Finest Decor

Finestdecor plans weddings and, in the same studio, designs and builds the flowers and decor for them itself rather than handing that off to a separate florist. That combination of planning and flowers under a single team is the pitch on finestdecor's own site, and its About page backs it with a specific figure: 8 women work there, each named and given a title.

Only Esther Bolkart is called a founder. Her title line on the English about page reads "Founder, Business Owner, Marketing, Wedding & Events," and the German version calls her "Gründerin" in the same slot; the paragraph under it adds that she's been working as finestdecor's managing director for over 15 years. Tamara Wellink, a master florist with earlier experience in 5-star hotels in Los Angeles, Tuscany and the Alps, carries the title "Managing Director, Master Florist, Wedding & Events" on both language versions, with no founder credit attached to her name on either one. Both hold the managing-director title; only Bolkart's also carries founder, worth stating plainly since some descriptions of the business pair Bolkart and Wellink as joint founders.

The team members titled "Wedding Planner" on the page are Samira Klijnsma, Livia Zgraggen and Sara Feldmann. Klijnsma also works as a project manager for a travel agency and grew up bilingual in German and English in Dubai; Zgraggen works full-time in HR and plans weddings in her free time. The remaining staff, Andrea Märki (at finestdecor since 2016), Corina Jost and Jasmin Küttel, split floral design, admin, marketing, graphic design and photography between them; Küttel also shoots the studio's own event photography. It's worth being precise about who runs the actual wedding-day conversations, since the planning page itself names Klijnsma and Zgraggen as the wedding planners on staff, not as the company's leadership.

Planning and floristry, billed differently

The planning side, the page this listing points to, names 3 packages: Coaching, Wedding Day Coordination and Full Wedding Planning. The order on the page is worth reading past the labels, because they don't line up the way the names suggest. Coaching turns out to be the lightest tier by what the copy actually describes: support for a couple planning their own wedding, added just for the day itself, after an initial meeting. Wedding Day Coordination, despite its name, is described as the fuller service: a built network of vendors, the couple choosing which tasks to hand over, coordination starting roughly 2 weeks before the wedding and running through the day itself. Full Wedding Planning, presumably the top tier of the 3, carries no description of its own anywhere on the page, just a "Request now" button. The page's own opening line resolves the ambiguity by pushing it to a conversation ("we'll work together to determine the support that's right for you"), and states that all 3 are billed on what it calls a simple hourly rate. No figure for that rate is published on any page checked for this listing.

The design and floristry side is priced far more specifically than the planning side. A concept phase, covering a mood board and a written quote, costs CHF 300, stated on the site as the equivalent of 3 hours of work, payable in advance and credited in full toward the project if the couple books. Booking itself requires a deposit of 50% of the total offer. Changes are allowed after that, but the site caps how far they can shrink the bill: the cost can be reduced by a maximum of 15% from the original offer, however much a couple trims from it. The remaining balance is invoiced after a final call roughly 3 weeks before the wedding, and the studio handles the teardown and return of the rented decor the day after. Its own FAQ recommends getting in touch around 12 months ahead of the date, while noting that late capacity sometimes exists, and that a fully booked date gets a referral to another florist rather than an overcommitted studio.

Who it names as partners

The dedicated wedding-partners page names 2 vendors in each of 8 categories, photography, hair and makeup, patisserie, catering, stationery, dresses and suits, wedding speakers (4 named there) and music, all described as businesses finestdecor "particularly enjoys working with." That's a supplier list rather than proof of exclusivity, but it matches the coordination package's own claim of a "carefully built network." The planning page separately names 11 partner venues around Lucerne and central Switzerland it regularly works with, among them Hotel Bürgenstock, Villa Honegg, Mandarin Oriental Lucerne, Hotel Schweizerhof Lucerne and Villa Château Gütsch. The studio itself sits in Adligenswil, a municipality bordering Lucerne rather than the city itself; the business's commercial register office of record is Lucerne, but its street address and its own About page both put the studio, warehouse and showroom in Adligenswil. Its floristry FAQ states the studio currently serves the whole of Switzerland from there, with travel further afield open to discussion on request.

Silent on paperwork, half-answered on language

Neither the planning page nor any other page checked for this listing, including the about, contact and legal-notice pages, says anything about the paperwork a foreign couple has to complete before marrying in Switzerland: no mention of the preparatory civil procedure, apostilled documents, or which office handles them. A couple relying on this business for that part of a destination wedding would need to raise it directly; the site is simply silent on it. The language picture is similarly partial. The site itself is fully translated into English, not a thin stub (this listing was written from the English pages throughout), and Klijnsma's own bio states she's bilingual in German and English, but nothing on the site claims the wider team runs consultations, contracts or the wedding day itself in English as standard practice.

Numbers on the flowers, none on the planning

That asymmetry is the clearest way to size up finestdecor. The floral side of the business publishes a concept fee, a deposit percentage and a cap on how much a change can shrink the bill, so a couple can do real arithmetic before they ever pick up the phone. The planning side, the service this listing is actually about, publishes none of that: an hourly rate with no rate attached, and a top-tier package with no paragraph explaining what separates it from the tier below. The reason to still get in touch is the structure underneath both: the same 8-person team designs the flowers and runs the planning, so a couple isn't coordinating a separate florist and a separate planner who've never worked a wedding together. Client notes on the site run as recently as June 2025. An Instagram caption reproduced on its own site reads that the team is "incredibly proud and deeply grateful that British VOGUE has taken an interest in" its work, a specific, dated claim rather than a vague one, though the caption itself stops short of confirming an actual feature ran. Worth the enquiry, with the understanding that the planning fee and the civil paperwork question will both need to come from that conversation rather than from the website itself.