10/12/2026
🌸 MEET OUR TEAM | Meet Christy! 🌸
Next up in our Meet Our Team series is a familiar face to many of you—Christy Reichert! 💐
Christy has been part of the A Cottage Florist and Gifts family for 6 years, and if you’ve spent much time in the shop, you probably already know that she brings plenty of creativity, laughter, encouragement, and personality with her! ❤️
As one of our designers, Christy says one of her favorite things about working here is getting to express herself through floral design while serving our community. And there’s something pretty special about working in a small-town flower shop where, more often than not, you know who’s walking through the door—and sometimes even know what they like before they ask! 🌷
💐 When it comes to flowers…
Christy’s favorite flower is the orchid, and she loves working with bright colors or creating designs using different shades of the same color.
Give her tropical flowers and a piece of driftwood, though, and she’s REALLY in her element! 🌺🌿 Tropical arrangements are some of her favorites to create.
And if you ever walk in and tell Christy, “Just surprise me!”—you’ve probably made her day. 😂 She’d happily start gathering hydrangeas, roses, lilies and orchids and let the creativity take over!
Her favorite floral holiday? Mother’s Day. 💕
But don’t make her choose just one part of the flower shop. Fresh flowers, plants, balloons, gifts, homecoming mums…she enjoys doing a little bit of everything!
❤️ For Christy, it’s also about the people.
One of the things she appreciates most about our customers is the trust they give us to “do our thing” when designing their flowers. And when someone calls afterward just to say thank you or tell us how much they loved what we created, it means more than they probably realize.
Christy also has a gift for encouraging people. Her faith is an important part of who she is, and when someone is going through a difficult time and welcomes it, she’s always willing to stop what she’s doing, listen, encourage them, and even pray with them. 🙏❤️
Her coworkers might tell you she’s the one who will say…
“We’ll pray it out!” 😊
💕 Outside the flower shop…
Family is Christy’s happy place. She loves spending time with her husband, children and grandbaby—and her perfect day would simply be having all of them together in the same room at the same time. ❤️
Her household extends a little beyond the humans, too…
🐄 20 cows
🐱 2 cats
🐶 2 dogs
🐓 and a rooster!
Basically, she’s running a small petting zoo when she isn’t designing flowers. 😂
She’s social, loves swimming, camping and traveling, and can appreciate something as simple as sitting down to watch a beautiful sunset.
And just in case you’re wondering…
🌴 She’s definitely a BEACH BABY!
🍣 Sushi is always a good idea.
🌶️ Don’t make her choose sweet or salty—she chooses SPICY!
🎶 Her playlist can include Christian music, country and some good ’80s music.
☕ You can always make her happy with Mojo and Jesus. ❤️😂
🌺 And Hawaii is definitely on the bucket list!
Christy describes herself as silly, loyal and someone who loves Jesus, and she says customers might be surprised to know just how goofy she really is.
Those of us who work with her probably aren’t quite as surprised by that last part. 😉😂
When asked about one of her favorite memories from the shop, Christy couldn’t pick just one—and we think her answer says it best:
“We create new memories together every year.” 💕
And she’s right. There are long days, crazy holidays, beautiful flowers, plenty of laughter and lots of memories made along the way.
After six years, we’re thankful Christy is still here making those memories with us and helping A Cottage Florist and Gifts continue doing what we love most:
Serving our community and arranging smiles. 💐❤️
Next time you’re in the shop, be sure to say hello to Christy—and if you bring her a Mojo, you might just become her favorite customer. 😂🌸
A Cottage Florist and Gifts
We arrange smiles… 💐
