When it comes to choosing flowers for your wedding, you can choose to take the fresh live flowers route or the artificial route. Both are equally good options. If you need to be as cost effective as possible, then only you can decide if fresh flowers are within your wedding budget.
If you decide to go with fresh flowers for the big day, then here are a few suggestions for choosing them:
-Do not go overboard with trying to match your flowers with your decorations, tablecloths for the reception or the dresses for the maid of honor and the bridesmaids. Staying within the correct color scheme, such as pink or lavend,er is one thing, but too much color coordination is almost impossible to do if you want to stay sane!
-Consider your budget and your style when you speak to your florist of choice. Most people understand the money crunch, and therefore the florist will do his or her best to find lovely flowers that suit both of these needs.
-Approximately half of the cost to make flower arrangements, bouquets and centerpieces is labor. The fancier and more elaborate ones you choose, the more you will pay. Instead opt for more basic and looser kinds of arrangements that will be more budget friendly.
-The “market buy” option is a good one to consider, if you do not mind buying your flowers at the last minute. How this works is that a florist will go to the “market” the day before your wedding is to take place and purchase the flowers you want. The good thing is that the flowers will be on special, and therefore you will receive a nice discount. This gives you money to put toward other aspects of your special day!
-If you do not want to go with the market buy option, then place the order for your flower arrangements but do not finalize the order until approximately three months before the wedding. The reason for this? Sometimes mitigating circumstances necessitate changes in plans. You do not want to spend your money and then have it go to waste. As well, you do not want to end up with flowers that are all wrong for your wedding.
Happy flower shopping!!
