Floral Designs was established in the fall of 1995. My friend Candi & I bought the existing Floral Traditions after much prayer. With God's direction, we remodeled the existing floral business on Main Street in Tremont. We also added a wide selection of home decor products and changed the name.
Having never designed a fresh flower arrangement, we learned a lot those first few years through the school of hard knocks! Maybe one of these days we will blog about the fact that you don't have to cut down an entire Christmas tree to get fresh evergreens... or about the fact that a bridal bouquet doesn't have to be the size of Mt. Everest! We started right off designing wedding flowers, filling funeral needs, delivering daily fresh floral arrangements and selling home decor.
Over the years, there has been a change in business partners for reasons of expanding family, other job opportunities and retirement. In 2004, Cheri bought into the business with me. Our first expansion happened in 2005. We doubled our showroom space and started offering in-home consultations for home decorating.
My daughter, Kim, had started working with us in high school and she soon realized she wanted to pursue this work as a full-time career. So, again after much prayer, we decided to move our business to a larger town. Our current location had just opened up for rent and was a perfect fit.
My husband, Dave, quickly began constructing our beautiful showroom and we opened our Morton location in the fall of 2006. Our current location has been very good to us, and so in 2008, we expanded our showroom again - allowing us to feature even more home decor. In 2015, we took a portion of our showroom and created a lovely new space where we can consult with our brides and showcase our wedding rentals.
In the spring of 2017, after being business partners with Cheri for 13 years, she chose to retire and Kim has taken the opportunity to fulfill a dream and buy into the ownership of Floral Designs. I am so excited and blessed to be working alongside my daughter and I respect the passion she brings in everything she does here!
We look forward to many more years in business and give God the glory for any and all success we've been blessed with!
Ann M. Dill
Having never designed a fresh flower arrangement, we learned a lot those first few years through the school of hard knocks! Maybe one of these days we will blog about the fact that you don't have to cut down an entire Christmas tree to get fresh evergreens... or about the fact that a bridal bouquet doesn't have to be the size of Mt. Everest! We started right off designing wedding flowers, filling funeral needs, delivering daily fresh floral arrangements and selling home decor.
Over the years, there has been a change in business partners for reasons of expanding family, other job opportunities and retirement. In 2004, Cheri bought into the business with me. Our first expansion happened in 2005. We doubled our showroom space and started offering in-home consultations for home decorating.
My daughter, Kim, had started working with us in high school and she soon realized she wanted to pursue this work as a full-time career. So, again after much prayer, we decided to move our business to a larger town. Our current location had just opened up for rent and was a perfect fit.
My husband, Dave, quickly began constructing our beautiful showroom and we opened our Morton location in the fall of 2006. Our current location has been very good to us, and so in 2008, we expanded our showroom again - allowing us to feature even more home decor. In 2015, we took a portion of our showroom and created a lovely new space where we can consult with our brides and showcase our wedding rentals.
In the spring of 2017, after being business partners with Cheri for 13 years, she chose to retire and Kim has taken the opportunity to fulfill a dream and buy into the ownership of Floral Designs. I am so excited and blessed to be working alongside my daughter and I respect the passion she brings in everything she does here!
We look forward to many more years in business and give God the glory for any and all success we've been blessed with!
Ann M. Dill
Morton, Illinois 61550 
