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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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We are filling up our fall calendar now, hard to believe those perfect days of September and October will be here before we know it and filled with beautiful blooms on such a special day. ⠀ ⠀ One thing I hear often from couples is that since its fall they feel they have to change their colors or vibe. ⠀ ⠀ Just because the pumpkins are ready and the cider is delicious does not mean you need a cider mill vibe on your wedding day. ⠀ ⠀ Yes you can still do white & cream & green. Yes you can still have the brightest boldest colors you imagine. Yes you can still serve a summer inspired cocktail menu. Yes you can still jump in the lake with your wedding dress on. ⠀ ⠀ September and October are the magic months here. In fact, any couple who realizes this and books during this time I always tip my hat to. It's like they know that the weather is perfect, the water is so warm, the crowds have dwindled (a teeny tiny bit) and its the perfect time to say 'i do'⠀ ⠀ Happy Monday lovers⠀ 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
It's so different now. We go to bed early and the wine glasses sit next to stacked boxes of outgrown baby clothes - and instead of blaring music on someones phone there's just a video monitor of a sleeping baby. ⠀ ⠀ And we eat vegetables. We talk about our health. We talk about relationships and work and promotions and sales goals and taxes. ⠀ ⠀ But we laugh so hard. So hard my sides hurt. We cry too. Talking about being there for one another during really hard stuff and everyone is misty eyed and smiling at one another. ⠀ ⠀ When any grouping of us are together its good. It feels right. It feels like I cant believe we were just teenagers running around a big city acting like we knew what we were doing. ⠀ ⠀ And there's new people in this group. New littles and new spouses and they sorta just fit right in. It's like they've always been there. ⠀ ⠀ We refill our glasses and drink a lot more water now and we say goodnight at 9pm and spend a crazy amount of time talking about true crime podcasts & mattresses from Costco & laughing our asses off about how dumb we were back then and how much fun it was. ⠀ ⠀ It's so different now. But really its all still exactly the same. ⠀ ⠀ Coffee clinks to friendship today.⠀ xo⠀ K⠀ ⠀ ⠀ #Upnorth #northernmichigan #puremichigan #weddingflowers #weddingplanning #flowers #floraldesign #petoskey #harborsprings #traversecity #leelanau #engaged #theknot #mackinacisland #goodvibesonly #vsco #walloonlake #charlevoix #bayharbor #bride #bridalbouquet #sweetwaterfloral
Your business is yours. It doesn’t belong to anyone else. Unless you owe a ton of people lots of money — then that last point is up for debate. ⠀ ⠀ It won’t grow as fast as you think it will and it won’t be easy. But it will be worth it. ⠀ ⠀ And people are gonna be two faced and and copy your words and you’re gonna laugh at it and keep going. ⠀ ⠀ And people are gonna be cheaper than you. And you’ll realize they don’t value the art and the product and they are ruining it for themselves and you’ll move along. ⠀ ⠀ It isn’t going to be glamorous. The moment you picture yourself sipping champagne having finished your biggest project ever looks more like eating chicken nuggets at a kids birthday party you squeezed in between install & teardown and no one there gives a rats ass you just pulled it off. ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ And it’s gonna change. It’s going to ebb and flow like anything that’s beautiful and hard and worth it. It’s ok that it changes. ⠀ ⠀ But this business is yours. Don’t forget how amazing and special that is. No matter how tough some days can be. ⠀ ⠀ Clinks⠀ Xo⠀ ⠀ K⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ #Upnorth #northernmichigan #puremichigan #weddingflowers #weddingplanning #flowers #floraldesign #petoskey #harborsprings #traversecity #leelanau #engaged #theknot #mackinacisland #goodvibesonly #vsco #walloonlake #charlevoix #bayharbor #bride #bridalbouquet #sweetwaterfloral ⠀
Each year during the winter I sorta forget how amazing this place is. ⠀ ⠀ Don't get this wrong- winter is amazing because— netflix, carbs, quiet & so much quality time just us -- but as I glanced off the porch yesterday I can see grass. ⠀ ⠀ Not tons. Don't get too excited. But in the spots where the sun trickles through the giant pine and cedar trees - the ground is revealing itself. ⠀ ⠀ With the snow melt also comes this hysterical part where I forgot about all the crap laying around underneath it. Our Christmas Tree, misc. flower buckets, random chair by the bonfire pit, a forgotten planter - they all emerge ever so slowly like relics from a forgotten world under the sea. ⠀ ⠀ I actually said this sentence this weekend "hey the porch step" the snow so deep all winter the dogs just walked on a flat surface all the way back in the house- now they are required to again walk up two stairs to get to the door. ⠀ ⠀ Ever so slowly the seasons are changing. And yeah- it'll snow again. But keep your eyes peeled because whats buried underneath it at this tiny farm is a really really special little place on this planet. ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ Clinks⠀ K⠀ ⠀ ⠀ #Upnorth #northernmichigan #puremichigan #weddingflowers #weddingplanning #flowers #floraldesign #petoskey #harborsprings #traversecity #leelanau #engaged #theknot #mackinacisland #goodvibesonly #vsco #walloonlake #charlevoix #bayharbor #bride #bridalbouquet #sweetwaterfloral
Last night I cooked dinner and Anna & I sat in the conversation pit for hours and laughed our asses off about a million things. ⠀ ⠀ It was so so good. ⠀ ⠀ A reminder that you need your friends and they need you and even when you're pulled apart by silly things like working and making a living you'll pick up right where you left off. Women need women y'all. ⠀ ⠀ Also Happy Saturday - here's a pic of flowers. ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ Coffee clinks ⠀ xo⠀ K⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ #Upnorth #northernmichigan #puremichigan #weddingflowers #weddingplanning #flowers #floraldesign #petoskey #harborsprings #traversecity #leelanau #engaged #theknot #mackinacisland #goodvibesonly #vsco #walloonlake #charlevoix #bayharbor #bride #bridalbouquet #sweetwaterfloral
Things I am incredibly good at: eating popcorn, designing beautiful flowers, meeting deadlines, using sunscreen, napping on the couch, typing the proper way & handstands in a pool. ⠀ ⠀ Things I am incredibly bad at: keeping my desk clean, checking voicemails, making my chocolate bar last all week like I say its going to, remembering my reusable grocery bags & keeping the studio tidy in the off season. ⠀ ⠀ I'm Kalin. I'm anxiously waiting on spring, obsessed with your wedding flowers, in love with Walloon Lake, craving pizza as you read this, weirdly getting into Formula One racing & work harder than most people you know. ⠀ ⠀ clinks babe⠀happy #fridayintroductions 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 know you are obsessively thinking about the weather on your wedding day. I know this, because I was the same way. I feel like every couple in the history of mankind has thought about it. ⠀ ⠀ It's gonna be fine. ⠀ ⠀ Honey lamb, I have installed arbors in 40mph crosswinds (yeah theres a line in contract now about that), I have built entrance installs in pouring buckets downpours, we've styled tables under tents that are actual hot enough to be a tomato greenhouse, and I've dropped off altar statement urns for an outdoor ceremony in October in 6 inches of snow. ⠀ ⠀ But you know what they say in Michigan, if you don't like the weather- wait 5 minutes and it'll change. ⠀ ⠀ But you know what all those couples would say right now? It doesn't matter. Their day was amazing. Their day was perfect. Because they got to marry their person. ⠀ ⠀ So yeah, you've got sweat in places you didn't know you could sweat in that bridal gown, and um ok - the groomsmen actually need to change their dress shirts because between the rain and whiskey and whatever the hell they did for 4 hours - everything is dirty. ⠀ ⠀ It doesn't matter. ⠀ The weather on your day is gonna be the weather. You have zero control over it. So enjoy the ride, and stop checking the 'long range forecast' and installing alerts on your phone for the weather that day and don't ask the medium you went and saw if she knows what the weather will be on your day. ⠀ ⠀ Relax. You're getting married. :) ⠀ ⠀ clinks ⠀ xo⠀ K ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ #Upnorth #northernmichigan #puremichigan #weddingflowers #weddingplanning #flowers #floraldesign #petoskey #harborsprings #traversecity #leelanau #engaged #theknot #mackinacisland #goodvibesonly #vsco #walloonlake #charlevoix #bayharbor #bride #bridalbouquet #sweetwaterfloral
We have opposite busy seasons. ⠀ ⠀ So during the school year I can be found taking tickets at games, and working concessions (questionable since I almost burnt the one down this fall - long story) and baking cookies for teams and packing him a lunch because if I don't he'll eat yoga mat bread at Subway. (stay woke and look it up) I keep the dogs alive and our house livable and make plans and organize the projects. ⠀ ⠀ And then summer hits and he's making breakfast and schlepping buckets of flowers and climbing ladders at installs and keeping the dogs alive and making dinner and waking me up from my 20 minute couch naps ever so sweetly. He's fixing every broken thing at this damn son-of-a-I love this farm! He flips the tiny and I hear the tractor pulling something out of the ground that needed to go and the mower is always on and our life hums along to a different season. ⠀ ⠀ It won't be this way forever. I know this. Our life, just like yours, will change and fall into a new routine and rhythm. But right now, even though its absolute madness- I really like it. ⠀ ⠀ Do I wish his cell phone went off until 11pm most nights? No. Does he wish we only ever talked about the business when we went out for meals 6 months of the year- no. ⠀ ⠀ So you know what we do? We freaking communicate. I say "can you please put the phone on vibrate" and he says "can we please not talk about business at dinner tonight." ⠀ ⠀ Use your words for the best partnership around babes. ⠀ Also - marry your best friend and don't ever let them become just your roommate.⠀ ⠀ I love ya honey.⠀ XO⠀ K⠀ ⠀ ⠀ image: @rusticrefresh ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ #Upnorth #northernmichigan #puremichigan #weddingflowers #weddingplanning #flowers #floraldesign #petoskey #harborsprings #traversecity #leelanau #engaged #theknot #mackinacisland #goodvibesonly #vsco #walloonlake #charlevoix #bayharbor #bride #bridalbouquet #sweetwaterfloral