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Wedding flowers · Brooklyn, NY

One flower, placed.

Wedding flowers, one variety at a time. Hana chooses the flower by the month you marry in and gives it room.

One white anemone with a black center in a small black stoneware cylinder
One branch of coral flowering quince in a round white porcelain bottle
One blush peony in a small glass cylinder

Weddings from $1,800 ·
$300 holds the date

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031Anemone, one stemBlack stoneware, 9 cmMarch · Greenpoint

032Flowering quincePorcelain bottle, 14 cmApril · Cobble Hill

033Peony, one bloomGlass cylinder, 8 cmMay · Fort Greene

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Sill makes wedding flowers the way you would hang one painting in an empty room. One variety for the whole day, chosen by the month, set in a vessel from our library, with a lot of air around it. Nothing in foam, nothing dyed, nothing flown in when the Hudson Valley already grows it.

Commissions

Three sizes. One flower in each.

  1. I

    One stemUp to 60 guests

    One variety for the whole wedding. A bridal stem or a small bundle, six boutonnieres, twelve table vessels with one stem each, and one piece for the ceremony.

    $1,800
  2. II

    One varietyUp to 120 guests

    Everything in One stem, at the size of a bigger room: twelve boutonnieres, thirty table vessels, the bar and the welcome table. Hana sets the room herself in the last hour.

    $3,400
  3. III

    One branchAdded to either

    A single large branch, up to nine feet, in a heavy stone vessel for the ceremony or the bar. Dogwood in spring, maple in fall, bare winterberry in January.

    From $1,200

Every commission includes delivery in Brooklyn and Manhattan, setting the room and collecting the vessels the morning after. $300 holds the date and comes off the total.

Five rules

What Sill will and won’t do.

  1. 01One variety per wedding.

    Not one color. One flower. It is the only way the room gets quiet enough to notice it.

  2. 02The month chooses.

    We start from when you marry, not from a palette. In June that means sweet peas, in October calla lilies.

  3. 03Odd numbers, and air.

    One stem, three, five. Never a crowd. The empty wall is part of the arrangement.

  4. 04Nothing in foam.

    Water, a pin frog, a good vessel. Everything goes to compost or back to the grower.

  5. 05The vessel is half the work.

    Every wedding borrows from the library of 140 handmade vessels, collected the morning after.

The collection

Selected works, 2024 to 2026.

  • One cafe-au-lait dahlia in a tall slender celadon vase

    024Dahlia, one stemCeladon bottle, 31 cmSeptember · Carroll Gardens

  • A long white dinner table in a loft with a row of small vessels of white sweet peas

    027Sweet pea, eighteen vesselsStoneware, 7 to 11 cmJune · A loft, Williamsburg

  • A branch of red camellia laid in a low gray stoneware dish

    018Camellia, one branchGray stoneware dishDecember · Park Slope

  • A bride holding one long-stem white calla lily against her ivory dress

    030Calla lily, the bridal stemRaw silk ribbonOctober · Fort Greene

  • A wedding ceremony in a white loft beside one large branch of flowering dogwood

    029Dogwood, one branchStone vessel, 60 cmApril · A loft, Bushwick

  • One small white lisianthus bud pinned to a charcoal suit lapel

    019Lisianthus budThe boutonniereJuly · Cobble Hill

  • A small rooftop dinner table at dusk with five black vessels of pink cosmos

    022Cosmos, five vesselsBlack stonewareAugust · A rooftop, Dumbo

  • Five small vessels with one white stem each on a Brooklyn windowsill

    001Five whitesThe studio sillEvery morning · Greenpoint

The year

Twelve months, twelve stems.

Your month picks the flower. This is what we reach for first, grown within a few hours of Brooklyn.

  1. JanWinterberryBare red branches
  2. FebHelleboreNodding, green and plum
  3. MarAnemoneWhite, the black eye
  4. AprFlowering quinceCoral on a crooked branch
  5. MayPeonyOne bloom is enough
  6. JunSweet peaScent for the whole room
  7. JulLisianthusWhite, still in bud
  8. AugCosmosPink, on long wild stems
  9. SepDahliaCafe au lait
  10. OctCalla lilyA single line
  11. NovPersimmonThe fruit left on the branch
  12. DecCamelliaRed, with its dark leaves
Hana, the florist behind Sill, holding one white tulip in her Greenpoint studio
PortraitHana, with one tulipThe studio, Greenpoint

Hana

I spent six years drawing window sills.

Before Sill I was an architect, drawing stair details and window sills for other people’s buildings. The best thing on any of them, in every photo the clients sent back, was one stem in a jar.

My grandmother taught ikebana at her kitchen table in Fort Lee on Sunday afternoons. Her one rule was to take away until it hurt, and then take one more away. I was nine and I thought she was being stingy with the flowers. I understand her now.

In 2019 a friend asked me to do the flowers for her city hall wedding. I bought nine white tulips, put them in my windowsill to drink overnight, and gave her one. She carried it down the steps like it was the only flower in New York. That was the first Sill wedding.

Now there is a small studio on a side street in Greenpoint, a library of 140 vessels, and about thirty weddings a year, so I can set every one myself.

  • 30weddings a year, each set by Hana
  • 140vessels in the library
  • 1variety per wedding, always
Shelves of empty handmade vases in black, white, gray and celadon

The vessel library

140 vessels, lent with every wedding.

Black stoneware from a potter in Red Hook, porcelain bottles from upstate, old glass from estate sales. Hana chooses them for your room at the visit, and we collect them the morning after.

How it goes

From the date to the morning after.

Hana’s hands pressing one hellebore stem into a brass pin frog in a dark dish
  1. 01
    Up to a year beforeChoose the month

    You hold the date, and the month gives us the flower. If you love something else, we talk about moving the date before we talk about moving the rule.

  2. 02
    Three months beforeThe visit

    Hana comes to the room with three vessels and a notebook, looks at the light and the walls, and draws where every stem will stand.

  3. 03
    Two weeks beforeThe stems are cut to order

    From two growers in the Hudson Valley and one in New Jersey. Nothing flown in.

  4. 04
    The last hourSetting the room

    Hana sets every vessel herself, alone in the room, before the doors open.

  5. 05
    The morning afterThe vessels come home

    We collect the library’s vessels. The flowers are yours, and so is the bridal stem, pressed if you like.

Visitors’ book

5.0 from 64 couples on Google.

  • “Forty guests asked who did the flowers. There were only sweet peas.”

    Aiko and Ben · Williamsburg, June

  • “She talked us out of four colors and into one flower. Best decision of the whole wedding.”

    Dara and Jules · Fort Greene, October

  • “The dogwood is in every photo, and nobody looks at anything else.”

    Lena and Marc · Bushwick, April

Press“The quietest wedding flowers in New York, and the ones you remember.” Field and Vessel Quarterly

Where

A small studio in Greenpoint. Weddings across the city.

Brooklyn and Manhattan
Included
Queens and the Bronx
$75
Hudson Valley, Catskills
$250
The studio
By appointment
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Sill, Greenpoint The studio, by appointment. Weddings across the five boroughs. Open the map

Questions

Before you write.

01Why only one variety?

Because one flower, given room, is louder than twenty fighting for it. Couples who come to Sill usually already feel this. If you want a mix, a lot of wonderful florists in Brooklyn will do it beautifully, and Hana is happy to name a few.

02What if my month’s flower isn’t my favorite?

The calendar is a starting point, not a law. Most months have two or three good choices, and if your favorite is in season within a few weeks of your date, we can usually make it work.

03Do we keep the vessels?

The vessels are lent from the library and collected the morning after. If you fall for one, most can be bought, from $40 to $120.

04Do you do arches, flower walls or big centerpieces?

No arches, no walls, no foam. The biggest thing we make is one branch. If that is not enough for your room, we are probably not the right fit, and that is fine.

05Can you do a city hall wedding?

Yes: one bridal stem and one boutonniere, $420, delivered to your door the morning of, Tuesday to Friday.

06How do I hold my date?

Pick your date below and pay the $300 deposit. It comes off the total, and the rest is due two weeks before the wedding. Hana takes about thirty weddings a year, so the spring Saturdays go first.

Hold a date

$300 holds your date.

Pick the commission and the day. Hana writes back within a day with the flower your month gives you, and a time for the visit.

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