While canapés, drinks and music are essential to any successful event, nothing quite sets the mood like incredible floristry. Whether you’re planning a London wedding, a birthday party or a soirée, the flowers you choose are essential for ensuring the vibe you’re after.
If you want to elevate proceedings, might we suggest one of London’s best luxury florists, for putting on a display your guests will never forget.
Amaranté
Amarante London
Amaranté creates luxury floral designs for weddings, corporate occasions and some of the UK’s most prestigious venues. Its bespoke arrangements have brought colour, texture and atmosphere to settings ranging from Kew Gardens and Syon Park to Claridge’s, transforming each space into something truly memorable.
From intimate displays to ambitious floral installations and full event production, the team takes a highly personal approach to every commission. Working closely with each client, Amaranté considers everything from the season’s finest blooms and complementary foliage to the positioning of every stem, ensuring the final result feels both distinctive and perfectly suited to the occasion.
Combining extensive expertise with a refined eye for design, the florist delivers arrangements that are imaginative, beautifully crafted and impeccably executed.
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Hamish Powell
There’s a reason Hamish Powell’s name is suddenly everywhere. The London-based botanical artist has made a name for himself by blurring the boundaries between floristry, fashion and fine art, creating arrangements that feel more like sculptural compositions than traditional bouquets. His client list includes Loewe, Hermès, Burberry and Victoria Beckham, while his recent work has ranged from immersive installations to his now-famous bridal bouquet for Charli XCX.
With a background in plant science, Powell brings an almost scientific curiosity to his work, experimenting with unusual botanicals, texture, form and movement. His Charli XCX bouquet – made with locally grown British flowers including cosmos, dahlias, scabious and cornflower – was a masterclass in making the traditional feel unexpectedly cool.
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Ett Hem London
Ett Hem London
For flowers that will last considerably longer than a week, look to Ett Hem London. The design-led studio specialises in luxury ‘forever flowers’: remarkably realistic faux arrangements hand-tied in London using premium real-touch stems, designed to look and feel as close to the real thing as possible. Its colourful, fashion-forward arrangements range from soft pinks and purples to dramatic reds, greens and jewel tones, making them as much an interior statement as a floral arrangement. The brand also offers bespoke and wedding flowers, with bouquets available to buy or hire – ideal for anyone who wants their big-day blooms to live on long after the confetti has settled. And judging by its customer reviews, the illusion is convincing enough to fool dinner-party guests into leaning in for a sniff.
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June In March
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If your idea of the perfect flowers is less ‘traditional bouquet’ and more ‘botanical work of art’, June In March should be on your radar. Founded by floral artist Emily Baylis, the London-based studio works across fresh and preserved flowers, creating everything from intimate wedding arrangements to dramatic, architectural installations. Its work has a distinctly wild, organic quality, with colour, texture and movement used to transform interiors and events. Its approach to floristry is perhaps best summed up by its own philosophy: ‘We don’t decorate – we translate stories into atmospheres.’
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Christie Leigh
Former model turned sought-after florist Christie Leigh has become a favourite of the fashion set, bringing an instinctive understanding of styling to her floral work. Her arrangements have an effortlessly undone quality – abundant, romantic and slightly louche rather than overly polished, making them particularly suited to fashion shoots, events and statement bouquets. Her designs sit somewhere between English country garden and cool-girl nonchalance, proving that luxury floristry doesn’t have to mean prim or predictable.
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Paul Thomas
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Founded in Mayfair in 1989, Paul Thomas has spent more than three decades creating flowers for some of London’s most glittering weddings, events, hotels and private homes. Now based in Battersea, the studio remains best known for its signature take on the English country garden – think generous, romantic bouquets packed with colour, texture and seasonal British blooms. Alongside bespoke weddings and events, Paul Thomas offers weekly flowers and nationwide delivery, meaning you don’t need a stately home or black-tie occasion to experience its particular brand of floristry. And if you want to go one step further, its Battersea Flower School offers the chance to learn the craft from the florists themselves.
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SAGE Flowers
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SAGE Flowers is the Peckham-born florist that helped make traditional floristry feel a whole lot cooler. Founded by Iona Mathieson and Romy St Clair in 2018, the South London studio combines flowers with design and subculture, taking inspiration from everything from club culture and streetwear to art, architecture and the energy of Rye Lane. The result is playful, colourful and deliberately unconventional, with the team favouring unusual flowers, foliage and forms over classic arrangements. It has quickly built a cult following, working with the likes of Fenty, Gucci, Glossier and Loewe, while its work has helped establish SAGE as one of the names redefining contemporary London floristry.
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Moyses Stevens
Quintessentially British and with more than 150 years of history behind it, Moyses Stevens has been a London floristry institution since 1876. Today, the Royal Warrant holder combines its heritage with a distinctly luxurious approach, creating everything from classic hand-tied bouquets to lavish arrangements for private events, weddings and some of the capital’s most prestigious clients. Expect abundant, beautifully considered bouquets made with seasonal British-grown flowers, alongside a selection of more contemporary designs. With shops across some of London’s most fashionable neighbourhoods and its own flower school, Moyses Stevens is as much a part of the capital’s floristry heritage as it is a go-to for a seriously special bouquet.
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Filth Florist
Filth is a contemporary flower studio based in South London, headed up by Creative Director Rosy. Founded with a desire to create bold, architectural and highly expressive floristry, the studio approaches flowers as an art form in their own right, playing with colour, texture, shape and scale.
What began in a Brixton living room has grown into a sought-after studio working across weddings, events, brand activations and custom floral design throughout the UK. Expect sculptural arrangements, unexpected colour combinations and a distinctly theatrical approach to floristry, all created with a sense of individuality and fun. Filth is also a foam-free studio, using sustainable and recyclable floral mechanics wherever possible and working with seasonal flowers and British suppliers when it can.
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