Fleurs de Lyonville
A micro flower farm on 1.5 acres beside the Wombat State Forest at Lyonville, run by Janae and Chris Paquin-Bowden.
Thrive Flowers & Events has been designing wedding flowers in Melbourne since 2005, when Alyssa Goodall started out working from home and specialising in bridal work. The studio moved into Collingwood in 2012 and added a second warehouse at Moorabbin ten years later, and the team now brings together floral designers, event decorators, planners and stylists under one roof. A dedicated client liaison stays with you from the first enquiry through to the late-night pack-down. The Collingwood studio doubles as the studio’s own event space, Beneath The Ferns, which is where wedding consultations are held.
The work is seasonal, foam-free and unafraid of scale: freestanding hoops and arbours, ground-set meadow florals, long low table runners and suspended aerial designs built on custom structures made in-house. Palettes run from cream roses and phalaenopsis in a footed urn to bright dahlia, ranunculus and wattle on a reception table. Dried flowers appear in the installations as well as the shop, and the florists name cymbidium orchids, Queen Anne’s lace, hellebores, dahlias and Jonquil Erlicheer among their own favourites.
Couples marrying anywhere across Melbourne, the Mornington Peninsula, the Yarra Valley, the Dandenong Ranges, Daylesford and the Macedon Ranges, or Geelong and the Great Ocean Road. Equally suited to a micro wedding and to a full-room installation - there is no minimum spend, and the studio removed the one it used to hold so that smaller weddings could be taken on. Couples who care where their flowers come from will find more published detail here than almost anywhere.
Start with the wedding enquiry form, then book a consultation in person, by phone or over Google Meet. Consultations before booking are $50 an hour, credited back against your flowers once you book. A 25 per cent non-refundable deposit secures the date - tentative holds are not accepted - with the balance due two weeks out. Quotes hold for a month and are quoted exclusive of GST. Vases, backdrops, arbours and arches are available for hire, priced within your quote, with a refundable bond if you return them yourself.
This is the most thoroughly documented environmental practice of any florist in this directory. Thrive is a carbon-neutral company, Alyssa is a member of the Sustainable Floristry Network, floral foam has been eradicated entirely, and waste is separated into eight streams with 90 per cent diverted from landfill. In the last year that meant the equivalent of 18,690 plastic bags avoided through foam alternatives, 39 kilograms of cardboard sent to specialist recycling and 23,595 litres of green waste composted. The same curriculum is taught to the next generation at the studio’s own flower school.
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A micro flower farm on 1.5 acres beside the Wombat State Forest at Lyonville, run by Janae and Chris Paquin-Bowden.
Shelley Keast’s shop on The Terrace at Ocean Grove, opened in 2007 after she started in floristry at seventeen managing a Melbourne shop.
Joycelyn’s studio on the Surf Coast at Anglesea, delivering along the Great Ocean Road from Torquay through to Lorne.
Bouquet Melbourne has been making wedding, event and gift flowers since 2003. In 2023 Siobhain Murphy, a graphic designer with a long-standing love of floristry…
A private studio that has been doing weddings only since 2014, working with hundreds of couples across Victoria and taking a deliberately limited number each…
Judah Rose is a private floral studio in Woodend, in the Macedon Ranges, led by Ashe with a small team behind her.
A micro flower farm on 1.5 acres beside the Wombat State Forest at Lyonville, run by Janae and Chris Paquin-Bowden.
Judah Rose is a private floral studio in Woodend, in the Macedon Ranges, led by Ashe with a small team behind her.
Shelley Keast’s shop on The Terrace at Ocean Grove, opened in 2007 after she started in floristry at seventeen managing a Melbourne shop.
Bouquet Melbourne has been making wedding, event and gift flowers since 2003. In 2023 Siobhain Murphy, a graphic designer with a long-standing love of floristry…
Janelle Bond works from her own studio in Colac, between Lake Colac and the Otway Ranges, and makes every arrangement herself.
A boutique shop in the heart of Drysdale run by Vicki, working weddings across the Bellarine Peninsula and Geelong alongside everyday flowers, hampers, homewares…
Moss Industry Florist works from Ocean Grove on the Bellarine Peninsula, run by a florist who left school at fifteen to take up the trade and has now spent more…
Torquay Florist works from a shop on Gilbert Street in Torquay, at the eastern end of the Great Ocean Road, and describes itself as a fresh and funky florist based…
Joycelyn’s studio on the Surf Coast at Anglesea, delivering along the Great Ocean Road from Torquay through to Lorne.
Birregurra Wildflowers is a flower farm before it is a florist. Established in 2018, it grows and arranges its own blooms on a property seven kilometres from…
Janelle Bond works from her own studio in Colac, between Lake Colac and the Otway Ranges, and makes every arrangement herself.
Moss Industry Florist works from Ocean Grove on the Bellarine Peninsula, run by a florist who left school at fifteen to take up the trade and has now spent more…
Torquay Florist works from a shop on Gilbert Street in Torquay, at the eastern end of the Great Ocean Road, and describes itself as a fresh and funky florist based…
Bouquet Melbourne has been making wedding, event and gift flowers since 2003. In 2023 Siobhain Murphy, a graphic designer with a long-standing love of floristry…
Fay Flowers Studio is a boutique wedding and event florist working from a studio on Union Street in Brunswick, run by Fay Pazhouhesh.
Fig & Bloom was founded in Melbourne in 2015 and now works from three studios of its own - Fairfield in Melbourne, Camperdown in Sydney and Bowen Hills in Brisbane…
A private studio that has been doing weddings only since 2014, working with hundreds of couples across Victoria and taking a deliberately limited number each…
Judah Rose is a private floral studio in Woodend, in the Macedon Ranges, led by Ashe with a small team behind her.
Kate Hill has been a Melbourne florist for more than twenty-five years, working from a store on City Road in Southbank.
A private studio that has been doing weddings only since 2014, working with hundreds of couples across Victoria and taking a deliberately limited number each…
Hello Blossoms is a wedding florist based on the Mornington Peninsula, working from a studio and showroom at Hastings that opens by appointment.
Bouquet Melbourne has been making wedding, event and gift flowers since 2003. In 2023 Siobhain Murphy, a graphic designer with a long-standing love of floristry…
A private studio that has been doing weddings only since 2014, working with hundreds of couples across Victoria and taking a deliberately limited number each…
Judah Rose is a private floral studio in Woodend, in the Macedon Ranges, led by Ashe with a small team behind her.
Urban Antidote is a Melbourne floral design studio founded in 2020 by Anastasia Botica, who left a career in law to do it.