meet the team
We’re designers at heart and love to help you bring your wedding or event vision to life.
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Petals & Plates started in 2019 with two obsessions: flowers and beautiful tableware. What began as renting my own vintage collection quickly grew into a full event design studio where florals, tables, and meaningful details work together to set the scene.
Our studio is a charming 1949 building that was once a flower shop—basically fate. As a master gardener and lifelong flower lover, combining blooms with tabletop design felt like the obvious next step (because everything great happens at the table).
Today, Petals & Plates is all about creative collaboration, thoughtful design, and events that feel personal—not cookie-cutter.
meet pat
ABOUT THE FOUNDER + Owner
I’ve always been drawn to creating with my hands—what started with clay at the Hartford Art School evolved into a full-blown love for modern floral design. After earning my BFA in Ceramics and exploring sculptural forms, I found myself captivated by nature’s textures and the artistry of floral design.
My path led me into sustainable flower farming and eventually to launching Soil and Clay, where I craft contemporary ceramics made for florists who love intentional design as much as I do.
Now at Petals and Plates, I get to merge everything I love—art, form, and floral styling—into one creative process. My approach is all about modern, design-forward florals that feel fresh, expressive, and playful.
meet sabrina
Our Core Values
LOVE IS LOVE IS LOVE IS LOVE
We work with any and all couples and individuals who are wildly in love and who want to create a wedding day as unique and beautiful as they are. Petals & Plates will always be an inclusive business. Regardless of your sexuality, gender, race, age or ability, we would be honored to work with you.
LOCAL IS BETTER
We strive to use locally sourced flowers whenever possible including growing some of our own flowers. We are members of the CT Flower Collective – a group of local, mostly women farmers, and during the New England growing season, this is where we’re getting the bulk of our blooms!
WE DO WHAT WE CAN TO HELP MOTHER NATURE
As an environmentally conscious studio, we embrace sustainable practices and do whatever is possible to help the planet on both the floral and rental sides of our business. Whenever possible we employ reusable floral mechanics and thoughtfully compost our floral waste. Our curated tableware rentals also promote sustainability by offering a refined, responsible alternative to single-use decor.
LOVE IS LOVE IS LOVE IS LOVE
LOCAL IS BETTER
WE DO WHAT WE CAN TO HELP MOTHER NATURE
THERE ARE NO RULES
Your intimate wedding or special event is uniquely yours. You’d prefer plants and herbs rather than floral centerpieces? Sounds good to us! You want to mix modern glassware with eclectic vintage plates? Amazing. Let’s do it. Design is so beautiful because there are no hard and fast rules. Sure, we’ll make suggestions about color palettes and will take into account how things coordinate with your venue or home and the overall vibe of your day, but ultimately, you call the shots.
Tablescapes, Floral Design, and Event Rentals
IN CONNECTICUT AND THROUGHOUT NEW ENGLAND, WE OFFER TABLESCAPE DESIGN, CREATIVE FLORAL ARRANGEMENTS, Tableware AND DECOR rentals.
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