welcome to the loulou studio
We believe flowers hold stories. Stories worth capturing and cherishing for years to come.
Here we specialise in preserving your sentimental flowers and turning them into keepsake artworks, for you to hold onto for a lifetime.
We are Cape Town based and work with flowers from across South Africa.
For those who are interested in learning new flowery skills, we'd love to host you at one of our upcoming workshops.
bouquet preservation
We specialise in creating bespoke keepsake artworks from your sentimental flowers, so you can keep them for a life time.
Using traditional wood press preservation, your flowers are carefully pressed, petal by petal to preserve your most heartfelt moments.
We offer multiple frame shapes, sizes, wood types and design styles ensuring each piece is truly custom created for you, with your taste and style in mind.
Each artwork is hand crafted in collaboration with our local framers to give you a high quality, sentimental piece of art that captures your most hearty moments.
As part of our Flowers for Cause initiative, spare pressed flowers that are not made use of in your keepsakes are repurposed into volunteer based creative experiences for under-resourced community spaces, to continue to bring joy and creativity to others in need.
from fresh flowers to keepsake artwork
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Get in touch via email or the online enquiry form. Remember to include the wedding/ event date and feel free to check in with any questions you may have and any special requests.
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We will send you
framing and design
options, and chat about any questions you have.
Make your selections
to receive your invoice for your deposit. Payment of your deposit will book your spot in the press.
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Drop off of or courier your flowers to us at the studio within a few days of your event. If you are based outside of Cape Town, let us know and we will send you some guidelines to safely pack and post your flowers to us.
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Your flowers will be pressed and preserved in traditional wood presses. Once preserved we will reach out to you with your balance of payment. Once received we will work on some designs to send to you for approval.
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Your flowers will be secured in place into your keepsake artwork for you to cherish. The full process can take around 16-20 weeks until you have your flowers back in your hands.
what you'll spend
Pricing starts at R2400 and increases depending on your frame size and shape preferences. Please reach out via our contact page to have a look through our framing and design options.
Upcoming Workshops
Join us in a relaxed environment where we slow down, share knowledge and play with both fresh and preserved flowers through our floral experience workshops.
If you'd like to join one of our upcoming workshops, tickets are available via Quicket or send us a mail and we can give you more details and direct you to ticket sales.
To bring a flowery experience to your private or corporate event, please reach our via our contact page and lets chat about bringing your vision to life.
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Flowers for Cause
Flowers for Cause is our way of paying it forward. Flowers that aren't used in your keepsakes are pressed and lovingly repurposed into creative experiences for those who may not otherwise have access to them.
Every few months, we take a creation session to our community, where we host hands-on floral art workshops with children's homes, old age homes and women's shelters.
These sessions are designed to create space for play, self-expression and creativity, while gently sharing in the healing that comes from making something beautiful with your hands. Each workshop is an invitation to slow down, connect and experience a moment of joy through flowers.