Elizabeth Marsh Floral Design

Liz Marsh began in a small flower shop off Baker Street and learned the trade alongside Kenneth Turner. She dressed the windows at Harvey Nichols and worked for Le Caprice and The Ivy before founding the studio that carries her name more than twenty years ago.

Today she leads a team based at New Covent Garden Flower Market, in the middle of the UK flower trade. Flowers are bought fresh there and installed on site, from the ceremony to the last reception detail. The studio also designs private and corporate events, office planting and Christmas installations, and teaches floral design workshops.

The studio sums up its style as floral, not flowery. Each commission starts with a conversation about the client, the occasion, the venue and the budget, which the team calls thinking outside the vase. Weddings range from an intimate ceremony to a full transformation of a hall, with white and green a perennial favourite and a wide seasonal palette for fuller schemes.

Clients and venues built up over two decades include Cliveden House, Spencer House, the Four Seasons at Hampshire and at Canary Wharf, Firmdale Hotels, The Temple Church, Inner Temple Hall and Church House, Westminster. The studio is a preferred supplier at Cliveden House and Spencer House.

Sustainability runs through the work. The studio sends no waste to landfill, sources about 95% of its foliage locally and passes event flowers on as bouquets for care homes and hospices. It takes a limited number of weddings each year.