Migrant Workers and the Floral Industry: What Wedding Florists Can’t Ignore

Why We’re Speaking Out Against ICE Raids

As a San Diego Wedding florist, we spend our days creating beauty, designing florals that tell love stories, honor life’s milestones, and reflect the joy of celebration. But today, we’re not posting flowers. Because across California, and right here in San Diego, ICE raids are tearing families apart. And we can’t stay silent.

The floral and events industry relies on the hands of immigrant and migrant workers every single day.

It starts in the flower fields and beyond, where workers rise before dawn to harvest the stems we build with. It continues in processing centers and warehouses, where blooms are received, cleaned, trimmed, packaged, and trasported. It carries through to event day throughout all fields of the wedding industry.

Every arrangement we create is made possible by these hands.

Yet today, many of these same workers, the people we owe our craft to, are living in fear. With ICE raids happening in our communities, their safety, their families, and their livelihoods are under threat.

Let us be very clear:

These workers are not invisible.

They are not expendable.

They are not criminals.

They are our community.

They are skilled, hardworking people who came here seeking what so many of us were born into: safety and opportunity.

They give more to this country than they take.

They are essential. Not disposable.

To criminalize their existence is not justice. It is cruelty.

As a small business that benefits from the beauty and labor migrant workers bring into this world, we feel a deep responsibility to speak up. We do not support ICE raids. We do not support policies that terrorize immigrant communities. And we do not support systems that exploit labor while denying basic human rights.

We stand in solidarity with the workers — in our fields, in our industry, and in our community.