Emch Floristik

Emch Floristik, in Boswil, doesn't price wedding flowers as a single open-ended service. Its Hochzeitsfloristik page names 3 fixed packages, Basis, Standard and Premium, prints a price on each, and lists exactly what changes between them. That's unusual among Swiss wedding florists, most of whom won't quote a figure until they've heard the brief, and it means a couple can work out what CHF 275 buys against what CHF 1020 buys before they ever pick up the phone.

What separates Basis, Standard and Premium

Basis, at CHF 275, is the smallest tier: a bridal bouquet, a boutonniere for the groom, 5 vase fillings for the tables, a choice of colour scheme, and a consultation capped at 20 minutes. Standard, at CHF 520, keeps the bouquet and the groom's boutonniere, doubles the table vases to 10, and adds 2 pieces Basis doesn't include: flowers for the maid of honour and a matching boutonniere for the best man. Its consultation runs longer too, up to 30 minutes. Premium, at CHF 1020, roughly doubles Standard again: 20 vase fillings, the same maid-of-honour and best-man pieces, plus 10 small posies for the church pews or the aisle (the site calls them Banksträußli), with up to 40 minutes of consultation.

So the CHF 245 step from Basis to Standard buys the wedding party's own flowers, not just more table decoration, and the further CHF 500 step to Premium buys volume: twice the vase fillings and 10 more pieces for the seating. None of the 3 packages is described as including delivery or setting the flowers up at the venue; both come up below. A couple who wants something outside these 3 tiers isn't stuck either. The page says custom arrangements are available, worked out directly with the shop.

A custom quote costs money too, and there's no stated minimum

Ask for anything outside the 3 named packages and the shop charges for the quote itself, Fr. 30 to Fr. 50 depending on how much work it takes to put together. That fee isn't wasted if the booking goes ahead: the site says it's deducted from the final invoice once the shop is chosen to supply the flowers. There's no published cutoff for how far ahead a couple needs to book, but the page asks to hear from them at least a week before the wedding so it can guarantee sourcing their preferred flowers, and adds, plainly, that some weekends are already fully booked, so earlier is better.

Nothing on the page states a minimum wedding order. CHF 275 is simply the price of the cheapest of the 3 named packages, not a floor the shop imposes on every booking; a couple wanting less than that would need to ask directly whether it's possible.

Delivery is priced by village, not by distance

The wedding page notes only that a delivery adds a flat fee on top of the package price, without printing the number. That fee lives on the shop's own delivery page, priced across 5 named zones. Zone 1, Boswil itself, is Fr. 9. Zone 2, Bünzen, Kallern and Muri, is Fr. 12. Zone 3, a cluster of Freiamt villages (Aristau, Benzenschwil, Besenbüren, Buttwil, Büttikon, Geltwil, Uezwil and Waltenschwil), is Fr. 16. Zone 4, further out to Beinwil Freiamt, Bettwil, Bremgarten, Hermetschwil-Staffeln, Merenschwand, Mühlau, Rottenschwil, Sarmenstorf, Schongau and Wohlen, is Fr. 19. Zone 5, the furthest villages the list names (Anglikon, Auw, Mühlau, Müswangen, Villmergen and Zufikon), is Fr. 25. It's a named-village table rather than a radius in kilometres, so a couple can check their own venue's village against the list directly instead of guessing at a per-kilometre rate.

Any vases the shop lends for table decoration have to go back cleaned within 5 days of the event. What the page never answers is whether staff arrive at the venue to arrange the flowers, or whether a couple collects everything from the shop or takes delivery and sets it up themselves. The packages describe what's included, not who installs it, so that's worth asking before booking rather than assuming either way.

Tamara Emch has owned it since 2015

Tamara Emch, a florist holding the federal Fachausweis qualification, has run Emch Floristik as its manager and owner since 2015. Before that she managed a different Boswil florist, Gärtnerei Etterlin, from 2012 to 2014, after training as a florist from 2006 to 2009 at Emil Huber AG in Wohlen and working stints at Casa Verde in Muri and Barbara Haag Floristik in Lucerne. She's been an instructor on the trade's inter-company courses since 2013, sits as an examiner on its qualification board, and co-chaired the Aargau florists' association from 2016 to 2024.

Her team today is 5 florists in total: herself, Fabienne Wicki as deputy manager, Renate Baumann and Sandra Furrer part-time, and Nicole Ulmer on call, plus 1 first-year apprentice, Jaël Schanz. There are no open positions at the moment, though the shop already lists an apprenticeship expected to start in summer 2028, a small but concrete sign it's planning years out rather than winding down. The shop opens daily from 7.00 to 20.00; a florist staffs the counter Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday (8.00 to 12.00 and 13.30 to 18.30) and Saturday mornings (8.00 to 16.00), while Wednesday and Sunday run entirely self-service, paid by Twint or cash with no change given.

What an overseas couple still has to ask

The site publishes only in German. Nothing checked here, on the wedding page or anywhere else on the site, mentions English-language planning, contracts or day-of service, so a couple who doesn't read German will need to raise that directly, by phone on 056 670 03 70 or by email, before assuming staff can run the day in English. That's the one real gap for a reader planning from abroad.

Set against that, the package structure itself hands a couple more upfront information than most Swiss wedding florists publish at all: 3 fixed prices, an itemised list of what each one adds over the last, a quote fee for anything custom, and a village-by-village delivery price list rather than a vague travel surcharge. For a couple who wants a real number to plan around before they ever set foot in Switzerland, that's worth the trip through the fine print, and worth a phone call to settle the language question before booking.