resin
Resin Flower Preservation
Reston VA
Your Bouquet,
Suspended in Light
Resin flower preservation does not hang on a wall. It stands in a room: freestanding and three-dimensional, the kind of piece that earns its own placement. Most preserved flowers are displayed. Resin flowers are experienced. Your flowers live inside something luminous. Natural light passes through the piece and changes throughout the day, catching one bloom in the morning, another by evening. Every petal is visible. Every detail intact. Nothing is trimmed away and nothing is rearranged into something new. The resin holds your bouquet as it was carried, suspended rather than staged.
This is not a photograph of your flowers. It is your flowers, and it will be the first thing anyone notices when they walk into the room. A guest won’t ask what it is. They’ll already know.
Queen & I is a studio-based preservation practice in Reston, VA: wedding bouquets exclusively, handled personally by Daniel Marcey from pickup through delivery.
What Resin Flower
Preservation Is
Resin flower preservation is not a craft project or something you want to attempt yourself, and the reason starts long before the resin is poured.
Your flowers are freeze-dried first: a professional process that removes moisture at a molecular level, protecting each bloom’s color, form, and three-dimensional volume. Freeze-drying is the preservation. Resin is the conservation: the crystal-clear structure that protects what freeze-drying made permanent, keeping your flowers fully visible from every angle, indefinitely.
The full freeze-dry process is the same for every commission that returns your flowers in three-dimensional form. You can read through it on the Wedding Service page.
Resin and flowers are part art, part science. After years of testing, Queen & I works exclusively with an optically pure, professional-grade resin, chosen for the clarity and bubble-free encapsulation that this work demands. No cloudiness. No trapped air. Just your flowers, exactly as they were preserved.
This Is Not What Most
Resin Preservation Looks Like
Most resin flower preservation sold today follows the same pattern. Flowers are shipped in. The whole bouquet is dried with silica gel, and then individual blooms are separated from the bouquet and cast into standard molds: coasters, ring holders, bookends. The result is loose flowers in resin. Recognizable to no one but the bride.
Queen & I does not work that way. Daniel has spent decades in this industry. He has yet to find another studio that encapsulates the whole bouquet in resin as it was carried down the aisle. Others may use the whole bouquet, but the flowers are redesigned into something new: a different shape, a different arrangement, a different piece entirely. At Queen & I, what goes into the resin is what you carried. Nothing redesigned. Nothing reimagined.
Not parts of it. All of it. When you preserve the whole bouquet in resin, the piece earns its place in the room differently. It is not something you might notice on your way past. It is the first thing you see because it commands the kind of placement that a fine work of art deserves.
See It From Every Angle
This is a real 360° view of a 12″ bouquet: not a photograph, the actual piece, from every side. Press play to spin it automatically, or drag left or right to turn it yourself.
Finished by Hand,
Not Finished Fast
The difference does not stop at scale. Most resin studios finish their pieces by pulling them from the mold, applying a final flood coat of resin, polishing briefly, and shipping. The finishing stage alone at Queen & I takes longer than most companies spend on their entire process: an average of four hours per piece, depending on size. The process moves through a full progression of dry and wet sanding, starting at 180 grit and working up to 5,000 grit, with two passes at every grit along the way. From there, buffing and polishing continue from 5,000 grit up to a 10,000-grit equivalent finish, with three passes at each stage.
It’s slow, deliberate work, but it’s the only way to reach a surface that looks and feels like true crystal, the kind of glass-like clarity no additional resin pour can replicate. The difference between a flood-coat finish and a hand-sanded, hand-polished finish is something you feel the moment you touch it.
Then there is the stand. Each client chooses from a dozen domestic and exotic woods. The stand is then cut on Queen & I’s CNC machine and assembled by hand: built for that commission, for those flowers, for that piece of resin. Nothing is sourced off a shelf.
The result is a fine work of art.
“Resin is the most modern format we offer. Nothing else in the room competes with it. It doesn’t wait to be noticed.”
– DANIEL MARCEY, QUEEN & I
Resin Flower
Preservation Pricing
$1,450 – $1,850
Every resin commission at Queen & I is priced by the size of the finished piece, determined by the size of your bouquet. Pieces range from 10 inches to 16 inches. Pricing includes everything needed to complete your commission. No add-ons. No hidden fees. Sales tax not included.
FAQ About Resin
Flower Preservation
Reserve Your
Resin Commission
Wedding
Coming Up?
Resin commissions run on the same limited schedule as every format Daniel builds: just 2–3 spots for DC metro brides each week, with dates filling well in advance. Booking at least three months ahead gives you the best shot at securing yours. A call is the fastest way to start: Daniel will walk you through sizing and pricing, how your flowers are collected, and the finishing timeline the piece requires. Studio visits in Reston, VA are available by appointment if you’d like to see a finished resin piece in person before you commit.
wedding
already passed?
Resin is still possible after the wedding, but time matters, the fresher your flowers are when Daniel receives them, the better the final piece. The right size and price point aren’t locked in until he’s actually seen your bouquet, so don’t worry about getting those details exactly right on the phone. Text him a few current photos of your bouquet first, so he can assess their real condition honestly before anything else. From there, a quick call will walk through the finishing timeline and help you get your flowers into the studio as soon as possible.
Daniel Marcey
Owner, Queen & I - Floral Preservation │ Reston, VA
Daniel’s love for flower preservation has always come with a refusal to offer anything a client could find somewhere else. Resin was the clearest example of that: it took six years of research and development before the process met the standard he’d set for himself. That work is what makes a Queen & I resin piece what it is: not an adaptation of someone else’s method, but one built from the ground up around what he wanted it to become.