About deBruyn designs

deBruyn designs is operated and owned by Maureen deBruyn. Maureen's passion is to help bring your dream to life by focusing on your wedding theme and ambience, and taking great care in understanding your personal style. Maureen's intuitive creativity and passion for art and flowers form the foundation for one of a kind wedding day floral design unique to each client. By building loyal customer relationships, each floral creation becomes an artistic expression of the couple through color, textures, line and movement.

As an interior designer Maureen understands and respect all budgets, styles and personalities. Her approach with your event's floral design is to purposefully consider how the style of the arrangement and the containers used harmonize with the venues setting.

Maureen's love of beauty and God's creation can be experienced from her home garden as well. deBruyn designs' clients have the option to choose flowers from Maureen's garden, previouly showcased in the Maple Grove Garden Tour, where every week of the year different flowers are blooming. Maureen is trained in the proper care, handling, and construction of your floral designs.

  • Experience: 30 years of proven expertise in the design field; independent interior designer, decorative artist and muralist, gardener, and event planner, and 11 years of floral wedding design experience. See the Album and Rave Reviews to reference Maureen's work.
  • Maureen designs and creates your wedding flowers. When needed, her team of experienced, talented designers assists so that no event is too large to be beyond her scope.
  • Since Maureen is an avid gardener, you may have the option of choosing flowers from her garden. Early in the year you will find pussy willow, lilac, daffodil, tulips, hyacinth, spirea, apple blossom, and lily of the valley. With summer the garden brings peony, iris, lilies, zinnia, and other annuals. In the autumn there are hydrangeas, crab apples, berries and dahlias. And evergreens, berries and twigs are some of the beautiful winter options. Based on your preferences and needs, Maureen will use these "free" flowers to extend your budget and create even more lush and unique arrangements.
  • deBruyn designs studio is located in the Twin Cities northwestern suburb of Maple Grove, MN. Although available to meet with you initially at another location, Maureen prefers to consult with potential clients at the studio where there is immediate access to rentals and her many books and periodicals on floral design. Directions to the studio will be E-mailed after your appointment is scheduled.
  • Educational Background: A Bachelor of Science in Home Economics from the University of Minnesota.