hi ladies just been to my first app. with a florist and well lets just say they are not as cheap as i thought. im yet to get a quote as she is costing it up for me and sending it via email over the w/e. i have asked for my bouquet, 3 bm flowers, 2 flower-girl wands, 11 buttonholes including grooms, 4 corsages for ladies, 8 martini glass center pieces, top table flowers and individual flowers for pew ends. also the pillars in our venue to be decorated. she showed me her portfolio which is out of this world and she TOTALLY got what i wanted and more!! heres the thing... i thought i would be spending about £500-£600 on flowers and she has told me that the martini glasses are £75 each..ouch! so thats £600 just for those without anything else on that so far. obviously i am going to shop around and get more quotes but i am just wondering what all you ladies paid for flowers and what you got for your money?
CommentAuthorlala "mod" bunni
hun if you use the search tool you will find lots of threads on flower prices
We spent £600 for my bouquet, 3 BM bouquets, groom's buttonhole, 5 other button holes and 8 centrepieces (hydrangeas in a fishbowl) xx
Got married Sat 28/05/2011
Renewing vows Sat 29/05/2021
We're planning WELL in advance!!
CommentAuthorRockabilly chick
Wooden flowers! from bay of e :-) saved me a fortune. I got a joblot of 100 wooden balck and white roses for the centrepieces for £12.99
Also my bridesmaid bouquets are £12.99 each and I promise they are stunning. Really beautiful. Check them out. I am still having some fresh flowers but I am over the moon with my find xxxxxxx
CommentAuthorKaz
Also the big advantage to wooden roses is the amount of colours they come in!
But if you're not as in love with them as petra and I then is there any way you could use silk flowers for the centrepieces, and do them yourself?
Ive got my bouquet, 3 bridesmaids, 2 corsages, grooms buttonhole and 6 buttonholes and its cost me £199.93. Im doing the table centres myself to save money and have just got the black and white wooden roses too off the bay :) x x x
CommentAuthorAnnette
-There's a thread about this, think I got it bookmarked, will bump it for ya
Breathe in, breathe out...
CommentAuthorRagatopp
We're having martini glass table flowers and they cost the same as yours. Overall my flowers are going to come to around £570 for my bouquet, an adult and child bouquet plus child's basket, a long low arrangement for the top table and buttonholes (we're not sure how many we're having yet).
CommentAuthorOfficially Mrs M
i got a whole package deal for £70 including postage
x1 2 Rose B/hole x6 1 Rose B/hole x2 3 Rose Corsages x1 1 Rose Girlie B/hole x1 12-15inch Rose Purple and ivory mixed bouquet x2 9inch rose purple and ivory bouquets mixed all with diamante centres
i've done my centrepiece flowers for £40 :-)
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CommentAuthorxMrsRobson2bx
Oh i havent thought about the price's for these!! £600 on flowers does seem abit much? Are those real flowers? xx
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CommentAuthorMel D
I had real flowers:
My bouquet: hand tied 75% ivory roses and 25% purple lisianthus BMs bouquets: 3 x hand tied 75% ivory roses and 25% purple rim lisianthus Groom buttonhole: ivory rose with purple lisianthus & some green stuff other buttonholes: 5 x ivory rose & green stuff centrepieces: 8 x large fishbowl containing 5 x purple hydrangea heads & some green stuff
Got married Sat 28/05/2011
Renewing vows Sat 29/05/2021
We're planning WELL in advance!!
CommentAuthorGazza 122
Our florist has quoted us £499, this includes
A handtied brides bouquet with sweet avalanche roses, hypnose roses and ivory roses, with bourvaria 4 bridesmaids bouquets with heaven roses and ivory hydreangea 1 flower girl wand, a heaven rose with feathers grooms button hole, sweet avalanche rose, hypnose bud and foilage 2 best men button holes, heaven roses page boy button hole same as groom but smaller 3 mother's corsages (need to decide colours) ceremony pedestal, heaven roses, ivory avalanche roses foilage bourvaria top table arrangement - roses and feathers flower arch for the venue -foilage and roses few carnation fillers.
I am doing my own centre pieces but he did say he would charge £25 per table ( i am having flower rings with birdcage in middle)
I was very impressed with his service, attention to our needs and of course his quote!
CommentAuthordmwalker1
to the ladies who've used wooden roses as centerpeieces have you got any pics of them?
CommentAuthorWeeMintyMonkie
I have been quoted £650-£800 for my flowers,
Iv changed my centre pieces and i am going to have painted glass with candles and maybe couple with flowers, this may cost me a little more than what my centre pieces would have been but i am doubling them up as presents and they will be more unique,
Button holes i will prob get of the bay of e as they will be cheaper, thinking of having thistles and they will tie in with the purple theme!
I am not having bridesmaids bouquets, instead i will be having coursages for my bridesmaids, saving on bracelet prices and they are half the price the bouquets were gonna be.
I Just need to price up for Pew Ends, My bouquet, and an arrangement for my aunties grave.
xxx
CommentAuthorSpreadsheetBride
One of the tips my florist told me was to find my own vases and jugs and things to put my flower arrangements in so I'm not paying to hire any vases. Between me, my mum and my auntie we have got loads of stuff that was just sitting unused in their houses and quite a few charity shop finds. Then my florist is just charging for the flowers to go in them, between £15 and £25 each arrangement, we have some pretty large vases, about 45cm high and 20 cm across, so am preally pleased with this price, means we can have flowers everywhere!
TBH with the flowers I want (peonies, roses, hydrangeas, sweet peas and stocks) I was expecting it to be a lot more expensive, so yippee, get to have my venue festooned with flowers :)
CommentAuthorFlossie
I was quoted £750 for mine......a bit expensive I thought, but I am needing at least 14 table arrangements (they are small square vases and I'm having 2 on each table) Anyway, I tried the local nursery and a very old gentleman is now doing my bouquets and buttonholes etc for no more than £150......one of my friends is doing my table decs. Try your local nurseries you might get a pleasant surprise!!!!
CommentAuthorWeeMintyMonkie
This would be flower nurseries Flossie and not childs ones lol! xxx
CommentAuthorFlossie
Absoluetly lol.......not the kind of surprise i was meaning! xx
CommentAuthorkrazykitty
oooh i never thought of using the nursery! good idea flossie!! although rys aunty is helping us get our flowers i just hope she will arrange them too otherwise they will look a mess!! have only budgeted £350 though which doesnt seem enough compared to what you are all paying!
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