Professional Services in Urbandale

A haven for fresh flowers and all manner of plant life serving the Des Moines area since 1948, Doherty’s Flowers transforms backyards into arboreal havens and lends fragrant, colorful accents to front porches and gardens. Guests can also peruse the greenhouse and nursery at their own leisure, picking out lilies with which to beautify their home gardens and carnivorous plants to hide in their coworkers’ cubicle drawers. The shop’s florists stroll down the paths of their garden and nursery, carefully selecting bouquets of local and tropical flowers for weddings, gift baskets, and delivery to loved ones.

Within Digital Galleria Designs' boutique studio, photographers create memorable images to memorialize weddings, senior years, and family ties. The shutterbugs' styles shift for the client or occasion in order to capture the candid, honest interactions of a bride and groom or the humor and playfulness of a child. They imbue family portraits with traditional backdrops and poses or eclectic and quirky props and arrangements. After the camera captures likenesses on its internal etch-a-sketch, photographers make colors pop off the page, erase blemishes, and drop in graphics before transferring them to print sheets and CDs.

Though they specialize in portraits for graduating seniors, the photographers at Black Label Seniors aren’t much for pomp and circumstance. They do away with stiff formalities to capture their subjects’ natural expressions during sessions held in their 1,600-square-foot studio or at locations throughout Des Moines. Rather than wrestle their clients into a one-size-fits-all template, they emphasize what makes them unique—be it a dashing grin, a cool pair of sunglasses, or a football helmet that has “Born to be Safe” stenciled on the side of it.

While fashions change with the seasons, there will always be clothes that need dry cleaning. The artisans at Wise Cleaners have managed to master this skill, shunning the use of water as they vanquish stains from shirts, pants, and formal suits of armor. They're also able to handle blazers, dresses, and other tricky-to-clean items such as comforters.

Open 24 hours a day, The Laundry Place conserves customers' time with speedy dry cleaning and attentive wash-and-fold services. After sorting laundry orders into piles of similarly colored items, friendly staffers pretreat stains and bathe clothes in a luxurious lather, which can be customized with a favorite detergent, softener, or smoothie mix-in (a small fee may apply; call the shop for details). One to two days later, duds return to their owners washed, dried, and folded. The dry-cleaning team evicts spots, smells, and wrinkles from a wide variety of garments, including wool suits and silk wedding gowns. Hangers are available for purchase upon request for most services, and coin-operated laundry machines regale guests with ocean sounds and legal advice as they clean T-shirts and sheets.

Capture the Moment Photography’s professional shutterbugs distill memories into stunning pictures captured, edited and printed by an experienced photographer. Couples celebrate impending nuptials with wedding portrait packages, and starry-eyed high-school seniors celebrate their amble into adulthood with flattering senior photos that incorporate props, such as a graduation cap tricked out with hydraulics. Families freeze heartwarming split seconds during baby, children, and reunion photo shoots that yield tangible printings, as well as viewable online galleries and DVD slideshows.