June · $5,200 · 90 guests
Peonies while they lasted, then garden roses when they did not. The couple moved the date two weeks later and the entire palette changed with it, which is how flowers work.
Weddings & celebrations
We take about eighteen weddings a year, and then we stop.
Eighteen is what two people can do without the last one being worse than the first. When the year is full, it is full, and we will tell you that on the first phone call rather than three emails in.
Teddy runs the wedding work, so he is the one you meet. Most couples book six to nine months out. The occasional February wedding gets booked in November and that is fine.
- Consultation
- $150
- Full florals
- from $3,500
- Weddings per year
- about 18
- Book ahead
- 6–9 months
- Celebrations
- from $45 each
- Celebration notice
- 2 weeks
The money, early
Most couples here spend between $3,500 and $6,000.
We put that number on the website because the alternative is two people spending an hour in a consultation before discovering they are a long way apart. If that range does not work for your budget, tell us on the phone and we will say honestly whether we can do something smaller well.
| Stage | Cost |
|---|---|
| ConsultationAn hour with Teddy, usually at the studio on a Friday. You bring whatever you have, including nothing. Credited against the booking if you go ahead. | $150 |
| Deposit to hold the dateA third of the estimate. This is what actually takes your date out of the eighteen. | ⅓ of quote |
| Full ceremony and reception floralsBouquets, buttonholes, ceremony flowers, table arrangements, and the installation and collection either side. | from $3,500 |
| Bouquet onlySome people want one good bouquet and nothing else. We are happy to do that and it does not count against the eighteen. | from $220 |
| Celebration table arrangementsBirthdays and anniversaries, showers, and the occasional retirement dinner. Per arrangement, two weeks' notice, no consultation needed. | from $45 |
What happens, in order
Four steps, and you can stop after any of them.
01
A phone call, free
Ten minutes. Your date and your venue, plus roughly what you want to spend. We tell you whether the date is open and whether the budget is realistic. Plenty of these end with us recommending someone else.
02
Consultation, $150
An hour at the studio. Teddy builds a proposal with real flowers for your season, not a mood board of things that will not be available in May.
03
Deposit, a third
Your date comes out of the eighteen. From here we are working, and the balance is due two weeks before.
04
The week itself
Flowers arrive Wednesday, we build Thursday and Friday, we install on the day and come back afterwards for the vessels. The collection is included and not an extra line.
One thing that affects your quote
We do not use floral foam, and it costs you money.
Foam is the green brick that most large installations are built into. It is plastic, it never breaks down, and after one evening on a table it goes in the ground. We build into chicken wire and water tubes instead.
That is slower, so an arch or a large table run will quote higher here than at a studio that uses foam. We are telling you this rather than letting you wonder why a comparable quote came in under ours. If the difference is the deciding factor, take the other quote. We would rather that than pretend the gap does not exist.
Recent weddings
Four from this year.
September · $4,100 · 60 guests
Dahlias, every one of them from the grower eleven miles out. Built into wire, no foam, and collected the next morning.
Bouquet only · $260 · April
No other flowers at all. She carried this, they went to a restaurant afterwards, and it was one of our favorite jobs of the spring.
Celebration · $45 each × 9 · March
A sixtieth birthday dinner. Nine low arrangements down a long table, ordered three weeks ahead, no consultation.
Next
Send us the date first. Everything else follows from whether it is open.
If the date is taken we will say so the same day, and we keep a short list of studios nearby whose work we would be happy to be compared with.