Event Stylists Hunter Valley

Styling a Hunter Valley celebration can mean anything from one picnic rug set for a bridal shower to a whole reception room, and the stylists here each start from a different place: the table, the hire range or the flowers.

Miss Mays Events, run by stylist Alice May, starts at the table. Wedding tablescapes are dressed from the team's own stock of linen, candles, glassware and florals, grazing tables are set up and cleared for 50 to 300 guests, and styled luxury picnics for bridal showers, hens, baby showers and birthdays are priced at $55 per person.

Divine Designs Wedding & Events, a Rutherford stylist and planner, takes a wedding from concept and mood board to setup on the day and pack down at night, drawing on a hire range kept in Maitland – mirror signs, champagne towers, wishing wells, plinths, drapes and candles. Prices start From $1,200, and a DIY setup service places decor you have bought yourself. Lily and Mae, led by Pearson's-trained florist Lily Johnson, designs flowers as part of the whole room and manages linen, candles, tableware, furniture and stationery through bump-in and bump-out, From $4,500.

A quick way to narrow it down:

• A small daytime gathering: a styled picnic from Miss Mays Events
• A big guest list to feed as well as dress: Miss Mays Events grazing tables
• Statement pieces such as a champagne tower: the Divine Designs hire range
• Decor already bought: the Divine Designs DIY setup service
• Flowers and styling planned as one: Lily and Mae

Line the look up with the venue through wedding reception venues, and pair it with event florists.