Marigold & Vine
A bride holds her groom's face during their first dance under strings of warm café lights

Wedding planning & florals — Charleston & the Lowcountry

The best partof the nightstarts afterthe vows.

We plan and flower weddings for candlelight — long tables, low flowers, and a reception people leave last.

Check your date

Planning from $14,000 · flowers from $6,500

Roll 24 · six receptions · one clock

One night,frame by frame

Six frames from six of our receptions, in the order a night runs. Not the ceremony — the five hours after it.

  1. A guest laughing with a wine glass in hand beside a silver candelabra at dinner
    24A 8:30 pm — table four, mid-story
  2. The bride smiles under strings of café lights as the best man speaks
    25A 9:05 pm — the best man’s speech actually lands
  3. A guest in a sequined dress at a long dinner table set with linen napkins and glowing votives
    26A 9:40 pm — second helpings, nobody checking the time
  4. A guest tastes the wedding cake between tall black taper candles while friends in wine-red dresses watch
    27A 10:15 pm — the cake gets tasted before it’s cut
  5. A laughing bride spins on the dance floor while friends hold out the hem of her dress
    28A 11:05 pm — the dress gets a spin
  6. The groom dips the bride for a kiss inside a tunnel of guests holding sparklers
    29A 12:40 am — sparkler exit, eleven minutes late

Three waysto hand usthe night

One studio, two crafts. About twenty weddings a year, so yours is the only one on our calendar that weekend.

Most couples invest $22,000–$40,000 across planning and flowers. Weekday elopements on request. Candles always included.

Not on the menu

  • Venue, catering, the band — we introduce the ones we trust
  • Travel past the Lowcountry — quoted per wedding
  • Confetti cannons. We have opinions.

2027 Saturdays 9 of 20 still open

  1. 01

    Full planning & design

    Twelve to eighteen months, from venue walk to last song — built around the moment the lights go down.

    • Budget map + the whole vendor team
    • Floor plan, timeline, printed design book
    • A rain plan you’ll never need

    $14,000to $26,000

  2. 02

    Floral design

    Low, lush, candle-height. Chosen for how they look at 9 pm, not at noon.

    • Centrepieces, bouquet, boutonnieres
    • Local stems whenever the season allows
    • We relight every candle at ten

    $6,500to $30,000

  3. 03

    Day-of coordination

    You planned it, we run it — so your family stays on the dance floor.

    • We step in eight weeks out
    • Two planners on the night, zero clipboards for Mom
    • We carry the leftover flowers to your car

    $3,200to $4,800

Recentnights

Four couples, four very different Saturdays. Each one kept its own ending.

4 couples · 390 guests · 1 storm · 0 clipboards

Ada and Theo slow-dance among guests holding sparklers under lights strung through the trees
N°01

Ada & Theo

Oct 2025

an oak alley outside town · 140 guests

Theo’s grandmother asked for one slow song. The band played it at 11:40, and all 140 people stayed on the floor for it.

Full planning · florals · 212 candles

Lena and Sam kiss beside an old wooden barn under café lights and a big tree at night
N°02

Lena & Sam

Jun 2025

a tobacco barn on a river farm · 120 guests

A storm at seven, dinner forty minutes late. By ten they had slipped out behind the barn, and nobody remembers the storm.

Full planning · the rain plan (used, for once)

One long candlelit table set for ninety inside a brick warehouse, minutes before the doors open
N°03

June & Marcus

Apr 2025

a brick cotton warehouse by the harbor · 90 guests

One table, ninety chairs, 140 feet of candles. They skipped the choreographed first dance and invited the whole room in after the first chorus.

Day-of coordination · florals

Nora laughs behind her hand as Eli feeds her cake under a tent strung with lights
N°04

Nora & Eli

Dec 2024

a courtyard downtown, under a borrowed tent · 40 guests

Forty guests, lights borrowed from the restaurant next door. Eli fed her the first bite of cake; Nora laughed until her mascara gave up.

Full planning · florals

Kind words

“At midnight the candles were still burning and nobody had gone home. That was the whole brief — and they read it perfectly.”

C. & J. · married on a sea island, October
A low centrepiece of dark red roses, dahlias and cream hydrangea among votive candles
Centrepiece, 9 pm light

Flowers thathold upafter dark

Pale pastels disappear by candlelight. Deep tones and texture don’t. We build every palette for the hour your guests will actually be looking at it.

Spring
ranunculus, sweet pea, jasmine vine
Summer
garden roses, lisianthus, magnolia leaf
Autumn
dahlia, cosmos, marigold, muscadine
Winter
camellia, hellebore, citrus branches
Small jars of baby’s breath and dark foliage glowing among votive candles on an old wine barrel
The bar, 9 pm · votives, baby’s breath, a wine barrel
A bride holds a round bouquet of red dahlias, garden roses and hypericum berries against her dress
Her bouquet · dahlia, garden rose, hypericum
A woman’s hands pin a small orange boutonniere to a groom’s dark green lapel
6:40 pm — his mother pins the marigold
Our crew sets tapers and place settings along a long wooden table in a dim warehouse before guests arrive
4:10 pm — lighting the first of 212 candles

How a nightgets made

  1. Talk

    Coffee or a call. About you, not about linens. You leave with a budget map.

  2. Design

    Palette, flowers, table, light — one printed book you can mark up.

  3. Details

    Vendors booked, timeline drafted, a rain plan you’ll never need.

  4. Night

    Two planners, one florist crew, and somebody whose only job is the candles.

Save usa seat

We reply within two working days. If your date is taken, we’ll tell you right away — and point you to people we trust.

(555) 010-4417

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The flower studio, 41 Cannon Street, Charleston SC · by appointment, Tue–Fri
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