Anthony Gowder Designs + 312FILMS: Floral Design Across Five Chicago Weddings

Some floral teams decorate a room. Anthony Gowder Designs builds the world your film lives in. We have now filmed five weddings with their floral and decor work in the frame, across some of Chicago’s grandest rooms and one of its most storied hotels, and every one of those films is richer for it.

About Anthony Gowder Designs

Anthony Gowder Designs is a full-service floral design, production, and event coordination studio founded in 1998 by Anthony and Stephanie Gowder, based out of their storefront and design studio at 2616 W. North Ave. in Chicago’s Humboldt Park. The company works almost exclusively with the city’s downtown hotel, wedding, and corporate markets, and has been named a “Best of Weddings” honoree on The Knot 15 times, enough to earn their Hall of Fame distinction, with a 4.9 out of 5 rating across 165 reviews. Several of the weddings we’ve filmed with them, including Dana & Kit’s at The Drake and Kaitlyn & Hobie’s at The Club at Wynstone, also used the team’s month-of coordination services in addition to florals.

The Weddings We’ve Shared

• Kristen & Kyle at the University Club: floral and decor for a “Hogwarts-like” Cathedral Hall reception beneath soaring Gothic ceilings.
• Meghan & Matt at The Club at Wynstone: decor for a June reception that flowed from a grand entrance to Dave Matthews Band straight into the dancing.
• Kaitlyn & Hobie at The Club at Wynstone: floral and decor for an intimate 24-guest microwedding, proof that scale doesn’t limit style.
• Dana & Kit at The Drake: both floral design and full event coordination for a Gold Coast Ballroom celebration, from the Champagne Parade to the Horah.
• Courtney & Adam at Gibsons Italia: floral design (as AGD Flowers) for an intimate 50-guest celebration with the Chicago skyline as a backdrop.

What a Wedding Floral Budget with Anthony Gowder Designs Looks Like

Anthony Gowder Designs doesn’t publish an official price list, since every proposal is built around a couple’s specific vision, guest count, and venue. The Knot, which tracks real wedding spending data, estimates an average cost of around $5,650 for their services, though your own quote will depend on scale, floral variety, and whether you add coordination. For an exact number, the fastest path is a consultation at their Humboldt Park studio or a call to their team directly.

What Anthony Gowder Designs Brings to a Wedding Film

Floral and decor set the visual language of a reception before a single dance starts: the color story, the scale of the centerpieces, how a room reads in wide shots versus close-ups. Anthony Gowder Designs works across very different rooms, from Cathedral Hall’s Gothic scale to Gibsons Italia’s glass-walled river views, and each time the decor answers the room instead of fighting it. On the Drake wedding, where their team also handled coordination, that meant a day that ran on time from the rooftop first look through the last song, which is its own gift to a wedding film. A day that runs smoothly is a day we can shoot without chasing the schedule.

For Couples Weighing Floral & Decor

If your venue is one of Chicago’s grand ballrooms, or even an intimate 24-guest gathering, thoughtful floral design is what turns a beautiful room into your room for the day. We’d work alongside Anthony Gowder Designs on any wedding.

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