The View Between
Mudbrick Vineyard
Waiheke Island, Auckland
Scope: Concept / Floral Design / Installation
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For a venue we know well, the challenge was not to reinvent the landscape, but to leave enough room for it to remain part of the design.
This wedding began with a more traditional floral brief — abundant flowers, rich colour and a romantic garden feeling.
At Mudbrick, however, the landscape is already part of the ceremony. The ocean and horizon are what make this place special, and we didn’t want the flowers to simply become a wall in front of them.
So within the fuller floral setting, we left one deliberate moment of negative space. A floral form appears almost suspended in the air, with the sea still visible through and around it. It became a small pause within the abundance — a place for the arrangement, and the view behind it, to breathe.
For the cocktail space, the language shifted. We treated the flowers more like objects in a gallery, placing individual arrangements on white plinths at different scales. A larger floral piece sat alongside smaller studies, including sculptural forms made from chillies. Rather than decorating the space, each piece was presented almost as an object of its own.
For dinner, we wanted the design to reflect another side of the couple — particularly the bride's background as a designer and their playful approach to colour.
The palette became lighter and more varied, moving between pink, green and red. Instead of traditional table arrangements, flowers were shaped into small geometric forms, each with its own colour and proportion.
Colour, shape and repetition became the language of the table.
The result was playful but precise — a dinner setting that felt less like conventional wedding florals and more like a collection of small design objects.
After the larger gestures of the ceremony and cocktail hour, dinner became intentionally lighter. Instead of another large installation, we used single stems repeatedly across the tables. Each flower was held by a tiny 2mm kenzan, chosen to disappear as much as possible.
Nothing extra was added. The flowers were simply allowed to stand on their own.
