Floral Inspirations

If you have a love for flowers and know what they can do for the look and feel of your event — you’ll appreciate the skill and aesthetic that Fong delivers. She is truly a creative spirit who knows how to transform an empty space into a romantic oasis. Simply put — she gets it! Put your trust in her and let her do what she does best, you won’t be disappointed.
Aside from the fact that she is an absolute breeze to work with, Fong knows her stuff and went above and beyond for my husband and I. Providing extra flowers and adjusting her quote to our budget without compromising the look and feel of event, I was so happy to have her on my team of vendors. Highly recommend working with her!

Fong and her team are amazing! We heard about Floral Inspirations through a Wedding Café workshop and were immediately impressed. Fong worked with me to get a sense of my personality and what I wanted for my wedding, and my complete trust in her work and creative vision paid off. My expectations were exceeded in every way! Our guests raved about the beautiful flowers and many of my family members displayed them in their houses after the event. Also notable was that Fong worked with our limited budget to achieve everything that we wanted.
I felt like Fong truly cared about our wedding experience, from the planning process to the execution of every detail. She has incredible knowledge about wedding from her time in the industry and was able to give suggestions for things that I didn’t even know I needed help with until she asked. She is wonderful and my husband and I are so glad to have had the opportunity to work with her. We highly, highly recommend Floral Inspirations!

From the photos I’ve seen, floral inspiration creates very pretty floral arrangements. From the communication with this vendor, it’s pretty much non-​existent. I contacted FI via email, the owner (fong) got back to me promptly with a follow up email with an order form for me to fill out. First off I would like to preface that I don’t know much about florals and how much they cost (hence why I needed the expertise of a experienced florist). Anyways, after I filled out the form, I never got a response. After a follow up email, I still never got a response… So in the end even though there are rave reviews I didn’t get a chance to work with her cause I was never taken into consideration to be a client.

Fong with Floral Inspirations is incredible. She was amazing to work with and so patient through the planning process!
We met in person once before my wedding (I live in San Francisco) and she helped me put my vision into reality. Her work is stunning and she really helps you work within your budget.
We had Fong do the florals for 2 nights of our Indian wedding. Both nights the ballrooms looked better than I ever imagined. She really took everything we discussed and made it perfect — her work is classy, thoughtful and creative.
Our guests could not stop talking about how stunning our decorations were — if you have the chance to get married in Hawaii, you have to call Fong for your floral needs!

I absolutely love Fong! She is AMAZING and crazy creative! During our first call, she immediately understood my vision and worked with me to make sure I was comfortable with everything. With the closure of the Ihilani mid-​planning, Fong was right there coming up with solutions, being incredibly understanding and working within my budget drafted a slightly different floral plan for my wedding.
Admittedly, I am not artistically creative, so I really trusted in Fong’s expertise and creativity for my wedding. I told her I wanted an orchid extravaganza with a refined and elegant taste. I also told her that I wanted to stay from from big «bridal» arrangements for a more contemporary style.
Fong did not disappoint. I had beautiful bouquets and centerpieces, but the one thing I will always remember is her ceremony aisle petal arrangement — designed from my wedding invitation (it had orchids too). It was so special and thoughtful, I almost didn’t walk down the aisle because I didn’t want to ruin it!
In agreement with some of the other reviewers, Fong is not just an amazing florist, she really is an artist. Be open to her suggestions, let her understand you as a person, and give her the space to design something amazing just for you.
My family is already talking about vow renewals in Hawaii and if (when) we do, we’re definitely calling Fong!
And checkout the @FloralInspirations on Instagram. I love keeping up with what she’s been designing!

I’m so happy that we worked with Fong for our wedding! She was great in communicating with me from start to finish and she made me feel like family even though I had never met her in person until the day of our wedding. She gave me some great recommendations but always made sure that I was getting exactly what I wanted. I could not have been happier with the result. The bouquets, the ceremony space, and the centerpieces exceeded what I had hoped for. All of the guests complimented the flowers and were so happy that they could take all of them home at the end of the night. We highly recommend Fong!

I can’t say enough good things about Fong. She did the flowers for our Oahu wedding. Adorable, personable, professional, and so talented! Our wedding coordinator recommended her and she was great. She is so earnest and you can tell she really wants to make your day beautiful and in your style. We live in California and talked on the phone before meeting. I sent her pictures of my dress, shoes, etc. as well as a Pinterest page and I was amazed at what she did. It was EXACTLY what I wanted and more. I wouldn’t say that it was inexpensive but she definitely worked with our budget. I would recommend her to anyone. I literally cannot say one bad about her! Thank you for making our day flawless!

Pssst! I’ll let you in on a little secret… I have a horrible black thumb when it comes to anything flowers. Oh, who am I kidding, that’s not a secret! Everyone who knows me, knows I have zero plants or flowers around the house! So when it came time to tackle the floral aspects of our wedding, I was absolutely clueless. I kept going back and forth about whether we should just do fruit arrangements and cake pop bouquets… haha with me, everything revolves around food!
It was actually my husband (what would I do without him?), who suggested that we consult Fong from Floral Inspirations. Before we started dating, he would occasionally set up and break down her floral displays, and knew she was a genius when it came to all things flowers! Perfect! That’s exactly what I needed!
At our first meeting, I was so nervous! What kind of girl am I, that I couldn’t even tell the difference between a regular rose and an English one?! All I knew, was that I wanted something elegant, clean and displayed lots of orchids. :) Fong was so knowledgable and showed us dozens of pictures from her recent weddings, and helped us hone in on a central theme for our wedding day. I loved how she was always upfront and expressed her honest and professional opinion about the details as they unfolded. She even stepped in as our wedding coordinator for the wedding day and trouble shot any glitches that emerged (and believe me, there were a lot of changes that happened the week of the wedding — including having to change our ceremony venue! O_​O).
I couldn’t even begin to fathom a better wedding day! As soon as I saw the reception flowers, my eyes began to well with tears, as she took all of our scattered ideas and was able to transform that into a cohesive and breathtaking display of beauty!
After our experience with Fong, I actually stop and browse through the freshly cut flowers at the supermarket! It’s a far cry from learning to garden and having an arrangement on our dinner table, but I’ll take that as a win, and owe it all to Fong! :)

Floral Inspirations (and Fong, the owner/​florist/​floral mastermind) absolutely made my wedding as beautiful as I could have ever hoped for and I wouldn’t change a thing. From the moment we got in touch with Fong, she was able to truly understand my vision and add her expertise to make the vision a beautiful reality.
Fong knew exactly the type of flowers we had in mind (even though I didn’t know what type I had in mind) and she got the color scheme right on. Fong’s approach is truly about understanding what the bride and groom’s vision, and understanding the entire feel and flow of the wedding (everything from invitations, to the dress, hairstyle, cake, table settings, etc.). The ceremony flowers, the reception centerpieces, the bouquets, the hairpiece and the cake were all stunningly beautiful and so classy.
We received SO many compliments on our flowers and I will recommend Fong to anyone in Honolulu. I live in California (but am from Hawaii) and we were able to coordinate everything via phone and email and there were no issues at all. I was amazed at how thoughtful and seamless Fong was. She definitely is a perfectionist and puts love and care into her work.

The best thing that happened to me was meeting Fong, owner of Floral Inspirations. Fong is WONDERFUL!
Besides meeting her once for our consultation she stayed in constant contact with me throughout the whole wedding process through phone or email. I really wanted to focus my time and energy on making the reception hall look magnificent and from the very beginning she just got my whole concept and executed things exactly the way I wanted. She had me send her examples of bouquets I liked, flowers I liked, flower colors, I sent her a sample of what I wanted my reception to look like and a sample of my invitation, everything possible so that she could really get my theme– and boy did she get it!
I gave her my budget and she worked with it and I got everything that I wanted (think calalillies, monzenita branches, philenopsis orchids, high vases, low vases, lots of bling, etc.). At the last minute I even said that I would like some sort of an arch for my ceremony and I told her I only had $ 500 for it and she said she could do it and in the end that was the best looking archway I’ve ever seen with monzenita branches with strands of white orchirds, strands of jewels, and strands with little glass ornaments with a single white orchid in them hanging down from the archway.
EVERYONE, and I mean everyone, said that the floral arrangements were breathtaking and that everything looked so posh and luxuirous; that they’ve never been to a reception like ours before and I attribute this to her designs! At the end of everything I told her that I truly felt like she was my hanai mom and I meant it. She was a dream come true and anyone would be blessed to work her!

There are really NO words that can truly express how much my wife & I love loooooove LOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE Fong Tagawa of Floral Inspirations! I did not get a chance to work with her personally, but I did get to ENJOY the end results of her awesome hard work! She is a TRUE floral ARTIST!!! She took my wifes dream… and made it a reality! My wife told me the other day that she always dreamed of having a beautiful blinged-​out classy wedding, but didnt ever think it would ever be real… thank you Fong for making it so much more then what she had imagined!
We LOVED her work so much, that we actually took the time to send her a «ThankYou» letter while we were on our honeymoon! THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!
I will try & upload a few pics…

Fong Tagawa of Floral Inspirations is absolutely amazing, she deserves a thousand 5 star reviews here!
We had trouble finding a florist we liked and we ended up seeing Fong’s website through the Hawaii Bride magazine. From the first time we talked we her, we knew she would be the right person for us. She is super friendly, professional, honest, and most importantly for us — highly intuitive! Through chatting a bit in our initial conversation, she was able to read our personalities and make suggestions that we had not thought of — and she was totally honest when she wasn’t crazy about some of the ideas we had (which I really appreciated). She had a huge influence in our choosing our wedding colors, which we struggled with for quite some time. Fong asked us what it was that we liked about certain combinations, and what type of ambiance we were looking for; she made things super easy and I knew from the beginning she was going to do a great job.
Fong is clearly experienced, talented and we really valued her professionalism and flexibility (when it was crunch time, she would call us from her daughter’s softball game to answer quick questions). We gave her creative latitude from the very beginning and have absolutely no regrets. I could tell Fong had a vision and I trusted her talent. One of my friends asked if we specified what flowers we wanted to use at the wedding and I just laughed — that would be completely unnecessary if Fong was involved.
In fact, Fong even suggested someone to provide specialty linens and worked with her directly (including pick-​up and return of the linens) — all I did was tell them the number of tables and provide a credit card number. It could not have been easier and clearly, Fong was thinking of the overall look of our ceremony/​reception site.
Fong was happy to accommodate my request to «recycle» some flowers from the ceremony to reception (in order to soften the cost), and suggested I get leis elsewhere because it would be a better value. She also decorated our cake at no charge (we thought it would be decorated with a few loose petals but it was decorated with elegant orchids), let us borrow containers to hold our programs, a gift box, vases for our unity ceremony, brought loose flowers for everyone’s hair, and created a toss bouqet on the spot (I thought we were going to have one but didn’t realize it wasn’t on her final invoice so missed mentionintg it before the wedding) — everything was beautiful. She even brought loose petals for us to fake a petal toss photo! Originally, we wanted to do a petal toss at the end of the ceremony but she talked us out of it due to safety reasons (she said she saw a pregnant woman slip on the petals before), and the fact that most guests forget to toss the petals anyway. I am so glad Fong made the suggestion of doing a «fake» petal toss — which helped us save $ 100 in petal clean-​up charges too!
Admittedly, Fong’s estimate was above the initial budget we gave her, but we were pretty clueless about flowers and our budget and the results were more important to us than the budget (and that was pretty clear in our conversation). Basically, I told her I wanted the room to look gorgeous and let her run with it. She did a wonderful, wonderful job. A ton of our guests commented on how gorgeous everything was — even some of the kids said the favorite part of the wedding was the flowers!
Fong was definitely one of my favorite wedding vendors, hands-​down. We had a few vendors tell us «We want you to be happy, so it’s up to you…» While I appreciate that opportunity to have whatever we requested, we don’t have experience planning a wedding (as most younger couples probably don’t) and I think that kind of attitude might stem from a lack of experience or lack of confidence. I really appreciated Fong’s wealth of experience and professional opinion and her confidence in expressing her opinion. We not only looked to her to provide the actual flowers and décor on the day of the wedding, but we looked to her guidance for ideas and feedback. She is so generous with her time — she even gave us her feedback in terms of favors and other aspects of the wedding!
Fong is also super personable and it was so nice to see her on the day of the wedding. I wish she stopped by to say good-​bye before leaving the venue! I would highly recommend her to anyone getting married on Oahu and hope that our paths cross again in the future.

I cannot put into words how awesome Fong/​Floral Inspirations is! We found her on the list of The Wedding Café florist vendors and after interviewing 2 other vendors, decided that Fong was the florist for us! She was really nice and super knowledgeable about flowers and seemed like she would be someone we could put our trust in. We didn’t really have any particular ideas in mind for the flowers so we set a budget and let Fong create some truly beautiful arrangements! The ceremony and reception sites were transformed by the gorgeous flowers/​arrangements/​centerpieces! With the leftover flowers the cake was decorated at no charge. The girl’s bouquets and boy’s boutonnieres were really nice too. She put vases on the head table for the girl’s bouquets to go in, which added to the tablescape with the existing flowers (plus there isn’t a really good place to put bouquets during dinner/​after the ceremony anyways). Fong really went the extra mile and we are so happy that we chose her because the service and results were outstanding!