should i be embarrased about my flower budget???
julie27uk
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Iv budgeted £500 for my flowers and im worried that the florists will wonder what on earth i think i will get for that price! i need church flowers, my bouquet, 3 bm bouquets, 6 button holes, and centre pieces for 7 tables 
i want the centre peices to look more flowery and not too much "greenery" if that makes sense!! what do you think girls? am i living in cookoo land!!! 
i want the centre peices to look more flowery and not too much "greenery" if that makes sense!! what do you think girls? am i living in cookoo land!!! 0
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(my budget is less than £200, but then we're not having table centres!)
I asked for seasonal flowers and am having arrangements that can be moved from ceremony to reception venue. That helps keep prices down a bit.
I do love greenery and have asked for alot to be used so that is perhaps why I can get so much but tbh I was prepared to spend alot more to get all that done, £500 was the budget the florist actually suggested to me after I told him my requirements.
julia where abouts are you if you want i can give you details?
So please don't be worried. xx
Overall in my experience of wedding vendors in Belfast there seems to be a certain threshold which you have to spend to get good quality goods but over that threshold the price in no way corresponds to the quality of the goods or service. There was an awful lot of people doing what I considered to be a substandard job at the highest price possible.
I ended up doing non floral decorations for the venue which everybody commented on how lovely they looked and i had 13 real button holes and my 3 rose bouquet, brought the bridesmaids artificial flowers and for the whole lots only spent £360 plus had all the vases and twig lights to sell after to make some money back
£80 flower bill
£200 for table decorations
£80 for BM's bouquets
Let me know if you want ill show you some pictures but it looked far from cheap. where there is a will there is a way.
Waste not, want not.
My whole wedding budget is £1,700.
1 brides bouquet
6 bridesmaids bouquets
Wand for flower girl
2 Coursages for MOB and MIL
2 smaller coursages for aunty and Grandma
7 button holes for men
8 centre peices including mirrors, vases and tea lights
1 large centrepeice for top table
Petals to be sprinkled on tables
Post box for cards etc
Flowers to go on top of cake
Total price for all of that 780pounds. I think for all of that, including all of the hours she is going to have to put in arranging all of the flowers plus setting it all up on the morning of the wedding, its a fairly reasonable price???
What do u think? xx
Bridal Bouquet
2 x Bridesmaid Bouquets
2 x Flower Girl Wands
2 x Corsages for Mothers
11 x Button holes
18 x table centers
10 x church pew ends
Flowers for Cheese Cake
The bride who got married at the church after us on the same day paid for the pew ends and decorated bay trees at the entrance..these cost up to 500 again.
Bouquets (for myself, two adult BMs and a little one), buttonholes (for groom, best man, 2 ushers and 2 pages), corsages for the 2 mothers, 100 cream avalanche roses (for the cake)and re-location of the church flowers to the reception brought the total price to 1069.
I have no problems with principles...the flowers were beautiful and are captured in our photographs which will be around for a long time...and we transferred the altar flowers to hubs fathers grave after the wedding. They looked amazing...and were worth every penny....and we could afford them. Why should I feel guilty? We both work hard for my money..and they were important to us!
Re the venue table decorations (which were paid for separately as part of the venue package) - quite a few of our guests were encouraged to take some home with them...and happily did so...so they were able to enjoy them for a week or so after the event.
My bouquet
1 BM bouquet
2 flowergirl baskets
10 buttonholes/corsages
10 pew ends
2 pedastal arrangements
1 top table arrangements
8 centrepieces
foliage garland for fireplace
It came in at £620 but will be less than that now because I have changed my mind and no longer want a shower bouquet. That was priced at £120-150! Centrepeices are tall vases with roses and bear grass. Shower bouquets are more expensive because they are wired.
I'm leaving my flowers at the church because I think it's nice to leave them as a sort of offering, but that's personal choice. For pew ends you could have big organza bows instead of flowers, still looks really good and should be cheaper.
I think florists get a bit of a disservice sometimes, when you think they can only feasibly do one wedding a day, they have to get up very early to make the arranagements and then get them delivered and set up sometimes delivering to 3 different locations.