Dried and preserved · Austin, Texas
Flowers
that keep.
Pampas, palm spear, bunny tails, strawflower · dried by hand, all year
Wedding bouquets, boutonnieres and arches that look the same at the last dance as they do in ten years. Made in East Austin, shipped anywhere in the country.
Dried bouquets from $180Ships to all 50 statesCheck your date
Pampas and palm, the studio
The drying room, August
Bridal, rust and wheat
Door wreath, December
PampasPalm spearBunny tailsStrawflowerWheatStaticeRuscusLagurusBroom bloomEucalyptusCraspediaOats
Bouquets
The price sheet, pinned to the wall.
Everything is priced per piece, so you buy exactly what the day needs. Or pick a bundle and we’ll match it all.
The couple$240
Bridal bouquet and a boutonniere, boxed togetherThe partyfrom $650
Bridal, four bridesmaids, six boutonnieresThe whole roomfrom $2,400
The party, twelve centerpieces and the arch
Driftseed · price sheet 2027
- Bridal bouquetfrom $180Hand-tied, silk ribbon
- Bridesmaid bouquet$65A smaller echo of yours
- Boutonniere$18Wheat, bunny tail and one bloom
- Wrist corsage$28On a linen band
- Bud vase trio$45For the welcome table
- Centerpiece$75Low, in a stoneware bowl
- Ceremony archfrom $1,200Set up and taken down in Austin
- Door wreath$120Any season, any door
Every piece in your palette · $100 holds a wedding date
Palettes
Pick a palette. We’ll pick the stems.
Rust and wheatOur most asked for. Warm against white, perfect in October.
In itRust strawflower, wheat, palm spear, bunny tails, natural pampas
Hold a date in this palette
Blush and boneSoft and bright. Loves a spring garden and a lace dress.
In itBlush roses, bleached ruscus, white strawflower, pale pampas, bunny tails
Hold a date in this palette
Sage and creamQuiet and green. The one for a courthouse or a garden.
In itDried eucalyptus, cream strawflower, lagurus, sage grass, white statice
Hold a date in this palette
Plum and emberMoody and rich. For winter, candlelight and velvet.
In itBurgundy roses, amaranth, plum palm, oak leaves, dark broom bloom
Hold a date in this paletteFrom the field to your door
Grown in summer. Kept forever.
- Grown and dried
01Three growers in the Hill Country cut for us all summer. Every stem hangs upside down in the drying room for two to three weeks.
- Built by hand
02Paloma builds your pieces at the long table, in your palette, from a sketch she sends you first.
- Boxed and shipped
03Each piece is tucked in tissue in a crush-proof box and leaves the studio ten days before your date.
- Kept for years
04No water, no wilting. Your bouquet goes on a shelf after the wedding and stays there.
The studio
Hi, I’m Paloma. I dry flowers for a living.
I grew up in San Antonio, in a kitchen where something was always hanging to dry: chiles on a string, oregano from the yard, the marigolds my grandmother kept from every Día de los Muertos. I didn’t know it was a craft until much later.
For eight years I styled photo shoots in Austin. Then, at a ranch wedding one July, I watched a hundred fresh hydrangeas wilt in forty minutes, before the vows. The next week I hung my first bunch of strawflowers from a curtain rod.
Driftseed opened in 2019 in a cinder-block garage in East Austin with a swamp cooler and a lot of twine. Now three Hill Country growers cut for us all summer, the drying room holds about four thousand bunches, and boxes leave for every state but Alaska. (Alaska, we’re ready when you are.)
Paloma
Lately
Off the table, out the door.
A limestone barn, Dripping Springs · the arch, pampas and palm
Wimberley, October · rust and wheat
Twelve centerpieces, Lockhart- Blush and bone, shipped to Vermont
- Plum and ember, Marfa, December
Notes we keep on the wall.
★★★★★ 4.9 from 212 reviews
“It arrived in Maine without a single bent stem. Two years later it’s still on my dresser.”
Abby · Portland, Maine“A July wedding at a ranch in Fredericksburg. Ninety-eight degrees, and the flowers didn’t care.”
Lucía and Ben · Fredericksburg“Paloma dried my grandmother’s bouquet from 1961 into a frame. My mom cried.”
Carmen · San Antonio
Shipping and pickup
Made in East Austin. Shipped anywhere.
Pickup at the studioEast Austin, Thursday to Saturday
FreeDelivery in AustinHand-delivered the day before
$25Anywhere in Texas2 days, insured
$18Anywhere in the US3 to 5 days, insured
$28
Wedding orders ship ten days before your date, so the box is waiting for you and not the other way around. Everything is insured and tracked.
Questions
What people ask us.
How long do dried flowers last?
Years. Keep them out of direct sun and away from the shower, and they’ll look the way they did on the day for three to five years. Colors soften slowly, like an old photograph.
Will they shed?
A little at first, the way a new sweater does. Pampas and bunny tails are sealed with a light hairspray before they ship, so you won’t find fluff on the dress.
When should I order?
Six to twelve weeks before your date. Pieces ship ten days before, so you have time to open the box and breathe.
What if something arrives broken?
Send a photo the day it arrives and we’ll remake and overnight it. In six years it has happened twice.
Can I see my palette before you make it?
Yes. Paloma sends a sketch and a photo of the stems laid out on the table, and nothing is built until you say yes.
Can you dry my fresh wedding bouquet?
Yes. Ship it or drop it off within three days of the wedding, and we press or air-dry it and return it framed or under glass, from $95.
Book
Check your date. $100 holds it.
Tell us the day and where it should go. Paloma texts you within a day with a first sketch of your palette.
Wimberley, October- 1Service
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