FAQs
What is it like to work with the New Leaf Team?
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We pride ourselves on creating a fun, relaxed, and knowledgeable experience for all of our lovely clients. Our number one goal is to provide a safe, welcoming, transparent space for our clients to communicate with us. There are no “stupid questions”, we always want to address your thoughts to the best of our ability. You matter, your love matters. We want you to feel heard and cared for throughout the entire process of working together.
What is the average budget for the weddings you design for?
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While our minimum for a Full Service wedding is $7k plus sales tax, on average our clients invest between $11k-$15k for a wedding of 80-170 guests.
What is the difference between Full Service and Pick Up Options?
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Full Service weddings include our team designing in studio for two to three days before your event. We will then load up, deliver, design on site, repurpose, refresh, and make sure every floral detail is up to our high standards. After the event we will be back to remove the florals and clean any floral debris to leave the venue as if the event never happened. We have a minimum for our Full Service option in order to compensate our talented team not only for their design skills, but also the incredibly long hours associated with working at a wedding.
Pick-Up Weddings are for clients who are willing to DIY a bit of the labor themselves. We will design everything in studio, pack it up, and provide instructions for floral care after you’ve picked them up. This option saves on labor and travel costs that we charge to clients for the full service option. The types of designs provided for this option are more limited to make it easier for our clients to set up the florals themselves.
What does being a sustainable florist mean?
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We source 95% of our blooms from local flower farms across the PNW, most of which are grown in Washington, Oregon, and California. Sourcing local blooms cuts back on the travel costs associated with imported flowers.
We do not use floral foam, as these microplastics are harmful to ourselves and the earth. All of our mechanics, armatures, and sundries are either reusable or compostable. It is important to us that we approach every event with the goal to create as little waste as possible. Wastefulness is gross, sustainability is gorgeous!
Do you provide “a la carte” services?
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We do! We love to design for smaller events such as elopements and micro-weddings. If you love to DIY this option is great as we do not provide delivery for a la carte orders.
What happens to all the flowers after an event?
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At the end of any event we offer to make bundles of blooms to gift to your guests. If this is not an option each design is disassembled and brought back to our studio for us to sort compost and our reusable mechanics such as chicken wire and pin frogs. We will dry certain flowers to collect their seeds and plant them in our garden for supplemental blooms to be used in the next wedding and event season.
What type of services do you provide?
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Providing a solid design plan takes many admin hours of communication with our clients, other vendors, and wholesalers. We provide highly curated proposals and design plans throughout the process in order to provide our clients with as clear of a picture as possible for what will be happening on site.
Will the price be lower if we use different flowers?
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Since we source locally and shop for what is in season the overall cost does not tend to fluctuate much if we were to source “different” flowers. We see each piece we design as less of a formula, but rather a piece of art with which we need a variety of “paints” to design. Each type of design has a base price which will fluctuate depending on what nature is willing to provide that season and what our clients design goals are.
What does it mean to “repurpose” designs?
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Repurposing is a huge part of being a sustainable florist. However, not all designs are created to be in multiple places. For example, imagine a wedding on a hot day in August. The ceremony space is sun drenched with very little shade and you’ve asked your florists to “repurpose” the centerpieces meant for guest tables and place them down the aisle for the ceremony.
Firstly, table centerpieces are viewed from 360 degrees, while aisle pieces are viewed from only three sides. Your centerpieces are sitting out in the sun (which flowers don’t love), and are picked up from the ground to be placed where your lovely guests are sitting down to eat. They are not large enough to make an impact and are not weighted enough to stand up on their own without being easily knocked over by a guest.
A good rule of thumb with repurposing is moving the piece to a location similar to where it was previously. For example, a modular arch can go from the ceremony to behind the sweetheart table or in front of a tent entrance, aisle meadows can be placed on the ground in front of sweetheart table or used as end-caps at rectangular tables.
We also don’t recommend repurposing bridal bouquets or bridesmaids bouquets as these pieces are out of water during photos and often tossed around while you and your wedding party have a great time!
What types of costs other than the florals are associated with booking New Leaf?
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Other costs to be aware of when booking your wedding or event florals are delivery, rental vehicles, thirty percent of the subtotal for labor, removal of the florals at the end of the night and sales tax. Depending on where your venue is we also charge for travel accommodations for the size of team needed to bring your vision to life.
Do you only work with color?
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While clients mostly book us for our funky, bold, interesting color palettes we love an event with fun textures, neutral tones, and sculptural shapes. In general, we love flowers, any and all kinds!
Do you provide one on one studio classes?
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Yes! Camile is happy to book a one on one session with anyone who would like to learn how to design with gorgeous local blooms. One on one sessions are made by appointment only and are offered in two different versions:
Market Run and Studio Time: Meet Camile at the Seattle Growers market, and she will walk you through how and why she chooses certain blooms. You will then have a few hours in studio to design a bridal bouquet and a centerpiece, all of which Camile will photograph, edit, and send you photos for your portfolio. $800
Studio Time Only: Skip the market run and meet Camile at her studio to spend a couple hours learning to design a bridal bouquet and centerpiece. Camile will photograph your designs, edit, and send them to you for your portfolio. $700
Email newleaffloraldesigns@gmail.com directly to get started!
Do you provide candles and glass?
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Absolutely! We source our candles from both Yummi Candles and Camilia Supply who provide a wide variety of colors shapes and sizes to elevate the entire design of your wedding.
Do you provide group workshops?
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We love the opportunity to teach the art of floral design to private groups and with local small businesses who would like to provide a space for folks to gather and learn. We have hosted a few workshops in partnership with Kitchen & Market in Kirkland, WA and hope to host more in the near future!
What locations do you deliver to?
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Most of our weddings and events we service are in Seattle, Woodinville, Issaquah, Snohomish, and Puyallup. Anything outside of a 30 mile radius from our studio in Renton is considered a long distance delivery and will incur higher delivery/labor fees, which are calculated on a per event basis.