How to Find a Florist in the South of France and 7 of our Favourites
You’ve sorted the venue, a few of your other lovely suppliers and now it’s time to think all things flowers - but where to start? In France there are a few options for the types of wedding florist you can choose. There are flower shops, floral design studio and wedding planners and designers who offer floral design as one of their services too. Below we’ve listed the lowdown on each so you can figure out what’s best for you, along with some of our favourite florists in the South of France.
If you’re yet to sort your wedding venue, then we’ve got you covered. Read our blog posts listing the top wedding venues in France, be they barn, vineyard, chateau, coastal or intimate wedding venues. Or if you’re still in the phase of simply dreaming of a French wedding, we highly recommend reading our blog post on 12 of the Most Asked Questions About Planning a Wedding in the South of France.
Flower shops
These can typically be discovered on the local streets and will sell flowers, bouquets and plants within their shop. If your flower requirements are fairly low-key, they’ll be able to create your bridal bouquets and buttonholes for you, but their working space and team numbers mean they probably can’t prep flowers for your whole wedding. This is a good option for small weddings, elopements or if you’re planning to not feature flowers particularly heavily throughout your day.
Floral design studios
Floral design studios tend to be a mix between florists that have a storefront and others that don’t and work from a workshop space. They’re usually dedicated to doing wedding and event flowers between May and September, with the rest of their time focused heavily on flowers for purely events. There’s a strong likelihood they may have worked at your venue, so they’ll be able to advise what will look great and inform you on what is and isn’t possible within that venue. With events being their bread and butter, they’ll often have lots of vases and pots that you’ll be able to rent from them to get the look and feel that you’re after. Most floral design studios will have a distinctive style that they’ll stick to, so it’s important to research and check their style suits you well.
Wedding designers and planners
It’s becoming increasingly more common for wedding planners to offer floristry services too. This is good option if you would like to keep things streamlined, have a single contact for all things decorative and keep the floral design in line with their style for everything else. One thing to check is that they are professionally trained, so you can be confident that they’re able to create those trickier floral arrangements. Some of them aren’t the florist themselves but are partnered with a professional florist, so it’s worth asking and noting this too.
Our florist recommendations
Wayne Riley Flowers
Wayne Riley Flowers is made up of a team of one English florist and one French florist and they have a reputation as a leading luxury event and wedding florist across the French Riviera and beyond. Both owners have worked in the music and fashion industry, helping them to bring to life their opulent and glamorous arrangements, embracing flowers in abundance. Known for their eye for detail, they have been featured on Style Me Pretty, Junebug Weddings, Wedding Sparrow and in Brides Magazine.
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Source: Wayne Riley Flowers
Fleur’s Design by Faustine
After years of training and working in London as a florist alongside some of the most prestigious florists in the country, Faustine decided to come back to her home town in Montpellier to pursue her passion there through Fleur’s Design. Whilst in London she created arrangements for locations such as The Gherkin, Harrods, The Orient Express, Bulgari and Boodles to name just a few. Alongside this she also worked on film and television productions such as Mr Selfridge and the remake of Beauty and the Beast, so it’s fair to say she knows a good arrangement when she sees one.
Source: Brides in France
Source: Brides in France
Les Ephemeres
Romantic, wild and organic in style, Les Ephemeres takes inspiration from their surrounding Brittany landscape along with beloved English, lightly disorganised gardens. The owner Chloé was born in New York but grew up in France, with a few years spent at a boarding school in Britain. Les Ephemeres has no standard pricing list or catalog and instead prefer to work with you to find arrangements that suit both your taste and budget. They work mainly with eco friendly growers, and forage to stay in line with seasonality and the company’s core values.
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Source: Les Ephemeres
La Coeur Sauvage
As a fully English speaking floral design company, La Coeur Sauvage can design and create your floral arrangements, all the way through to collecting the flowers and rental pieces after the wedding. They are able to tailor their style to each couple and can design everything from luxury high end wedding flowers to boho wildflower floral arrangements.
Source: Brides in France
Source: La Coeur Sauvage
Laure Lalliard Design
Based in the French Alps near Geneva, Laure Lalliard Design is a fine art floral designer that specialises in elopements and intimate wedding events in France and Switzerland. They use only the highest quality flowers and materials and have a design led aesthetic, with the lead florist coming from a fashion background.
Source: Romaine Vaucher
Source: Romaine Vaucher
Lily Paloma
Created by couple Soline and Clement, the company is sweetly named after Soline’s mother Lily and her favourite perfume, Paloma Picasso. Her mother passed onto Soline her love of English gardens, fragrant roses and the harmony of colours that ultimately encouraged her to become a florist. Their florals are inspired by nature, timeless elegance and a love for detail. Their event clients include brands such as Tom Ford, Jo Malone, Chanel, Dior, Dolce and Gabbana, La Mer and Bobbi Brown. Based in the middle of Normandy, they also have a natural ribbon dyeing company called Daucus Tinctura, creating ribbons that are the perfect accompaniment to your wedding florals.
Source: Style Me Pretty
Source: Style Me Pretty
Source: Style Me Pretty
Luxe Paris Events
Founded by American Billy Folchetti, Luxe Paris Events specialise in event and wedding planning, alongside floral design too. They believe that floral ‘packages’ are a thing of the past and pride themselves on creating a list of services on a more individual and specific basis. Their events and florals are glamorous and decadent, and are perfect for a wedding on the French Riviera. They’re based in Paris but are able to travel to wherever you need.
Source: Luxe Paris Events
Source: Luxe Paris Events
If you want to learn more about getting married in France, we recommend swotting up on 10 French Wedding Traditions You Might Want to Embrace and 9 Wedding Dress Designers You Can Choose That Embrace Effortless French Style.
