The Open Blossom

My mother-​in-​law ordered some flowers for us from the Open Blossom– because of our housing community and confusing address
they got delivered to the wrong house and we didn’t actually get them until a couple days later when a neighbor dropped them off. I called to see what happened and the owner was horrified. Not long after she arrived at my house with another beautiful arrangement for free. Really great service…
Also, flower choices and the aesthetics of the Open Blossom are MUCH better than other places in town…

Mel did an incredible job with the flowers for my small destination wedding. She responded quickly to my initial email and was great on communication up until the day-​of. She was willing to tailor her work to our very small event and made planning from afar easy. I didn’t know exactly what I wanted, but by exchanging pictures and talking through ideas on the phone, she nailed it. Very reasonably priced and excellent work!

The Open Blossom is the perfect place to go for your wedding flowers. We booked The Open Blossom through Wedgewood at The Tower Club. Melanie was fun, professional, and awesome to work with. She listen and envision what you want your floral arrangement to look like, but in person it look even better and beautiful. I loved working with her. She is talented and created my beautiful wedding bouquet from looking at a photo I showed her. If there was any questions, you can call or email her and she would respond back quick and was very helpful. I would recommend anyone who is looking for a florist to go with Melanie.

Couldn’t of imagined more beautiful flowers than the flowers on my wedding day provided by the Open Blossom. I don’t want to sound cheesy but the flowers brought tears to my eyes! They were like something out of a magazine! I was so impressed with the service I got from Melanie! I live out of town and was a bit concerned working with someone so far away! She listened to my vision and brought it to life! I’m so lucky and thankful to of had the Open Blossom at my wedding! I highly recommend them!!!

Thank you soooooooo much Mel. You had my flowers, centerpieces, ceremony beautiful. Thankkkk you. im so happy that you and your husband made our day.
From the Brooks. :)

My wife and I booked Melanie with the Open Blossom for our March wedding and we could not be happier with our decision. From the start, the communication with Melanie was responsive and easy. She truly listened to the ideas that my wife had expressed for our wedding and was very assuring that everything would turn out how we had envisioned. The bouquets and arrangements were exactly the feel that we were going for and the boutonnieres were perfect. The quality of the flowers was exceptional and we received many compliments on how great everything looked. Melanie is truly talented at what she does, and we are so glad that we were able to utilize her skills and expertise for our special day.

Melanie was so wonderful to work with. When we lost our beloved Grandmother, she worked hard to make sure that we had the most beautiful flowers that would honor her memory, and make her happy if she was still with us. We had specific requests for her service, and given such short notice, she made all of our requests a reality. On the day of our Grandmother’s celebration of life, it was extremely windy; Melanie delivered the flowers, and even waited almost an hour to set up the flowers until right before the service began. Her dedication to providing us with a wonderful experience when choosing the flowers, as well as the day of service delivery was extremely awesome. Highly recommend The Open Blossom.

This is my go-​to florist in Ventura. The Open Blossom is not your typical florist, it’s much better! I typically come in with an idea and the florists always helps me convey my ideas. Thanks!

Very pleased with service and arrangement. My Mom texted me a pic of the flowers and said, «these are the most beautiful flowers, I’ve ever gotten». Thank you Open Blossom!!!

The Open Blossom is the real deal!
My first experience with them was a blind faith referral from Unilocal (good job, reviewers)! My boss’s father called from out of area and needed a local place to deliver flowers for his daughter’s birthday. Enter The Open Blossom! The flowers were ordered and delivered the same day — and were exquisite! I knew next time I ordered flowers myself, it would be from them.
So take two: in my usual last minute fashion, I called at 11AM on a Friday morning for same day delivery. I immediately was struck by their helpful and cheerful demeanor over the phone. Despite having the commitment of several weddings in the afternoon, they were able to accommodate my request and delivered a unique and beautifully crafted arrangement in little over an hour. My boss was in awe and couldn’t wait to take them home. Multiple people in the office wished more business cards had been left! Safe to say a job wonderfully done and I will be coming back again and again!
Update 2÷5÷16: Jens of the Open Blossom just stopped by my office with a beautiful thank you arrangement. Such an unexpected and lovely surprise. They didn’t even know purple is my favorite color. Thank you Open Blossom!

Melanie was such a joy to work with in preparation for my December 2015 Wedgewood at the Tower Club wedding reception. Her expertise was greatly appreciated. She was very knowledgeable, offered great suggestions yet made sure that she listened to my ideas as well. She was always smiling, and it was evident that she is a master at her craft and truly enjoys what she does for a living. What a breath of fresh air! She double and triple checked everything, her communication was stellar, and everything we discussed arrived in perfect condition and in a timely fashion (both at the church and at The Tower Club). I highly recommend! ~A Very Happy Bride (and groom)!

I received another gorgeous arrangement today from The Open Blossom! Melanie has outdone herself once again!
All three arrangements over the last few months have been phone/​internet direct orders to her shop from 3 different family members and friends (Colorado, Pennsylvania, Japan) meant to raise my spirits while I am going through treatment for breast cancer. Melanie uses a variety of unusual flowers and greens in great color combos, always so fresh, and arranged in a fun creative way!
I have been an independent floral designer for events for over 15 years, and also have sent and received many floral gifts over the years. This is the only shop I have ever phoned to compliment their design work!
I am recommending Melanie’s shop to everyone I know!

We had the pleasure of working with Melanie and when we were married at the Wedgewood Tower Club in Oxnard on 10÷10÷15. With our Emerald package, we received a ceremony and reception floral package and The Open Blossom is the Wedgewood’s official floral vendor.
Communication was quick and easy, usually over email. We had to make several trips to Oxnard from our home in Santa Monica in order to visit the venue and meet with the local vendors. Melanie made herself available to meet us whenever we were in the area. She is incredibly friendly, kind and very talented. She was very patient with my complete lack of knowledge with what we needed or even wanted and gave wonderful suggestions. We opted to use her for our personals and her prices were very reasonable. All of the floral looked amazing and matched our colors and our vision perfectly.
Thank you Melanie!

Melanie is fantastic and her selection is amazing-​best in Ventura County! I recently moved from San Francisco and had a challenging time finding an amazing florist that stocks greens and dried vines for eclectic home décor – then I found Open Blossom! I love this place and plan on using Melanie for my wedding next year!
She has amazing flowers and she is a nice honest person!

Melanie is WONDERFUL. She could not have done a more fantastic job on our wedding flowers, and we’re SO grateful to have had her! Many brides know exactly what kind of flowers they want for their wedding — that was not me. I just knew I wanted the flowers to look wild, colorful, rustic, and not too «arranged». Melanie took my ideas and created EXACTLY the look I wanted for our Santa Ynez ranch wedding — the bouquets, table arrangements, chuppah, flowers for my hair — all of it was perfect! And on top of that, she and is truly a JOY to work with — she is incredibly kind, her rates are reasonable, and she responded right away to all of our calls and emails. You cannot go wrong with this incredible florist!

We were over-​the-​moon happy with our flowers for our wedding. Melanie was fantastic about translating our descriptions into reality, and we were so so so happy with the bouquets, centerpieces, and flowers decorating the cake. We highly recommend her. She was so easy to work with and delivered perfectly.

Melanie is quite possibly one of the kindest people in the business. She is fair, honest, and an expert at what she does. We used succulents as our base for our wedding and she rocked it. The boutonnieres, alter, chairs, corsages, bouquets were all ridiculously beautiful. She even created a hair piece exactly how I envisioned it and magically, my hair lady showed up the morning of our wedding with it. The rest, Melanie delivered and set up at our venue in Santa Barbara.
If you are looking for a florist who is reliable and friendly – The Open Blossom is the way to go. I research things like this intensely and thoroughly… so let me provide you with a short cut to ease your wedding planning: contact Melanie. Small businesses are slowly being phased out by larger companies, but I am certain that The Open Blossom will be in business for a very very long time to come.

I had to send some flowers to Ventura, so I checked out Unilocal and this Florist stood out by the reviews.
Boy was Unilocal spot on. This florist is a hidden Gem! I wanted to send an arrangement to a sick person in the hospital. But I wanted it to be different. I emailed this place and got a response almost immediately by the owners husband Jens. He was great. Within a few hours I wrote a email to Melanie (his wife & owner) as to what I was looking for. She immediately said she would put her ‘creative hat’ on and would call back. She did. I thought since he was a sports fanatic, she made up an arrangement reflecting a mini baseball & bat & other ‘take me out to the park’ items. She emailed me the finished product, all surrounded by a living green plant. Very imaginitive and GORGEOUS.
Long story short, it was delivered to the hospital and he loved it & said everyone from drs to nurses commented ‘which florist put that together’.
I can’t tell you how helpful & kind Melanie was, including her husband. She takes her work very seriously and it shows.
I highly recommend this florist 1000%.
Thank you so much for your super kind attention. You rock!

My boyfriend walked in on his lunch one day and ordered flowers to be delivered to my office for my birthday. He explained to the florist all of my favorites and even instructed her «no roses» (They’re a little too cliché for my taste .) My bouquet arrived with a beautiful mix of all my favorites– dahlias, peonies, sunflowers, and daisies, along with some other nice additions… not of the rose variety. :) What an awesome surprise!
I was impressed they do same day deliveries within just a few hours of an order. The arrangement was absolutely stunning, and the vase is unique and equally lovely.
I will definitely keep this place in mind for any upcoming floral needs.

I live in San Francisco. My mom lives in Ventura. Today, she had one of those milestone birthdays that involved a big «zero» at the end. I knew I needed to do something special, and I always like to use local florists, rather than the Tele-​dial-​a-​flower that you find online. So I called The Open Blossom based on Unilocal reviews.
Melanie was SO sweet and completely understood what I was looking for… an epic arrangement worthy of my mom’s BIG personality and her big birthday. Melanie was very communicative about delivery time and options after I placed my order. I could also tell just by talking to her that she simply loves what she does, and takes joy in creating arrangements, which is so wonderful — particularly because flowers are one of those gifts that can mean so much.
And it’d be an understatement to say that my mom was absolutely thrilled. Blown away is more like it. She sent me 15 different pictures of it. Actually, 20 now, since she’s sent me five more in the time I’ve taken to write this review.
Her direct quotes to me about the flowers:
«These pics don’t come close to have fabulous this is… It just gets more beautiful as I turn it… It has so many faces that each are more beautiful… unbelievable.»
I can’t thank you enough, Melanie. You’ll be hearing from me again about this time next year!