Wedding Florist in Chappaqua, NY · Historic Inn, Estate Tent & Horse-Country Wedding Décor

The old inns in and around Chappaqua come with rules and low ceilings and a hundred years of their own decor already in place: wallpaper, paneling, a mantel in every room. We pull the palette from the wallpaper and the scale from the mantel. Garland along the fireplace, heavier at one end. Urns on the hearth. A garland down the banister, which is the best-value piece in any old house. Low centerpieces under low chandeliers, and LED candles wherever the house forbids flame, which is usually everywhere. Dinner spreads across two or three rooms, so one flower and one ribbon repeat in every one of them, or the wedding reads as five rooms decorated by five people.

The lawns behind Chappaqua's houses were made for tents, and the ceremony goes under the biggest tree with two grounded pieces and nothing overhead, because a rented arch fighting the wind on an open lawn photographs worse than a good oak. The tent gets sidewalls up for the view and bistro lights for the night, the center poles get wrapped, the chart stands on its own legs at the top of the driveway, and the path from the porch to the tent gets lanterns, because at nine o'clock the walk is part of the design.

Temple Beth El and the churches in the village host the ceremonies, with the usual rules: freestanding chuppah, nothing on the pews, no flame, and altar or bimah flowers that may stay for the congregation. We design the ceremony to those rules and the reception separately, with the bouquet carrying the palette between them.