Ava Event Styling

We hired Amy to style our wedding reception last weekend and we were so happy with the results. We wanted a rustic Christmassy feel, with lots of lights, trees and a bit of sparkle. She absolutely nailed it! We’re so happy with how it looked! Amy was fantastic to work with as well. We had great communication with her and her assistant. She really went above and beyond for us, even dropping all the trees off at our house the next day, so we could give them to our neighbours!

Ava Event Styling are absolutely incredible and we're so glad we had them for our wedding. From the start we felt in good hands as Amy and Amanda did such an amazing job taking our prompts (which were pretty much 'I like wildflowers and these colours') and turning them into a mood board of inspiration. We had to move our wedding twice due to COVID and Ava were incredible throughout. In that time the costs associated with flowers and labour both increased but Amy was amazing working with us to get something that would work for our vision. The result was absolutely spectacular and I will never forget walking into the court at Hampton Manor and seeing the display. Amy outdid herself and I could not have asked for a better artist to take on our wedding. Literally everything was amazing - communication, timekeeping, and the flowers - the passion Amy has for her craft and the care she puts in for her couples is exemplary. All of our guests commented on the flowers. I am so glad we went with Ava and I would recommend them to anyone - you won't regret it. (Photos by Marta May Photography)

We hired Amanda and Amy to style our wedding at Hampton Manor eighteen months ago. Given that we had only given ourselves and AVA 3 months to plan and pull off our big day, Amanda and Amy were just brilliant and took so much of the stress away. Great attention to detail, superb style ideas and sourcing, we would recommend them in a heart beat to anyone looking for 2 amazingly creative minds. We also received so much positive feedback from our guests about the ceremony and table styling, something you don't expect guests to take too much notice of. Big up AVA xx

From the initial meeting I had with Amy at Ava Styling, I knew her and Amanda were the florists for our wedding. I also knew what flowers and what colours I wanted – white with greenery. My nana had Lily of the Valley at her wedding and to carry on the tradition a few years later was an amazing feeling. The day before the wedding I was getting updates of how things were progressing on Instagram, which was lovely. In fact, I even shed a few tears at one point after seeing a video of fresh bunches of Lily of the Valley being unwrapped. So I’d just like to say – from the first meeting to a week or so after the wedding when a few tulips were hanging limply in a vase on my Mum’s fireplace – the flowers and Ava Styling were perfect – thank you.

Amy from Ava Event Styling worked pure magic on our December 2023 wedding. Her incredible talent blended our very diverse ideas into the perfect look that we, and our guests, loved. Amy's creativity and meticulous attention to detail turned our somewhat blurry vision into beautiful reality, making the day absolutely unforgettable. She provided a clear and stress-free planning process that not only made the journey to build the look fun, but gave us absolute confidence that the end result would be exactly what we wanted. Amy’s ability to understand, enhance, and execute our vision, combined with her clear process and exceptional attention to detail, made our December wedding an unforgettable and magical experience. Thank you, Amy, for turning our dreams into reality!

I have been lucky enough to have worked with the super fabulous ladies of Ava for over 8 years now as our first choice UK based wedding florists & stylists. They are just so talented & have such an eye for how to transform a space. They not only take the brief & create it but far exceed all expectations, blowing our clients away every time. They have created some of our most beautiful events both in the UK & Lake Como & as wedding planners we love working with them. They are both professional but so lovely to work with too, our clients love being able to sit & Char, throwing ideas around together. They are experts in their craft & recommend them to all brides & planners who want the best.

I wasn't happy with Ava Event Styling Ltd, which was the firm my wife hired for our wedding on 13th May 2017. The most crucial thing about a wedding is to "get to the church on time" - they were working to the church being open at 12.30pm for a 1.30pm wedding when in fact the church was open at 11.30am for a 12.30pm wedding. They advised that they were given the wrong time by a member of staff at the church, but I was not satisfied with that as I felt that Ava's directors should have recorded our instructions (which we gave them) properly. Amanda Plester asked my wife by email three days before the wedding when the ceremony start time was, and she was given the correct information by reply. To be fair, the Ava team did send a text message to my wife the day before the wedding which referred to their incorrect understanding of 12.30pm access time for the church... but unfortunately this text message was sent to my wife's work mobile telephone number rather than her personal mobile telephone number, so we only picked up this message at the end of our honeymoon. When I reviewed the contract documentation after the event, I saw that my wife's correct personal mobile telephone had been confirmed on that documentation - therefore I feel we had a legitimate expectation that Ava's directors would contact us on that number, even if at any previous time the other number had been used - after all, I can't see what more the client can do other than a) provide the correct telephone number and b) then check that the correct telephone number is on the contract/order note! Net result of all of this was that a) our church wedding proceeded without the pew-end flower displays which we had ordered (although to be fair they were reused at the wedding reception), b) some photos from before/after the wedding don't match in the way I would have reasonably expected because members of the wedding party were dressed with buttonhole flowers later than I would have expected, c) we lost thirty minutes of our wedding reception (and suffered the embarrassment of our guests waiting in the church for thirty minutes) because of the delay in the delivery of bouquets to the bride and bridesmaids (to be fair we could have reduced the delay by foregoing some of the photographs but I don't really feel we should have had to do that) and d) we were both quite upset at what had happened - can you imagine this happening on your wedding day after eighteen months of planning, and can you imagine the feeling in the bride's hotel room when the florists did not turn up at a time they were reasonably expected? To be fair I would say that Ava's directors had every honest intention of fulfilling the engagement properly, and that the flower arrangements supplied were to a high standard, but in our case - in my personal opinion - the positive points were completely outweighed by this one timing issue. I think their administration procedures should include more checks and balances to prevent a situation like this from arising, and I feel they should take responsibility for taking all crucial instructions from their client properly in good time before the event. Hopefully they have learned from this experience. From my own perspective, I very much wish we had hired a different firm.