{"id":8174,"date":"2026-03-09T14:16:34","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T14:16:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gpstrianglenews.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/09\/american-floral-earns-national-wedding-industry-awards\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T14:16:34","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T14:16:34","slug":"american-floral-earns-national-wedding-industry-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gpstrianglenews.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/09\/american-floral-earns-national-wedding-industry-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"American Floral earns national wedding industry awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"192\" data-end=\"326\">COLUMBIA &mdash; American Floral has been named a 2026 winner of <em data-start=\"251\" data-end=\"278\">The Knot Best of Weddings<\/em> and the 2026 WeddingWire Couples&rsquo; Choice Award.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"328\" data-end=\"515\">According to the company, the recognition marks the business&rsquo;s 16th consecutive Best of Weddings award and its 15th Couples&rsquo; Choice Award, earning Hall of Fame status with both platforms.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"517\" data-end=\"646\">The awards are based on reviews from couples and recognize wedding professionals who consistently provide high levels of service.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"648\" data-end=\"796\">American Floral owner Scott Jones said the recognition reflects the support of couples and families who have trusted the business with their events.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"798\" data-end=\"977\">&ldquo;We are so grateful to every family who has trusted us with their weddings, celebrations and everyday floral moments,&rdquo; Jones said. &ldquo;We truly love what we do and who we do it for.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"979\" data-end=\"1099\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/americanfloralsc.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">American Floral<\/a> has served the Columbia area for 33 years and has provided floral services for more than 4,500 weddings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COLUMBIA &mdash; American Floral has been named a 2026 winner of The Knot Best of Weddings and the 2026 WeddingWire Couples&rsquo; Choice Award. According to the company, the recognition marks the business&rsquo;s 16th consecutive Best of Weddings award and its 15th Couples&rsquo; Choice Award, earning Hall of Fame status with<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gpstrianglenews.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/09\/american-floral-earns-national-wedding-industry-awards\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8175,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[28],"tags":[494],"class_list":["entry","author-john-griggs","post-8174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-honors-and-awards"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gpstrianglenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/American-FLoral-Wedding_2026_630x350.jpg?fit=630%2C350&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpstrianglenews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpstrianglenews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpstrianglenews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpstrianglenews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpstrianglenews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gpstrianglenews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpstrianglenews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpstrianglenews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpstrianglenews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpstrianglenews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}