Flowers Budget

kmmr

Hi all,

I am finally getting around to sorting out flowers, but as it's not something I buy often I have no idea what to budget for. What are people spending on this?

The florist is asking me for my budget, and I don't want to say £200 and be laughed at, or £2000 and see them rubbing their hands! My complete guess budget is around the £300-400 mark but I don't know if that's achievable, or too much.

I just need some flowers for the church, flowers for bride and 1 bridesmaid, maybe 4 or so buttonholes, and then I will think about what to do at the venue. I think I will probably just have one display on the main table, as the rest all looks nice enough with the stuff provided by the venue.

I am in West London... which will add a premium of course, but any ideas would be very helpful!

Thanks

Angellm8

We have just sorted ours and we live on the outskirts of london and it came to around £800 which included 8 table arrangements including top table, button holes for 8, bridal flowers and 2 bridemaids and button holes for parents and grandparents. It will all depend on what flowers you want but it can be acheived for around £500-600.

Hope this helps!

pinkteapot

We paid about £650 for my bouquet, 2 BM bouquets, 4 button-holes, 2 mother corsage things, 1 top table arrangement and 10 centre-pieces. Our 10 centre-pieces were £350 so the rest of it was about £300.

My complete guess had also been £300-400, then I fell in love with the centre-pieces at a wedding fair d'oh.

jemb

We're paying £800, BUT are having orchids everywhere.
My bouquet
bridesmaids x5
groom button hole
bestmen and ushers button hole + dad = 6 +2 mothers
flowers on tables, flowers on top table, flowers on register signing table
flowers on ends of top table (v long and something to bring it in)
So I guess i can justify. I guess it depends on the type also, as I know my Philanopsys orchids are quite expensive. GOOD LUCK! and let us know how you went on

kmmr

pinkteapot, how complex were your centrepieces for £35 each? Just to give me a guide.

I haven't planned to have them, but as you can tell I can probably be easily tempted...

Mother cosage things... there's another one too add to the list!

I want mainly roses, in October, so I don't know how expensive that will be. Are roses more of less expensive than Orchids?

Tiara_2

My advice would be to get lots of quotes. I have been truly shocked by the variation in how much different florists will charge for exactly the same thing (as an example, one florist quoted us £25 for 7 delphiniums to use in a centrepiece. A second florist quotes us £8 for exactly the same thing!!)

The types of flowers you use will have a significant impact on the cost, depending on whether or not they will be in season, and also just generally some flowers will be dearer than others. Calla lillies are very expensive, for example, and we were advised to avoid them if we were on a budget as you need a lot of them to make an impact.

As a guide, our quotes have varied from £250- £1000. That is for a bride's bouquet, 1 bridesmaid's bouquet, 6 button holes, 2 corsages, 1 long and low table top arrangement, and flowers for 20 centrepieces. That is for freesias/roses/delphiniums/iris's/sunflowers. We are providing our own vases as we've discovered in can be cheaper to buy your own than pay to hire them from the florists!

Roses are always in season I believe, and I would think they should be cheaper than orchids. You can also get roses of different size and quality, which impact on the price. Many people use the best quality ones for their bouquet, and then the cheaper ones for any arrangements/ centrepieces.

Primmer

Yes definately gets quotes from a few differenty people
I am having
Bride bouquet
5 bridesmaids bouquets
1 flower girl wand
8 button holes
2 mums corsages
Church flowers - altar and a pedestal
Reception - just top table flower arrangement (pedestal from church being taken to reception)
That is costing about £550

floss2

I paid £267 for mine last September - my bouquet was orchids & roses, as was DH's buttoniere. Then we had 1 BM corsage, 5 buttonholes, 4 corsages, 1 bouquet for DH's mum, a small arrangement for the cake & 1 top table arrangement. All were fresh apart from 1 of the corsages.

pinkteapot

kmmr wrote: »

pinkteapot, how complex were your centrepieces for £35 each? Just to give me a guide.

Mine weren't complicated at all.

http://www.wflowers.co.uk/table_centres.html

They were the top left - three cylindrical vases with a submerged rose in each. Our wedding was in a barn so I knew the candles would look lovely. They were expensive for what they were but as I said, I just fell in love with them at a wedding fair. In fact, prior to that our colour scheme was going to be teal but it changed to red because of the centre-pieces. :rotfl:

My bouquet was a mixture of red and ivory roses, with a few ivory calla lilies as they were my nan's favourite flower. My BMs had ivory roses. The button-holes were roses, the mum's corsages were mini roses (so cute!). The top table had mini vases of roses along it.

All very rosy.

Oh, and our cake was covered with white chocolate scrolls and then had some real roses scattered on it. Flower bill included those.

I'm pretty sure you can get roses all year round without too much difficulty so the price shouldn't vary that much...

excitedbridetobe

I'm based in North East London and had a quote for around £200
This was for
7 x rose buttonholes
1 x bridal Bouquet
2 x bridesmaid bouquet
2 x mother corsages
1 x pedestal for the church

It is all dependent on the flowers and we are deciding on seasonal flowers

kmmr

Cool - thanks for all the advice. I will get a few quotes but actually I have found it hard to get some decent recommendations, and I am not that keen on just googling. I have three options at the moment:
1. Woman who does the flowers at the church. She is shocked I want non-white flowers (!!) and said ALL brides have white flowers. Which makes me a tad dubious...
2. Local flower shop, which I think looks nice. Not a chain or anything, just a nice local place.
3. Fancy place I found in Chelsea. Presumably they will be expensive, but I want to talk with them to see what they are like, and if it's worth the extra money.

This is what I want: flowers (or, well, something like that) and as the BM dress is around that colour I might give her the same bouquet but in white (white roses and lillies)