Wedding Design & Styling Consultations
A private design consultation for couples who want aesthetic clarity before committing to a larger creative engagement.
Whether you arrive with a fully formed vision or a feeling you haven't yet found words for, this consultation establishes the visual direction, emotional tone, and design confidence your wedding deserves — and in most cases, becomes the beginning of something more.
Soigné offers a limited number of consultations each season, serving couples in New Orleans and destination celebrations worldwide.
What Professional Wedding Design Direction Actually Provides
Most couples enter the planning process with a planner, a florist, and a photographer. What they rarely have is someone whose sole responsibility is the design — the cohesion, the atmosphere, the visual story that holds everything together.
A wedding planner manages logistics. A florist executes flowers. A photographer captures what exists. None of them are responsible for ensuring that what exists is worth capturing — that the decisions made across vendors add up to something coherent, considered, and distinctly yours.
That is what professional wedding design direction provides.
A full creative direction commission for your celebration — from visual concept through execution.
In practice, this means a named aesthetic direction that every vendor can work from. A color story and material palette developed around your venue, your story, and the images you want to exist. Floral direction given in partnership with your florist. Guidance on light, atmosphere, spatial composition, and the details that shape how the day is experienced and remembered. A creative eye present through planning, ensuring the vision holds — with on-day creative presence available as a separate commission.
This is not a mood board. It is a designed experience — built entirely around your wedding, and delivered by someone whose only concern is how everything looks, feels, and is remembered.
Wedding Design Direction
A luxury creative direction commission for the wedding morning — the hours before the ceremony that most couples leave entirely to chance.
Where a planner manages logistics and vendors execute their specific roles, a creative director shapes the atmosphere and ensures every element works together as a cohesive whole. The Wedding Prep Ritual brings that function to the morning itself — the suite, the light, the composition of your most personal objects, the emotional atmosphere in the room before you leave it.
This includes suite styling and environmental composition, heirloom detail curation, ceremonial moments, floral refinement, photographic pacing, and gentle creative direction throughout. It is the difference between a morning that was photographed and a morning that was designed.
The Wedding Prep Ritual
Their vendors are aligned — florist, photographer, and planner are working from the same creative language rather than independently toward different interpretations
Their photographs reflect a coherent visual world rather than a collection of beautiful individual moments
Decisions that felt overwhelming — color, material, atmosphere, detail — become clear and stay clear through the months ahead
The morning and the celebration feel like a single story rather than two separate events
Most planners are not designers. Most florists are not directors. The gap between having talented vendors and having a wedding that feels designed is real — and it is exactly what Soigné exists to close.
What couples who invest in professional design direction consistently find:
When a Consultation is Most Helpful
A Design & Styling Consultation with Soigné is particularly valuable when:
You are working with a planner but want refined aesthetic leadership and a considered design direction
You feel uncertain about visual cohesion — the pieces exist, but nothing has clicked yet
You care deeply about atmosphere, photography, and how the day will be remembered
You want your wedding morning environment to feel as intentional and beautifully composed as the celebration itself
You are planning a New Orleans wedding or a destination celebration and want a creative perspective grounded in place
Many couples begin with a consultation to establish creative clarity — and find, once the direction is set, that they want Soigné to carry it forward. The consultation is designed with that possibility in mind.
The Consultation
Design & Styling Consultation
$1,500
A single, focused engagement — and for most couples, the beginning of a longer creative relationship.
Each consultation includes:
A considered pre-consultation intake sent once your session is confirmed — a beautifully designed document that invites you to reflect on the atmosphere, feeling, and story you want your wedding to hold. Your answers ensure the session arrives already in motion — and for most couples, open a conversation that continues well beyond it
A private 90-minute discovery session exploring aesthetic direction, emotional tone, venue context, and design priorities
Creative development following your session — Soigné prepares a bespoke Design Direction document reflecting the ideas explored
A 30-minute direction presentation where the refined direction is shared and discussed
A written Design Direction document to keep — a curated framework for your visual and atmospheric vision
The focus of your consultation — full celebration design, wedding morning environment, or both — is determined through your intake, which is sent once your session is confirmed.
If you choose to move forward with Wedding Design Direction or The Wedding Prep Ritual within 45 days, your consultation investment is applied in full toward your commission.
What the Design Direction Document Covers
Following your discovery session, Soigné prepares a written and visual framework tailored entirely to your wedding. Depending on your focus, this may include:
For celebration design — a named aesthetic direction, color story and material palette, atmospheric and sensory guidance, venue and spatial priorities, floral direction, and photography and editorial references
For wedding morning — suite environment and styling direction, flat lay and wardrobe composition, attire and accessory priorities, experiential and sensory elements, and photographic pacing
This document is yours to keep and share with your photographer, planner, and vendors. It is also, for many couples, the moment they understand what a full commission would feel like — and why they want one.
The Design & Styling Consultation is a complete creative experience — one that begins before you and Jordan ever speak. The pre-consultation intake, the discovery session, the Design Direction document, and the direction presentation are each designed with the same care and intention as the full commission itself.
Clients leave with a named aesthetic direction, a considered design framework, and a clear sense of what the full creative partnership could look like — and whether they want one.
But a direction is not the same as someone to hold it.
The months between a consultation and a wedding day are long. The vision that felt clear in a 90-minute session can quietly erode under the weight of vendor decisions, budget conversations, and well-meaning opinions. What the consultation establishes, the full commission protects.
Wedding Design Direction and The Wedding Prep Ritual exist for couples who want the direction carried — not just documented. Refinement rounds, vendor briefings, on-day creative presence, and the sustained aesthetic governance that keeps the vision coherent from concept through the final hour. Not advisory. Active.
The consultation gives you clarity. The full commission gives you continuity — and the assurance that what you built together will actually be what you experience on the day.
The Consultation & The Full Commission
When a Consultation Leads to a Full Commission
If you engage Soigné for Wedding Design Direction or The Wedding Prep Ritual within 45 days of your consultation, the $1,500 investment is applied in full toward the larger commission.
The depth of the intake process means that by the time the session begins, Soigné already understands your vision intimately. Most couples find that once the direction is established, they want it protected — and that continuing into a full commission feels less like a new decision and more like the one they were always going to make.
A Broader Advisory Practice
While many consultations begin within the wedding space, Soigné also advises boutique hotels, heritage venues, and creative partners seeking aesthetic clarity prior to broader creative engagement or brand storytelling initiatives.
The philosophy remains consistent — clarity before production, cohesion before execution.
For Hospitality & Creative Partners
Strategic Advisory Session
For boutique hotels, venues, and luxury brands seeking refined aesthetic positioning, experiential alignment, or campaign clarity prior to engaging in a broader creative partnership.
This advisory session establishes visual direction, narrative cohesion, and long-term opportunity mapping across property, guest experience, and brand presence.
Available selectively. Investment shared upon inquiry.
Advisory Scope
Consultations provide conceptual aesthetic direction and strategic guidance. Production planning, sourcing, implementation, and on-site oversight require a separate commission.
