The floral studio
Wedding and event floral design
We travel to your venue. We do not host weddings at the farm. Start the conversation whenever you are ready.
Bronte designs the flowers for weddings and events, and we grow as many of them as our season will allow right here on the farm.
That combination is less common than it sounds. Most event florists buy everything they use, because that is the only way to have any flower on any date. Most flower farms grow beautifully and hand the stems off to somebody else to design with. We are trying to sit in the middle of those two, which means locally grown flowers when the season cooperates and honestly sourced flowers when it does not.
We are early in this. If you want to know what we can actually do for your day, the answer comes from a conversation, not from a package on a page.
What a conversation with us covers
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What the day actually looks like
Where it is, how many people, indoors or out, and what time of year. Season and venue decide more about flowers than any other two facts, so this is where every useful conversation starts.
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What you are drawn to
Bring pictures. Bring the ones you cannot stop looking at and, if you have them, the ones you strongly do not want. Both are useful, and the second kind is usually more useful.
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What is realistic for your date
Some flowers simply are not available in Iowa in early May, and some are at their absolute best. We would rather tell you that up front than quietly substitute something and hope you do not notice.
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What we can grow for you
If your date falls in our growing season, some of what you carry can come off this farm. If it does not, we will say so plainly rather than stretch the story.
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What it costs
Real numbers for your actual day, once we know what the day is. No published price list, because a price list for wedding flowers is a guess dressed up as information.
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Whether we are the right fit
Sometimes the honest answer is that somebody else is a better match for what you want. We would rather tell you that early than take the booking and be a disappointment on the day.
How it works
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Reach out with the basics
Date, venue, rough size, and anything you already know you want. If you only have half of that, send half of it. Nothing here requires you to have it all figured out yet.
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We talk it through
A real conversation about the day, the season, the room and the budget. This is where the good ideas actually come from, and it is also where the impossible ones get caught.
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You get a proposal
What we would make, what it would cost, and what depends on the season. Written down, so you can sit with it and come back with questions instead of deciding in the moment.
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We bring it to you
We deliver and set up at your venue on the day. Weddings are not hosted at the farm, so wherever you are getting married is where the flowers show up.
Grown here when the season allows, sourced honestly when it does not
Here is the part most florists will not put in writing. Nobody in Iowa grows every flower a wedding needs on every date a wedding happens. Anyone who tells you otherwise is either buying stems and not mentioning it or is about to disappoint you in March.
What we can do is grow as much as we possibly can during our season, use it while it is at its best, and buy in what we have to for the rest. When something on your table came off this ground, we will tell you. When it did not, we will tell you that too.
The advantage of growing any of it at all is that locally grown flowers are cut closer to when you actually see them, which shows. The advantage of buying some is that your February wedding is not limited to what survives an Iowa winter. Doing both is not a compromise, it is just the honest version of the job.
The farm sits between two metros, with Omaha about fifty five minutes west and most of Des Moines about an hour east, so venues in either direction are a reasonable drive for us. Tell us where you are and we will tell you whether it works.
Questions people ask
Do you host weddings at the farm?
No. We design and deliver flowers to your venue. The farm is a working farm rather than an event space, and turning it into one is not something we are doing. Where you get married is where the flowers arrive.
Do you grow all your own flowers?
No, and we will not pretend to. We grow as much as our season allows and source the rest. Which flowers on your day came off this ground depends entirely on your date, and we will tell you which is which before you book.
How far do you travel?
The farm sits between Omaha and Des Moines, each roughly an hour away, so venues in either direction are usually workable. Further out is worth asking about. Tell us the venue and you will get a real answer rather than a maybe.
Do you have a price list?
No, because wedding flowers do not price that way honestly. Guest count, venue, season and what you actually want move the number enormously. Send us the details and you will get real numbers for your real day.
When should I reach out?
Earlier is better, especially if your date lands in our growing season and you want flowers we can grow for it. That said, a late inquiry is still worth sending. The worst outcome is that we are not available and we say so quickly.
What information helps you most?
Your date, your venue, roughly how many people, and a handful of pictures of what you like. That is enough for us to have an actual opinion instead of a polite one, and it is enough to tell you early whether we fit.
Elsewhere on the farm
Tell us about your day
Send the date, the venue and anything you already love. You will get an honest answer about whether we are the right people for it.
Start the conversation