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About

Overview & Vibe

Smithfield Florist is a shop on Salvado Drive in Smithfield, on the Cairns northern beaches, run by Lara — and it is the family business she grew up in. Her parents ran three Cairns florists through the eighties and nineties, sold this one in 1998, and Lara bought it back. In between she spent five years doing daily orders and bridal work at another Cairns studio. “Accomplished in all forms of floristry, with a passion for wedding work.”

Style & Signature Blooms

Classic and bloom-led rather than styled to a trend. The flowers are flown in — “our flowers are flown in from the top flower growers and importers in Australia” — and they name what they can and cannot promise: natives, proteas, roses, peonies, lisianthus and cymbidium and phalaenopsis orchids are all seasonal and vary year to year. Grandiflora roses, tulips, peonies and both orchid types may carry a small surcharge.

Ideal For

A couple who wants to see the numbers before the meeting, and a destination couple planning from elsewhere. “Do you live away and are getting married in Cairns area? Smithfield Florist can plan all your flowers and styling via email and phone.” They deliver weddings from Mission Beach to Port Douglas, and there is no minimum budget.

The Need-to-Knows

Book at least a month ahead — speciality flowers have to be ordered two to three weeks out, and inside a three-week window they will not be guaranteed. Delivery to a single address is $50. Set-up is charged on a real basis: two people for a minimum of two hours at $85 per hour each, so $340; pack-down is the same rate with a three-hour minimum because it happens between 10pm and midnight. Sunday and public holiday work attracts a 15% surcharge.

Standout Feature

The price list is published in full, and so is the contract. Twenty-five itemised lines from a $20 pageboy buttonhole to a $350 feature display, plus their full wedding terms and conditions covering the booking fee, the cancellation ladder, the substitution policy and the hire bond. Almost no florist publishes either. Publishing both, before a couple has even called, is unusual and genuinely useful.

Appointment Policy

  • The initial wedding consultation is free and carries no obligation.
  • Book it by phone; bring inspiration pictures and colour or dress swatches.
  • Meeting in person is recommended but not required, and many weddings are designed by phone and email.
  • Weddings must be booked at least four weeks ahead, because speciality flowers are ordered two to three weeks out.
  • Speciality flowers cannot be guaranteed for a wedding booked inside three weeks of the date.
  • Bookings are accepted up to twenty-four months ahead, and they are often full twelve months out.
  • A quote holds the date tentatively for twenty-one days.
  • Changes to the floral order are welcome up to three weeks before the wedding.
  • Further consultations involving site visits may be charged at $75 an hour.

Areas Serviced

  • Smithfield and the Cairns northern beaches - the shop is on Salvado Drive.
  • Cairns.
  • Port Douglas.
  • Mission Beach, at the southern end of the area they have delivered weddings to.
  • Palm Cove, Clifton Beach, Ellis Beach, Trinity Beach, Kewarra Beach and the surrounding northern beaches.
  • Couples planning from interstate or overseas are handled entirely by phone and email.

Delivery & Setup

  • Delivery of wedding flowers to a single address is $50, and multiple locations may cost more.
  • Flowers arrive in a tissue-lined box about two hours before the ceremony, or at a time that suits.
  • Set-up is based on two people on site for a minimum of two hours at $85 per hour per person, which is $340.
  • Pack-down is charged at the same rate with a minimum of three hours, because it usually falls between 10pm and midnight.
  • Set-up or pack-down on a Sunday or a public holiday attracts a fifteen per cent surcharge.
  • Ceremony flowers can be transported to the reception and used twice.
  • Bridal party bouquets are never left at a venue without someone in the bridal party confirming the order.
  • A surcharge applies where a venue requires hired stock to be collected at the end of the night.

Floral Styles

  • classic
  • romantic
  • native
  • tropical
  • lush
  • seasonal
  • modern

Flowers & Blooms

  • Native Flowers
  • Protea
  • Rose
  • Grandiflora Rose
  • Peony
  • Lisianthus
  • Cymbidium Orchid
  • Phalaenopsis Orchid
  • Tulip
  • Baby's Breath

Hire Items

  • Urns And Pedestals
  • Vases
  • Vase Ware

Minimum Spend

No details available.

Nearby Landmarks

  • Salvado Drive, Smithfield - the shop is on the Cairns northern beaches.
  • Palm Cove, Clifton Beach, Trinity Beach and Kewarra Beach.
  • Ellis Beach and Buchans Point, on the road north.
  • Cairns city and the Esplanade.
  • Port Douglas, at the northern end of their wedding area.
  • Mission Beach, at the southern end.

Price Notes

  • There is no minimum budget for a wedding.
  • A twenty per cent non-refundable deposit secures the date.
  • Their published wedding terms instead state a non-refundable booking fee of one hundred dollars.
  • The balance is due no later than thirty days before the wedding, with a fortnight of grace offered in good faith.
  • Cancelling thirty or more days ahead returns everything except the booking fee within fourteen days.
  • Cancelling inside thirty days forfeits everything paid, to cover admin and wholesaler costs.
  • Changing the date refunds fifty per cent if no new date can be agreed, and nothing inside two weeks.
  • Published prices exclude GST and are a starting point rather than a quote.
  • Payment is accepted by transfer, cash, credit card including Amex, cheque or money order.

Services Offered

  • Wedding Flowers
  • Ceremony And Reception Set-Up
  • Event Flowers
  • Corporate Flowers
  • Buttonholes And Corsages
  • Flower Crowns
  • Table Centrepieces
  • Everyday Flower Delivery
  • Sympathy And Memorial Flowers
  • Gifts And Hampers

Wedding Flower Packages

  • Bridal bouquet, round posy on natural stems. Price: From $150.
  • Bridal bouquet, trailing. Price: From $200.
  • Bridal bouquet, arm sheaf or spray. Price: From $150.
  • Bridesmaid bouquet, round posy. Price: From $120.
  • Flowergirl posy. Price: From $45. Description: A floral head circlet in baby's breath and flowers for a basket are also from $45 each.
  • Men's buttonhole. Price: From $25. Description: Pageboy buttonholes are from $20.
  • Ladies' pin-on corsage. Price: From $30. Description: Wrist corsages are from $55.
  • Floral head circlet for an adult. Price: From $85. Description: Wired hair blooms are from $5 each.
  • Table posy bowl. Price: From $85. Description: A small vase with vase hire is from $65, a tall vase from $100 to $250, and a large round lush arrangement from $220.
  • Table garland. Price: From $65 per metre.
  • Bridal table centrepiece. Price: From $150. Description: Candle and wreath flowers are from $85.
  • Cake flowers. Price: From $35 for a small cake topper, and from $180 for cascading clusters on a three, four or five tier cake.
  • Ceremony feature display. Price: From $150 to $350. Description: Urn and pedestal hire is from $100, a signing table arrangement from $55 and rose petals from $40 a bag.
  • Pew flowers, minimum ten. Price: From $20 for a single bloom and from $40 for a posy bunch.

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