Half Moon Flowers

Lynn was a pleasure to work with. She made sure every detail was to my specification and my vision came through for my event. She was mindful of my budget every step of the way. She had a lot of specific knowledge of my location and had worked my hotel in Half Moon Bay before.

Five stars for Lynn at Half Moon Flowers. My husband and I recently got married at Mavericks in Half Moon Bay and wanted to go with a local floral vendor. From our first meeting with Lynn, she really understood our vision — and more importantly our small budget. We made a number of changes during our planning due to our budget, but Lynn executed with exactly what we wanted. She remained flexible even with last minute changes. Our guests still talk about how amazing our arch was. Thanks so much Lynn for everything!

Lynn did a wonderful job with the flowers for my wedding. Everything was exactly what we imagined. She is very nice, responsive, and knowledgeable. Most importantly, she would like to work for us within our budget. I highly recommend Lynn to everyone if you don’t want to burn too much money but want the best looking flowers for your wedding!

Lynn did a great job with my bouquet, bridesmaids and boutonnière a for the bridal party! Everything was so elegant, the perfect size, colors and type of flowers. Lynn was always available to answer all my questions and is so easy to work with. She is very talented.

Lynn at Half Moon Flowers created the floral arrangements for my wedding this past weekend at the Oceano Hotel. They were, to say the least, AMAZING!
My bridal bouquet, bridesmaid’s bouquets, and floral archway piece were just beautiful. The boutonnieres that Lynn created were unique as well. Our centerpieces were also exactly how I had envisioned – and actually a bit improved from sample Lynn provided us a few months before our big day. To top it off, the flowers she provided for the cake table made our cake look so elegant. It was definitely one of the highlights of the reception room.
Working with Lynn was relatively easy. I e-​mailed her a bunch of photos for inspiration, and she incorporated all of my ideas into the arrangements. I told her what kind of flowers I liked and what kind of flowers I didn’t like. I told Lynn a few weeks before the wedding that I suddenly didn’t like the «flat» look of gerbera daisies, and she made sure she didn’t incorporate gerberas in our final arrangements.
Since my wedding was at the Oceano, it was also incredibly convenient to have Half Moon Flowers as my florist (they’re located in the small shopping plaza attached to the Oceano).
With any florist it’s tough to envision what the final product will look like — you might have photos for inspiration, but it’s the florist that will take those photos, combine them with your comments and preferences, and create something beautiful for you. Lynn really exceeded my expectations. We received loads of compliments on our flowers from our guests!

What a wonderful place this is! I had originally ordered my daughters prom corsage from Safeway (BIG mistake) as it was not wearable. I called Half Moon Flowers three hours before she was to leave for prom and explained my crisis. The owner whipped one up for me in 30 minutes and saved the night for my daughter. I can’t begin to explain how thankful I am for her care and service. Thank you again! I know where I’m going for beautiful flowers from now on!

Leila totally gets it. She is professional through and through. She is extremely easy to work with, flexible, incorporates your wishes, and executes beautiful arrangements. All you need to do is tell her your colors and the flowers your like, and she does the rest. She even decorated our cake too and it was beautiful. It’s been 10 days since my wedding and the flowers still look fresh.

Leila Simms, the owner of Half Moon Flowers is an amazing florist and wonderful person. She made our bouquets for our wedding and they were even better than we envisioned. Leila treated us like family and went above and beyond for our wedding, From the other Unilocal reviews I am reading this is just a part of who she is and great costumer service. If you want a talented florist who will give you a fair price, listen to your needs and make your dream wedding come true… come talk to Leila.

Half Moon Flowers did a great job creating bouquets, corsages, boutonnieres, and flower arrangements for our wedding, which was held at the neighboring Oceano Hotel, in April.
Leila Simms, the owner, was very friendly and wonderful to work with and struck a great balance of offering sage advice on and a tone of warmth and openness to my and my mother’s ideas. She helped us select the best flowers for the season that also matched my slightly non-​traditional approach. My bouquet was primarily made of peonies and roses, and my bridesmaids had smaller versions of the same. Our boutonnieres had tea roses and sweet peas. All the flowers were of amazing quality and held up for over 2 weeks after the wedding. I’ve been to many other weddings where the flowers were wilting the next day.
Leila was also generous with her time and materials; she made a few extra arrangements the morning of the wedding at my mother’s request, and even provided ribbons to decorate our chairs at the reception at no cost.
Compared to other florists we met with, Leila was much friendlier and much more reasonably priced. Other florists expected me to have an exact vision of the flowers I wanted and offered no creative advice, which was very off-​putting considering their prices. Leila was considerate, generous and put us at ease. Best of all, her flowers turned out gorgeous.

My wedding flowers were absolutely gorgeous! She is very talented and easy to work with. I gave her very few guidelines and let her use her creative magic and it turned out great.

Leila at Half Moon Flowers is simply an incredible florist! She served as our florist for my wedding in April 2014 and my wife could not have been happier with the arrangements. My wife literally said that all of the flowers were perfect! Leila is a true pleasure to work with, makes the process fun and most importantly, she is super talented!

I worked with Leila for my wedding this past weekend and it was stunning! I basically have no clue when It comes to flowers so I just told her here is what I like, here’s what I don’t like, here are my colors. Leila took what little I gave her and turned my wedding into a beautiful dream land! I was stunned. At the end of the night I told my now husband «you know I’m not really one for caring about flowers but I wish there was a spell I could put on my bouquet. I never want it to die. I never want to let it go!» :)

Leila and Half Moon Flowers really helped make our wedding very special.
We met Leila about 6 months before the wedding to discuss what we wanted. After the visit Leila followed up with a written contract on what we had agreed to. I felt confident that everything with respect to flowers was well taken care of and it was.
My wife met Leila in the city to visit the flower market in the days leading up to the wedding and she had a great time. This type of personal service really makes the difference. We were completely at ease and were really looking forward to the flowers on the day.
When the big day arrived it was great to see Leila again. We were all blown away with the arrangements. We had changed quite a few details leading up the the wedding (circular banquet tables became long tables for instance) and Leila just took it all in her stride. Even on the day we «surprised» her with a different seating arrangement for the ceremony but she just laughed and made the flowers work with the new seating.
Leila incorporated everything we wanted (and we had some weird ideas) but she also added some little surprises herself… we had wine barrels at the ceremony location and she made little arrangements with grapes in them to go on the barrels. It would have been so easy to just do flowers, but these little bits of thought really separates the good from the great.
The other cool thing was that the bouquets were different from the flowers on the chairs, which were different from the buttons, which were different from the arrangements on the barrels, which were different from the table arrangements. Despite them being different and unique in their own way, there was a theme throughout them all that made them all gel with each other.
Our goal was to have unique, non-​cookie cutter flowers at our wedding, with some things we really wanted in them (thistles) and some creativity thrown in.
We got this is bucket loads with Leila and Half Moon Flowers !

I worked with Leila to do the flowers for my wedding. It was a destination wedding and so everything was done remotely, mainly via email but the flowers came out absolutely gorgeous. I really wanted to use succulents and have kind of a garden, not so formal bouquets and she made that happen. I had hoped to incorporate coral peonies but they were out of season so she ensured me she would find a substitute which ended up being coral roses and although the rose is a more traditional flower than I would have asked for, it worked really well in the bouquets.
The one bump in the road was the day of the wedding when the flowers got delivered and there was no hair piece for me. The deliverers called Leila who said she had no record of it but that she would quickly put something together for me. I had wanted a succulent for my hair — and she mentioned she used them all in my bouquets. She must have managed to dig up some tiny ones, because an hour and a half later that is what they came back with. They were more green than the blue-​ish ones from my bouquets which I preferred but in the end it worked out, and I appreciated her working to immediately correct the situation.
I would recommend Half Moon Flowers.

We had my daughter’s wedding at the Maverick Event Center and Leila did the flowers. The flowers were exquisite. Her bouquet was gardenias and roses and absolutely gorgeous. The bridesmaids flowers were outstanding. Leila made a beautiful entry way arrangement of white gladiolas, white hydrangeas and white orchids. The arrangement was outstanding. She also decorated our tables with candles and orchids submerged in water in tall vases. This was absolutely beautiful. Leila also decorated the archway with a gorgeous floral arrangement that hung beautifully. She got married under this beautiful arrangement. The flowers were very fresh and high quality. She made our daughter’s wedding day exquisite. Leila is a true artist and perfectionist. She was absolutely a delight to work with.

Leila is amazing! She has access to the best flowers and it shows. She artfully puts together arraignment and is so easy to work with! She worked with my budget so easily in simple terms that got me what I wanted for what I wanted to spend.
When I stopped by the day before our party to check in she was so happy to see me and showed me all my flowers– it was really fun!

We just had our wedding at the Oceano Hotel, right next door to Half Moon Flowers, this past Friday. I will post more pics when the photographer gets the professional ones to us. I just couldn’t wait to leave a review!
I had dragged my fiancé to 5 other florist to start and none compared to Leila. Leila is the fairy godmother of brides! She worked with in our set budget, listened to all my ideas, and made our wedding look like we had spent 10x the amount we did. The thing I remember her saying the most is «Anything you want, you can have»… and she made it happen!
You’d be crazy not to go with Leila for your wedding! Most the other places we checked out were too cookie cutter. All their ideas where the basically the same boring ideas I’d seen many times before. Thank you Leila for making such a big part of our wedding day go so beautifully and for not making me feel crazy wanting 4 colors, butterflies, and some rainbow roses!