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Welcome to Sweetwater

we design beautiful wedding flowers in northern Michigan.

 
 
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We are so glad you found our corner of the internet. Whether its flowering for your wedding day or hosting something special for you here at the farm, this brand is dedicated to making the special moments in life feel that way.


We are obsessed with Northern Michigan, flowers, lavender, jumping in the lake and bubbly beverages.


Sweetwater was born from our love of the fresh water that surrounds us. We cannot wait for you to experience a bit of what we do.

 
 
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Okay yeah, its a bad one.
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No I'm not stealing your clients.⠀ No I'm not a fraud.⠀ No its not all fake.⠀ No I'm not price gauging you. ⠀ No I don't want to go to coffee and help you put your business plan together stranger I barely know.⠀ ⠀ ⠀ Yes I believe in your business.⠀ Yes there is room for all of us.⠀ Yes I really am 'like this' in real life.⠀ Yes if we are real life friends I will want it so badly for you I'll sit with you for hours in my den and we'll make a marketing plan. ⠀ Yes I do design those flowers myself.⠀ Yes they are real. ⠀ Yes I do use that many swear words. ⠀ Yes I love carnations.⠀ Yes I wanna get coffee and connect and network. ⠀ ⠀ Thank you for your time.⠀ Thank you for believing in this team to provide you the best wedding flowers imaginable.⠀ Thank you for being here every morning and reading these weird blurbs on the internet from a random girl up north.⠀ Thank you for loving the Boopings.⠀ Thank you for understanding I still LOVE my privacy and respecting that.⠀ Thank you for talking all the shit and thinking you'll take it all down - let ya haters be your motivators.⠀ Thank you, next. ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ Happy #fridayintroductions⠀ xo⠀ ⠀ K⠀ ⠀ Image: @thecompasspointshere ⠀ ⠀ #upnorth #northernmichigan #puremichigan #weddingflowers #weddingplanning #flowers #floraldesign #petoskey #harborsprings #traversecity #leelanau #engaged #theknot #mackinacisland #goodvibesonly #vsco #walloonlake #charlevoix #bayharbor #bride #bridalbouquet #sweetwaterfloral
Hey Valentine, thanks for being you. ⠀ ⠀ -Thanks for always 'putting the house to bed.' ⠀ -Thanks for always moving the snow.⠀ -Thanks for all winter dropping me at the door everywhere we go and picking me up at the door so I don't have to navigate cold and icy parking lots.⠀ -Thanks for never ever giving up on us, and our dreams and goals - even when they literally seem impossible.⠀ -Thanks for letting me steal the "Hornet Baseball" sweatpants and not saying anything about it, even though you got them for yourself and now I wear them daily. ⠀ -Thanks for just doing a closed mouth smile when I spill things on myself at restaurants.⠀ -Thanks for not telling me that you know the dogs were not in my way when I explain my sprained ankle saying, "the dogs got right in my way" even though I just literally fell over and sprained my ankle. 🤷🏼‍♀️⠀ -Thanks for loving Pitbull radio when we are in Florida. #mrworldwide⠀ -Thanks for trying to start our Delta movies at the exact same time so its like we are watching a movie together.⠀ -Thanks for always giving me some fries when I literally say every single time, "oh no, no fries for me."⠀ -Thanks for showing up in our life every day in a way that makes me feel like the most bodacious babe on the planet that I snagged a lover & partner like you.⠀ ⠀ You are the best 'valentime.' ♥️⠀ ⠀ Clinks to you my sweet⠀ xo⠀ K⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ #upnorth #northernmichigan #puremichigan #weddingflowers #weddingplanning #flowers #floraldesign #petoskey #harborsprings #traversecity #leelanau #engaged #theknot #mackinacisland #goodvibesonly #vsco #walloonlake #charlevoix #bayharbor #bride #bridalbouquet #sweetwaterfloral
Home and the pack is back together. ♥️⠀ ⠀ These two besties. While we adore them, time away as the two ORIGINAL besties was so nice. ⠀ ⠀ Back to normal today. Work. Proposals. Laundry. (BTW this one load daily thing has changed my life.) ⠀ ⠀ And with a regular work day comes both of my coworkers and 9-5 foot warmers. 🥰 ⠀ ⠀ Coffee clinks ⠀ Xo⠀ K⠀ ⠀ PS - today is the last day to register for our floral workshop next week at The Talcott in Walloon Lake! More info in my story today. 🌹 ⠀ ⠀ PPS-look closely and they are both doing the sorta creepy Berner sleep “with one eye half open” thing. 😂⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ #upnorth #northernmichigan #puremichigan #weddingflowers #weddingplanning #flowers #floraldesign #petoskey #harborsprings #traversecity #leelanau #engaged #theknot #mackinacisland #goodvibesonly #vsco #walloonlake #charlevoix #bayharbor #bride #bridalbouquet #sweetwaterfloral⠀ ⠀
A friendly reminder as I post this from an airport:⠀ ⠀ They call it work for a reason. It will never be vacation.⠀ ⠀ No matter how incredible your job, how fulfilled you feel, how amazing the company is you built, how 'flexible' your schedule and amazing your ability to 'work from anywhere' is - its still work. ⠀ ⠀ Vacation is no alarms and mini sand dollar hunting and swimming in the pool and naps and no plan and too much food and long lazy walks and reading on porches. That's vacation for me in winter. ⠀ ⠀ In summer it’s 24 hrs in the UP with a Clyde’s drive in burger and one night at a campground. 🤷🏼‍♀️ We ebb and flow people. ⠀ ⠀ I'm leaving vacation today to head home to work. To the boopings. To the farm. To the real world. ⠀ ⠀ So book yourself a vacation. Don't tell yourself you don't need one because you designed 'work that doesn't feel like work' - thats a damn lie. I ADORE MY LIFE AND WORK AND JOB AND THIS BUSINESS - but it’s still work. ⠀ ⠀ We need vacation. I needed this one. You need the next one. ⠀ Tuesday clinks and telling you to just book the vacation.⠀ ⠀ xo⠀ K⠀ ⠀ ⠀ #upnorth #northernmichigan #puremichigan #weddingflowers #weddingplanning #flowers #floraldesign #petoskey #harborsprings #traversecity #leelanau #engaged #theknot #mackinacisland #goodvibesonly #vsco #walloonlake #charlevoix #bayharbor #bride #bridalbouquet #sweetwaterfloral⠀
I’m Kalin. My happy place is probably right here, a boat ride with my best friend and 🐶🐶. ⠀ ⠀ I’m overly confident, always on time & bad at math. ⠀ ⠀ I started this business because I loved flowers and wanted a creative outlet outside my day job. The flowers quieted my mind a bit. And I quickly realized no one is ever mad about flowers, like ever. ⠀ ⠀ Before I knew it this entire thing had turned into something crazy. We flower for a lot of weddings. There’s a team. I speak to groups now. I help women develop businesses that work. We have a small farm. There’s lots going on here. I also hair flip to industry drama or people’s petty bs and it’s been a dream. ⠀ ⠀ What you see is literally what you get. And I’m proud of that. ⠀ ⠀ Of course behind all these squares I’ve got messes and challenges and deadlines and all those things. ⠀ ⠀ But I also have the amazing job of creating for a living. And that is not something I take lightly. ⠀ ⠀ My hair is always tangly and my heart is always full. ⠀ ⠀ Happy #fridayintroductions ⠀ Coffee clinking ⠀ ⠀ Xo⠀ K ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ #upnorth #northernmichigan #puremichigan #weddingflowers #weddingplanning #flowers #floraldesign #petoskey #harborsprings #traversecity #leelanau #engaged #theknot #mackinacisland #goodvibesonly #vsco #walloonlake #charlevoix #bayharbor #bride #bridalbouquet #sweetwaterfloral⠀ ⠀
Randomly was looking for something on my phone the other day and found this photo I snapped on Halloween. ⠀ ⠀ I have absolutely no idea why I was in the “Lavender Lot” (our tiny parking lot by the barn) or why I snapped this. ⠀ ⠀ Probably flipping the tiny and walking back through here carrying a laundry basket and thought “the barn looks so beautiful right now.” ⠀ ⠀ The next day I would be rushed into surgery for a rupturing ectopic pregnancy. I’d wake up relieved and glad it was all over. ⠀ ⠀ That day would mark the beginning of a major process in healing myself. In resting. In a lot of therapy and intense personal work. In learning how little we are in control and how much we have to trust. ⠀ ⠀ And in truly learning, maybe for the first time ever, how intensely our anxiety and fear and “but what if” living can impact us. ⠀ ⠀ And although for reasons I’ll never know I had to learn the same really hard lesson multiple times. Perhaps what came from it was the ability to see the most simple beauty and appreciate the littlest things. ⠀ ⠀ Like a big old rusty barn on a stunningly beautiful fall morning. ⠀ ⠀ Take care of yourself friends. ⠀ Be gentle with yourself. ⠀ Drink lots of water and get lots of sleep. ⠀ I’m happy to report I’m doing really well. It feels good. 🥰⠀ ⠀ Happy Thursday babe ⠀ Xo⠀ ⠀ K ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ #upnorth #northernmichigan #puremichigan #weddingflowers #weddingplanning #flowers #floraldesign #petoskey #harborsprings #traversecity #leelanau #engaged #theknot #mackinacisland #goodvibesonly #vsco #walloonlake #charlevoix #bayharbor #bride #bridalbouquet #sweetwaterfloral⠀ ⠀
Last year, 50 women, many of whom I had never met, came to the farm and spent the day relaxing and hanging out and taking creative workshops and just for one day not answering to anyone but themselves. ⠀ ⠀ We called it Camp Sweetwater. ⠀ ⠀ And I am SO excited to announce to you this morning that tickets for this summer's event are now on sale. ⠀ ⠀ Who is camp perfect for? What the hell do we do all day? What if you don't live up north? Are there gonna be snacks? Can you meet Matt & the dogs? (the amount of emails I get about that last question....)⠀ ⠀ ALL the info / answers and vibes are at the link in my profile. ⠀ There's 50 seats. And I want you there. ⠀ ⠀ I want you there if you get up every day and do things for OTHER PEOPLE. You get breakfast made, and get the animals sorted and manage the house and keep your partner going and show up to work at a job that isn't exactly filling you up - when is the last time you grabbed your best friend, and went on an adventure just you two? ⠀ ⠀ Or even better and major snaps - you went on a solo adventure? ⠀ ⠀ Last year we had 20-somethings and 70-somethings. We had women who were single, married, divorced, widowed, childless, raising all the babies.⠀ ⠀ There are only 3 requirements to join me at the farm on this day: you must enjoy beautiful places that have really good vibes, you must be ready to disconnect and explore some creative outlets for the day & you cannot be an asshat. ⠀ ⠀ Ready to join me?⠀ Snag your spot today. ⠀ ⠀ Happy Wednesday babe⠀ See ya at camp. Tag whoever should join you in the comments! ⠀ ⠀ clinks⠀ xo⠀ K⠀ ⠀ PS- did you come to camp last year? NO FRET- 3 absolutely brand new workshops, new offerings, same good vibes & yes you'll get a new tshirt and be recognized as a 'second year camper' (I can't resist) ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ #upnorth #northernmichigan #puremichigan #weddingflowers #weddingplanning #flowers #floraldesign #petoskey #harborsprings #traversecity #leelanau #engaged #theknot #mackinacisland #goodvibesonly #vsco #walloonlake #charlevoix #bayharbor #bride #bridalbouquet #sweetwaterfloral
This is how my brain works: last night I thought about what I’m putting in these porch pots this summer. ⠀ ⠀ In February. Watching the Super Bowl. I thought about these pots this year. ⠀ ⠀ And the landscaping projects. And rearranging all the fencing. And the studio move. ⠀ ⠀ But I’m not ready just yet. The tiny calendar if filling up and I’m so excited to flower for all of you and we have something V exciting available for our Walloon friends this summer - but I’m still not ready. ⠀ ⠀ I like reading. And resting. And spending tons of time with Matt. And planning a bathroom reno and being slow. ⠀ ⠀ So happy Monday. Summer dreaming but winter living. And it’s nice. ⠀ ⠀ Clinks ⠀ Xo⠀ K ⠀ ⠀ image: @mmivphoto ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ #upnorth #northernmichigan #puremichigan #weddingflowers #weddingplanning #flowers #floraldesign #petoskey #harborsprings #traversecity #leelanau #engaged #theknot #mackinacisland #goodvibesonly #vsco #walloonlake #charlevoix #bayharbor #bride #bridalbouquet #sweetwaterfloral #tinyhouse⠀ ⠀