Keepsake Floral Blog

A Year in Bloom: Some of Our Favorite Keepsakes from 2025 As another year comes to a close, we find ourselves reflecting on the countless flowers, stories, and moments that have passed through our studio in 2025. This year was truly a year in bloom — filled with love, artistry,...

🌼 Dana’s Floral Notes 🌼 Happy New Year, friends! Over here at Keepsake, we are winding down from a busy holiday season and getting back into the flow of things. For us, this is a month of fresh starts, soft winter palettes, and the perfect reminder that even in the...

A Lasting Tribute: How Funeral Homes Can Offer Families More Through Memorial Floral Preservation by Keepsake When families lose someone they love, flowers often become part of their story. They fill the room with color, warmth, and care when words are hard to find. But after the service, those meaningful...

Snowy Whites & Icy Blues: A Winter Keepsake Story Winter has a quiet beauty all its own — the soft hush of falling snow, the shimmer of frost on the windows, the way candlelight glows against the cold. It’s a season of reflection and warmth, where everything slows down and...

🌼 Dana’s Floral Notes 🌼 Hi friends, As the year comes to a close, December has arrived at the Keepsake Floral studio here in the heart of Maitland, Florida. Despite the 80 degree weather, the girls at Keepsake are fully in the holiday spirit– sipping hot cocoa, wrapped in our...

A Keepsake Christmas! Meaningful Gifts Crafted From Your Memories There’s something magical about the holiday season — the cozy nights wrapped in blankets, the sparkle of lights, the joy of giving. It’s the time of year when we look back on the moments that mattered most and try to find...

The Heart of Keepsake Floral: Family, Memories, and the Season of Gratitude As the leaves begin to fall and the air takes on that crisp, comforting chill, November reminds us to slow down — to look around and take stock of the people, memories, and moments that make life so...

Cupcakes, Creativity, and Connection: A Sweet Visit to Details Flowers Software What do cupcakes have to do with flower industry software? On their own, absolutely nothing. But when you mix them with a company that preserves wedding flowers — and a love for creative marketing — suddenly, they make perfect...

Kreepy Keepsakes: Where Dead Flowers Go to Live Their Best Afterlife When your bouquet goes from freshly picked to beautifully undead… that’s when the real magic happens! At Keepsake Floral, we’ve always believed beauty doesn’t fade, it simply transforms. And this October, we’re celebrating that transformation with a little haunted...

Your wedding bouquet isn’t just a bundle of blooms — it’s a living memory of one of the most meaningful days of your life. From the roses you carried down the aisle to the peonies your partner picked out because they reminded him of your first date, each flower tells...

Your client’s wedding bouquet is more than just a beautiful arrangement — it’s a symbol of love, joy, and every unforgettable moment from their big day. At Keepsake, we believe your hard work and your client’s flowers deserve to be showcased in a way that’s as meaningful as the memories...

Wondering how to preserve your wedding bouquet? Whether you love the sleek, modern look of resin or the timeless elegance of a shadowbox, we’re breaking down the pros and cons to help you choose the perfect keepsake for your flowers!...
Wondering how to preserve your wedding bouquet? Whether you love the sleek, modern look of resin or the timeless elegance of a shadowbox, we’re breaking down the pros and cons to help you choose the perfect keepsake for your flowers!...

Keepsake Floral specializes in making memories and creating beautiful tributes of love—but why keep the beauty of a Valentine heart to just one mid-February holiday when any bouquet can become a Valentine?! One of the most aesthetically rich holidays of the year with its signature elements of hearts, red and...

Introduction: The Art of Floral Preservation at Keepsake Floral Art History .. how many years of Art Experience do our art and design team have? Take one retired AIFD consultant, add in a scenic art painter and private art teacher, one tattoo artist, a fine arts major turned professional artist,...

Holiday flowers inevitably make their way into many of the bridal bouquets we preserve at Keepsake Floral. For couples tying the knot during the holiday season, incorporating festive blooms like poinsettias, roses, berries, and Christmas greenery into their bouquets adds seasonal charm. We often see a myriad of red flowers...

Yes, please! Keepsake loves our sunflowers! So happy, so sunny, so versatile! And the quintessential flower of summer! Sunflowers (or helianthus) are often seen as a symbol of faith an devotion. In Buddhism and other Eastern religions, these vibrant yellow blooms are thought to be sacred, representing spiritual enlightenment. They...

Pink flowers can be knock out gorgeous in an arrangement or bouquet and translate beautifully within a preserved Keepsake Floral keepsake as well. But they can be tricky to preserve and restore for lasting beauty in a keepsake. Pink flowers represent tenderness, innocence and sweetness .. all soft and delicate...

Keepsake Floral pioneered the floral preservation industry decades ago when we began hand-painting each preserved flower prior to design. And somewhere in those decades, we began air-brushing each flower in addition to basic hand-coloring, in order to achieve the most natural and tonally-accurate results in the final flower color. Yeah,...

Floral keepsakes with pink flowers? Pretty please! Whether soft and feminine or bold and bright, pinks are beautiful in flower preservation. Lighter pinks (like some rose varieties as well as flowers like larkspur and sometimes tulips) will become lighter during preservation. Brighter pinks (think peonies, brighter toned roses, lilies, orchids)...