With a bit of kindness, a dash of community, and a whole lot of flowers, Honeycomb Floral Co. and its owner, Savannah Rahn, have made waves in the Northeast Florida floral space.
When Rahn decided to open her floral business, she was coming off the tail end of a job at a local flower shop. She had always enjoyed expressing her creativity through unique mediums and practiced arranging bouquets for friends and family as she attended college.
Honeycomb Floral Co. was born in May of 2020, the culmination of Rahn’s creative passion and desire to work with flowers in an unconventional way. It arrived amid the pandemic, a time when people needed joy perhaps more than ever.
“When I started my business, I wanted it to be something collaborative, where I could find a sense of community,” Rahn said.
She started small, setting up a table with floral arrangements at local shops that welcomed her and building relationships with other small business owners in the process. Honeycomb Floral Co. has come a long way since then, but Rahn still enjoys doing pop-up floral appearances and credits her early success to the local businesses that supported her and the family who encouraged her.
Beyond pop-ups around holidays where Rahn sells handmade bouquets, Honeycomb Floral Co. is well-known for its Flower Bar and small-group workshops. The Flower bar experience, which can be booked for private events or parties, is where Rahn brings her chic, mobile flower cart with buckets of individual-stemmed flowers for guests to arrange into a personalized take-home bouquet.
Honeycomb Floral Co. knows a thing or two about weddings, as well. In the five years since opening, the floral business has catered flower needs for everything from elopements to full-scale weddings, with needs ranging from bridal bouquets to floral centerpieces. She has set up arrangements in cities from Jacksonville and St. Augustine all the way to Tallahassee and Daytona Beach.
As a first-time business owner, Rahn says that the community of fellow female business owners has been nothing but supportive from the very beginning.
“I think for women in business, at least from my experience in the floral community, there’s definitely a sense of community over competition,” she said. “It’s cool to learn from one another and lift each other in our successes.”
Over the next five years, Rahn hopes to further expand Honeycomb Floral Co. while nurturing the community of like-minded individuals she’s built along the way, and, of course, bring a little floral charm wherever she goes.
