Hortus Poeticus creates wedding floristry through two considered approaches.
Couture is fully bespoke and often expansive in scale, developed through
close collaboration and site visits, and suited to projects requiring
complex, architectural installations.
Studio is more distilled: a simpler, lower-intervention offering that retains
the same seasonal integrity and depth of character, designed for more
intimate settings and gentler budgets.
Both are guided by the same principles:
provenance, restraint and a cultivated understanding of place.
Emily & Harry | An English Harvest Wedding | Couture
Caroline & Marcus | A Spring in London Wedding | Couture
Beth & Tristan | A Winter Drawing Room Wedding | Studio
Annabel & Fred | A Midsummer Wedding | Couture
Jess & Ben | A Hampshire Meadow Wedding | Couture
Amber & Calvin | A woodland Wedding | Couture
Imogen & Rufus | A Bloomsbury-era Wedding | Couture
Freya & George | A Literary Novella Wedding | Studio
Sophie & Hugh | An Autumn Arcadia Wedding | Couture
Liliane & Toby | A Still Life Wedding | Couture
Couture Weddings
Couture is where floristry becomes fully immersive.
Each project is uniquely developed through close collaboration and an attentive reading of the site, allowing the work to unfold at scale. With an architectural sensibility and freedom for complex installations,
Couture weddings invite floral design to shape the atmosphere, structure and story of a space.
A bridal bouquet gathered with intention, where seasonal flowers are interwoven with peas and artichoke, a nod to the bride’s food-led eye and a love of what is grown, not styled.
A freestanding floral installation, shaped by its setting. Attentive to proportion, light and atmosphere, it sits as part of the architecture of the day.
A Couture approach to table flowers, where arrangements are scaled and placed to respond to the architecture of the room. Often briefed as a single, composed scene rather than multiple separate elements.
A couture-scale arrangement designed for a private interior setting. Briefed as part of the day's atmosphere, rather than a formal display, it sits naturally within the home and its collections.
Floral installations placed in dialogue with the doorway and steps, allowing the architecture to lead. In Couture work, thresholds are often treated as scenes of arrival, not statements of excess.
A floral installation shaped around the rhythm of the staircase, allowing flowers and foliage to unfold gradually as the space is
entered and climbed.
Small in scale, but never incidental. These couture buttonholes are composed one by one, allowing detail, season and character to be held close.
Studio Weddings
A Studio Wedding is the essence of what we do, gently pared back.
Season-led, thoughtfully composed, and rooted in the same depth of character as our full-scale work, it offers a more distilled approach — fewer elements, lower intervention, and a quiet confidence in restraint. Designed for intimate settings and gentler budgets, Studio is about choosing beautifully, rather than choosing more.
A Studio approach to an outdoor ceremony, allowing flowers to gather
at ground level and rise naturally into the space. Seasonal, informal and responsive to place
A small, seasonal arrangement made for a lived-in moment — resting among books, glasses and conversation. Studio flowers are often scattered lightly through a space, rather than staged.
A Studio tablescape designed to feel
warm and lived-in. Flowers, candlelight and foliage are layered lightly, allowing the atmosphere to build as the evening unfolds.
A hand-tied Studio bouquet, composed with restraint and ease. Seasonal flowers, chosen carefully and allowed to speak for themselves.
A simple, season-led arrangement, composed with a sense of immediacy. Studio flowers are often made to feel as though they have just been gathered and set down.
A Studio approach to the bridal party, with simple floral crowns worn lightly, small gestures of beauty that bring everyone together.
A Studio buttonhole, simply made
and pinned by hand. Designed as a
small, personal detail rather than a
formal statement.
Studio bridesmaids’ bouquets, each loosely composed from the same seasonal palette. Similar in tone, individual in character.
Work with us
We work with a limited number of clients each season, approaching weddings, events, and moments of occasion with care and attention. Every collaboration begins with conversation, shaping work that is attuned to setting, season, and intent.