Today we’d like to introduce you to Meg Cook
Meg, we appreciate you taking the time to share your story with us today. Where does your story begin?
What a journey!! It’s long but just hang with me!
I first started in the wedding industry 10 years ago, coordinating weddings. My husband and I were walking through infertility. My heart was aching to celebrate and weddings gave me that!
I had a friend that loved flowers and started doing some weddings, we collaborated for a short season, that’s where I found my love for floral design.
In the same season our church launched a campus on our side of town.
I took a leap of faith, quit my job and said yes to leading our kids ministry full time. I served on our staff for 7 years. In that time, the Lord gave in abundance. We opened our home and had several folks to live with us. The Lord gave us our son, Quentin, through adoption and we became pregnant after 7 years with our youngest son, Monroe.
In that time on staff at our church, I still made time to do weddings. I begged friends to let me do their flowers. I did countless weddings in that time.
2 years ago, through tons of prayer, felt it was time to step off staff at our church and be a stay at home mom and start an official floral design company.
Though I knew my role at our church was over, my pastoral heart grieved. For months I prayed through what the business could look like and honestly how could I bring honor and glory to the Lord through it. How do I care and serve? What does that look like? And what does it look like to do this as a family, while staying at home.
The Lord revealed that this was so much more than a job. This was a new ministry. Marriage is from God and getting to partner with that- is sacred and holy work. God painted a picture- that we would make pretty what He had already made beautiful.
We just celebrated 2 years of business… We have truly seen the Lord’s kindness. We have met the most amazing couples, families and vendors. So many we get to call friends now.
I know a florist probably shouldn’t say this but flowers really are a small part of what we do. I want us not to be remembered for the florals but for how we cared and served families in the process.
Can you talk to us a bit about the challenges and lessons you’ve learned along the way. Looking back would you say it’s been easy or smooth in retrospect?
Like I said- we are just 2 years in.
I’m still learning and growing.
Thanks – so what else should our readers know about your work and what you’re currently focused on?
Florist with a passion to serve
Contact Info:
- Website: https://www.cookhillco.com
- Instagram: cookhillco_
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/cookhilldesigns/
