Marsha Heckman is an expert on weddings, flower arranging, floral sculpture, event planning and design. She was honored to be a guest florist at the White House in 2013, and personally created bouquets for Malia and Sasha Obama’s bedrooms. She was a featured speaker at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston’s “Art in Bloom” and a speaker and exhibitor at San Francisco’s St. Mary’s Cathedral Annual “Festival of Flowers,” and “Bouquets to Art” at the DeYoung Museum in San Francisco. She regularly gives talks on flower arranging, floral sculpture, and weddings, and conceived of and exhibits at the annual Mill Valley Community Center’s Dia de los Muertos celebration. She is a certified Soul Collage instructor and an Airbnb Superhost. A Bride’s Planner is her eighth book. She lives in Mill Valley, California.
100 Bay St
Sausalito, CA 94965
MILL VALLEY COMMUNITY CENTER 180 Camino Alto Mill Valley, California 94941
We renovated a 29 foot 1969 Airstream International into an Airbnb rental. After a crane dropped it into our backyard we gutted it and made a cozy retro-modern get away. My husband and son did all the construction, I did the wildly popular design and décor. We are “SuperHosts” and have hundreds of 5 star reviews. It is a perfect get away for celebration and romance, for rest or attending an event in the area, writing, reading, escaping, visiting family nearby. Go Online to see the New York Times article November 6, 2014: A Passion for Vintage Trailers, Cuddle Up In This.
Each year at the DeYoung Museum’s annual fundraiser over a hundred flower designers and artists, florists and garden clubs create floral sculptures and flower arrangements in homage to the fine art collection. Since 2000 my sisters, Cathy and Claudia, and I chose a painting or sculpture that moved us, and created a piece for exhibition at Bouquets to Art.
Dia de los Muertos, Day of the Dead, invites departed loved ones to visit the living each year, adding sweetness and joy to remembering them, instead of fear and grief. A beloved traditional Holiday in Mexico that I find comforting and a better way of remembering lost loved ones, it has replaced Halloween for me. To create an alter and folk art like these three-dimensional collages I made honoring family and friends, connects us to ones we miss in a thoughtful and happy way.
As a “Thank you…” from one of the designers on staff, I was invited to be a guest florist at the White House. It was hard work and emotionally thrilling. I worked on table arrangements for a luncheon hosted by Michelle Obama and the centerpieces for dinner with the Prime Minister of Japan.
