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Independence Day!

How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!  ~Maya Angelou
We are indeed grateful to all those who have sacrificed to make us free.  We celebrate and recognize their great love and achievements.  Happy Independence day!

 

Beloved Sailor

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Honoring the lives of those we love!

When I first decided to have this made, I was uncertain how it would turn out and how it would make me feel.  The end result was so far beyond my expectations.  Suspended captured the essence of my mom, and displayed her memorabilia and flowers in such an endearing and heartwarming way that it lifts my spirits every time I see it!  They absolutely captured who my mom was in the arrangement.

~ Angela Fenton ~

Beloved Mother

Beloved Mother

Salt Lake City Suspended In Time® Fan

Hello! I just wanted to let you know what great service your Salt Lake City Dealer Shelly Payne gave to me and my husband. We wanted to give a special gift to my newly married brother-in-law and his wife, and Shelly helped us to decide on arrangements that fit our needs as well as our budget. The arrangements are Beautiful! Shelly was so sweet and helpful.Thank you for providing my husband and I with a special and unique  gift for the newlyweds in our family and for hiring such wonderful dealers!

~Kathryn

Shelly Payne - SLC, Utah dealer

Shelly Payne - SLC, Utah dealer

Benefits of Flowers

Think about the last time you saw flowers.  Did you have an increase of energy or a burst of joy within your heart?  When it comes to getting smiles on faces and having people relax from the stress of life, it’s hard to beat flowers. Flowers (both the sight of them and the extracts taken) have been shown to:

  • Improve sleep (Lavender)
  • Decrease anxiety (Lavender)
  • Decrease depression (Rose)
  • Increase energy (the sight of almost any flower)
  • Decrease cholesterol (Hibiscus)
  • Lower blood pressure (Hawthorn)
  • Improve resistance to colds (Echinacea)

Do you need a burst of energy?  Go smell a rose today!

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Dried flowers as bright as the day they were picked!

Bridesmaid Gifts

Did you remember the bridesmaid gifts?   Here is a unique and lasting way to express your feelings of gratitude to family and close friends who have participated in those special moments of your life.  It is a lovely way to capture the sweet memory of a loved one who has passed away, or memories of a precious time that you would like to keep.  The Suspended In Time® ornaments are a wonderful keepsake at a very affordable price.  Ask a dealer near you about ornaments today!  Check out our recently created ornament below.

Heart ornament with red rose

Heart ornament with red rose

Testimonial

This is my 3rd floral arrangement I’ve had done & I’ve been very impressed each time.  You do great work!  ~Jamie Carson~

Flowers on her wedding day!

Flowers on her wedding day!

Dried bouquet

Dried bouquet

Wedding Quiz Answers

Here are the answers to the Wedding Quiz!  See if your guesses were right.

1.  Approximately how many weddings were performed in the US in 2009? 2,272,624

2.  What was the estimated cost of a wedding in the US in 2009?  $30,860

3.  What is the average engagement time of a couple in the US?  17 months

4.  What is the average number of guest at a wedding in the US?  169

5.  What is the average age of a Bride in the US?  26

6.  What is the average age of a Groom in the US?  28

7.  What is the cost of the average engagement ring in the US?  $4,411

8.  What is the average money amount of gifts received at a wedding in the US?  $5,780

9.  What is the average amount of money spent on flowers for the wedding in the US?  $1,970

Fun Wedding Quiz

Let’s do a fun wedding quiz.

If you know the answers to these questions or have a guess post your comment below.  Remember to number your answers so we know which question you are answering.  I will post the answers on Feb. 24, so don’t delay because you only have one week!

1.  Approximately how many weddings were performed in the US in 2009?

2.  What was the estimated cost of a wedding in the US in 2009?

3.  What is the average engagement time of a couple in the US?

4.  What is the average number of guest at a wedding in the US?

5.  What is the average age of a Bride in the US?

6.  What is the average age of a Groom in the US?

7.  What is the cost of the average engagement ring in the US?

8.  What is the average money amount of gifts received at a wedding in the US?

9.  What is the average amount of money spent on flowers for the wedding in the US?

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Testimonial

This bride did not have the original flowers from here wedding.  So, we re-created the bouquet to look just like her flowers did on her wedding day!

“Thank you for re-inventing my daughter’s wedding bouquet.  You did an amazing job at making it just like her wedding day!  (Even if it was a year later)  Thanks for being so quick and helpful to us.”    ~Karen Cook   2/2/10~

The bouquet on her wedding day!

The bouquet on her wedding day!

The re-created dries wedding bouquet

The re-created dried wedding bouquet

Testimonial

We lost a son who was hit by lightening nearly three years ago.  My husband had a difficult time letting go of the flowers from the funeral.  I brought the flowers along with a picture of our son to Suspended In Time to restore and encase in a frame.  It turned out absolutely beautiful.  I would highly recommend them!  ~Anneta Conder

Funeral flowers dried at home

Funeral flowers dried at home

Dried flowers refurbished and encased with a photo

Dried flowers refurbished and encased with a photo

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After the stillbirth of our little grandson Lucas, our daughter wanted to hold every memory of that time.  Suspended In Time beautifully saved for us his casket spray in a way that we can display it.  Thank you Suspended In Time for your part in helping us save this beautiful memory.  ~Charlotte Mann

The beaautiful casket spray

The beaautiful casket spray

Preserved casket flowers

Preserved casket flowers

Flowers preserved, sealed and encased

Flowers preserved, sealed and encased

Northampton House

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Suspended In Time R works closely with the Northampton Reception Center.  Because we know them and have worked with them we want to recommend them and highlight them this month in our blog…

The Northampton House is a full service reception center that is located in American Fork, Utah.  They specialize in offering magnificent catering, beautiful custom floral arrangements, and wedding cakes that taste as good as they look.  All of their services are provided on site at their beautiful facility.  Their building was built in 1903 and is still present on the National Historic Registry.  They boast of two beautifully decorated rooms.  The Somerset room is based on a Victorian theme, with a grand staircase, custom stained glass windows, and intricate custom woodwork.  Their Courtyard room resembles a tranquil garden tucked in the hills of Tuscany, with hanging trellises, hundreds of twinkle lights, light colored architecture, a gorgeous grand staircase, and private garden, perfect for those warm summer evenings.

They offer personal consultants to help you plan every aspect of your day, and help make it perfect, from the centerpieces, to the background music, the table linens, to the menu, right down to the icing on the cake.  They strive to make every event perfect and stress free, so when you think back to that special day, you can think Northampton House, “The Best Day of My Life.”

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Suspended In Time, Inc. restores old flowers!

Suspended In Time, Inc. can restore your old flowers!  This is an example of one that was just completed.  The first picture is the original bouquet.  The second picture is what our customer brought into us.  She had hung her bridal bouquet upside down to dry and then put it in a hope chest for about six years.  Her husband brought it to us to see if there was anything we could do to restore it.  He wanted to give it to her for their seventh wedding anniversary!  The last picture is the restored version of the bridal bouquet that Suspended In Time, Inc. refurbished for them.  It is all the original flowers.  So if you have old flowers you would like restored, please give us a call!  801-607-2127

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Get to know the Suspended In Time, Inc. employees

MaryLeeMaryLee has worked for Suspended In Time ever since before it began!  In the Spring of 1996 she had just finished her 28th treatment of radiation for breast cancer, it was her birthday and her sweet husband  brought her a beautiful bouquet of porcelain peach roses.  She was very pleased.  She hardly ever bought flowers because they died so quickly.  After dealing with life and death realities for such a long time, she wanted those flowers to LIVE!!  She started experimenting with the flowers themselves.  She wanted to always keep them and feel of the love that had come with them.  Now, after nearly fifteen years we have a full blown business named Suspended In Time, Inc.
MaryLee is the owner of Suspended In Time, Inc. and what she most likes about working at Suspended In Time, Inc. is the fact that our method of drying is so exceptional.  The flowers are dry in three to five days, the flowers do not have time to deteriorate!  When preserved, the flowers look as if they are still standing in water!  She also loves seeing the happy faces and joy when customers pick up their many special occasion flowers.  She also feels happy when we have fully trained individuals on how to do this business opportunity in their own homes or store fronts!  (At the price of an old used car, with four flat tires and all the windows knocked out)
Her favorite flowers are without question roses, daffodils, and lilies.  They all preserve beautifully with this method.  She even loves strange flowers she finds and dries from total strangers front yards, with their permission of course!  In the little free time she does have she loves being with her sweetheart and tending her sweet grandchildren.  She would also like to mention that coming to work is a sincere joy!  The people we work with are so good in their labors and have kind thoughtful personalities.  We also have several pleasant and fun loving Dealer’s across the United States that makes coming to work not even seem like work.

RachelleRachelle- Rachelle has worked at Suspended In Time, Inc. since it started in 1997.  She helped her mom set the business up.  Rachelle is the manager/owner and works with the contracts, bills and anything else that needs attention.  Most of all she loves the flexibility of working at Suspended In Time, Inc.  “It has fit into my family life, so that when kids are sick or have programs or things that I can still be available”, she says.  She also loves seeing the finished encasements and how happy these make customers.  Rachelle’s favorite flowers are tulips in any color.  In her free time she loves to read and scrapbook.  But most of all she loves spending time with her family.

ShelleyShelley- has worked at Suspended In Time, Inc. for seven years this coming April.  She is the training coordinator.  She trains new dealers to understand and apply the concepts of our method of floral preservation, marketing our product, and setting up in home businesses. What she most enjoys about working at Suspended In Time, Inc. is teaching, writing the newsletter, and having the opportunity to exercise our creativity with this medium.  She loves working with our staff at Suspended In Time, Inc.”Everyone is so accommodating and pleasant.  Each person has their domain and is very accomplished and helpful.  The dealers who have trained here have been fun to work with even after they are back home and call us for support once in a while.  It is great working here at Suspended In Time, Inc.”   Shelley’s favorite flower is alstormerias.  Her favorite thing to do in her free time is to actually have free time!  She loves reading and watching movies (you know, chick flicks)  Probably the thing she most enjoys besides her son, is family history.

Tiffiny and LidiaTiffiny- has worked at Suspended In Time, Inc. for a little over two years.  She works as the warehouse receiving and shipping specialist.  She most enjoys working at Suspended In Time, Inc. because of the variety of jobs that she does.  Sometimes she is on the computer answering e-mails and invoicing orders, and other times she is inspecting frames, shadowboxes, and table domes for quality.  She can be found packing the dried flower encasement materials for shipping.  Sometimes she creates the ads for our business.  She also loves the people that she is able to work with.  They are all so kind and fun to be with.  Tiffiny also likes that she can bring her daughter to work with her.  She can be a mother and help provide for her family!  It’s perfect!  Spending time with her husband and daughter are what she most enjoys doing in her free time.  She also loves watercolor painting and watching movies.  Tiffiny’s favorite flower is all flowers, especially the bright colored ones!

IreneIrene- has worked at Suspended In Time, Inc. for two and a half years.  Irene works at home as our information services specialist.  She loves the people that she works with and the flexibility of working from home.  “I can get up and walk and take a break and then go back to work”, she says.  Irene’s favorite flowers are Tiger Lily’s, but she likes the fun bloom and butterfly bush flowers too.  In her free time she enjoys a good book and working on scrapbook stuff.  She loves being out in her yard, it’s good therapy for me she said.  She enjoys the mountains even though she can’t hike anymore.  She also enjoys doing community service as much as possible.  Irene is also a ham radio operator for BYU.

JamieJamie- has worked at Suspended In Time, Inc. for one year.  She is the technical assistant, and does a little bit of everything.  Her favorite thing about working at Suspended In Time, Inc.  are the people!  She has made great friends working here.  She also loves the hours she works.  She loves working with the flowers.  “It’s a great feeling when a customer has a huge smile on their face when they see their encasement for the first time.”  It is very rewarding.  Jamie’s favorite flower is the Sunflower, or Gerber daisies.  She loves to spend time with her family and they love to travel.  She also likes to read and have a craft or project of some sort to do.

Testimonials

Mary Lee,

Thank you for completing the dried flower encasement’s for our new building.  They are so spectacular–much fresher looking than I expected.  They lend the perfect accent to each area and tie perfectly with the decor.  I am very happy with your product and services.

Please feel free to use my name as a satisfied customer who will continue to use and recommend your services.  I will certainly suggest you to all of our clients we work with here at the reception center.

Warmest Regards,

John Hawker
Northampton House

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I have enjoyed my encasemnt so much, and it is a daily reminder of my heart felt feelings towards my Grandma.  I miss her dearly, but seeing her smiling face with mine, brings so much joy to me everytime I see it.  My encasement has so much meaning, and was put together just as I requested.  They are made with care, and you can feel that Suspended In Time employees truly care about what they are doing.  I was able to pick out some things to add in my encasement taht reminded me of my Grandma, and they each mean a lot to me.  My Grandma was a huge Garfield fan.  She had hundreds of things in her house to fill every nook and cranny with Him.  I decided to add a Garfield to my encasement because she loved Him.  My Grandma loved roses, so grabbing some flowers from her funeral was a priority to me.  My Grandma and I are best friends, and the photo I chose just added spunk to the encasement, and showed our love and good times we share.  One thing that stuck out to me when making my decision to have Suspended In Time make my encasement was how much they cared about my situation when I called them after hours.  I was not sure what to do with my flowers and how to keep them safe over night until they were open the next day.  I was very important to them, and was given detailed insturctions on how to keep my flowers looking great for the time being.

I will return to Suspended In Time, and will recommend them to anybody!  They do great work!

Sincerely,
Amber

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Shelley did a gorgeous job of putting my daughter’s bridal bouquet “back together” in an encasement.  She spent time explaining how she would be doing it and showing me the different options.  I love it, but most important, so does my daughter!

Susan

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Suspended In Time does a superb job preserving flowers.  I recently had a memory box made with the wedding invitation and a few flowers from the bridal bouquet.  It turned out beautifully.  My grandughter was extrememly pleased.  I would like to have one done in memory of my Mother someday.  The staff was extremely helpful and pleasant to work with.

Sincerely,
Bevalyn

Wedding Flowers

Here are some example of preserved wedding bouquets that Suspended In Time, Inc. has done.

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This is a picture of exactly how the customer brought in their fresh flowers to be preserved.

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This is the finished encasement that the customer picked up. A lot of brides like the keep the handle on their bouquet.

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This is another picture of the fresh flowers that the customer brought in to have preserved.

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This is the finished encasement that the customer picked up. Many brides put in something special from their wedding. This bride put in red sand from Moab, which is something special to her and her husband.

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The following pictures are different types of finished bridal encasements!

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Come in and see for yourself what memories Suspended In Time, Inc. can preserve for you! We are located at: 122 South Mountain Way Drive Orem, Utah 84058 (801) 227-0075 We also have dealers located all across the country, to find a dealer near you please go to: https://www.suspendedintime.com/flower_preservation_dealers.php