‘Love Is Blind’ Season 10 Florist on Creating the Show’s Romantic Arrangements in Just 5 Days

Netflix’s Love Is Blind Season 10 showcased everlasting love, heartbreak, and beautiful flower arrangements to enhance the romantic scenes. The couples’ wedding ceremonies each featured custom bouquets and garlands to make the setting feel as dreamy as ever. And the flowers were all put together by just a handful of talented florists. Showbiz Cheat Sheet caught up with The Flower Garage founder Dani Berger to talk about how the team created the romantic setting in a few days. Here’s what she shared about the process — plus, how fans can enhance their own arrangements with a few tips.

Dani Berger, founder of The Flower Garage, never expected to join a reality TV series as a florist

Dani Berger wasn’t always a florist. And now, she’s known as part of the creative team that helped create the incredible floral displays on Love Is Blind Season 10. While speaking to Showbiz Cheat Sheet, she revealed that she always had a passion for design and florals. And she didn’t start The Flower Garage until she was 42. Born in Brussels, Belgium, she headed to Holland every summer and found herself “surrounded by florals.” Starting a flower business felt natural.

Berger began The Flower Garage by teaching classes. “Now, there are a lot of people that teach, but just the way people connected, and how much joy it brought people learning a new skill, it became something that people really loved doing,” she told Showbiz Cheat Sheet.

Berger never anticipated creating floral arrangements for a reality series. However, she made numerous connections while flying around the country and participating in flower workshops. Berger met Angela Norman of White Willow Meadows. Netflix approached White Willow Meadows as one of the venue choices for Love Is Blind Season 10. Norman approached Berger about a “really cool opportunity” for a TV show, and Berger expressed interest. A floral team of just six designers came together for the season, and Berger signed on.

“I thought about it for, like, 20 seconds, and I was like, if I say no to this, I’m never going to forgive myself,” Berger said.

The Flower Garage founder noted that the entire team learned as they went, as they hadn’t worked on a large-scale production before. Norman received style boards from Love Is Blind creative director and wedding planner Slomique Hawrylo. From here, the floral team got to see the couples’ vibes for their wedding day. Once the vision came to light, the team ordered the flowers and put together the arrangements.

The Flower Garage founder described repurposing some of the flowers from one ‘Love Is Blind’ Season 10 wedding to the next

Dani Berger explained to Showbiz Cheat Sheet that the six-person floral team for Love Is Blind Season 10 worked between 12 and 14 hours per day for “five days straight” to prepare all the arrangements. “You’re running on so much adrenaline; it’s kind of a surreal experience.” And they repurposed some of the flowers used during the wedding ceremonies.

“They get to the altar. If they didn’t get married, we were in there right away, right when they said ‘no,'” Berger revealed. “We would tear it down and get ready for the next one. So, it was kind of like a hamster wheel of weddings.”

“There was such a timestamp on everything we had to do, obviously, to get it done,” she continued. “We had a full wedding, and they didn’t even go to the altar. … Then, we had to tear it all down after we had just put it all up, and tried to repurpose some of those flowers for other weddings. There were quite a few that used white.”

Berger added that Vic and Christine’s wedding lasted longer than initially anticipated. “We were trying to hide in the kitchen while they were finishing their celebration,” she said. “And, you know, not trying to kick them out of the venue, but, essentially, we needed to get ready for the next one.” Ultimately, Vic and Christine’s wedding was one of her favorites to help design, as she had a bit more creative say in the result. She loved the colors, as the ceremony incorporated greens, blushes, and whites.

Designing for the reality series meant hiding cameras in the flowers

Dani Berger explained how she and the other florists were “burying cameras in the flowers” on Love Is Blind Season 10. The design team also focused heavily on the staircase. They hid cameras that would shine down on the couple in the long railing in addition to hiding cameras in the flowers down the aisle.

“We were designing for the camera, not necessarily for what you would design for a traditional wedding,” she added.

Berger explained how hydrangeas served as great camera camouflage, as did greenery. And to keep the flowers alive throughout the week, the team would dunk the flower heads underwater for hydration. Additionally, the team had to amp up the size of the arrangements so they would look perfect on film.

“You just have to make them twice as big, because when they’re panning out, you can see the size of them, but when you’re close up, if you don’t have that size, you don’t see any of it,” she said.

One of the season 10 weddings utilized around 2,000 anemone flowers, costing around $2 per stem. “We had to use so many of them to make them visible,” Berger noted, adding that the bride wanted this particular flower.

‘Love Is Blind’ Season 10 used ‘tens of thousands of stems’

Producers didn’t skimp out on the Love Is Blind Season 10 florals. “We’re talking tens of thousands of stems,” Dani Berger explained. “And processing those means we hydrate them. So, everything comes out of water, which is really interesting in the floral world. And we unpackage everything to cut everything on an angle and put them in really warm water with flower food. So, things have to be hydrated for 24 hours at least before you start.”

Berger noted that a lot of the floral design happened at the last second because they used foam. “It’s a lot of timing,” she continued.

Ultimately, Berger found designing the staircases to be a highlight. “Watching the brides walk down on TV through those staircases that we designed, I just thought, ‘Wow.’ That was amazing for me.”

Dani Berger has advice for fans crafting their own floral arrangements

The Flower Garage founder knows there’s a lot to consider when creating your own floral arrangements off-camera. She told Showbiz Cheat Sheet that different flowers create different vibes. And it’s important to consider how long the flowers are needed. Certain flowers, like hydrangeas, don’t do well in foam or in heat. This makes them difficult to handle in the Arizona climate where she lives.

The flower choice entirely “depends on the activation” and “vibe.” In a recent event for Chris Appleton, Berger had to create arrangements for a hot day, leading her team to “water tube every single flower.” This meant they had to place an individual vessel on thousands of hydrangeas to ensure each flower stayed hydrated individually.

“You have to do that for every single flower,” she revealed. “So, that’s really why flowers are so expensive. It’s not necessarily the flower in itself, but to get them to look the way people expect them to look for an event or a TV production, sometimes you have to go and do these ridiculous things that take a lot of time to make them survive for that. It’s more about proper hydration and processing.”

The flower expert wants others to know that it’s never too late to begin again

Dani Berger didn’t start The Flower Garage until her 40s. She told Showbiz Cheat Sheet that she hopes others realize that it’s never too late to start anew and follow your dreams.

“If there’s a message for anyone, it’s never too late to start,” she told us. “If you have a career path and you’re like, you know what, this isn’t me, this isn’t my vibe, I’m not happy — change. If you had asked me 10 years ago if I’d be working on a reality TV show, I’d tell you there’s no way. Just do it, and don’t overthink it.”