florists

I'm getting ready to make my florist appointments, and I want to use one of the ones recommended by my RH (otherwise you're charged an additional $500 fee)
So here are the ones they recommend and I have no idea where to start - any thoughts would be great!
Atlantic Floral in Freeport
Elegant Events
Massapequa Florist
Mankers
flowers by Brian - I'm going to meet w/ them because they have some great LIW reviews but I couldn't find a lot of info about the others on the board.
Thanks!
Kristen

Mankers is great my family has used them for well forever lol, just an FYI and its JMO but I hated Flowers by Brian, i felt like it was a wedding mill lol, the guy didnt listen to anything i said I wanted he just said this is what you get....and I would say I want this, and he would ignore my request and say this is what you get...I requested a memorial bo-k of forget me nots, and he said no way could he get them, I said well find them i'll pay the extra and he said no way.

I went to pedestals and asked them for the forget me nots , and they said they can get me them , and free of charge because my story touched her, flowers by brian didnt even care that they were for my nephew who have a liver disease, he was just looking to make the 'package sale' hope that helps! and pedestals might be worth the $500 charge they are so flexible with what you want .

I met with a few and I was surprised that Elegant Events was the most affordable..on top if that it was so easy. The experience was awesome.

Richie knew exactly what I had in mind and it was like he was in my brain lol...A lot of the other florist were acting like what I wanted was too difficult and also acting like peonies were the Holy Grail....