Weddings & events
We do not do
tasteful.
We take twelve weddings a year and we sow for every one of them. That is the whole difference: your flowers are chosen in April and cut on the Thursday, not ordered from a list in a warehouse.
What gets built
Five things,
overdone.
We take a small number of weddings a year — twelve, and we have said no to more than that since 2021 — because every one of them eats a section of the beds from the sowing on. Here is the whole list of what we do.
- 01
The installation
Arches, doorways, hanging clouds, a wall you walk through. Built on frames we own, dressed on site the morning of, struck the same night. If it has to hold above people’s heads, we bring the rigging and the paperwork.
- 02
The aisle
Meadow edges rather than matched urns — foxglove, grasses, delphinium going where the beds went that week. It should look like the room grew it overnight, not like it was delivered.
- 03
The tables
Low riots you can talk across, or tall ones you cannot. We will tell you which your room wants. Vessels are ours and go back in the van; nobody has to return anything on their honeymoon.
- 04
Carried & worn
Bouquets, buttonholes, crowns, a bucket of spares for whoever crushes theirs in a hug. Every carried piece is bound in the same palette as the room, not a shrunken copy of it.
- 05
The morning after
We come back, strike everything, and re-home what is still good to two hospices and a dementia day centre nearby. You get the photographs; the flowers get a second week.
How the year runs
From one email
to 6am.
- 12–8 months out 01The first note
One email, two questions: the date, and one thing you have seen that you loved. We tell you within a week whether the date is free and roughly what your shape of day costs. No meeting yet.
- 6 months out 02The proof jar
We build one jar in your palette from that week’s beds, photograph it in daylight on the bench, and send it. It is not a mock-up of the day — it is proof of the colour, and it is the point where most people change their minds. Included.
- 5 months out 03The grow list
We sow for you. Specific rows, specific varieties, sown late enough to peak in your week. This is the part a wholesale florist cannot do, and it is why the deposit lands here.
- 3 weeks out 04The walk-through
At your venue, with a tape measure and the frames in the van. Doorways, ceiling heights, where the sun is at 4pm, who else is loading in. We leave with a written plan and no surprises left.
- The week 05The cut
Conditioning starts Tuesday. Everything is cut, stripped and stood in water in the cold room by Thursday night. If a row failed, you hear it from us on Tuesday, with what replaces it.
- The day & after 06Install and strike
In at 6am, out before your first guest. We come back that night or the next morning, strike everything, and take what is still good to the two hospices on our list.
What it costs
Numbers,
in daylight.
Real starting figures, because making you email for a bracket wastes both our weeks. Delivery, install, vessels and strike are inside these; a Saturday between May and September carries a $2,500 minimum.
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A small, loud day
from $1,400
Registry office, lunch for thirty, one long table. A carried riot, six buttonholes, five low table pieces and one thing at the door that makes people stop.
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A full day
from $3,800
Ceremony, aisle, twelve to sixteen tables, everything carried and worn, plus a re-dress between the ceremony and the meal so the same flowers work twice.
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Something structural
from $6,500
An arch, a hanging cloud, a doorway you walk through, a wall. Frames, rigging, a crew of four and a strike the same night. Quoted after the walk-through, never before.
“The proof jar arrived in March and I cried at my desk about a jam jar of ranunculus. On the day it was that, times a hundred, filling a barn. Everybody is still talking about the doorway.”
“We asked for “too much, but green.” They sowed rows for us in April. On the Tuesday a row failed and they rang us before we could worry about it, with the replacement already cut.”
Send us the date.
Two lines is enough to start: the date and one thing you have seen that you loved. We will tell you within a week whether we are free and roughly what your day costs — no meeting, no mood board, no deposit talk.