What a Floral-Framed Altar Like Katrina and Christian's Actually Takes to Build

Katrina and Christian married at Stanly Ranch Auberge in Napa, standing beneath an altar built as a full frame of white blooms rather than a simple arch with accents. A structure like that is engineering before it is decor: the frame has to hold its own weight before a single stem is added, then carry enough density of blooms to read as solid, not sparse, from the back row of seating. Installations built to that scale are also almost always a same-day job — assembled on site the morning of the ceremony and struck again before the venue turns over, which is the detail worth asking a florist about before signing a contract, not after.

With reporting from Style Me Pretty.