Floral Floral Holly Heider Chapple Flowers Ltd.
PHOTO BY SAMANTHA McCLAIN
BY SAMANTHA McCLAIN
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ucked away in a quiet, wooded area of Lucketts sits Holly Chapple’s home-based studio, where she and her team of experts design gorgeous flower arrangements for weddings and events all over Northern Virginia and beyond. For more than 20 years, Chapple has used her keen eye for color and elegance to create flower arrangements for all types of weddings. Chapple attributes her instinct for design to her parents, Albert and Sheila Heider, gardeners who operated a local nursery. “It’s an intuitive, inherited art or skill that I have,” she says. Chapple is proud of her reputation as a flower designer, and her designs have been featured in magazines from Loudoun Magazine to Southern Living. She also takes pride in the hundreds of Internet reviews that have been written about her services, praising her for her fabulous work. She attributes the praise to “the lushness and the fullness and the quality of the flowers,” many of which are grown locally, even in Chapple’s own backyard. Her garden is filled in season with blooming bushes of blue, pink and white hydrangeas, lilies and sunflowers. Chapple also owes her success to being proactive and involved in the design process. “I don’t stand still, I’m constantly learning,” she says. “I don’t just do a soso job, I’m always pushing to the next level.” Chapple never allows a single delivery person to drop off flowers for an event. Instead she sends several designers to help make sure everything looks perfect. By involving herself in the weddings she helps design, Chapple builds relationships with brides, which is an important component of her success as a designer.
HOLLY CHAPPLE’S HUSBAND, EVAN, ACCENTED BLUEMONT VINEYARD’S SPACE WITH LIGHTING AND DRAPING
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