Wedding and event decoration
The look of the day — from the Gusaba setting where two families sit facing each other, to a reception hall that has to hold four hundred people and still feel like yours.
Gusaba is the hardest room in the sequence to dress, and the one most often treated as an afterthought. Two delegations seated opposite one another means there is no single stage to face — the seating is the architecture, and every decision has to work in the round. Canopy, colour, the gift presentation, the sightline between the two spokesmen: all of it reads from both directions at once.
Churches come with fixed architecture, existing colour you did not choose, light you cannot move and, often, firm rules about what may be attached to what. The work is knowing those constraints before you design into them, rather than arriving with a scheme that has to be dismantled an hour before the service.
A scheme that photographs beautifully on a single table can vanish across a hall. Reception design is a problem of rhythm and sightlines as much as flowers — what repeats, what breaks the repetition, and what a guest at the back actually sees.
Across the sequence
Begin
Whether the date is set or you are still counting rooms, the first conversation costs nothing and usually clears a great deal up.