Event responses & Weddings

We use our Fine Art training, as well as our event & floristry experience, to design, carefully curate and bring to life, one-of-a-kind wedding & event botanicals, wondrous installation artworks & tailored spatial experiences.

Our speciality is in transforming spaces with a spatial or installation art response, working with natural materials on a large-scale, to enrich the experience of a whole space on many levels…

Harvest Studio responds to spaces and contexts as a whole experience, so please be in touch to see how we can design and create an exceptional and utterly individual, artist-led experience for your particular occasion.

Contributing to a flourishing environment & working with the sensitive use of the bounty of local natural materials around us, letting our materials lead, is at the forefront of our creative work.   

Please fill in our Wedding Enquiry form from our menu, as the first step for any proposed wedding, large or small.

We will then call you to talk through your intentions and to confirm we are available.

Or, please phone us to make a time to drop in to order non-spatial event flowers.

08 8323 9669 

Our service to you…

For you…an experienced & utterly individual artisan response to your brief, context & site; detailed planning & project management; specialised sourcing, harvesting and curating of unique, local materials; creation of your sculptural botanicals with much care, artistry and attention to detail; and packaging for delivery (or pick-up); a cohesive holistic approach that is environmentally, culturally, socially & economically considered. 

Our premium event flower offerings include an initial phone discussion (upon receipt of your information form/ the brief), a scheduled meeting to discuss our response/ artistic proposal (for a booking fee or after a deposit has been received), a final scheduled meeting to confirm all elements (often a site visit 4-6 wks prior; we allow one set of revisions due by this stage, aside from the original brief) and email correspondence (any further changes or additional meetings will involve additional fees).

Delivery, set-up/ styling, vessel hire, installation of any spatial elements and bump-out will be costed as required.

We include a contingency budget in our spatial event responses, so we can refine or adapt elements as we go and make the best possible choices for the desired outcome in that given week or context.

Nature is ultimately in charge…

Please note – our spatial & conceptual wedding responses have a minimum spend outlined below.

Botanicals built on-site for other events begin from 550 for arrangements & 1,100 for installations (plus travel and GST).

Wedding responses we offer…

Monumental or lush, immersive installation art response 15,000+

A lush spatial response from 12,000+ 

A spatial site-specific response 9,000+

A collection of curated elements 6,000+

 (all budgets above include a contingency and are plus GST)

Personal flowers &/or individual elements, under the budgets above, are by request (subject to availability & creative interest for the studio). You can let us know the investment you wish to make, & we will let you know what we can offer for that scale of response, given the site and your intentions. Please fill out our wedding form for any of the above enquiries.

Feeling creative? We curate selections of considered materials for DIY weddings & botanical projects too (alternatively if you already know the kinds of botanicals and volumes you are after, simply order through our Front of House at the studio).

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Event installations, ceremony features & table responses vary in scale, materials and value and we love to bring over 30 years of visual arts experience and award-winning creative ideas to the conversation around what might be possible and best for your intention. 

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We also create bespoke funeral responses, potentially incorporating materials from the loved-one’s garden or local environment, honouring the uniqueness and botanical favourites of the individual for whom is being farewelled. We make our seasonal hand built forms compostable (or recyclable), to tread lightly on the earth.

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We know and have worked within many of the amazing spaces, venues and landscapes around McLaren Vale and the greater Fleurieu and would love to shape something sensitive to your brief, authentically local and utterly magical with you, for your next event or special occasion.

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All event pricings above require GST to be added. 

Reconnecting people with the natural beauty of the Fleurieu

The artistic intention of our studio is to reconnect people with the wonders of the natural environment around them.

Our palette of materials reflects the seasonal landscape surrounding our studio: McLaren Vale, The Willunga Basin, The Fleurieu Peninsula and greater South Australia, and influences the forms that we create. We work with nature.

Our style is informed by our rural setting, the abundance of agriculture, and the ever-changing native landscape, including the local scrub and beautiful beaches.

We have good relationships with a diverse range of local farmers, growers, gardeners and properties to forage from.

For the ultimate bespoke service, we can forage from your location and create arrangements or installations from your own landscape and materials.

Towards a Flourishing Environment

Sustainable principles and holistic values inform the choices and processes of our studio, as well as our creative output.

We are mindful of the social, environmental, economic and cultural impacts of what we do.

Our flowers and foliage are organic or spray-free and are sourced from around the Willunga Basin, the greater Fleurieu region and sometimes other parts of South Australia.

We have a “down to earth” approach to working with flowers and avoid using florist foam (a non-biodegradable plastic product generally used in floristry).

We prefer “grown not flown” materials and use minimal plastic in our studio.

All our green waste is composted or repurposed.

We also use and can supply up-cycled, vintage and locally hand-made flower vessels.

Our wrapping papers are recycled & Australian made & any aqua-wrapping is with compostable material.

Our work is all about connection: between people, place and the natural landscape around us.

We encourage you to support local offerings, as we do, fostering relationships and community between locals, visitors, growers, artists and the local environment.

We are passionate about building a visual language that reflects and enlivens our local culture.

We like to work collaboratively on large projects with a trans-disciplinary team, enabling the co-creation of innovative, outside-the-square outcomes.

Please make a time to talk with us about creatively translating and building upon your ideas for your space, brand or event…

Award-winning artists with 30 years of experience

Our botanical artists and floral designers have a diverse professional background which makes their work unique in approach and form.

Alongside experience in traditional floristry, our multi-disciplinary team has experience in contemporary visual art, installation art and public art, as well as in the development and management of large-scale creative projects and event design.

The family of our Studio Director, Hope Lovelock Deane, have lived in the Willunga Basin and worked in relation to the land for seven generations. Hope’s Master of Visual Arts explored the potential for artists to better contribute to the creation of holistic built environment experiences and soulful spaces. Hope has also spent time living in Scandinavia, where she was strongly influenced by their approaches to spatial design, the creation of beauty and working with natural materials.

More information coming soon…on our historical connections with our new studio at The Pioneer Chapel & our State Heritage Cemetery & Culture-garden community gardening project.

Commissioners and clients:

Adelaide Festival Centre, Never Never Gin Distillery, Salopian Inn, Chalk Hill Wines,

City of Adelaide, WOMAD, Scholz-Vinall Architects, Adelaide Central Plaza, Maxwell

Wines, Fleurieu Living Magazine, Fino Vino, Helpmann Academy, Transport SA,

Adelaide Central Market, McLaren Vale Grape Wine and Tourism, Trans Adelaide,

University of South Australia, Fleurieu Art Prize, South Australian School of Art,

Tasting Australia, City of Unley, City of Onkaparinga, Inkwell, Fleurieu Food, Samstag

Museum, Tipi Lane, Contemporary Art Centre of SA (now ACE), Little Road Studio,

Chalk Hill Wines, Fleurieu Arthouse, The Australian Festival for Young People,

Sweetshute, Fino Seppeltsfield, Fleurieu Sounds, Craft South (now Guildhouse),

Swanbury Penglase Architects, Fleurieu Future Leaders, Wildflower Bell-tent Hire,

Bungala House, Venyu, Adelaide FRINGE Festival, Anatoly Patrick Architecture, Arts

SA.