An intimate guest list, a different role for flowers In recent years, also here in Tuscany, more and more couples have been choosing micro‑weddings and intimate ceremonies: few guests, sometimes only close family and a handful of friends, gathered in a villa in the Chianti hills, in a village in the Val d’Orcia, in a small room in the centre of Florence. It is not a “reduced version” of a traditional wedding; it is a different way of living the day, closer, quieter, with gest

Starting from the ceremony, not just from the colour When I think about flowers for a wedding in Tuscany, I do not start only from colour or season, but from the language of the ceremony itself. A civil wedding in a town hall in Florence has a very different rhythm and set of rules compared to a symbolic ceremony in a garden in the Chianti, just as a religious wedding in church followed by an outdoor celebration calls for a project that can hold together several ways of sayin

An elopement is not a “mini wedding” An elopement in Tuscany is not just a smaller version of a traditional wedding. Very often it is only the couple, with few or no guests. The day moves between a villa in the hills, a stone village, a vineyard at sunset, perhaps a stretch of coastline or a cypress avenue. In this context, the bouquet is not something that rests quietly on a table: it is always in hand, always in the frame, at the centre of hugs, walks and constant changes o

When flowers are “too much” and when they are simply right At corporate events it is quite common to see flowers used as if the setting were a wedding: very tall arrangements, important volumes, colours that immediately steal the spotlight. The risk is clear: hidden logos, screens partially covered, guests who can no longer see each other properly across the table. In these cases, flowers end up disturbing the company’s message instead of supporting it.A floral design conceiv