FAQs about Colorado florals and event design
Before the Flowers Get Feral, Let’s Get a Few Things Straight
From flowers and event design to what it’s actually like to work together, here’s everything you might want to know before we get carried away.
What matters around here
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Yes. You never need to edit your family, relationship, traditions, identity, or the way you celebrate to make it easier for me to understand. Tell me what matters to you and who matters to you, and I’ll meet you there. I care much more about people being kind to one another than about everyone being the same.
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Yes, but I’m wary of pretending there’s a perfectly sustainable way to make events full of flowers. There isn’t. I’d rather be thoughtful about the choices I can control, reduce unnecessary waste, reuse materials and mechanics, and keep looking for better ways to make the work than make claims I can’t actually back up.
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No. Ash + Ether is a foam-free studio. Floral foam creates microplastic waste and isn’t something I want my team handling all day, so I build with reusable mechanics and other foam-free methods instead.
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Absolutely, when they’re available and right for the design. I love buying from local growers and getting access to varieties that look like they came straight from the earth. I also import flowers when the vision calls for something I can’t source locally. The design gets to use the best of both.
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It doesn’t mean turning every hobby you’ve ever had into a centerpiece. I’m looking for the things that tell me something about you: the places you love, what you collect, family traditions, colors you’re always drawn to, a weird reference you can’t stop thinking about, or something you saved without really knowing why. Not every detail needs a deeper meaning. I just want the choices we make to belong to you rather than to an idea of what your event is supposed to look like.
Before you send the inquiry
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Yes. Flowers are my primary medium, but I can also help shape the larger visual experience through tablescapes, rentals, sourcing, styling, and custom pieces. If you already have your tablescape or the rest of the design figured out, that’s completely fine too. I’ll still consider the whole space and design the flowers to belong with everything you’ve already chosen.
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I’m based in Colorado and work throughout the state, including Denver, Boulder, Aspen, Vail, and the mountain communities. I also travel throughout the Mountain West, especially Montana, Wyoming, Utah, and Arizona, and I’m happy to go farther for the right project. Tell me where you’re gathering, and we’ll figure out what it takes to get me there.
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Absolutely. I can design flowers for an intimate dinner at home, a 50-person celebration, or a much larger wedding or event. The design scope should fit the gathering, not the other way around.
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Not at all. You can come to me with a fully formed vision, a Pinterest board, a handful of strange references, or just a sense of how you want the whole thing to feel. I don’t need you to know flower names or have every detail figured out. I just need something to start pulling on.
Getting on my calendar
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As early as you can, especially for weddings, larger events, custom fabrication, or anything that requires more involved sourcing. But if you’re planning something last-minute, reach out anyway. If I can make it happen, I will.
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Because I learn a lot more from talking to you than I do from a questionnaire. You’ll mention something offhand, show me a reference you weren’t sure was relevant, or react to an idea in a way that gives me somewhere interesting to go. For smaller or more straightforward projects, we may not need one at all.
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Once you’ve received your proposal and you’re ready to move forward, you’ll sign the contract and make the required payment to reserve your date. The exact payment schedule depends on the project type and scope.
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It depends on what we’re making. A dinner at home, a brand event, and a full-service wedding require very different amounts of flowers, labor, sourcing, and production.
Most full-service weddings begin at $6,000, with 100–150-person weddings typically falling around $8,000–$12,000+. Smaller-scope weddings may be considered when the design, setting, and creative fit are right.
Other gatherings and projects are custom quoted based on scope.
Working together
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That’s really up to you. If you have lots of opinions, give them to me. If you’d rather tell me what matters and let me take it from there, I’m very comfortable with that too. I’ll make sure you’re part of the decisions that actually need you without giving you another job to do.
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Yes. You’ll always get a visual design deck so we can make sure we’re seeing the same thing before I start making anything. For a smaller project, that might be fairly simple. For a large wedding or event, it can become a much more detailed roadmap for the entire visual direction.
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Of course. Events have moving parts. Guest counts change, floor plans move, and sometimes you just change your mind. Tell me as things shift, and we’ll adjust where we can. Bigger changes can affect the price, and once I’ve ordered flowers or started production, there’s naturally less room to move things around.
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Absolutely. Tell me if there’s a flower you love, one you can’t stand, or something that feels important to include. Those preferences become part of the design direction, along with the colors, shapes, textures, and references we’ve already established. But flowers are a natural material, and I make the final selections based on what’s available and what looks best when it’s time to create your flowers. The goal is to stay true to the design we agreed on, not to a specific list of stems.
The day-of details for your event
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I do. My team and I handle delivery, setup, and installation of everything I’ve designed so it’s all where it needs to be before the event begins.
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If we’ve planned for something to move, my team will handle it. I’ll design with the move in mind from the beginning so we’re not trying to figure out halfway through the event whether a six-foot floral installation can suddenly go somewhere else.
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My team and I do, when teardown is part of the project. We come back for my vessels, mechanics, rentals, and anything else that belongs to the studio. A lot of those pieces have been used dozens of times and will be used dozens more. That reuse is a big part of what sustainability looks like in my studio.
Do you have any questions I didn’t answer? Reach out to me using my contact form.
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