Garden roses, hydrangea, silk · June · the ballroomHung at 6:00 AM, struck at 11:30 PM
Floral installations · Los AngelesCloud Nine
The build
The tunnel
The wall
Flowers at the scale of the room. Clouds over the dance floor, arches you walk through, walls you stand in front of.
We are a crew of nine florists and riggers with a studio in Frogtown. We draw every install to scale, build the frame ourselves, hang it in a day and take it down before the venue locks up.
- 140rooms since 2017
- 1 dayfrom load-in to first guest
- 90 minto strike, room swept
- 0flowers in the dumpster
What we build
Four forms, any room.
Every price is a starting point for a medium room. Yours is fixed after the sketch, and it includes the frame, the flowers, the crew, the load-in and the strike.
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Cloudsfrom $14,000
Hung from the ceiling over the dance floor or the long table. The one guests lie down on the floor to photograph.
- Size
- 20 to 40 ft long
- Stems
- 2,000 to 5,000
- Crew
- 6, on two lifts
- On site
- 9 hours
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Arches & hoopsfrom $6,000
For the ceremony: a full arch you walk through, a half-moon, or a hoop that hangs. Moves to the reception during cocktail hour.
- Size
- 9 to 14 ft tall
- Stems
- 700 to 1,400
- Crew
- 3
- On site
- 4 hours
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Wallsfrom $7,500
A backdrop solid with flowers, for the vows, the sweetheart table or the photo everyone takes on the way in.
- Size
- 8 × 8 to 12 × 20 ft
- Stems
- 1,200 to 3,000
- Crew
- 4
- On site
- 5 hours
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Aisles & meadowsfrom $8,500
Waist-high meadows down both sides of the aisle, or a tunnel you walk under. Built on the ground, so any venue can take it.
- Size
- 40 to 90 ft of aisle
- Stems
- 1,500 to 4,000
- Crew
- 4
- On site
- 5 hours
The flip (ceremony piece moved to the reception), $1,200. Lit from within with warm string lights, from $800. Out-of-town crew travel below.
How it’s built
From sketch to strike.
Every install starts as a drawing like this one: the reception cloud from a June wedding in the ballroom, sheet two of four.
Swipe to see the whole drawing
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RiggingSix points into the ballroom’s steel, 110 lb on each, signed off by the venue’s engineer.
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The frameSteel ring and chicken wire, built in the studio and trucked over in four pieces.
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Garden rosesWhite and blush, 2,400 stems, each in its own water tube.
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Hydrangea380 stems of white, the volume of the cloud.
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SilkNine yards of blush chiffon swagged under the flowers.
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Clear12 ft from the dance floor to the lowest petal.
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0116 weeks out
The sketchSimone walks the room with a laser measure and draws the install to scale. Within a week you get the drawing, the stem count and one fixed price.
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028 weeks out
The frameWe build the mechanics in the Frogtown studio: steel, chicken wire and a hanging plan the venue’s engineer signs before anything goes up.
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034 days out
The flowersRoses come in from the downtown market and two growers in Carpinteria, and go into our cooler to open. Garden roses get three full days.
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046:00 AM
Load-inThe crew rolls in with the frame in pieces. Cables, lifts, rigging. The bare cloud is up before the tables are set.
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059 AM to 3 PM
The hangSix florists on two lifts, stem by stem from the center out. Last petal at 3:00, an hour before your photographer walks in.
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0611:30 PM
The strikeWhen the last song ends it comes down in ninety minutes. The flowers are rebunched for a hospice in Glendale by 8 the next morning, and the room is swept.
Rooms
Recent rooms.
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Palm Springs · OctoberPhalaenopsis orchids, white roses, green amaranthus
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Downtown Los Angeles · DecemberBurgundy and blush roses, red amaranthus
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Highland Park · AprilWhite roses, blush ranunculus, silk ribbon
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Malibu · SeptemberWhite roses, delphinium, pampas
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Pasadena · MayGarden roses, stock and grasses down the aisle
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Ojai · MayA tunnel of white and burgundy roses
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Hancock Park · FebruaryRed roses, dahlias and delphinium
The studio
Hi, I’m Simone. I used to build sets.
For eleven years I built sets on soundstages in Burbank: courtrooms, kitchens, one very long cooking competition. What I learned there was how to hang six hundred pounds from a ceiling so it looks like it weighs nothing, and how to take it all down by morning.
In 2017 my best friend got married in a warehouse in Boyle Heights with no budget for flowers. I rigged a cloud of two thousand white carnations over the dance floor, because carnations were what we could afford. A planner was at that wedding. She called me on the Monday.
Now there are nine of us. Rafa runs the rigging and has never dropped a stem from a lift. Mireille buys the flowers at the downtown market at four in the morning. I still draw every install myself, at the kitchen table, to a quarter inch.
Simone
- Certifiedrigging, every crew lead
- $2Mliability insurance, certificates for your venue
- Zerofoam: chicken wire and water tubes
Words
From planners and couples.
“The cloud went up while the caterer was still pressing linens, and came down before the valet finished. I have never seen a strike that clean.”
Lorena M.Wedding planner, Pasadena“Our venue said nothing could hang from that ceiling. Simone came back with a drawing and an engineer’s letter. It hung.”
Jules & OmarPalm Springs, October“Guests kept lying down on the dance floor to look up at it. My grandmother did too.”
Kat & DevonThe ballroom, June
Where
From Frogtown, anywhere the truck can go.
Frames are built and flowers kept in our studio by the river in Frogtown. Site visits by appointment.
| Where | From the studio | Crew travel |
|---|---|---|
| Los Angeles, Pasadena, the Westside | Under an hour | Included |
| Malibu, Orange County, the South Bay | Up to 90 minutes | Included |
| Ojai, Santa Barbara, Temecula | 2 hours | +$900 |
| Palm Springs and the desert | 2 to 3 hours | +$1,400, the crew stays the night |
Questions
Before you inquire.
Can our venue hold a hanging installation?
Most can, and the ones that can’t usually have a beam or a truss we can use. Simone visits, finds the rigging points, and our engineer writes the venue a letter with the weight on each one. If it can’t hang, we build it on the ground and it still looks like it floats.
How far ahead should we book?
Clouds and walls need sixteen weeks for the sketch, the frame and the flower order. Saturdays from April to October go a year out. Shorter is sometimes possible for an arch.
Are the flowers real?
The ones you see are fresh. In a cloud we tuck a little silk into the back and the top, where nobody looks, to keep the weight down and the price sane. Say the word and it’s all fresh.
Can the ceremony piece move to the reception?
Yes. We call it the flip: the crew moves the arch or the meadow during cocktail hour, in about 45 minutes, for $1,200.
What happens to the flowers after?
They never see a dumpster. The strike crew rebunches them that night, and they go to a hospice in Glendale in the morning. You can keep as many as you like.
What’s the smallest thing you make?
An arch, from $6,000. We don’t do bouquets or centerpieces, but we work alongside your florist every week and are glad to recommend one.
How does the price work?
After the sketch you get one fixed price that includes the frame, the flowers, the crew, the load-in and the strike. $1,000 holds your date, half is due at the sketch, and the rest two weeks before.
Inquire
Hold your date with $1,000.
We take one install a day, so a Saturday is held by the first deposit. The $1,000 comes off your fixed price.
- TodayYour date is held and Simone texts you.
- Within two weeksThe site visit, with a laser measure.
- A week laterThe drawing, the stem count and one fixed price.
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