The Floweress Wedding Edit: Sarah Prinz of honeycomb + prince weddings

May 23

Building your wedding team is one of the decisions that shapes everything else. Not just how your wedding looks, but how it actually feels to be in it.

In this edition of The Floweress Wedding Edit, we are introducing Sarah Prinz, the planner behind honeycomb + prince weddings, serving couples throughout Northern New Jersey and New York.

Sarah is someone we genuinely love having alongside us on a wedding day. She brings a rare combination of hospitality experience, logistical precision, and calm leadership to the process. The result is a day that feels effortless for the people at the center of it.

A background built for this work

Before launching honeycomb + prince, Sarah spent more than a decade in luxury hospitality and events, working across New York, Boston, Washington D.C., and Chicago. That foundation gave her something that cannot be taught in a short time: the ability to manage complex, high-stakes events while keeping the experience feeling warm and personal.

When she and her husband returned to New Jersey, she began building her planning business quietly, starting with a family backyard wedding, then another, then another by referral. By the end of 2019 she had made it her full focus.

Then the pandemic arrived.

What could have ended a new business became the thing that strengthened it. Sarah guided her couples through one of the most disruptive seasons the wedding industry has ever faced, navigating contracts, restrictions, and constant change with steadiness. That experience prepared her for everything that came after.

How she works

Sarah describes her approach as gentle but comprehensive. She spends significant time before the wedding getting to know every detail: preferences, logistics, guest experience, and design vision. By the time the day arrives, the plan is already in place, and she can focus entirely on executing it.

Her goal is always the same. She wants the couple and the people they love to be fully present. Not managing logistics. Not fielding questions. Just experiencing the day they worked so hard to create.

She also approaches every wedding with the mindset that her job includes clearing the way for the entire creative team around her. When a planner operates that way, making space for every vendor to do their best work, it shows in the final result. Every part of the say performs better, and the couple feels it.

What couples often don’t realize

Many couples picture the planner stepping in once the guests arrive. In reality, the hours before the ceremony are some of the most logistically complex parts of the entire day.

Hair and makeup timelines, transportation, vendor arrivals, family photo coordination, and managing the wedding party all require active oversight. Venues are often focused on preparing the space in those early hours, which means keeping the couple and their closest people moving smoothly falls to the planner.

By the time the guests walk in, and everything looks effortless, a significant amount of work has already happened behind the scenes. That is exactly how it should be.

Advice for couples beginning the planning process

Sarah encourages couples to prioritize three things when choosing a planner: experience, a personality match, and personal recommendations. Planning a wedding requires trust, communication, and the ability to navigate unexpected situations with calm. You are not just hiring someone to manage a timeline. You are bringing someone into one of the most meaningful days of your life, and the relationship has to feel right.

One of the most important steps couples can take early in the process is agreeing on their total budget before making major decisions. If more than forty percent of the wedding budget is allocated to the venue, it can significantly limit options for other vendor categories. Establishing a clear financial framework early allows couples to make thoughtful decisions and avoid unnecessary stress later.

Details that make a difference

There are small decisions that have an outsized effect on the overall experience, and Sarah pays attention to all of them.

From a logistics standpoint, she often sees couples underestimate how much support getting dressed actually requires. Complicated gowns, bow ties, and formal attire can quietly derail a morning timeline if no one is designated to help. Hiring a wedding stylist brings enormous peace of mind and protects the hours you want most.

From a design perspective, small upgrades can genuinely transform a space. Elevated chairs, custom linens, a dance floor wrap: these are the kinds of details that make a room feel considered rather than standard, and they often cost far less than couples expect relative to their impact.

Moments worth protecting

When we asked Sarah about her favorite moments to witness on a wedding day, she did not hesitate. It is the bride with her closest friends; the moment they see her in her gown for the first time. The excitement, the support, the genuine joy surrounding those relationships. Those moments are often the most emotional of the entire day, and they deserve space to breathe.

It is a good reminder that the wedding day is not just a production. It is a collection of human moments. The best planning makes room for all of them.

A trend she is excited about

Sarah is especially enthusiastic about couples embracing creative after party themes. While the main celebration may feel elegant and classic, the final hour of the night is a perfect opportunity to bring in something playful and personal. When the after party reflects who the couple actually is, it becomes the part of the night people talk about for years.

One thing worth hearing

The fewer people you have to interact with before the ceremony, the calmer your day will feel. Large wedding parties and extended family portrait lists can add significant pressure to the early hours of the day. Simplifying those moments often creates more space to be present with your partner, and to actually enjoy what you spent so long planning.

This is something that we absolutely loved that Sarah named, because it could not be more true!

Why we love working with her

There are planners who coordinate, and there are planners who lead. Sarah leads thoughtfully, quietly, and with the kind of attention to detail that means very little gets missed.

If you are assembling your wedding team and looking for someone who will approach your day with genuine care and meticulous preparation, we recommend reaching out.

Find Sarah at honeycombandprince.com or on Instagram at @honeycombprinceweddings. She serves couples throughout Northern New Jersey and New York.

And if you are just beginning to put your team together, we would love to hear what you are envisioning. Tell us what you are dreaming up!

The Story Behind Our New Jersey Bride Feature · Wild Floweress

A countryside fairytale at Ryland Inn

The story behind our New Jersey Bride feature.

Venue · The Coach House at Ryland Inn Photography · Michelle Behre Featured · New Jersey Bride, Fall/Winter 2026

Some shoots are about showing off flowers. This one was about a feeling, the sense of walking into an old stone house in the fall and finding it already alive.

When the creative team came together for this editorial at The Coach House at Ryland Inn, the goal was never a list of pretty arrangements. It was a countryside fairytale, warm and golden and a little untamed, the kind of room you don't want to leave. Months later it landed in New Jersey Bride for Fall and Winter 2026, and getting to see the work in print alongside this team is the part that still feels good.

Here is the thinking behind it, and what it was like to build it with people who care this much.

An idea built around a room

This one began with an email. Michelle Behre was curating a bridal editorial at The Coach House to open New York Luxury Bridal Market week, and she came to it with a clear feeling in mind: florals and candlelight climbing the fireplace, a single tablescape that felt like the heart of the room, and light that made a statement of its own. She had just come home from Florence, still holding the chiaroscuro of the old masters, and she wanted that same play of candlelight and shadow to carry the whole day. The brief was an atmosphere, not a checklist, which is exactly how we like to begin.

The Coach House gave us everything to work with. Stone, beamed ceilings, chandeliers, and an enormous fireplace that practically asks to be dressed. So instead of filling the space evenly, we built around its bones. The fireplace became the anchor, and everything else followed from there.

The palette was autumn made soft: peach, butter yellow, burgundy, and rust, with dried seedheads and trailing greenery woven through so it read like fall instead of just looking like it. On the table we tucked fig, grape, and pear among candles set at deliberately uneven heights, so the whole thing felt gathered rather than arranged. Garden-grown, with movement, never tightly packed.

The bride before the dressed stone fireplace — The fireplace, dressed and left a little untamed

Letting the flowers climb

The fireplace installation is the piece I keep coming back to. Rather than setting an arrangement politely on the mantel, we let the flowers climb the stone and trail toward the candlelight, asymmetrical on purpose, so it looked like it had grown there on its own.

Nothing matched on purpose. That is usually the difference between a setup and something that feels alive. The bouquet carried the same idea in miniature: loose garden roses and dahlias with a soft ribbon, built to move with the bride rather than sit still in her hands.

The bride beside the dressed stone fireplace

The bride's loose garden bouquet with trailing ribbon

"Flowers should look like they belong in the room, not like they were delivered to it."

Working with Michelle Behre

Michelle hosted this shoot and photographed it, and working with her is a large part of why it turned out the way it did. Her eye is editorial and intentional. She photographs for permanence, for albums and wall pieces rather than for a quick scroll, and that mindset changes how a floral designer gets to work.

She thinks about how light falls on an installation, how candlelight reads on camera, how a room frames the people in it. When a photographer understands those things, florals get to be seen the way they were designed. She also curates rather than floods. What you get back is a tight, considered gallery that feels like a published feature, which is exactly what happened here.

The inspiration

Her reference points were not florals at all. Think the chiaroscuro of Titian and Caravaggio, the grandeur of Florentine fashion houses, the natural light of the Uffizi, translated into an abundance of candles, deep shadow, and a stone fireplace dressed like a still life. We built the florals to live inside that light, not in front of it.

The groom before the Coach House stone arches — Photographed for permanence · Michelle Behre Photography

The bride in the floral gown in the garden — Photographed for permanence · Michelle Behre Photography

The whole team

A shoot like this only works when everyone is pulling toward the same feeling. Every gown, every place setting, every linen had to agree with the room. When a team is this aligned, the design stops feeling assembled and starts feeling like a place.

Candlelight carried all the way to the table

Why it made the magazine

I think it earned the feature because it committed to one idea and followed it all the way through, from the fireplace down to the smallest detail on the table. It was not the most flowers we have ever used. It was the most intentional.

That is the thinking behind every Wild Floweress wedding: never a recycled recipe, always a room and a couple-specific answer. This time the room happened to be a stone fairytale in the New Jersey countryside.

The Vendor Team

Host · Photo · Video · Content: @michellebehrephotography
Venue: @rylandinn · @landmark.weddings
Florals: @wild_floweress_design_co
Bridal Gowns: @justinalexandersignature · @moniquelhuillierbride · @white_house_bride
Gentleman's Fashion: @tuxedobysarno
Jewels: @romanjewelers
Hair · Makeup · Grooming: @stellafatale · @mjbridalartistry
Shoes: @bellabelleshoes
Linen · Tabletop: @nuagedesignsinc · @heartfeltrentals
Models · Featured: @dasha.inyutkina & @danielecarettoni · @newjerseybride

The candlelit head table at The Coach House

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