Each year, in our Wreath of the Day posts, we comment on the difficulties we experience finding decorators willing to take on orders for multiple matched wreaths. They are hard for many reasons. First, you have to find underlying base wreaths of the same size and shape, since there are many variations of color, thickness, and shape even among batches of the same sized wreaths. Then you have to gather enough material to make sure you can complete the order without running out of, say, milk weed pods. You have to put them up on easels or a wall to make sure they actually match as to placement of bows and decorations, and there is the sheer boredom of completing the task. A matched pair is one thing, a matched trio or quadruple is something else entirely. From early on, we learned we could rely on Marion Brunck, now relocated on Cape Cod, and Alice Goyert, currently on Martha’s Vineyard, to accept the orders with cheerfulness and skill. We did try to make things easier by adding a very prohibitive surcharge for matched sets of three or more. We would match the bows and bow placements and provide “coordinated” but not exact matched looks at no additional charge, and luckily most of our customers were fine with that. Alice is still able to travel up for wreath week most years, and runs a very successful wreath project for her church on the Vineyard as well.

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