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Have you already learned floral arrangement and had basic skills ? If so, you qualify to learn a higher level of floral arrangement such as Wedding Party Arrangement. California Flower Art Academy offers a wide range of courses as introduced below:

Wedding Party Arrangement Basic Course
Wedding Ceremony Arrangement Course
Wedding Decoration Advanced Course

By joining above mentioned courses, you can earn skills for various floral decorations that are considered mandatory for weddings. The lesson fee for these courses are quite affordable so that even people who are on a tight budget can take lessons at our school.

If you would like to know concrete prices for the entire range of programs/courses we offer, PLEASE CLICK HERE. For any further information, feel free to contact info@california-academy.com
We help you make a difference in floral art.

In order for you to acquire good skills of floral arranging, it is so important to find an experienced and certified instructor or reliable floral design school offering quality of lessons. California Flower Art Academy has been educating uncountable number of students in the San Francisco Bay Area and Silicon Valley since 1990.

We offer a variety of floral designs courses depending on the needs and requirement of each student. If you are beginner or have no experiences in floral designs, we recommend you to join Fresh Flower Arrangement Elementary Course. By joining this program you can learn and earn a wide range of basic arrangements which will greatly help you enhance your flower arranging skills in the future.

If you begin learning floral designs by yourself (self taught), you might form a bad way of floral arrangements. Once you have formed a bad habit, it is difficult to rectify later. We are more than happy to put you on the right track for your learning schedule. Lessons are offered at San Jose (Santa Clara county) and Burlingame (near San Francisco Airport). If you live in the San Francisco Bay Area or Silicon Valley, you can easily commute to and from our school.

You can take lessons per this program not only on weekdays but also on the weekend. Evening classes are also available to help busy people like you. California Flower Art Academy is authorized by Flower Decorators Association who is one of the best established and most prestigious floral associations in Japan. For further information or questions, please contact info@california-academy.com

If you want to learn wedding floral decorations, why not join this program. By joining this  course, you can learn several floral arrangements which are mandatory for wedding party decorations. The lesson fee is only $298 including tuition and flower materials as well as minimum required containers and oasis (chemical form to hold flowers/stems).

Since wedding floral arrangements have a variety of designs, it may help you enhance your skills and expand the line of your floral decorations. Some people join this program for enjoying beautiful floral arrangements and some join purely for business purpose. In order to enroll in this program, it is necessary for you to complete Fresh Flower Arrangement Elementary Course offered by our school or to have job experience as a florist, floral designer or floral decorator, OR to have floral design related educational background enough to skip above mentioned Elementary Course.

If you believe that you qualify to skip the elementary course, please let us know at the time of enrollment so that we will make judgment if or not you are eligible to enroll in this program. California Flower Art Academy offers a variety of programs from European floral design to Japanese Ikebana arrrangement, from wedding to funeral decorations AND from beginner to professional levels.

You can choose the most suitable program for you at our school. In order to help busy people, we offer classes not only on weekdays but also on the weekend. If you are unable to spare time during daytime, you can join our evening classes. California Flower Art Academy is authorized by Flower Decorators Association who is one of the best established and most prestigious floral associations. For more information or questions, please contact info@california-academy.com

California Flower Art Academy is a well experienced floral design school authorized by Flower Decorators Association Tokyo Japan. We offer a variety of classes, lessons, programs, courses and training sessions for floral designs and flower arranging from beginner to professional levels, wedding to funeral decorations AND elementary to instructor course.

The most recommendable approach to floral design training is for you to join INTRODUCTORY TRIAL BUDGET PROGRAM (for only $98). By attending this short program, you can learn two kinds of basic floral designs and evaluate the way we teach. If you are satisfied with our way of instruction, you can join Elementary Course.  

The session of this introductory program lasts about 2.5-3.0 hours. It is offered every week at our San Jose classroom (not only on weekdays but also on the weekend). If you are interested in joining this program, please send email to info@california-academy.com  We help you make a difference in floral art.

If you are planning to work at a florist or open your own floral shop, it is mandatory to earn the skill of funeral floral decorations in addition to wedding flower arrangements because it is said that the demand for funeral decoration is pretty high and it will help florists stabilize their business operations.

Nevertheless most of people are apt to pay special attention to learning wedding flower designing and forget about funeral flowers seemingly because weddings sound much happier and the colors used for wedding decoration are brighter and more beautiful. Running your own floral shop or working as a floral designer means you need to earn money by offering floral decoration services. As far as it is your hobby to arrange flowers, you can make whatever kind of choice regardless of the amount of income and stability of your activities.

Once you are married with the job of florist or floral shop, you had better consider to learn funeral arrangements as well as wedding floral decorations. California Flower Art Academy has been helping students learn and earn practical skills of various kinds of floral decoration from wedding to funeral arrangements, entry level to professional level of decorations depending upon the needs and requirement from each student. At the moment (as of 2014), we offer Funeral Floral Design & Decorations Course  for $268 including flower materials.

Considering the unit price of each decoration or design is offered at very expensive cost ranging from $130 to $300, it may be easy to amortize your investment for enrolling in this particular course from which you can learn various kinds of decorations used for a funeral ceremony.

Classes are offered at our San Jose main class room (close to the intersection of Freeway 85 and De Anza Blvd) and also at our Burlingame extension class (located in San Mateo County close to San Francisco Airport) and you can take lessons not only on weekday but also on weekend. If you live in Greater San Francisco or the San Francisco Bay Area (such as Millbrae, Daly City, Foster City, Redwood City, San Bruno, Brisbane, South San Francisco etc etc) or Silicon Valley (South and East Bay such as San Jose, Santa Clara, Cupertino, Saratoga, Milpitas, Hayward, Mountain View, Sunnyvale, Palo Alto, Los Altos, Los Gatos etc etc), we recommend you to join our school.

You can start from Introductory Trial Budget Program for only $89 (as of 2014) including flower materials for learning two kinds of floral designs so that you can evaluate our way of instruction and the quality of our lessons. If you are interested in enrolling in one of our programs, please email to info@california-academy.com and visit our  website http://www.california-academy.com   We help you make a difference in floral art.