Floral installations
Statement pieces built on site — arches, hanging and ceiling work, flower walls, staircases and mantels.
Also called: floral arch, wedding arch, arch flowers, flower wall, floral wall, hanging flowers, ceiling flowers, hanging install, floral install, greenery install, staircase flowers, mantel flowers, floral backdrop, flower installation, chuppah flowers, mandap flowers, arbor.
When couples book this
Usually booked about 9 months out. It moves with your date.
Your wishlist, before you talk to anyone
Questions you can answer early — they become the yardstick you compare candidates against.
Which installations are you dreaming of?
What color palette and style are you picturing?
Fresh, dried, or silk?
What to ask each candidate
Facts that differ from one vendor to the next — worth writing down while you shop.
Does this vendor provide the underlying structures?
Can this vendor rig hanging pieces themselves?
What settles once booked
The working details you and your vendor pin down together.
Which installations?
Color palette & style
Fresh, dried, or silk?
Dressing a chuppah, mandap, or other structure?
How much on-site build time is needed?
How does it come down?
What time do they arrive?
The time you agreed together, not an estimate worked back from the ceremony.
What time do they finish?
Who do you call on the day?
The name and cell number of whoever is on site — not the office line.
Where do they come in, and where do they park?
The load-in door or dock, where the vehicles go, and who opens up.
Do they need a meal?
Counts toward your caterer's vendor-meal number.
What balance is due on the day?
Your own figure, from your contract — what is still owed when they arrive.
What gratuity are you planning?
Your own figure. It rides beside the balance on the day-of money sheet.
Who takes flowers home, and which ones?
Names and arrangements. Vases that belong to the florist usually stay — worth writing down which are which.
How it lands on your day
Installation build
Big builds are the widest floral block on the day — often the first vendor in.
Installation strike
How it’s usually priced
Usually priced per arrangement.
Lines that sometimes ride along: Arch / frame / structure rental, Rigging & install labor.
What your vendor reads from your plan
Book on or off Beetrothed — either way the plan assembles a brief your vendor can work from: the event, design, installations, logistics, contacts.
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Plan your floral installations — and everything around it
These questions live as one cell of a connected plan: your budget, guest list, checklist and timeline all read from the same answers. See the whole board work, or join the waitlist and we’ll write when it’s your turn.
We will write when there is something worth telling you.