Meet the designers
Meet Victoria
Creative Visionary, Lead Dreamer
Many florists' biographies begin with their beautiful childhood stories of being surrounded by flowers or working in a flower shop. But, growing up in Ukraine, there was no profession as a florist. There were flower markets with mostly local flowers but nothing was designed. Looking back, I often bought flowers for friends' birthdays - using my love for creativity to make them look as beautiful as possible.
When I turned 21 I had an opportunity to come to America by winning a green card and I was excited to continue with the business degree that I had started in Ukraine. As I was looking for a part-time job to improve my English and to get on my feet financially, a friend suggested trying a flower shop as a creative outlet before heading into the corporate world. After a short time, I absolutely fell in love with the world of flowers, weddings and events.
Two years later Romance of Flowers was born as a small home-based business specializing in beautiful flowers for weddings. Almost two decades later, we grew from our humble beginnings in a small laundry room, to an award-winning, trend setting, floral and event design company, Victoria Clausen Floral Events. We are not just bringing beautiful transformations to weddings, but also creating unforgettable parties, intimate celebrations and producing or supplying flowers to corporate events across East Coast and beyond.
Since the very start, I have been totally taken by the idea of making each and every wedding as unique as the clients themselves. Each event is in opportunity to tell a story and to share the beauty of a client's personality or the unique message for a corporate function. Some clients come in with loads of Pinterest boards and some have no idea of where to start. It's the biggest thrill for me to go on a quest of learning and discovery to come up with a perfect vision and design for each and every event, to make each event beautiful and unforgettable in a very personal way. I thrive on dreaming up designs to bring magic on each wedding day, to make it better than couples' biggest hopes and expectations. I delight in knowing that our corporate clients see the difference in the power of their message for the events we help them beautify and increased sales at the venues creatively dressed for the holidays. I sure hope that we will have the honor of telling your story as well!
I can truly say that I am one of those super super lucky people who absolutely love what they do. I get up every morning with excitement for the new week, new clients, new events, new creative challenges and opportunities. When I'm not sketching pretty visions or dreaming of amazing ideas with our amazing team, clients and planners, playing knee-deep in flowers or keeping up with my two active boys, I absolutely love to travel and explore different cultures. Being inspired by architecture, nature, art, colors and textures is the best creative food for my soul.
Meet Katie
Floral Designer
Katie is from Parkville, MD and got her floral start while helping out with flowers on Valentine's day.
Her passion for flowers grew from there and she decided to pursue a career in floral design - and never looked back! Katie loves creating and seeing the finished project and feels blessed to express herself through flowers!
You can usually find Katie working magic through artful installs on site, covering everything from ceremony backdrops to pianos, or at the design tables in our studio with the best 2000s throwback playlists on the speaker!