The Flower Farm
The Ruins at Sassafras…
…sits on land with a rich agricultural history. The Shakers grew food crops, medicinal herbs, and flowers and raised livestock. Mary Chess cultivated lilacs for her perfume business. The McDonalds herded sheep, cows, and peacocks and sewed coats made of sheepskin shipped from their family farm in Scotland.
Two-hundred years later, we're following the tradition.
Sassafras Flower Farm blooms …
… from May to November. You can cross the street from our venue and walk to the farm to select flowers for your bouquets, arbor spray, and bud vases. We’ll cut the flowers for you and keep them fresh in our air conditioned studio. Bring your photographer and wedding party, and make the afternoon a photo op.
We use an ancient farming practice called Hügelkultur (mound culture) – mounds from recycled logs, branches, grass clippings, and compost topped with soil. The mounds save water and require little fertilizer. Organic matter inside self-composts, makes landscape debris usable, and sequesters carbon. After your wedding, we compost the flowers and return them to the earth.
We offer Sassafras Farm flowers at wholesale prices for our couples. If you have a favorite regional flower that's not on our list, let us know by January, and we'll grow it for you.
Our farm flowers change every year, but you’ll likely find:
Amaranth (Green Tails, Autumn Touch)
Bachelor’s Button
Bells of Ireland
Bishops Green Mist (White Dill Ammi)
Black Eyed Susans
Broom Corn
Bupleurum
Celosia (Cramer’s Rose)
Cinnamon Basil
Dara Ammi (Chocolate Lace Flower)
Dahlias (Apple Blossom Decorative Mix)
Dahlias (Cherry Cordial Mix)
Dahlias (Giant Ball Dahlias Mixed)
Dahlias (Dinner Plate Dahlias)
Gomphrena (purple, pink, and white)
Heliopsis (False Sunflower)
Lisianthus (Rosita, Croma, ABD, Arena, and Corelli)
Lupine
Mountain Mint
Peony
Persian Cress
Ranunculus (Pastel Mix)
Saponaria: White and Pink
Snap Dragons (Chantilly Pink)
Strawflower (King Size Red)
Sunflowers (Autumn Beauty)
Sunflowers (Lemonade)
Sunflowers (ProCut White Nite)
Sunflowers (Cherry Rose)
Xeranthemum Annuum (Paper Flower)
Zinnias (Oklahoma White)
Zinnias (Zinderella Peach)
Zinnias (Queen Lime Blush)
Zinnias (Queen Lime Orange)
Zinnias (Benary’s Salmon)
Zinnias (Golden Hour)
In-house Design
Our In-house Designers work on site to create a stunning landscape for your event
Lisa Light & Isabelle Bosquet-Morra, Designers
Lisa and Isabelle will custom design your event to fit your vision and budget using the flowers and indigenous plants grown at Sassafras and sourcing additional flowers and design elements when needed. Design services include flowers, foliage and trees, lighting, linens, and props.
Lisa Light, founder of Destination Bride, LLC is an international wedding designer, producer and author based out of nearby Chatham, New York. She has been a guiding “light” throughout the renovation and the development of the weddings and events business at Sassafras. In addition to helping with business development and marketing, she is passionate about flowers and floral design. She is happy to work with all budgets and will provide as much or as little as a couple wants.
Lisa Light
Isabelle Bosquet-Morra
Isabelle Bosquet-Morra, founder and principal of Fleurisa, has created floral arrangements and décor for scores of stylish parties and events, from posh seaside weddings in the Hamptons to a series of events for the opening of the Yves Saint Laurent Museum in Marrakech, Morocco. Her work, characterized by intense color and cutting-edge containers, has been featured in Town & Country, Elle Decor, House & Garden, Architectural Digest and Vogue. She hails from France but now shares her time between New York City & Stuyvesant in Columbia County, NY.
In addition to flowers, we offer in-house designers to create a gorgeous landscape for your event.
Samples of our work
HOW IT WORKS
Lisa and Isabelle provide full-service floral design at Sassafras, Because we only use flowers and foliage grown and foraged at Sassafras and other local farms, your florals will be fresh cut and sustainable.
Lisa and Isabelle will provide as much floral decor as you wish and tailor the design to your vision and budget. They select the flowers and other design elements, arrange, install, and break down. They stay onsite until the ceremony or celebration begins and return afterwards to break down, clean up, and compost.
If you are interested in Sassafras flower design for your celebration, Lisa and Isabelle will:
1. Set up an introductory in-person or virtual meeting where you can share your vision, favorite flowers and colors, inspiration board or photos, wishlist and yes...your budget!
2. Provide you with a design proposal and estimate to review.
3. Send you a contract to reserve their services. A 50% non-refundable deposit is due along with the signed contract
4. Attend your final production meeting at Sassafras to review final details. You can change the design and flower order up to one month before your event. The final payment is due three weeks before you arrive.
5. Design the flowers on location, set up, and break down the decor they provide.
The Sassafras Celebration Flower Package
This package provides an average design cost. You can change the number of bouquets, boutonnieres, arrangements, votives and hanging centerpieces as needed and add specialty lighting, linens, china, pillar or taper flameless candles. We can also decorate the ceremony aisle, the posts/columns in the Chair Factory, and the antique window frames hanging from the ceiling.
Personal Flowers
Bride's Bouquet $200
Maid of Honor or Bridesmaid Bouquet $150
Groom's Boutonniere $25
Best Man Boutonniere $25
Ceremony
Arbor/Chuppah decorated with foliage and three groupings of flowers $725
Reception
10 Sassafras farm tables adorned with 10 borrowed bud vases with 1-3 blooms $2500
10 flameless votives per table $250
1 long arrangement on the host or head table $400
1 hanging antique window frame with greens, blooms, and/or or lights $725
Total: $5000 + 10% Set Up/Break Down Fee + 8% Sales Tax = $5,940
