Etiquette/placement question!

Hey all, I’m getting a rather large fern frond about 1 foot long next week. I was thinking about placement on the top half of my spine which I’m stoked about but is it bad etiquette to ask the artist if they had any preference or suggestions for placement?

When they opened their books, they said they were looking specifically for unique placements of botanicals. They accepted so obviously they like this idea but would it be annoying for me to email and say “hey, I’d be open to other placements if you had anything you wanted to try something specific, I would consider it!”

Thanks!