting to those moments and the everyday in between.
We are a team that supports each other, finds laughter in the chaos, believes growth is amplified when it is a mutual experience, and is forever dedicated to spotlighting each other's best versions. It's both how we live and how we create, to forge genuine connections that lead to authentic designs. It's discovering the depths of each client to translate it into something exceptional; to make your heart feel seen through the impact of flowers.
Victoria Clausen Floral Events.
about US
EST 1999
Creating Intentionally, Storytelling Artfully.
You would not expect it with her admirable knack to tell you almost any flower name and what type of care it needs, but Victoria did not grow up with the possibility of making this creative outlet her career. In Ukraine, there was no profession as a florist. Her love of beautifying things would lead her to pick up flowers from the local market and arrange them for friends, but that was the extent.
It was after moving to the US at the age of 21 with a green card and the goal to finish the business degree she had begun in Ukraine that flowers truly took hold. A friend suggested working in a flower shop after Victoria had expressed wanting a job to better her English and make a few dollars. With that, the snowball started rolling. Within a few years Romance of Flowers was started, Victoria’s at-home event floral company, designed in her laundry room.
She’ll tell you she’s one of those super lucky people that truly loves what they do, and it shows through every question she asks and decision she makes for each and every one of her clients. Our ultimate wealth of knowledge, and expert “doodle” drawer to convey what’s in her colorful mind!
Victoria’s favorite form of spontaneity is booking a plane ticket abroad, and she has no qualms turning down a piece of chocolate if it’s not “good” chocolate (Hershey’s doesn’t cut it). She can often be found asking if anyone has seen her design knife on site, and always has a spare moment to gush over her Bernadoodle, Bella!
Victoria Clausen.
Creative Visionary, Lead Dreamer
Amber
Blackmon.
Marketing Manager
Born and raised in Maryland, Katie is a big supporter of communal crab feasts as much as she is of local tulips. She fell into the floral world while helping with flowers one Valentine’s Day, and over 10 years later she’s forever grateful for the serendipitous event!
You can usually find Katie working magic through artful installs on site, ”flowering” everything from ceilings to pianos, or at the design tables in our studio with the best 2000s throwback playlist on the speaker! She’s notorious for her clean table, mountain-of-stems-at-her-feet ways, and never misses the chance to share a story about her gentle giant mastiff, Maddie!
Katie Nelson.
Lead Designer
Amber
Blackmon.
Marketing Manager
Usually found in her natural habitat of sneaking around catching candid moments of team members while “contenting,” Amber is the go-to IT gal and socials curator. With a background in the defense and law industries, she fell into flowers while on a search for a bit more color. She now tackles everything from website updates to menu design.
Dog mom to scruffy gentleman Alfie, Amber is always ready to share a recipe, will be a guaranteed laugh at your dad joke, and prides herself on being the ultimate on-site proposal detail-executer.
Usually found in her natural habitat of sneaking around catching candid moments of team members while “contenting,” Amber is the go-to IT gal and socials curator. With a background in the defense and law industries, she fell into flowers while on a search for a bit more color. She now tackles everything from website updates to menu design.
Dog mom to scruffy gentleman Alfie, Amber is always ready to share a recipe, will be a guaranteed laugh at your dad joke, and prides herself on being the ultimate on-site proposal detail-executer.
A DC native, Jimmy found himself learning flower varieties when he started working with a flower wholesaler. This led him to the intrigue of what exactly all those flowers were used for. An intro into events with a few corporate parties, and he was sold on their transformational powers.
Jimmy is our warehouse savant and can tell you where almost any rental item is located from memory. If you think there are too may flower carts and rental items to fit in the truck, he'll find a way to Tetris it in. Jimmy’s the ultimate authority on where to get good chicken, swears by the mood-lifting powers of Famous Amos cookies, and you’ll never catch him wearing sneakers that don’t coordinate with his baseball cap.
Jimmy
Lopez.
Warehouse Lead
Brittney is our cool as a cucumber project doer. If something currently only lives on paper, Brittney’s builder savvy can probably bring it into existence for you. Our studio fairy godmother! Her background is in green roofing, which means show-and-tell time whenever we're driving through DC of all her past projects!
Brittney is known to traverse the aisles of Home Depot like a champion, a warrior of at-home projects as much as she is in-studio, always supports a fruit snack break, and helps the team run off fresh squash from her garden in the summer. She’s currently mom to big goofball yellow lab Archer, and is expecting a beautiful baby girl in the fall!
Brittney
Joy.
Production Manager
Production Manager
Brittney
Joy.
Jimmy
Lopez.
Warehouse Lead
