New !! How to Choose a Cheap Wedding Florist
Romantic Wedding Flowers in Your Budget

A visit to the cheap wedding florist is a delight in itself. If you love beautiful fresh flowers like I do, you'll want to use them everywhere to add fragrance and impact to your wedding. Your trip to the wedding florist will be more successful if you come prepared. Make up your mind ahead of time what you want in the way of wedding flowers.

Here's how to find and work with a cheap wedding florist.

1. How to Choose Wedding Flowers
2. How Much Do Cheap Wedding Flowers Cost
3. How to Choose a Cheap Wedding Florist
4. List of Wedding Flowers You Need

♥ How to Choose Wedding Flowers

Choose wedding flowers to complement your wedding theme and colors. Your wedding theme could be classic, bohemian, beach, vintage, contemporary or glamor. After you know the color scheme of the wedding, decide on the number and size of the bouquets.

To help you with your color choice, consider the time of year. For summer, bright beach colors or citrus hues sizzle. Summer gerberas offer a casual note in hot pink, orange, red and yellow. Rich flowers in amber, orange and red are perfect for a fall wedding. For winter, white, silver, gold and cranberry are luxurious. Pastels, pink, blue and green are precious for a spring wedding. Choose daisies for an informal wedding, or use a few spectacular orchids for a formal effect.

But with flowers you don't have to follow rules. Let your instinct and good taste guide you. You might want to carry a bridal bouquet of the same flowers your mother or grandmother had on her wedding day.

The favorite wedding flowers of many brides are the elegant calla lily and the rose. The traditional, classic long-stemmed rose, symbolizing love and passion, is a perennial wedding choice. The list of possible wedding flowers you can choose is a long one. It runs from A to Z, alstroemeria to zinnia. But freesia, hydrangea, tulips, lilies, hyacinths, peony, gardenia, gerbera daisy, orchid, lily of the valley and sweet peas are often used. The wedding florist will tell you that white flowers bruise easier than colored blossoms. Hardy flowers stand up to the outdoor sun and lots of handling. Daisies, dahlias, sweet peas, roses and geraniums are some of the hardier varieties. To narrow down the list, select flowers that fit your budget. I've included sample prices next as a guide.

♥ How Much Do Cheap Wedding Flowers Cost

You will be surprised at the cost of fresh wedding flowers when you start shopping. Here are samples prices for wholesale for fresh flowers. $200 will get you your choice of these: 85 gerbera daisies, or 150 roses,or 8 orchids, or 60 calla lilies, 100 tulips, 16 bunches of mixed greens, 200 snapdragons, 80 sunflowers, 40 birds of paradies, 50 lilies, 30 hydrangeas or about 8,000 fresh rose petals for the flower girl. The size of the blossom helps determine how many stems you need to fill the bouquet. Of course, the expense of arrangements and vases is extra. Your florist charges double or triple the cost of the flowers alone, because you pay for the design service, the time for installation, and business overhead. No wonder that the cost of wedding flowers can take 10% or more of the wedding budget. Sometimes a cheap wedding florist is not within your budget. Check out these other options for cheap wedding flowers, too.

♥ How to Choose a Cheap Wedding Florist

Here are ideas to help you choose a cheap wedding florist. The advice of a professional wedding florist is a helpful first step to planning wedding flowers.

• To find a cheap wedding florist, ask your engaged and recently married friends for references.
• The concierge at your wedding location may be able to recommend a cheap wedding florist.
• Interview several florists before you make up your mind.
• When you meet with a florist, bring photographs of the flowers and the arrangements you want.
• Give the florist your budget figure for flowers, and ask what can be accomplished within your budget.
• Discuss your wedding needs, ideas, desires, budget, theme and wedding location with the florist.
• Your cheap wedding florists will appreciate a photo of your wedding dress and color swatches.
• Ask to see samples of previous work from the wedding florist.
• After the meeting you will receive a written proposal from the florist.
• Your wedding florist can provide unique vases and props for the occasion, too.
• Your florist can also rent special props like columns, chuppahs, arbors, gazebos, chiffon draping, white lights, candles. As you know, renting rather than buying helps you stay within your budget.

♥ List of Wedding Flowers You Need

Before you visit a cheap wedding florist, take a count of how many arrangements you want to use. Sometimes, instead of corsages, you can save money if you use nosegays or tussie mussies or other small bouquets for the ladies of the wedding party. Here's the complete list of where you might need wedding flowers.

• The engagement party
• The shower
• The rehearsal dinner
• The wedding breakfast
• The bride's bouquet
• The bridesmaids' bouquets
• The flower girl's bouquet
• Boutonnieres for the groom, groomsmen and the ring bearer
• Corsages for the mother of the bride, the mother of the groom and the grandmothers
• Boutonnieres for the fathers of the bride and the groom
• Flowers in the hotel room of out of town guests
• Flowers to wear in your hair, on the veil, your dress or on your wrist
• At the ceremony, wedding flowers can be used at the entrance, and outside the pews
• The flower girl will drop fresh rose petals along the aisle
• Flower petals for the guests to throw when the bride and groom are married.
• You can also arrange candles and flowers for the altar.
• Flowers can also decorate the gazebo, chuppah or podium if they are part of the ceremony.
• And don't forget to decorate the wedding limousine.
• At the reception, flowers at the entrance, the table centerpieces, the buffet table and the bar
• Flowers in the restrooms
• Flowers used to decorate the wedding cake instead of icing or cake toppers
• Floating arrangements of wedding flowers and candles for ponds or pools are also lovely.

I wish you a day full of romance and memories as you plan the best cheap wedding. - Heather, Cheap Weddings

Please return to the top > >
Cheap wedding florist




Share this page with someone, by Email, Twitter, Digg, StumbleUpon, and your favorite social site