
Straight answers
Questions couples actually ask
No hedging and no “it depends” without telling you what it depends on. If your question isn't here, call us. We'd rather answer it properly than send you a brochure.
The essentials
Booking, pricing & logistics
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.
We agree the rain plan when you book, not on the day. That means a defined indoor or covered alternative, a call time by which the decision gets made, and a build that can actually be moved in the time available. Freestanding arches and weighted stands exist precisely for this.
Both, deliberately. Large structural work such as floral walls, arch frames and hanging valances is premium silk, because it holds shape for twelve hours under hot lights, photographs beautifully and costs a fraction of fresh at that scale. Bouquets, boutonnières and anything guests are close to, we do fresh. We will show you exactly where each is going before you sign.
Yes, and seeing linens, chargers and centrepieces in person is far more useful than a screen, because colours photograph deceptively. Appointments are by request so you get our full attention rather than sharing the floor with three other couples.
Our crew is on site for the build and comes back for the strike, so problems get found by us rather than by you. We carry spares of the pieces that matter, including covers, sashes, linens and candles, in the truck for exactly this reason. In thirty years we have never left a room unfinished, and that is why most of our work still comes from referrals.
Going deeper
Questions by service
The specific things couples ask once they know what they want.
Backdrops & Draping
Full backdrops pageSix to twelve months for a Saturday between May and October. Those dates go first. For a winter or weekday wedding, three months is usually comfortable. If your date is sooner than that, call us anyway. We hold inventory back for short-notice bookings, and we have turned a wedding around on a week's notice before. It is not our favourite way to work, but it can be done.
Almost always. Bring us the screenshot. We will tell you honestly what we can build exactly, what we would adapt to your room's proportions, and what we would change because it will not photograph the way it does in the picture.
Yes, and the two are usually quoted together because they share rigging. Ceiling draping is the single biggest change you can make to a plain banquet hall: it lowers the perceived ceiling, hides ductwork and gives your uplighting something to glow against.
Always. Our team installs on the day and returns at the end of the night to strike. Venue access times are coordinated with your coordinator directly so nobody in your family is stacking chairs at 1am.
Head & Sweetheart Tables
Full head tables pageA sweetheart table is usually the more affordable of the two, since it is one small surface instead of twenty feet of skirting and florals. That said, couples often reinvest the difference into a more dramatic backdrop behind it. We will show you both options side by side in your quote.
Yes. Bring your florist's palette or a photo of your bouquet and we will match tone and flower type across the head table, the centrepieces and the ceremony. If we are doing your florals too, it is matched by default.
We provide it. Tufted loveseats, high-back thrones and carved settees are all part of our own inventory, which means one contract, one delivery and one team on site.
Centerpieces & Tablescapes
Full tablescapes pageIt varies more than couples expect. A low candle-and-greenery design and a five-foot crystal candelabra with a floral crown are not in the same range. Tell us your table count and the look you are after and we will quote a per-table figure with two or three options at different levels, so you can decide where the money goes.
We do. Our team sets every table, places chargers and napkins, lights the candles before doors open, and returns at the end of the night to pack everything out.
We usually recommend it. A room of all-tall can feel like a forest from the back; all-low can feel flat under a high ceiling. We will mark which tables get which on your floor plan.
We work with both, and we are straight with you about the trade-off. High-quality silk holds up all night under hot lights, photographs beautifully and costs less for large installations. Fresh is unmatched up close, at the head table and in bouquets. Most of our weddings use a mix.
Chair Covers & Linens
Full linens pageChair covers are quoted per chair, and sashes are usually a small add-on per chair on top. Because it scales directly with guest count, it is one of the easiest line items to model. Give us your number and we will give you a firm figure the same week.
Yes, all three. Our team fits every cover and ties every sash on site before your guests arrive, and collects everything at the end of the night. You do not have to return anything.
It is a start, and for some rooms it genuinely is enough. What venue linen rarely includes is floor-length drop, overlays, coloured napkins or chair treatment, which is where the palette actually lives. We are happy to layer over what your venue provides rather than replacing it.
Yes. Same-day room flips are routine for us: ceremony in the space, cocktail hour elsewhere, and our team resetting chairs, linens and centrepieces in between.
Stages, Mandaps & Nikah
Full stages pageYes. Four-pillar and open-frame mandaps, draped and floral, built to your venue's ceiling height and with the clearances your priest needs. Send us the ritual requirements along with the guest count and we will design around them.
Yes, and it is usually more economical than booking them separately. We share inventory across the days and send the same crew, so the look carries through and you are not re-explaining your wedding to a new team on day two.
We do private-residence and backyard events regularly. The constraints are different (power, access, weather cover), so we will want to see the space or a video walkthrough before quoting.
Always. We use battery pillar candles where open flame is not permitted, free-standing rigging where nothing can be attached to the structure, and we deal with the venue's coordinator directly on load-in windows and fire-code clearances.
Ceremony & Aisle
Full ceremony pageYes. Gardens, gazebos, tents and private properties across the region. Outdoor work needs weighted bases, a wind plan and an agreed rain call, all of which we build into the quote rather than improvising on the day.
Yes. Room flips during cocktail hour are routine. We agree the timing with your venue and coordinator in advance and staff it accordingly.
We do. Church, mosque, temple or gurdwara in the morning and the hall in the evening, with one team, one contract, and florals that carry between the two.
Lighting & Dance Floors
Full lighting pageIt depends on wall length and how much of the room you want washed rather than spotted. A mid-size hall commonly lands somewhere between twelve and twenty-four. We will count it against your venue's floor plan instead of guessing.
Not if it is programmed properly. We keep dinner warm and neutral so skin tones photograph correctly, and save saturated colour for after the meal when the photographer is shooting the dance floor. If you tell us who your photographer is, we are happy to coordinate directly.
Yes. Printed vinyl, cut to your floor's exact dimensions. Send us your invitation crest or monogram artwork and we will lay it out and send a proof before printing.
Florals
Full florals pageYes. Bridal and bridesmaid bouquets, boutonnières and corsages, in fresh flowers, delivered the morning of. They are designed from the same palette as the room so your portraits and your reception photos agree with each other.
Structural work (floral walls, arch frames, hanging valances) is premium silk. It holds shape under hot lights for twelve hours, photographs beautifully, and costs far less at that scale. Anything guests are close to, and everything in your hands, we do fresh.
We can, and we will be honest if the palettes are going to fight. Send us your florist's proposal and we will design the decor around it.
Still wondering
Ask us the thing you're actually worried about
Every couple has one: the budget, the room, the family expectation. Put it in the notes field and we'll answer it honestly.