Luxury Wedding Planning · Edmonton, Alberta · Live site: hickoryandrose.com
Hickory & Rose is an Edmonton luxury wedding planner whose reputation had outgrown its digital presence — a business built on referrals and Instagram, but with no home of its own to carry the brand.
We designed a cinematic brand site and a pre-qualifying inquiry flow, giving the studio a first impression that matches the caliber of the celebrations it plans and a front door that filters for the right couples.
The work paired brand strategy with web design so that positioning, tone, and the inquiry experience all argued for the same thing: this is a premium planner, and booking it should feel like it.
Instagram is a portfolio, not a positioning tool — it showed beautiful work but couldn't communicate price tier, process, or the reasons a couple should trust this planner with the most important day of their lives.
With no qualifying step, every inquiry arrived on equal footing, mixing serious high-budget couples with early-stage browsers and making the studio's time harder to protect.
A referral-driven business needs a digital anchor that closes the gap between 'someone recommended them' and 'I'm ready to reach out' — a place that confirms the reputation instead of leaving it to a feed.
Couples spending at the top of the market decide within seconds whether a brand belongs in their world; a social feed couldn't establish that authority on its own.
We built a cinematic hero and an editorial, image-led brand site — restrained typography, generous whitespace, slow reverent motion — treating photography as the emotional work and words as the intellectual work.
The studio gained a first impression that signals its tier before any copy is read, giving every referral a destination that confirms the reputation instead of diluting it.
Word-of-mouth carries trust but not context — a new couple arriving cold had no way to understand why Hickory & Rose sits above the field.
Through brand strategy we defined the studio's positioning and voice, then shaped the site's narrative to argue for taste, discretion, and flawless execution rather than list generic planning services.
The brand now communicates its own value clearly, so the site does the qualifying and reassuring that founders previously had to do by hand in every conversation.
An open contact form treats every visitor identically, which quietly costs a premium studio its most valuable resource: focused attention.
We designed an inquiry experience that gently surfaces fit and budget signals before a couple submits, framing the questions as the beginning of a bespoke process rather than a gate.
Serious, higher-budget couples self-identify at the front door, so the studio's follow-up time concentrates on the inquiries most likely to become bookings.
Most referrals are opened on a phone, so a mobile experience that felt like a shrunk-down desktop would undercut the luxury promise at the exact moment of first contact.
We composed the mobile experience for the thumb — recomposed imagery, touch-first inquiry fields, and the same cinematic pacing — rather than resizing the desktop layout.
The premium feel holds from the first tap, and the inquiry flow stays effortless on the device where most couples actually reach out.
Because a luxury planner is most often discovered through a phone — a friend's text, a tagged Instagram post, a late-night search — the mobile build was treated as the primary experience, not an adaptation. Imagery was recomposed for portrait, the inquiry fields were sized for touch, and the site's slow, reverent motion was preserved so the brand feels the same in the hand as it does on a desktop. The result is a first impression that stays cinematic and a qualifying flow that stays effortless wherever a couple begins.
With the studio's presence previously tied to Instagram, the new site gives Hickory & Rose an ownable, indexable home for its brand and its market. Semantic structure, a clear single-path narrative, and descriptive, luxury-appropriate copy make the studio discoverable to couples searching for a high-end Edmonton wedding planner — and give referrals a credible destination to land on rather than a social feed. The inquiry flow doubles as the primary conversion path, so discovery and booking live in one coherent experience.
Hickory & Rose no longer depends on a feed to make its case. With a cinematic brand site and an inquiry flow built to attract the right couples, the studio's digital first impression finally matches the weddings it produces — and in its first sixty days, that shift showed up as roughly double the inbound inquiries and a meaningfully higher average booking value. The reputation was always there; now it has a home worthy of it.
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