Maria Darling Young and Whitney Satra,

Darling and Daughters

MARIA comes from a long line of women who had a way with the paintbrush, and found that she didn't at all - not even a bit, so she studied history instead, fell in love with food and foraged flowers in the Midwestern lowlands, and began designing full time with her own studio and garden practice in 2013. With her daughter in her arms, she signed D&D into existence in 2015 and has been rearing both ever since.

WHITNEY hails from the prairie wilds of Montana and found her passion in operations, rising quickly in DC’s service industry over the past decade. Once Darling & Daughters entered its sixth year, Whitney joined the business and brought a refined knowledge of event systems, her (true) love for the many thousands of organizational details, and dedication to seamless communication with our clients and event partners.

OUR PRACTICE  From budding spring through the last gasps of autumn, we source the majority of our flowers from local and sustainable growers and believe in a women-led community where sustainable growers and designers thrive together. We design with reverence for natural elegance and inimitable colors inspired by the season at hand; we cut from our studio garden and forage local delicacies to offer deliciously textured and nuanced designs for large scale events and petite local deliveries alike. Our work has been published in many national and local publications, and we are proud to enter our seventh year in 2022, still and forever loving on the wild ones.