Cost of your "real" flowers?

cleomolly

were having orange and cream lily's for table displays x8, a larger and 2 smaller displays for top table, arrangement for cake, 3 bouquets for our grandparents graves, 7 gents buttons, 4 ladies buttons, my bouquet and bridesmaids bouquets all for £225 although I realise this is cheap, shes a local florist who works from her garage at home and has been reccomended by local people to me. I would say shop around, don't just go to your local florist chain shop, find the ones who supply to business's ie care homes.

hayleythedaisy

We're having
my bouquet with crystals in it.
2 BM bouquet
5 button holes
one massive table display thing.
10 balloons on weights.

£205.

Baby_in_the_corner

I was just about to start a new thread about my flowers as I've just had the pics from Kayloublue on ebay and I'm VERY excited! I'm having foam roses, and the total cost is £127.92 for:
12 single rose buttonholes with diamante pin and spray of pearls
2 corsages for the Mums
5 bridesmaids posies - 6inch diameter with diamante pins
My bouquet - a 6inch rose dome with diamante pins and beargrass sprays.

My bouquet is costing less han a normal 10 inch bridal bouquet because I'm quite petite and a normal bouquet looks ridiculously big, but a bigger bouquet from her still only costs £29.99! Cannot praise this lady enough - and I know she's been commended on here before, but her correspondence is great, and she's made me another bouquet from scratch because the first one she made for me wasn't quite what I wanted...
Oh, and super quick turnaround - bouquets are ready to send a week after I paid! And being foam, you can order them when you want and they last forever! To be honest I saw some real touch roses at The National Wedding Show which blew me away, but quite frankly, the foam roses LOOK great and are much more MSE! Very very happy with my choice!:T

Sammy85_2

Im doing my flowers myself. Purchasing from either flowers4florists or triangle nursery. Flowers4florist have a minimum spend of £160ish and Triangle Nursery dont have a minimum spend but charge for delivery.

Ive worked out that enough flowers for my tear drop bouquet, BM handtied bouquet, 10 rose buttonholes, 8 table arrangements, 1 long top table arrangement, 12 church window arrangements and 4 pedestal arrangments works out at about £150.

Im going to have a practice over easter with some flowers from the supermarket and see how i get on doing DIY flower arrangements!

JenE_2

We're just having my bouquet and his buttonhole plus flowers for the cake for £92 delivered, which I think is reasonable.

serenawell

Sammy85 wrote: »

Im doing my flowers myself. Purchasing from either flowers4florists or triangle nursery. Flowers4florist have a minimum spend of £160ish and Triangle Nursery dont have a minimum spend but charge for delivery.

Ive worked out that enough flowers for my tear drop bouquet, BM handtied bouquet, 10 rose buttonholes, 8 table arrangements, 1 long top table arrangement, 12 church window arrangements and 4 pedestal arrangments works out at about £150.

Im going to have a practice over easter with some flowers from the supermarket and see how i get on doing DIY flower arrangements!

SNAP !!! Doing exactly the same as Sammy85

morwenna

Baby_in_the_corner wrote: »

I was just about to start a new thread about my flowers as I've just had the pics from Kayloublue on ebay and I'm VERY excited! I'm having foam roses, and the total cost is £127.92 for:
12 single rose buttonholes with diamante pin and spray of pearls
2 corsages for the Mums
5 bridesmaids posies - 6inch diameter with diamante pins
My bouquet - a 6inch rose dome with diamante pins and beargrass sprays.

My bouquet is costing less han a normal 10 inch bridal bouquet because I'm quite petite and a normal bouquet looks ridiculously big, but a bigger bouquet from her still only costs £29.99! Cannot praise this lady enough - and I know she's been commended on here before, but her correspondence is great, and she's made me another bouquet from scratch because the first one she made for me wasn't quite what I wanted...
Oh, and super quick turnaround - bouquets are ready to send a week after I paid! And being foam, you can order them when you want and they last forever! To be honest I saw some real touch roses at The National Wedding Show which blew me away, but quite frankly, the foam roses LOOK great and are much more MSE! Very very happy with my choice!:T

Mine are from Kayloublue too I am so thrilled with them and she is really helpful too. We had by bouquet a teardrop one, wrist corsages on bead bracelets, 10 buttonholes and three regular corsages plus a handbag one. Oh! and a wand! Cost about £110.

mmikailian

Me too am making my own! went to new covent garden market saturday and bought Calla lillies and bear grass to try out and it worked out great the lillies where 1.50 per stem and a the bear grass was £1 per bunch looked great so for ten tables it will cost me £33, have worked out my bouquet will cost about £27 again lillies and will look further into making bridemaids flowers too can't decide to be honest i have no knowledge of flower arranging but have been reading books and on line so i am hoping to spend no more that £100 on button holes, extra flowers for venue all flowers. i am not getting married until August so will go again but i loved the place too much choice..... if you live in london well worth the visit.

Hitch

It seems my SIL hasnt been checking this thread... apparently the flowers fot theire big day came in at about £850!!

No idea what they are having though im afraid!

Sammy85_2

mmikailian wrote: »

Me too am making my own! went to new covent garden market saturday and bought Calla lillies and bear grass to try out and it worked out great the lillies where 1.50 per stem and a the bear grass was £1 per bunch looked great so for ten tables it will cost me £33, have worked out my bouquet will cost about £27 again lillies and will look further into making bridemaids flowers too can't decide to be honest i have no knowledge of flower arranging but have been reading books and on line so i am hoping to spend no more that £100 on button holes, extra flowers for venue all flowers. i am not getting married until August so will go again but i loved the place too much choice..... if you live in london well worth the visit.

Have a look at ehow.com there are videos of how to make various bouquets and arrangements. You can do it step by step as you watch the video!