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Wedding Florist at Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden | Aura Design Flowers
Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden in Coral Gables is a paradise for couples seeking a wedding surrounded by nature's finest creations. As your wedding florist at Fairchild, Aura Design Flowers draws inspiration from the garden's extraordinary collection of tropical plants, palms, and flowering trees to create arrangements that feel organically woven into this living landscape.
Spanning 83 acres, Fairchild is one of the world's premier tropical botanical gardens, offering couples a setting unlike any other in South Florida. The garden's winding paths, vine-covered pergolas, and shimmering lakes provide endless possibilities for ceremony and reception floral design.
About Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden
Founded in 1938 and named after renowned plant explorer David Fairchild, the garden houses one of the most comprehensive collections of tropical plants in the world. The venue offers several distinct event spaces including the Lakeside Terrace, the Overlook, the Palmetum Pavilion, and the stunning Wings of the Tropics conservatory. Wedding guests are immersed in a world of rare palms, tropical fruit trees, butterfly gardens, and exotic flowering plants.
Fairchild provides a naturally lush backdrop that reduces the need for excessive décor while offering intimate garden rooms for ceremonies and open-air pavilions for receptions. The venue typically accommodates weddings from 50 to 300 guests depending on the selected area.
Our Floral Approach at Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden
Our approach at Fairchild embraces the garden's tropical character. Rather than competing with the surrounding landscape, we design florals that amplify its beauty, using orchid varieties that complement the garden's collection, tropical foliage that echoes the canopy overhead, and vibrant accent blooms that add pops of color against the lush green setting.
For Lakeside Terrace ceremonies, we create ground-level arrangements and ceremony arch designs that incorporate tropical greenery and exotic blooms. Reception centerpieces often feature bold tropical flowers like proteas, anthuriums, heliconias, and bird of paradise paired with softer garden roses and ranunculus for balance. We also design suspended floral installations for the pavilion spaces that create a sense of being enveloped by the garden.
Floral Services at Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden
At Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, Aura Design Flowers offers a full suite of wedding floral services tailored to the venue's unique character:
- •Ceremony floral arches designed for Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden's unique setting
- •Wedding centerpieces scaled to complement the venue's proportions
- •Bridal bouquets and attendant flowers
- •Floral installations and statement pieces
- •Cocktail hour and reception accent arrangements
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Typical investment at Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden
Every wedding is quoted on its own scope, but these are the ranges most couples work within for the pieces this venue usually calls for:
- Installation work of any kind starts at around $3,500, because the structure, mechanics and labour cost much the same regardless of what sits on them.
- A half arch or asymmetrical ceremony piece typically runs $3,500 to $10,500.
- A full ceremony arch typically runs $5,500 to $13,000, with dramatic statement arches from about $9,500.
Frequently Asked Questions
We recommend booking 5-8 months ahead. Fairchild is a popular venue especially during the dry season (November through April), and early coordination allows us to source specialty tropical blooms and plan around the garden's seasonal availability.
Tropical flowers are a natural fit, orchids, heliconias, proteas, anthuriums, and birds of paradise all echo the garden's collection. We love pairing these with softer blooms like garden roses, ranunculus, and peonies for a balanced tropical-romantic aesthetic.
Yes. Aura Design Flowers has created floral designs for multiple events at Fairchild. We understand the garden's layout, lighting transitions from day to evening, and how to work within the venue's sustainability guidelines.
Absolutely. We design freestanding ceremony arches, ground-level floral arrangements, and even installations woven into the garden's existing structures. Each design is crafted to complement the natural landscape without damaging the living collection.
Ready to Design Your Wedding Florals at Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden?
We'd love to be part of your celebration. Tell us about your vision and we'll create something extraordinary.
Other Miami-Dade venues we design for
We install regularly across Miami-Dade. Each venue has its own floral guide.