Was Cassie and Nate’s Wedding on ‘Euphoria’ Really That Expensive? The Show’s Production Designer Weighs In

Over the years, movies and TV shows have provided viewers with the gift of fictional weddings. From Belly’s minuscule engagement ring and Jeremiah’s very specific cake request on The Summer I Turned Pretty to Zendaya and Robert Pattinson’s chaotic nuptials in The Drama, such projects have acted as wedding mood boards, showing us exactly what we want and don’t want on the big day. Cassie and Nate’s gaudy ceremony on the latest episode of Euphoria is no exception, and if it taught us anything, it’s that planning a fake wedding takes as much effort as the real thing.

But how much did Nate and Cassie’s wedding really cost, and is it as expensive as Cassie’s $50,000 floral arrangement request has led viewers to believe? Here’s everything I know about the ceremony, from its filming location to blink-and-you’ll-miss-it details.

The exact filming location for Nate and Cassie’s wedding ceremony is actually not too far from the show’s L.A. roots. According to Swooon, filming took place at a real-life wedding venue that holds up to 300 guests: the Langham Huntington in Pasadena. The outside shots of Rue and Jules walking to their seats, Maddy and Lexi looking over a ledge, and Cassie and Nate standing at the altar all took place at the luxury L.A.-area hotel.

Per price estimates from The Knot and Breezit, prices range from $20,714 to $103,569, with an average cost of $34,500. If Cassie’s flowers alone were $50,000, there’s a chance they paid way more where that came from for the venue (though Nate fully owes thousands of dollars to scary henchmen).

Euphoria’s production designer, François Audouy, recently told The Wrap that the real-life cost of Cassie’s floral arrangement was “considerably more” than the five-figure price point on the show.

“We spent considerably more than that,” François explained. “The number is kind of shocking and almost embarrassing to tell you, but…it was a decision that we all made together because of [the] metaphorical importance of telling the story with the amount of florals, and to Sam [Levinson]’s genius, he folded that into the story where it became part of Cassie’s motivation.”

Per the outlet, the nuptials used 10,710 flowers while the reception used 14,382 stems. “It became … a bit of a manifesto for me,” he added. “It was not just adding some floral details—it was about making a statement.”

It’s impossible not to bring up the ice sculpture, which Cassie complained about to Nate. As for the real-life inspiration behind it, François told The Wrap, “We wanted to straddle the border between beauty, excess, and gluttony.”

Though we only saw one on screen, Euphoria’s production design team reportedly commissioned 10 sculptures of Nate and Cassie, 10 sculptures for the shrimp buffet, and 10 ice luges—so, 30 ice sculptures total.

François explained that most of the wedding inspiration came from Pinterest and Instagram, as they tried to get in Cassie’s mindset for planning.

“We live in a culture right now where everyone’s lives are online, but everyone’s having more fun, everyone’s successful, everyone’s having the most amazing wedding and … everyone wants to be rich and famous,” he shared. “We wanted to create this sort of saccharine, Pinterest, Instagram, clickbait wedding that was the kind of imagery that Cassie was obsessing about on her phone.”

He continued, “Everything with the wedding had to be genuinely beautiful but also quietly devastating. [I] was trying to visually create a beautiful tension…where you felt anything was going to collapse at any moment.”

Safe to say he fully nailed it!