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Ten Ways to Save on Wedding Flowers on a Budget

"For my wedding I want gorgeous bouquets of exotic flowers for myself and the bridesmaids, floral centerpieces, and masses of flowers at the ceremony," the bride-to-be said, "but it's so far out of my budget. I want the wedding of my dreams. What can I do?"

I put together some suggestions for her and for you so that you can have cheap wedding flowers in your dream wedding.

1. Cheap Wedding Flowers Tip Shop Wholesale
2. Cheap Wedding Flowers Tip Use a Grocery Store
3. Cheap Wedding Flowers Tip Homegrown Wedding Flowers
4. Cheap Wedding Flowers Tip Use Fillers in Your Wedding Flowers
5. Cheap Wedding FlowersTip Do-It-Yourself Wedding Flowers
6. Cheap Wedding Flowers Tip A Holiday Wedding
7. Cheap Wedding Flowers Tip Make Your Fresh Flowers Go Further
8. Styles of Wedding Bouquets for the Bride
9. Cheap Wedding Flowers Tip Use Silk Wedding Flowers
10. Twelve Cheap Alternatives to Cut Wedding Flowers

Cheap Wedding Flowers Tip
Shop Wholesale

You can save money on wedding flowers by shopping wholesale and making the arrangements yourself. Put fresh-cut stems in big tubs of water for 24 hours before you arrange them.

When you shop 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. Prices vary depending on the season and your particular location. Of course, the expense of arrangements and vases is extra. The size of the blossom helps determine how many stems you need to fill the bouquet.

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 within your budget. Here's our advice on how to locate and work with a cheap wedding florist, too.

Cheap Wedding Flowers Tip
Use a Grocery Store

One alternative for cheap wedding flowers is to use the floral department of your local grocery store or a big-box store. The staff will put together your bouquets, boutonniers and table arrangements for a fraction of the cost of other sources. You can pick them up the day before the wedding and place them on location yourself.

Cheap Wedding Flowers Tip
Homegrown Wedding Flowers

If you or a friend have a garden, you can use fresh cut flowers in season for the wedding flowers.

Cheap Wedding Flowers Tip
Use Fillers in Your Wedding Flowers

To reduce the cost of wedding flowers, use greens and baby's breath to make your blooms go further. A fresh bunch of flowers gathered and wrapped in a wide satin ribbon offers an elegant look. Brides can add glamour to wedding flowers with embellishments like brooches, pins, and crystal picks. You can include gemstones, feathers, fruits, and vegetables in your floral arrangements.

Cheap Wedding Flowers Tip
Do-It-Yourself Wedding Flowers

If you are a real do-it-yourself type, you make your own arrangements with flowers bought from a wholesale supplier. Invite family and friends to a flower arranging party. You'll need floral tape, glue guns, ribbon wrapping, pins, vases and lots of your chosen flowers.

Cheap Wedding Flowers Tip
A Holiday Wedding

If your wedding day is near a holiday like Christmas or Easter, many churches will already be decorated for the holiday. You won't need as many flower arrangements of your own.

Cheap Wedding Flowers Tip
Make Your Fresh Flowers Go Further

Instead of bouquets, have your flower girls carry a single bloom. A basket of inexpensive rose petals is less expensive than a bouquet for the flower girl. Make a centerpiece by floating an single open rose or gardenia in a container of water with votive candles. You won't need favors if you make the centerpiece from 4 or 6 smaller clusters of flowers and invite the guests can take part of the centerpiece home with them. Use rose petals instead of an arrangement and sprinkle rose petals on the cake table and walkways. Arrange silk flowers among your fresh cut flowers for an effect that fools everyone. Use ribbons, loops and bows to exaggerate the impact of a smaller bouquet of wedding flowers.

Styles of Wedding Bouquets for the Bride

The bridal bouquet can be carried in your hand, or laid across your arm. Nosegays, also called tussie mussie, are round clusters of flowers in a convenient hand-held bouquet. For a more formal bridal bouquet, carry a cascade bouquet with flowers that cover part of the skirt. A contemporary bouquet uses unconventional flowers in a distinctive, asymmetrical arrangement with the artistic shapes of flowers like calla lilies, orchids, and anthuriums. It's probably not necessary to tell you that the smaller hand-held bouquet of flowers in season will be less expensive.

Cheap Wedding Flowers Tip
Use Silk Wedding Flowers

Silk flowers have many advantages over fresh wedding flowers. No bride has an unlimited flower budget. Silk flowers are relatively cheap and many times look just like fresh flowers. There is a vast selection of elegant silk wedding flowers always in season. Silk wedding flowers aren't affected by weather conditions; they won't wilt in the heat or freeze in the cold. Your wedding flowers will travel to any destination, no water necessary. They are reusable and they last a lifetime. Another advantage of silk wedding flowers is that you don't have to wait until the last minute to decorate.

Cheap Wedding Flowers Tip
Twelve Cheap Alternatives to Cut Wedding Flowers

To reduce the cost, think about centerpieces with greenery, fruits and vegetables, nuts and branches and boughs from the yard. A centerpiece of edible fruits, like apples and champagne grapes, on the reception tables is an easy alternative to flowers. Decorate with blooming potted plants like mini roses, calla lillies, gardenias, freesia or hydrangeas. If you group potted plants on each table, they can be taken home as favors after the wedding. Use candles in votives, hurricane lamps or candelabras. If you don't want people to take the centerpieces from the wedding, use floral adhesive to stick the containers to the tables.

• Decorate the reception table with a collection of framed photos of the bride, groom and their families.
• Fill a cylindrical glass vase with fruits and vegetables in your theme colors. Or use an apothecary jar filled with sea glass.
• For centerpieces, use goldfish swimming in bowls.
• Use natural materials like stones, leaves, beach sand, pinecones and twigs.
• Like one bride I know, you can use stacks of romance novels, bought at flea markets and yard sales, or books that fit the theme of the wedding, or your favorite books of all time.
• Use wine bottles and decanters to hold a simple arrangement.
• You can get a big impact by floating candles with a single flower in a shallow bowl or arranging candles on mirrors or tile surrounded with seashells or flower petals.
• Think about these suggestions for a centerpiece: candles on coffee beans, candles in a plate of sand, candles in seashells.
• Bowls of candies in your wedding colors make an amusing centerpiece for the guests.
• Take a cue from your hobby when you plan for table decorations. The centerpieces might be miniature hot air balloons, baseball hats, a tiny boat or bicycle or miniature vintage cars or architectural models.
• Bring out your inner child with toys for the centerpiece, like legos, trains, horses or cartoon characters. Use flags and pictures of your honeymoon destination.
• Finally, you always get lots of excitement when you use masses of balloons and white Christmas light strings draped around the room. And, as you know well, they are an inexpensive alternative to your cheap wedding flowers.

I've tried to answered your question with some suggestions for cheap wedding flowers and charming decorations. I wish you oodles of happiness on your wedding day, and a lifetime of romance and shared memories. - Heather, Best Cheap Weddings

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