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It starts with their mothers, of course. Mrs. Williams wants to go with Flowers by Phryne for the wedding because it’s hip and chic and has been written up in all the wedding magazines. Mrs. Collins wants to go with Robins & Son because they’re salt of the earth people and, quote, “a Richmond institution, Hugh!”
Through a series of completely preventable misunderstandings, both florists are hired for the wedding.
Phryne and Jack know each other, of course, through their work. They fight and flirt over flora and fernery - they’re basically the Sam and Diane of the Greater Melbourne florist circuit.
As the big day gets closer, so do the florists with their respective clients, and each other. And when everything with the feuding families reaches a head at the rehearsal dinner, Phryne and Jack wind up talking down an overwhelmed Dot and Hugh, taking them for drinks at a little hole in the wall bar with a hell of a weekday special.
Which is how all four of them find themselves in a 24 hour chapel, far too late and far too drunk to be making important life decisions.
Phryne and Jack annul the marriage soon after.
They merge their flower shops though.
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