Wedding & Event Decor · Ottawa, Canada
Ottawa wedding decor,
designed to be remembered.
Custom backdrops, sweetheart tables, centerpieces, drapery and florals, delivered, installed and taken down by our team. You dream it; we drape it.
30+
Years designing weddings
250+
Celebrations transformed
40+
Ottawa-area venues styled
100%
Custom, every single time
What we actually do
Your venue hands you a rectangle. We hand back a room.
Beige walls, a stack of speakers in the corner, a fire exit exactly where the photographer wants to stand. Almost every hall in this city looks like that at 9am on a Saturday. It is not a flaw. It is a blank canvas that most couples never get to see finished before they sign.
Our job is the eight hours between that and your first guest walking in. Full-wall drapery measured to the ceiling. A backdrop your speeches happen against. Fifteen tables set to the same standard as the head table. Lighting programmed so faces photograph properly at dinner and the dance floor looks like a dance floor by ten.
We have been doing exactly this in Ottawa for 30 years, with our own inventory and our own crew. Nothing is sub-contracted, so nothing gets lost between vendors.
Everything the room needs
Everything the room needs,
nothing that it doesn’t
Book one piece or the whole build. Most couples start with the backdrop and the tables, then add lighting once they see what it does.
Backdrops & Draping
The wall behind everything
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Head & Sweetheart Tables
Where you'll actually sit
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Centerpieces & Tablescapes
What they look at for four hours
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Chair Covers & Linens
The largest surface in the room
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Stages, Mandaps & Nikah
Built for the ceremony that matters to your family
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Ceremony & Aisle
The first ninety seconds
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Lighting & Dance Floors
The thing nobody books and everybody notices
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Florals
Designed with the room, not separately
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Real weddings, real rooms
Every photograph here is
a wedding we built
No stock photography, no renders, no borrowed portfolios. These are Ottawa and Gatineau rooms, shot on the day, before the doors opened.
Since 1996
You shouldn’t have to explain your own wedding to your decorator.
We have said it plainly since our very first website: we work with all cultures and ethnicities. Nearly thirty years later it is still the reason most families find us.
Hindu mandaps with the clearances your priest needs. Nikah stages with a low settee and calligraphy. Mehndi settings in marigold and mirror. Afghan and Persian receptions with carved gold thrones. Sikh ceremonies, Lebanese and Ethiopian celebrations, church halls and city hall. Henna baskets, which we have been building by hand since before anyone in this city offered them.
Tell us the ceremony and we will tell you what we have already built for it. We will also plan your mehndi, your nikah and your reception as one event rather than three separate invoices.
How it works
Effortless for you,
obsessive for us
From the first conversation to the last candle we pack away, this is how a Brides Night wedding comes together.
- 01
The consultation
We meet, in person or over video, and talk about your venue, your culture, your colours and the feeling you want when the doors open. Free, and no pressure.
- 02
Your design board
We build a custom design proposal with layouts, fabrics, florals and lighting, refined together until it is unmistakably yours.
- 03
The transformation
Our crew arrives early and quietly transforms the room. Drapery, florals, tables, chairs, lighting, down to the last perfectly tied sash.
- 04
You just celebrate
When the last dance ends, we are already there. Full teardown and removal, so you leave with the memories and not the mess.
you get married, we handle the rest
Where couples usually start
Three ways in
Every wedding is quoted individually. These are the shapes most couples land on, so read them as a starting point and move pieces between them freely.
The Essentials
A finished room, without the full build.
Couples whose venue is already handsome, or who want the guest experience covered first.
- Fitted chair covers and sashes for every guest
- Floor-length linens, overlays and napkins in your palette
- One centrepiece design across all guest tables
- Head table or sweetheart table styling
- Cake table and signing table dressing
- Delivery, on-site setup and end-of-night strike
The Signature
The room people photograph.
Most of our couples. The point where a hall stops looking like a hall.
- Everything in The Essentials
- Full-width feature backdrop behind your head table
- Sweetheart or head table with floral runner and skirting
- Mixed-height centrepieces mapped to your floor plan
- LED uplighting, programmed in scenes across the night
- Ceremony arch or aisle styling
- A design consultation with mood board before you sign
The Grand
Nothing in the room is untouched.
Large-capacity halls, multi-day celebrations, and couples who want the full build.
- Everything in The Signature
- Ceiling draping and canopy work
- Stage, mandap or nikah structure built to your ceremony
- Floral walls, arches and hanging installations
- Custom monogram dance floor wrap
- Pin-spotting on centrepieces and cake
- Draped entrance or arrival corridor
- Multi-day coordination across mehndi, ceremony and reception
- A dedicated lead on site for the full day
We don’t publish prices because a hundred-guest hall and a four-hundred-guest ballroom aren’t the same job. Send your date and guest count and you’ll have an itemised quote, with options at different levels, within a couple of days.
“Zia made our wedding more memorable than we could have imagined with his elegant decor that stunned all the guests. We thoroughly enjoyed working with him and couldn't recommend him highly enough!”
Where we work
Across the capital region
No travel fee inside Ottawa. Everywhere else is quoted transparently up front.
Before you ask
The questions we get every week
Honestly, the range is wide enough that any number we quote here would mislead you. Chair covers and linens for a hundred guests is a very different project from a full ceiling drape, a floral wall and a built stage. What we can promise is an itemised quote with real options at different levels, so you can see exactly what each piece costs and decide where your budget goes. Most couples are surprised by how much a room changes for less than they expected.
Six to twelve months for a Saturday in peak season, which here runs May through October. Those dates fill first and we do turn couples away. Winter and weekday weddings are usually comfortable at three months. If your date is sooner, ask anyway. We deliberately hold inventory back for short-notice bookings, and we have put a full wedding together on a week's notice before. It is not our favourite way to work, but it can absolutely be done.
There is a practical minimum for any wedding that needs a crew, a truck and a full setup day, and we will tell you what it is on the first call rather than after you have filled in three forms. For smaller intimate weddings we would rather point you to the pieces that will make the most difference than take a booking that disappoints you.
Yes, on every quote. Our team delivers, installs, sets every table and returns at the end of the night to strike. Nobody in your family should be folding linens at 1am. Inside Ottawa there is no travel fee. For Valley and out-of-region venues we quote travel transparently up front.
Very happily. We work alongside planners, photographers, DJs and florists every weekend and we are used to being one part of a bigger team. If you already have a florist, send us their proposal and we will design the decor to sit with it rather than against it.
Yes, and this has been core to what we do since 1996. Hindu mandaps, nikah and mehndi settings, Sikh ceremonies, Afghan and Persian receptions, Lebanese and Ethiopian weddings, church and civil ceremonies. We have said from the very beginning that we work with all cultures and ethnicities, and we mean it literally. You should not have to explain your own traditions to your decorator.
Book a free consultation
Tell us your date. We’ll tell you if it’s open.
Six quick fields. No budget questions, no pressure and no automated sales sequence. We read every inquiry ourselves and reply within one business day.
You dream it; we drape it.