{"id":921106,"date":"2026-04-27T04:26:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T04:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/921106\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T04:26:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T04:26:17","slug":"euphoria-season-3-wedding-production-designer-breaks-it-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/921106\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Euphoria’ Season 3 Wedding: Production Designer Breaks It Down"},"content":{"rendered":"

Editor\u2019s Note: The following story contains spoilers<\/strong> for \u201cEuphoria<\/a>\u201d Season 3, Episode 3.<\/p>\n

The impending nuptials of Cassie (Sydney Sweeney<\/a>) and Nate (Jacob Elordi) have been a key topic of discussion since the season premiere of HBO<\/a>\u2018s \u201cEuphoria<\/a>,\u201d and tonight, all the anticipation in a wild wedding that ended with the bride in tears and the groom bloodied and missing a toe. Before Nate\u2019s unfortunate encounter with a disgruntled investor, however, the series provided a ceremony as lavish and garish as the dialogue had promised ever since Cassie\u2019s demand for a $50,000 flower budget in episode one \u2014 a plot point that originated in debates between production designer Fran\u00e7ois Audouy<\/a> and series creator Sam Levinson.<\/p>\n

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\u201cMy set decorator Anthony Carlino and I wanted to do all real flowers at both the ceremony and the reception, and because I wanted it to be a very specific color scheme, the quantity meant it would cost a small fortune,\u201d Audouy told IndieWire. \u201cWe were talking about it for weeks, and I ended up saying we might as well not even have a wedding if we\u2019re not going to be able to afford the right flowers. Instead of seeing my challenge as a crisis or a problem, Sam wrote it into the script, and it became a wonderful detail in Cassie\u2019s dialogue.\u201d<\/p>\n

Audouy \u2014 and Cassie \u2014 did end up getting the desired floral arrangements, but it wasn\u2019t easy. \u201cI wanted the flowers to have the same color palette as shrimp cocktail,\u201d Audouy said. \u201cI literally sampled the colors from cooked shrimp. We bought not only all the flowers in this color scheme in California, but in three surrounding states. I had never seen so many flowers in my life. To add to that, we had to refrigerate the soundstage to keep the flowers from wilting over the week of filming.\u201d<\/p>\n

The shrimp cocktail idea came from Auduoy\u2019s desire to make Cassie\u2019s wedding both extravagant and comical. \u201cI was looking for a reflection of how absurd some of these over-the-top weddings can be,\u201d Auduoy said. \u201cThe absurdity of families who overspend on these weddings as a reflection of status in the community, and how that can manifest itself in things like ice sculptures. I found references of shrimp buffets in serving receptacles carved out of ice, with shrimp cascading onto the table. It was so perverse and ridiculous, and when I was going on about it, Sam said, \u2018That should be the color scheme for the whole fucking thing.’\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Sydney\u2018Euphoria\u2019Eddy Chen<\/p>\n

Ice sculptures found their way into another aspect of the production design, the hilarious statue of Cassie and Nate \u2014 another case where production discussions or problems found their way into the script. \u201cTrying to create a realistic effigy of human beings out of ice is very tricky,\u201d Audouy said. \u201cIt\u2019s a bit wobbly, and you\u2019re designing it to be a bit chunky so it melts to be thinner, because it\u2019s constantly melting. I was freaking out because I thought it didn\u2019t look like Sydney Sweeney and that she would freak out, but Sam just wrote it into the dialogue with this funny line where she looks at it and is concerned about its proportions.\u201d<\/p>\n

The exteriors for the wedding were shot at the Langham Huntington hotel in Pasadena, while the interiors were all stage builds, in keeping with the overall approach to Season 3. Levinson wanted to work in the tradition of old masters like Howard Hawks and John Ford, and to that end, he and Audouy often found themselves on soundstages creating meticulously appointed sets that merged naturalism with classical Hollywood glamor. <\/p>\n

\u201cI love old Hollywood movies, and it was a great opportunity to be in that playground for a year,\u201d Auduoy said. \u201cTo craft something in that classical style, and shoot it in Los Angeles, was a real gift.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Editor\u2019s Note: The following story contains spoilers for \u201cEuphoria\u201d Season 3, Episode 3. The impending nuptials of Cassie…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":921107,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3937],"tags":[77,24807,258305,2308,258306,382,16,15],"class_list":["post-921106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-euphoria","tag-francois-audouy","tag-hbo","tag-top-of-the-line","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116474779470892248","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=921106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/921107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=921106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=921106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=921106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}