Weddings · Celebrations · Florals
Days you’ll retell
for the rest of your lives.
A planning and design studio for couples who want their day to feel like them — unhurried, personal, impossibly pretty.
Elena & Marcus — vineyard ceremony, October
Ninety guests or nine hundred — we design the day around the two of you.
No template timelines, no recycled mood boards. We start with how you met, what you cook on Sundays and the songs you argue about — then build a celebration only you could have thrown.
Ways to work together
Three packages, one promise: you get to be a guest
Every package ends the same way — you, unhurried, at your own party. The difference is how early we join you on the road there.
No. 1
Full planning
From the first venue visit to the last vendor thank-you note — we carry the whole year so the two of you can just be engaged.
- Venue scouting & contract review
- Full design, florals & tabletop direction
- Budget stewardship & vendor curation
- Unlimited planning calls, two tastings
from $6,800
No. 2
Partial planning
You’ve booked the big pieces; we join six months out to shape the design, close the gaps and land the day beautifully.
- Design refresh of what you’ve started
- Remaining vendor search & booking
- Monthly working sessions from month six
- Full production of the wedding week
from $3,900
No. 3
Wedding day management
You planned it; we land it. From eight weeks out we take the reins so nobody in your family works on the day.
- Timeline built minute by minute
- Vendor confirmations & final logistics
- Rehearsal direction the day before
- Two leads on site, first to last candle
from $1,950
Recent celebrations
A few days we still think about
Elena & Marcus
Vineyard ceremony · 140 guests
Priya & Jonah
Garden estate dinner · 90 guests
The Laurent Anniversary
Thirty years, restaged · 60 guests
Sona & Wren
Courtyard dance floor · 200 guests
How it unfolds
From first call to last dance
01
Inquire
A slow coffee, in person or on a call. Tell us the story so far; we’ll tell you honestly what your date and budget can hold.
02
Design
Moodboards become a design book — palette, florals, paper, light. One vision, argued over until it feels inevitable.
03
Curate
Vendors booked, menus tasted, linens touched. Every contract reviewed twice so nothing surprises you later.
04
Celebrate
We run the timeline to the minute — quietly. You hold hands, eat the cake and stay on the dance floor.
“Gardenia made planning feel like the first good decision of our marriage.”
Priya & Jonah, married June 2025
Kind words in
The studio
Two planners, for the two of you
Gardenia stays deliberately small. The people who sketch your day are the ones standing beside it when the doors open.
Mara Ellison
Founder & lead designer
Twelve seasons in and Mara still cries at every ceremony. She leads design — palettes, florals and the details nobody else would think to source.
June Park
Planning director
A decade running hotel events taught June to own timelines, budgets and vendors without ever raising her voice. Your mother will love her.
2027 dates are opening.
We take twelve weddings a year — never more. Tell us about yours.
Currently booking May 2027 onward.