Professional Services in Vancouver

With close attention to detail, a positive attitude, and a wellspring of creativity, Garden Party Flowers brings custom-designed buds and blossoms to Vancouver vases. Purchasers of this Groupon can choose a Garden Party Flowers fresh cut flower bouquet, such as the Designer's choice bouquet ($50) or the Rock and roll bouquet ($55), or the Groupon can applied toward a custom order.

The botanical artists at Purple Lotus Flowers build living sculptures from vibrant blooms and elegant vases. Arranging everything by hand, they position flowers into glass and wicker containers to create Western or Eastern style pieces from a menu that changes monthly. Bouquets of red roses and rich purple gloxinias commemorate celebrations that range from anniversaries to birthdays with chromatic bursts and floral scents. The florists also substitute flowers with fruit to create gift baskets filled with fresh snacks. Whether fruit or fauna, Purple Lotus Flowers will also deliver everything directly to the homes, offices, or hover sky-labs of loved ones.

The sidewalk outside Garlands Florist's West Broadway storefront is often occupied by the colourful, locally sourced plant life that earned the shop its recent acclaim as one of the Vancouver Courier's best florists of 2011. A resident team of designers creates both classic and innovative arrangements from a fragrant cache of internationally and locally sourced flowers. They premake bouquets in contemporary, modern, and European compositions or collaborate with clients to invent one-of-a-kind arrangements using eight different colour schemes. The florists' blossoms can be paired with selections from the shop's gift inventory, which includes elegant stationery ideal for sending a special someone a heartfelt message, such as "You are Loved" or "Thanks for Passing the Salt."

Just as weddings bring together family and friends to celebrate a joyous day, My Dream Wedding Show brings together exhibitors and guest speakers all eager to make visitors' special days come to life. More than 100 professionals showcase their services in four-hour sessions, one held in the morning and one in the afternoon. Guest speakers from television and other media also hold events throughout the day to offer tips to attendants. Brides peruse dresses and decorations with their friends after a stop at the beauty lounge, and future grooms can grab a drink with their pals and play golf at the gentlemen's lounge.

Mobile Basics provides repair services and advice for malfunctioning phones in English, Cantonese, and Mandarin. The friendly techs fix scratched screens and help puzzle out software and hardware issues. They are also adept at unlocking popular smartphone brands such as iPhone, Blackberry, Samsung, LG, and Motorola, allowing users to use a sim card from another service provider. Their shop houses a vast inventory of protective cases in colourful designs, from plaid patterns to bright flowers to cartoon characters. Highly detailed, the Nintendo Gameboy case is realistic enough to convince a friend that you're playing a game instead of texting incriminating videos of them to the paparazzi.

A full-service software-based facility, Rukkus House Sound and Music Production Studios tunes into the needs of artists while engineering stunning sound and musical productions. Its team of award-winning sound gurus are led by company president Gael MacLean whose work has energized feature films, TV series, and documentaries. Together, they use their trained ears to polish everything from musical scores and voice-overs to video-game soundtracks. They also offer songwriter demo packages that arm songbirds with a CD of mixed and mastered tracks that they can use on the road to stardom, instead of just singing loudly on the bus.