Shane Connolly

Shane Connolly (born May 1963) is a Northern Irish florist. He entered the profession in the late 1980s after a brief career with the Ministry of Defence. Connolly founded his own floristry company in London in 1989. He was commissioned by the Royal Family to produce arrangements for the 2005 wedding of Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles, the 2011 wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton and the 2023 coronation of Charles III and Camilla. Connolly is a proponent of sustainable floristry.

Biography Connolly was born in May 1963 in west Belfast; his father was a dentist and his mother a social worker. He developed a love of gardening and flower arranging from his mother and local florists. Connolly also made the acquaintance of floral arrangers Michael Goulding and Elizabeth Barker, who mentored him and found him a position at the florists Pulbrook & Gould on Sloane Street. Another mentor was the rose breeder David C. H. Austin. Connolly is a trustee of Floral Angels, a charity that donates flowers to hospices and refuges. His arrangements used only British-grown flowers. Connolly was later commissioned to make a copy of his wedding bouquet in artificial flowers to be exhibited alongside Camilla's wedding dress at the Victoria and Albert Museum.

Connolly held a royal warrant for Charles, as Prince of Wales, and for Elizabeth II as monarch. He was also awarded a Royal Warrant from HM The King and an MBE in the Birthday Honours 2025.