TL;DR: Good private dining florals should make you look great, never get in the way of conversation, and never compete with the food. Give us a budget and a color, and we'll take it from there. Ready to get a book your flowers? Lots of folks love placing their order online and lots of folks would like to get a written estimate. Send us your event date, the restaurant or private dining room, guest count, and a color if you have one — that's genuinely all we need to get started. We would love to be your florist... "Just Give Us a Budget and a Color" Our favorite clients are the ones who hand us a budget and a color and let us run with it. That might sound backwards — most people assume more direction gets a better result — but the clients who trust us fully tend to end up with the most gorgeous, most elevated version of what their money can do. We know the flowers, we know the room, and we know how to make you look good. Give us the parameters and let us do the rest. That said, if you do have a strong vision, we absolutely want to hear it — this is just to say you don't need one to get a beautiful result. Low Centerpieces, On Purpose Centerpieces at a private dining table should always be low enough to see over. This isn't a budget decision — it's a hosting decision. The whole point of a private dining room is the conversation happening across the table, and a tall, dramatic centerpiece gets directly in the way of that. We'll be honest: we think the trend toward towering, editorial-magazine-style centerpieces is a little silly for an actual dinner. It photographs well for about thirty seconds and then spends the rest of the night blocking your view of the person across from you. A private dinner is for talking to people, not performing for a camera — so our centerpieces are built low and wide, not tall and dramatic. Warm, Seasonal, Never Forced We build private dining florals around what's actually in season, not around chasing one specific bloom regardless of the time of year. This isn't just a cost-saving move (though it usually is more cost-effective) — seasonal flowers tend to look more alive and less "ordered from a catalog," which fits the warm, unfussy feeling we're going for at a dinner table. Simple Containers That Go With Almost Anything Our go-to containers for private dining are simple ceramic pieces or a light concrete finish — both tend to sit well with almost any tablescape, linen color, or restaurant interior without competing for attention. We'd rather the flowers do the talking than the vessel. The Container Is Usually Included In most cases, the cost of the container is built into your overall price, meaning you're welcome to take the flowers (container and all) home at the end of the night. That said, this can vary depending on the specific event and container type, so it's always worth confirming with us directly for your booking rather than assuming. We Know the Rooms We work with private dining rooms across San Francisco regularly, which means we're familiar with a lot of the practical realities that affect design — how a room is lit, how servers move around the table during a multi-course meal, where a centerpiece needs to sit so it doesn't interfere with plating, and how much table space is actually available once glassware and place settings are in. That familiarity means fewer surprises and a design that works with your dinner, not against it. Send us your date, restaurant, guest count, and a color if you've got one — and we'll take it from there.