Katharina Stuart

This review is for Katharina’s work on bouquets & boutonnieres for my wedding in November 2014.
I was blown away by the work Katharina had done with the flowers for my wedding. She is very creative and detail-​oriented in her arrangements; they were all jaw-​droppingly gorgeous!
She was very sweet in meeting with me 9 months before my wedding. We met at her house and discussed color schemes, styles and what flowers would be in season. Thankfully, everything I loved was available in November. Looking through her portfolio, I knew I was in for quality work.
Day of, my matron of honor’s husband was sent to pick up the flowers. He came back with them pretty quickly, and they came in glass vases with water. They were absolutely stunning, all my ladies were very pleased with their bouquets; we couldn’t stop talking about how beautiful they were!
I simply cannot recommend her enough. If there is ever a chance that I would need flower arrangements again, I won’t go to anyone else. Thank you so much Katharina!

Katharina helped me made my dream wedding come true. Her artistry in floral design is amazing. From my bridal bouquet to the bridesmaids to the floral arrangements on the tables and my ceremony arch and I can go on and on and on. It was just all so beautiful, I’m speechless. She is also very wonderful to work with, we can’t thank her enough for making our wedding so beautiful.

Katharina is great! So professional and creative! she worked hard to give me what I wanted and within my budget.

Katharina is a true artist. I loved the pictures from her website and booked her to make the bouquets & boutonnieres for my wedding last month. I almost cried when I saw how beautiful of a job she did. She worked with me within my budget and even though my budget was on the smaller side, she still put together the most beautiful bouquets. I can’t recommend her enough, she is just brilliant!

If you are looking for a brilliantly creative, yet calm and practical floral artist/​designer, you will have found one in Katharina Stuart. Her designs dazzle; she is rock-​solid reliable, and her prices are very reasonable. I will absolutely use her again in the future.
Here are the details of my recent experience with Katharina: on Monday evening a very good friend called me, grief-​stricken after the death of her father a few days earlier. She asked me if I could handle the flowers for her Dad’s memorial service on Saturday. Of course, I would do it. Tuesday morning I called my florist. To my dismay, the florist had retired. She provided me with names of three people she recommended. One of them was Katharina Stuart.
I called Katharina, who picked up saying that she was in the airport in Hawaii on her way back to San Francisco from a vacation. We spoke Wednesday morning on her return. When I told her what I wanted, she calmly said that while she had a wedding Saturday afternoon in the East Bay, she could come over to the City in the morning and get everything set up for the memorial. We then talked over the course of the next day about what would be appropriate, and how she might transform a pleasant (but somewhat hum drum) institutional auditorium into space that would welcome and comfort the friends and family of the deceased.
What Katharina came up with was magnificent. She created a floral screen made of branches of curly willow interwoven with vivid, exotic flowers, spiky chestnut pods, and large green leaves. When the guests arrived, you could hear the gasps as their breath was taken away. Additionally, she made a couple of spectacular arrangements for the sign-​in table and the buffet table, and lined the perimeter of the stage with pots of bright green ferns interlaced with grape woods. Both the widow and my good friend have told me how pleased their family was with what Katharina did. She really is an artist, able to use her medium – flowers and plants – to convey emotion, both having captured the spirit of the deceased (an accomplished, yet wickedly funny physician) and projecting a tone that simultaneously lifted spirits and acknowledged that this is a somber time.

My wife and I had a great time working with Katharina. She took the time during our planning meeting to ensure our theme would come out in her floral decorations. We wanted a design that was fresh, simple, and Spring, while not looking cheap or skimpy. Katharina hit the bullseye and worked with our tight budget. My guests took the center pieces home because they loved them that much. The color scheme and flora she chose were splendid. Not to mention she recommended our photographer who also turned out to be great. Do not hesitate to contact Katharina and see if she is the florist for your event. You will not be disappointed.

Katharina was one of the few florists we spoke with in the Bay Area who would work with succulents without an added charge. The bouquet, boutonnieres, and bracelets she put together for our wedding were absolutely stunning, including three for children. She even packaged everything to make it easier to transport up to the wedding location in Yosemite. The designs were so stable and healthy that we were able to pick them up Thursday for a Saturday ceremony. On top of that, she had used flowers that were at just the right place so that many of them were opening fully on Saturday morning, making the bouquet even more beautiful. The way she was able to match the colors from my bride’s dress with succulents and native plants was stunning. The value for the cost was amazing, and if we need any other flowers we’ll be back.

Absolutely easy and fun to work with. Flowers were the only decoration at my Wedding at the Terrace Room in Oakland and it was fantastic. Katharina understood me and what we were looking for and made our venue look magical. The bouquets and corsages and boutonnières were also fabulous. Thank you!

Katharina Stuart was incredible to work with for my wedding flowers. She created all of my bouquets, boutonnieres, and two large arrangements for my wedding ceremony.
In the months leading up to my event, Katharina was super helpful and listened to all of my ideas. Even when I changed my order and color scheme a couple times, she was receptive and happy to make my changes. She is such a sweet and positive person to work with.
The flowers on the day of were breathtaking. I was so in love with my bouquet and all of the work she did. The flowers she chose were so beautiful and elegant; I love how unique and dynamic they were. Katharina really took all of my ideas and brought them to life. My guests gave several compliments throughout the day and even after! I could not have been happier with my wedding flowers.
Thank you, Katharina!

Katherina just did the bouquets, boutonnieres, and corsages for my wedding, and I am SO impressed. She really went above and beyond for us, and made the most beautiful pieces. I went to a lot of florists with a few specifications, and nobody was willing to work with my vision, before I found Katherina online, and met with her to discuss.
She listened to exactly what I wanted, and made stunning, unique, and better versions of what I asked for. Photos to come, but suffice to say, even my photographers were in awe of my bouquet (and they see a lot of them, of course).
She did a cascading, mostly green and white look for me, incorporating pheasant feathers from my father’s collection. I really felt like I could trust her and communication was excellent throughout my planning process.
The boutonnieres and corsages had thick gold jewelry wire in them as accent bits, per my request, but she also made the wrist corsages into gold wire bracelets, instead of the usual elastic style I’ve seen done. I was blown away when I saw them. So pretty and special.
She is very pleasant to work with, and honest about what’s possible, without shooting down ideas. Her prices were very fair, and I have already recommended her to another bride I know! You won’t be disappointed with her delivery.
I only wish I had pre-​planned a way to preserve my bouquet after the wedding. It’s really a work of art. Just breathtaking. Thanks again Katharina! You outdid my expectations and made my wedding day that much more special.

Katharina did my wedding florals — bouquets, centerpieces, etc. last summer. I was referred by a friend who had raved about the flowers Katharina had done for her own wedding.
She was such a sweet person to work with and very competent – I didn’t worry for a second about flowers once I booked her. I gave her a general description of what I wanted and asked her to do her thing. They arrived perfectly on time, what I had asked for but touches of whimsy I was pleasantly surprised with. Out of everything, she designed an escort card display on my request that turned out better than I could have ever imagined!
Katharina seems to be able to make your budget go far. I knew my budget was on the smaller side but you wouldn’t have known it from how the pieces turned out. I hope I have an opportunity to plan a big event again so I can see what else Katharina comes up with!

Working with Katharina was easy and our flowers were beautiful. As a wedding vendor myself, I appreciate what a good job she does for her clients.
Her pricing is awesome, and she’s very talented.

Gorgeous flowers and such a pleasure to work with Katharina!
Katharina did a phenomenal job at our wedding, all our guests commented on how beautiful the flowers were and asked who did it, and I could not have been happier with how everything turned out. I thought she’d do a good job, but her work was more beautiful than I anticipated. She was my favorite vendor. She is an artist, seriously, she is awesome!
We planned our wedding from across the country which was stressful enough. After researching florists in the Bay Area, Katharina was referred to us by a florist who was charging way above our budget. Her prices in contrast were reasonable. I also dealt with a couple florists with major attitudes (which would have been funny, if it wasn’t my wedding I was planning…), so it was really refreshing to work with Katharina. She was wonderful — calm, helpful, warm, artistic, and incredibly accommodating. She worked to stay within our budget and respected that we had one.
My bridal bouquet and my bridesmaids’ had just the colors/​style I described and matched the charcoal bridesmaids dresses beautifully. My mom commented that she wasn’t sure of the bridesmaid’s dress color, but after seeing it with the flowers she absolutely loved it! Everyone asked how we matched the colors because they were so pretty, I just sent Katharina a photo of the dress and a few example flower colors, and she did the rest!
The centerpieces with mercury glass were perfection, it had the vintage, magical garden party look I described, and the entry table arrangement was so elegant, with long bud branches and peaches and cream buds. Beautiful beautiful beautiful.
I highly recommend Katharina for any floral job, for both her floral artistry and wonderful personality, this review is well-​deserved!

Katharina is a floral artist! She did a BEAUTIFUL job for my wedding at the Legion of Honor Museum in SF. I checked out many florists before and found a lot of inconsistencies. I would like some work and dislike others. But when I found Katharina, I loved every piece of work she did. That’s how I knew I could trust her to be creative and produce amazing flowers. From the urn arrangements to the cocktail table flowers she created exactly what I wanted. Katharina was by far my favourite wedding vendor! She was professional, warm and accommodating to our needs. She worked within our budget and even added arrangements we could not afford, what an added bonus! Also, we forgot an important décor item and she was more than willing to bend over backwards to help. She is a delight and her work is beautiful! Book her and let her do her magic!

The flowers Katharina designed for my wedding were AMAZING. I looked at many florists, and from her portfolio could already tell I was going to love her work, but when I met her she was also a really delightful person. She is very professional and warm and I felt completely comfortable that she was going to do an amazing job and really cared about our wedding. She was also very willing to work within our budget. I love flowers so they were a particularly important part of the wedding day, and the flowers did not disappoint — from the boutonnieres to the bouquets to centerpieces and aisle décor, everything came out more beautiful and unique than I could have imagined. Thanks Katharina!

Our flowers were beyond what I had imagined. Katharina is so great and easy to work with. She listened to what we wanted, had great suggestions, and made the ‘day-​of’ easy and gorgeous. We didn’t bring in many other decorations and were really relying on the flowers to add that extra punch and glamour to every table and gathering space. Katharina’s flowers absolutely did that. Her pieces were thoughtfully arranged and each one looked specially made, which is hard to achieve amongst about a hundred arrangements. We couldn’t have been happier with how the flowers turned out and how nice it was to work with Katharina. We never doubted her professionalism or skill, which is exactly what you need in a vendor when planning a wedding or big event.

Katharina did such a BEAUTIFUL job on our wedding. We were blown away by her work. The tables were beautiful and the flowers were breath-​taking. From the colors, to the styles, to the centerpieces, every little piece of what she created was a perfect expression of our style and personalities.
I met Katharina for the first time having no idea what I really wanted. She was able to ask me questions, show me ideas and give me options in a way that helped me create my vision! She truly read my mind and saw what I couldn’t see for myself.
Katharina is so creative, so organized, so calm and peaceful and truly an artist. I’m honored to have worked with her.

Katharina did an AMAZING job on the flowers at my wedding. I absolutely love all the pieces she created for me, and I’m not even a flower person. What sets Katharina apart from other florists is her care to every single attention, and her creativity. For my bouquet, Katharina wrapped green tape around each flower stem and carefully arranged and blended the flowers so that they created a perfect circle. I also ordered a card gift box from Katharina instead of buying one on my own. She makes these boxes herself and I have to say, wow. I’ve never seen anything like it. I loved that she took all my ideas and input, likes and dislikes, all to heart, and showcased that in her work.
I didn’t spend much time looking at the DETAIL in all of all the pieces during the wedding, so when I saw her, I basically gave her a quick thank you for doing such a beautiful job and went on my way. But when most of the guests were gone, I had the opportunity to really appreciate and scrutinize her pieces and I really wish I was able to tell her, in person, how beautiful her work is and how appreciative I am. The décor at my wedding was everything I ever imagined it to be and Katharina, being the florist, has to take a big part of that credit.
Thank you Katharina. You are simply amazingly talented at what you do. Your soft spoken nature and modesty also sets you apart from other florists. Thank you for working within my budget and I will definitely recommend you to friends and order flowers from you again.

Katharina recently did the flowers for our wedding at the Golden Gate Club and she did a phenomenal job. The flowers were so beautiful! Half of our friends’ photos from the wedding night are of the flowers.
Our caterer, Miraglia Catering, recommended Katharina. When I first met with Katharina, I told her what our budget was and what color flowers we wanted (I didn’t have a particular flower in mind). She then had me look through her portfolio and worked with me on a theme for our flowers based on photos of her work that I liked. She also made suggestions on how to get the most flower for our dollar (we incorporated some of the centerpieces for the reception tables into the ceremony — Katharina moved the flowers back to the reception tables during the cocktail hour). Because of Katharina’s artistry and vision we ended up with amazing floral displays our wedding. I highly, highly recommend working with Katharina if you get the chance!

Katharina Stuart is absolutely amazing! I first met her at a bridal fair held at the Brazilian Room at Tilden Park (which is where my husband and I got married). From the very moment my mom and I spoke with her, I could sense her professionalism and talent, and I liked that she wasn’t «pushy» like some of the other florists we had encountered. After several consultations with other florists a few months after, we chose Katharina to be our wedding florist. She is so open, kind, easy to work with and talk to, and respects your ideas and vision, while offering her own suggestions to really make what you want as beautiful as possible, all while working within our budget.
My bridal bouquet was exactly as I had envisioned, and she had even added purple succulents, which everyone complimented, and I absolutely loved. My bridesmaids bouquets were just as beautiful, and everyone loved the centerpieces and other décor. Our colors were plum and charcoal, and she incorporated a lot of green accents to tie in with the beautiful scenery surrounding us at Tilden. I loved that she really listens to what you want, and in times when I was unsure of what to do, she would guide me in the right direction to really achieve what I was looking for.
When it came to last minute changes and additions (which seems to be the case with wedding planning, haha), Katharina was more than accommodating and like other reviews, she was very flexible. She even came to our hotel prior to the ceremony to hand deliver our bouquets and then went up to our ceremony site to make sure the rest of our wedding party, parents and grandparents had their personal flowers!
Katharina was such a pleasure to work with and I would highly recommend her to anyone.