Annie Chen
AIFD FDI Instructor
Annie’s Passion for flowers began 2004 when a college girlfriend asked her to design her wedding flowers. Lacking any training or experience Annie tackled the job. Fortunately, the designs were glorious and Annie’s love of flowers and floral design has grown ever since.
After earning a Bachelor of Science degree in Music from the University of Oregon, Annie switched gears and found a career in HR recruitment and then sales. Working in the corporate world for over 10 years was a great experience but Annie’s entrepreneurial spirit, desire, and need for a flexible schedule led her down the path into a floral career. Annie attended the Floral Design Institute in 2009 and then created Floral Sunshine, a full-service studio-based event floral business.
When Annie isn’t filling her bucket with her favorite flowers like dahlias and peonies, she’s filling her bucket with fresh fish and seafood. Her accomplished bucket list includes: salmon, steelhead, trout, various rockfish, lingcod, tuna, halibut, perch, eel, mahi mahi, papio, smelt, shad, skate, sole, sturgeon, clams, mussels and crab.
