LILAS WOOD

Lilas Wood's own list of the 13 cities it will travel to for a wedding includes Geneva, sitting between Chambéry and Mâcon. Its gallery and journal, though, show nothing from there yet. The gallery holds 8 real weddings and shoots: Château de Varennes and La Tour de Labergement in Burgundy, Clos Saint Esteve, Valensol and Domaine de Blanche Fleur in Provence, Talloires Abbey on Lake Annecy, and Enclos Montplaisir in the Ile de France. The journal adds a rustic wedding in Megève, a château wedding in Sorgues, a lookbook shot in Aix-les-Bains and a modern Provençal wedding at Maison Claudie, the newest post dated to 2026 by its own web address. None of it is Swiss. Geneva sits on a list, not in a body of finished work a couple can look at.

That travel list gives away where the studio actually operates. The full run reads Lyon, Saint Etienne, Clermont-Ferrand, Annecy, Grenoble, Chambéry, Geneva, Mâcon, Dijon, Valence, Avignon, Aix en Provence and Nice, 13 names arcing from the Rhône-Alpes down toward the Riviera. The matching list of regions puts Switzerland last, after Rhône Alpes, Auvergne, Beaujolais, Loire, Ain, Savoie, Haute Savoie, Drôme, Drôme Provençale, Bourgogne, Provence and the French Riviera. This reads as a French studio with a long reach, not a Geneva business with a French supplier network.

The legal notice names the company precisely: SAS Lilas Wood, registered at 18 Bd des Echarneaux in Saint-Chamond, a town the About page places "at the foot of the Pilat massif, south-west of Lyon." The Contact page, on the same site, describes the workshop as "about 30 minutes east of Lyon," which does not square with the About page's south-west, and neither page resolves it, so a couple planning to visit should confirm the drive rather than trust either description. Mathieu Pace is named as the site's owner and webmaster; the florist behind the arrangements, going by the testimonials and the studio's own contact address, is Elodie, reachable at elodie@lilaswood.com. The Contact page is blunt that phone is unreliable ("we're often in the studio making or flowering for events") and that email is the way in. The About page describes the pair working "as a couple," which reads as an operation run by 2 people rather than a firm with a bench of staff.

What Elodie makes, by her own description, mixes a lot into one arrangement: "fruits, berries, grasses, herbs" alongside "classic florals such as roses, peonies, dahlias, buttercups," built from seasonal stock either picked fresh or bought at flower markets, then finished with "textured foliage and unexpected elements such as fruits and twigs." The stated palette runs to "neutral shades of nude, powder and peach" without ruling out "deep, saturated pops of color," and the site describes its own house style as "free and wild," built by playing with height, space and texture rather than tight, matched arrangements. Sourcing, by the studio's own environmental page, draws on flowers "from all over the world," with the best material coming from Holland, Italy and France, plus one named relationship: a small local flower farm that grows varieties specifically for the studio's events. The same page lists what else the studio does about its own footprint: paying an annual premium to the Good Planet foundation to offset delivery emissions, running on a 100 percent renewable electricity contract, using an electric vehicle for the daily commute, sorting workshop waste, and packaging in kraft paper and jute rather than plastic.

The 1200-euro pickup and the 3500-euro installation

Lilas Wood publishes 2 ways to book a wedding, and the difference is entirely about who does the physical work. The cheaper option, "Recovery at the Workshop," carries a minimum order of 1200 EUR including VAT: the studio builds the arrangements, puts them in water and packages them for transport, and the couple collects them and handles delivery and setup themselves. The other, "Installation at the Place of Reception," has a minimum order of 3500 EUR including VAT and covers delivery and on-site installation within a 250km radius of the workshop, with an optional de-installation add-on that sends someone back the day after the wedding to collect the hired pieces. The site never states whether Geneva itself falls inside that 250km radius, so a couple booking the full-service tier from there needs to ask directly rather than assume it from the travel list alone.

The booking sequence itself is spelled out. A first message gets a reply within 48 hours, with an optional phone or Skype call to talk through the floral design. That leads to a personalized proposal, which the studio says it will keep adjusting as a couple's plans change. To lock in a date, the couple sends back the signed proposal and pays a deposit by bank transfer or check. No percentage or currency figure is published for the deposit itself, so that number needs confirming directly rather than assuming it from the 2 order minimums above.

Flowers from Holland, Italy and a farm down the road

The testimonials on the wedding page, all pulled from Google or Facebook and dated between 2017 and 2019, read as specific rather than generic. One thanks Elodie for "your creation of the chuppah, it was truly a work of art." Another describes a traditional white ceremony finished with an arch and "smaller posy bouquets with beautiful ribbons." A third is from a couple who traveled from Grenoble specifically to book her. None of the visible reviews are from Switzerland. The studio also works corporate accounts through a separate "Professionals" page, describing itself as available for "product launches, inaugurations" and window displays, so weddings are not its only line of business.

The English pages that still say "Mariage & Professionnel"

The site runs a full English translation, toggled from an FR/EN switch in the main navigation, and most of the prose reads as native English rather than a machine pass. The seams still show: the browser tab title on both the English wedding page and the English professionals page still reads "Fleuriste evenementiel Lyon - LILAS WOOD | Mariage & Professionnel," in French, and one line on the professionals page spells the studio's own name "Lilac Wood" rather than "Lilas Wood." Neither is a serious problem, but together they suggest the English layer was built over a French-first site rather than the business running bilingual from day one, worth knowing for a couple who wants every contract and email handled in English without translation friction. The footer copyright reads "2024 Lilas Wood," 2 years behind the studio's own 2026 journal post, which looks like site upkeep slipping rather than the business closing: nothing else here suggests Lilas Wood has stopped taking bookings.

Judged on its own ground, this is a real, currently working studio with a distinctive, maximalist floral style, a genuine environmental program, and a published, specific pricing structure that most florists serving Swiss weddings never disclose. Geneva sits on the travel list Lilas Wood publishes for itself, but nothing the studio has shown yet is a Geneva wedding, so a couple booking one would be commissioning new ground for Elodie rather than choosing a supplier with a track record on this side of the border.