From in-person workshops to dreamy wedding floral arrangements, Sweetwater Floral has turned flowers into a lifestyle. Now, you can stop in to their new Walloon Lake store (affectionally referred to as the “cutest flower shop in the world” to which we can’t disagree) and see what your floral fairy godmother has been up to while grabbing a bouquet and some swag or thoughtfully sourced goods.
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Technically, Sweetwater Floral’s new contemporary-cool flagship store in the heart of the village of Walloon Lake is a flower shop. There are, after all, flowers for sale: botanical lovelies and woodsy whatsis chilling in coolers, singular seasonals popping from stout glasses on the walls, and garden-like piles of petals and stems strewn over wooden tables, being bibbidi-bobbidi-booed into wedding bouquets and centerpieces.
But thanks to the vision of owner, educator and fairy-godmother-like florist Kalin Sheick, this latest incarnation of Sweetwater Floral is so much more. Sheick calls her 2015-founded biz a “flower-focused lifestyle brand.” And if that means sipping “fluffy coffee” while shopping her plants, garden goodies and Sweetwater swag; sprawling across a couch while whispering your wedding-day dreams; or taking one of her many virtual and in-person workshops—foraged and found fall wreaths, DIY planters, hand-tied bouquets, anyone?—it’s exactly the kind of lifestyle we want to cultivate.
Watch what’s blooming and the refreshingly real lifestyle guru Sheick (often fresh-scrubbed, make-up free and in a towel turban; always funny and frank) in action by following Sweetwater Floral on Instagram, or visit the shop at 4128 N. M-75 in Walloon Lake.
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