Launch arch · March
Orchids, red roses · December · the river gala
Rooftop dinner · JulyEvent and corporate florals from a studio in Chicago’s West Loop. Galas, launches, board dinners and the holiday party your office talks about in January.
Events from $2,500 · ChicagoInquireCorporate accounts invoiced net 30
What we do
From $6,000
Centerpieces for two hundred to eight hundred, staircase garlands and the stage, drawn on your designer’s floor plan.
From $3,500
Flower walls, arches and the one corner every phone in the room points at. Built in hours, gone by morning.
From $2,500
Board dinners, client dinners, rooftop dinners. Kept low, so people can see each other across the table.
From $1,200 a month
Lobby and reception flowers every Monday, with the holiday party and the annual meeting on the same account.
Three rooms
December · the river gala
A benefit in a ballroom on the river, for a children’s hospital foundation. Forty-two orchid towers on mirrored risers, tall enough to clear every sightline, and red roses low at the base so the tables stayed warm. The chair wanted it to feel like a snowfall in a jewelry box.
March · the launch arch
A skincare launch in a glass atrium in the Loop. The press left at four, the guests came at six, and the arch had to be up in between. We built it on a steel frame in the studio, rolled it in in three pieces and closed the seams on site in ninety minutes.
July · the rooftop dinner
A law firm’s summer associates dinner on a rooftop in River North. Low runners of garden roses, sweet peas and candles in hurricanes for the wind off the lake. The partners asked for something that wouldn’t block anybody’s view of the skyline. Nobody looked at the skyline.
The day of
Your venue gives us a window, and we keep to it. This is a gala day; a dinner is the same day, shorter.
Every arrangement checked against the floor plan and wrapped for the van.
At the dock in the window your venue gave us, with the certificate of insurance already on file.
Dominique leads it. Installers are named and listed with security the day before.
With your planner or your office manager. Anything that blocks a camera or a sightline moves.
We step out. One of us stays nearby until the toasts are done.
Everything comes down, the vases go home with us, and the flowers go to a hospice in Pilsen.
The studio
Before Atelier Bloom I was a banquet captain at a big hotel on the river. Nine hundred events, give or take. I counted chairs, I walked fire lanes with the marshal, and I watched the flowers arrive last and leave first, usually in the wrong place.
My grandmother kept a cutting garden behind her two-flat in Bronzeville, and on Sundays she set the table as if the mayor was coming. In 2015 I put those two things together, rented an old print shop in the West Loop and built a cooler where the presses used to be.
I still carry a tape measure to every walkthrough. A centerpiece that blocks the CEO’s face in the photos is not a centerpiece, it’s a problem.
Dominique Baptiste
For planners and office managers
The venue, the room and the head count. A floor plan if you have one.
A mood board, every arrangement placed on the plan, and one price with nothing hidden.
Dominique meets you at the venue with a tape measure and the dock schedule.
$500 holds it. The rest is invoiced net 30 after the event, or paid by card.
Recent rooms
A museum benefit · OctoberOrchid and rose garland, forty feet of stair
A holiday party · DecemberAmaryllis, winter branches
A board dinner · FebruaryBurgundy dahlias, calla lilies
A launch · MayBlush rose wall, pampas
A tower lobby · every MondayOrchids, cherry branches
A ballroom · AprilHanging install over the dance floor
A rooftop · AugustGarden roses, cosmos
The river gala · DecemberThe centerpiece, up close“Our CFO asked who did the flowers. Twice. He has never asked who did anything.”
Events director, a law firm in the Loop“The venue gave us a ninety-minute load-in. Dominique was done in seventy and helped the caterer.”
Gala chair, a museum benefit“One invoice, net 30, on the date she said. Our accounts payable team would like to marry her.”
Office manager, a tech company in River NorthThe studio
We install across the city, the North Shore and the western suburbs, and in Milwaukee for the right gala. Come see the cooler on a Tuesday or a Wednesday; the rest of the week it’s usually in a van.
Questions
Send the date, the venue and the head count below, with $500 to hold the date. Within 48 hours you get a proposal: a mood board, a floor plan with every arrangement on it, and one price. If you don’t go ahead, the $500 comes back.
Yes. Corporate accounts are invoiced net 30 after the event, or paid by card if that’s easier. We send a W-9 and fill in your vendor forms the day you ask.
Often. We know the downtown halls and hotels, we book the dock window with the venue ourselves, and we follow whatever the house rules are on who carries what.
$2,500 for an event. Corporate programs with weekly lobby flowers start at $1,200 a month.
Galas, three to six months. December books up by September, so holiday parties should write in the summer. For a dinner, a few weeks is often fine.
A handful a year, mostly for people who first met us at a gala. If your wedding feels more like an event than a garden, write to us.
Inquire
$500 holds your date while we write the proposal, and comes off the total. If you don’t go ahead, it comes back.
Dominique answers every inquiry herself, usually the same day.
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