Kim Delgado is the Owner and Creative Director of Mary Stuart Flowers, a wedding floral design company committed to telling a couple’s story through the unmatched beauty of local, seasonal flowers and foliage. Her passion for seasonal flowers was born and nurtured during the summers spent with her grandmother on Cape Cod, watching her design award-winning arrangements for the Boston Flower Show with flowers from her own garden. Kim notes that while her grandmother’s style has certainly informed her own, the art and mechanics of floristry continue to change since she began watching her create in the 1980’s. One of the mainstays of the Mary Stuart Flowers ethos is that Kim’s designs are made sustainably by implementing reusable mechanics such as chicken wire, flower frogs and water tubes. She never uses floral foam or altered (bleached, dyed) materials as these cannot be composted and returned to the land from which they grew.

Kim’s most strongly-held belief and the one that most clearly guides her floral design is that the flowers used to tell her couples’ story should be of the time and place in which the wedding is set. To that end, she has developed a strong relationship and great kinship with the farmer-florists of the Connecticut Flower Collective who provide incredible seasonal flowers during the growing season and who’s passion for growing beautiful things is bursting from every petal. She truly believes that using these local flowers in her designs infuses them with all the energy and love it took to grow them.

“When I launched Mary Stuart Flowers I knew that I wanted to design for weddings because the people who come together on these occasions come with open hearts and open arms, fully prepared to enjoy what unfolds. And so it is with flowers; when approached from a place of admiration and celebration they will present their most joyful performance.