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All couples can have affordable wedding flowers to match your budget. Let me share some tips and tricks about various wedding flower solutions that help you stretch and maximize your wedding floral budget. You can have lush, beautiful, reasonably priced florals for your big day with some tried and true approaches previous brides have taken advantage of. Read on!
On this page we'll cover:
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Common wedding flower costs
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7 Tips to create an affordable wedding flower budget
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A wedding flower budget breakdown for brides to demonstrate the budget impact you can have by implementing some of our tips
What Do Wedding Flowers Usually Cost?
Take a glance at the bar chart below to get a feel for the price range of florals you want to consider for your big day, as well as the variety of flowers you may need: ceremony arrangements, wedding party florals, guest flowers, and reception centerpieces to name a few. This data may vary region to region, but for sake of discussion today, this will help us.
You can interpret this table that the lower end of the flower cost range is the affordable end, and the upper range not so much. For example, bridesmaids bouquets range from $50 to $110, therefore the average price is roughly $80.
Many florists will identify the affordable flowers as carnations, baby's breath, daisies, mums, and in season flowers to name a few. All options to take into account without a doubt.
I'd like to propose that we define affordable as finding a balance between your wants and your budget. If you want more than your budget can handle, nothing is affordable.
If you are willing to consider alternative solutions for achieving your floral goals that fit within your budget, then I would consider the floral choices affordable. Read on to consider how we achieve this balance.
7 Tips to Create an Affordable Wedding Flower Budget
Here is a quick and easy look at the tips to create your own affordable floral budget. A good florist will be happy to coach you through the finer details of implementing these suggestions. If you want a deep dive on these tips, see our blog post titled What's The Average Cost of Wedding Flowers.
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Reuse and repurpose your wedding ceremony flowers.
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Control the size of your guest list and bridal party. Centerpieces for reception tables add up quickly, as do personl flowers for the bridal party.
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Brides and grooms are king and queen for the day, and the bridal bouquet and groom's bout should have the showier, more expensive blooms compared to the rest of the bridal party.
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Tap into seasonal and local blooms when possible. This gives you the freshest blooms for your money.
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Ask your florist about substitute floral choices that are in line with your overall aesthetic and color palette, and also budget friendly.
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Do-It-Yourself options are endless. Are there artificial bouquets or floral arrangements you can pull off in silk or dried flowers, all while doing it with ease and confidence without stressing? I offer brides the chance to set up their own bud vases at a cost savings, as well as cylinder vase sets with water and candles.
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Keep florals simple - the more colors in the wedding flowers, the more expensive. Monochromatic can be budget friendly. A single stem in a vase or for each bridesmaid can be beautiful too!
Wedding Flower Budget Breakdown for Brides
In the budget spreadsheet below we take a look at 2 potential budgets for your wedding flowers. The first one has some beautiful florals from start to end, and their budget is open ended and with no restrictions.
The 2nd scenario is after the same beautiful flowers, but takes advantage of several budget busting tips we've shared. These budget busters include reducing the wedding guest count size, repurposing bridal bouquets at the reception, and swapping out 1/2 of the reception centerpieces for bud vases.
Look at the impact those easy decisions make on the final flower budget and with little to no effort! Think creatively using the tips for affordable wedding flowers, and you will have the wedding of your dreams and money left over for the honeymoon! You'll soon be coaching your best girlfriends on these budget busters.
Conclusion - Everyone Can Have Beautiful &
Affordable Flowers
As we mentioned earlier, you have control over floral choices that will help you get closer to having your dream wedding without breaking the bank.
Flip the notion that affordable wedding flowers means inexpensive blooms, or the cheapest flowers, on it's head. It's not true! You have now armed yourself with practical approaches and creative solutions to move the flower budget in the right direction.
You are ready to look for a florist now, and they will appreciate that you have educated yourself with various approaches before talking flowers with them!