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My bridal bouquet cost me $125.
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I've been quoted 150 with me being very flexible on the flowers (I said "There's no flower I feel like I must have in my bouquet") and being open to herbs, pods, berries, etc.
Not cheap, but we love the florist.
I think it also depends on the flowers you get and whether they are in season. I got a pretty good deal on mine since I work in Human Resources and told the florist I'd use her for our Christmas Parties, and flowers for births/funerals.
I'm thinking about DIYing but I've recieved quotes from $145-$175.
I got quotes ranging from $120-$180 for my bouquet. I ended up going with someone who works out of her home and is just starting her floral design business (big risk, yes, but it's nothing I wouldn't have done myself when I thought about DIYing them, if I'd had the time!) and the cost came to $175 (my flowers, 2 bm bouquets, groom's bout, 2 gm bouts, and bouts/corsages for two sets of parents). We had to add more bouquets and corsages and bouts (large wedding party, divorced parents...) but basically it wasn't as high as a traditional florist.
One of the girls at my work learned how to make her own bouquet through classes she took at Michael's. She said it was great because she was able to make a bouquet for one of our co-workers.
My florist quoted me $175 for my bouquet. I'm going will all rich colors in fall tones - orange, red, deep red, burgundy, and deep gold. My bouquet will have:
Orange mini callas, orange freesia, golden yarrow, mini red roses, circus roses, deep burgundy red dahlias, barraca roses, berries of all kinds and colors, fresh rosemary tips, backed with lemon leaf.
I got two quotes - $150 and $250 - I went with the florist with the lower quote.
Mine was $125, I was flexible on flowers (although really would have loved more dahlias).
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$175 for a LARGE bouquet of white peonies, garden roses, and double-late tulips...
$185 for a beautiful and gorgeous large bouquet with roses, orchids, hypericum berries, and many more.
My bouquet will be $125 - natural touch frangipanis with clear diamonte pins.
Urgh. My images are always too big for WB :(
The copyright is of the woman doing my flowers. She's such a doll :)
Prob around $50-55 for DIY with wholesale flowers - it had hydrangeas, sunflowers, white and burnt orange callas, and other random stuff.
Thanks so much! Keep 'em coming. (: I'm hoping to do an all white bouquet, not super big, probably medium sized in January. My only rule was no carnations (I HATE carnations).
I'm really glad you started this thread because the florist I was thinking about using quoted me $300 for my bouquet after I specifically told her I was trying to keep costs down and wanted something small. I know they are a little pricier than most other florists because they have an impeccable reputation and the flowers are always gorgeous and very fresh, but I still think that's way too high.
white ranunculus, white poppies, white garden roses, white scabiosa, white peonies, white lily of the valley as an accent (very $$ expensive, the lily of the valley), white snowball viburnams, white snow berries.... there are tons of fab white flowers.
i'm actually super-annoying picky about flowers. but i won't have much of a choice, because i'm having a destination wedding, and the flowers come with the wedding package from the inn. they DID say i could choose anything i wanted from their gorgeous gardens ... but it's likely to be quite tropical (not really my style).
the cost of my bouquet? zero.
@sadie--your dress (what I can see of it) is absolutely beautiful!
I spent about $50 on flowers for my bouquest and DIYed it.
Roses, Peonies and tulips (expensive bc they were out of season), daisies, mums, hydrangeas, alstromeria and hypericum berries.
My bouquet was $60, and the florist used ranunculus and pom pom dahlias. We had a fall wedding, and the dahlias were in season.
Our total floral budget was $300, but I wanted very small and simple bouquets anyway.
It also can depend on where you live. NYC is more expensive for EVERYTHING! Grr ;)
$200 for camellias, anemones, lisianthus, and some other flowers...uh...they're escaping me, but those are the important ones!
I got quotes for anywhere from $150-250...then I decided to use artificial flowers and haven't looked back since.
I don't know exactly how much my bouquet was, but I would guess around $50...check out my blog post about it:
I was quoted anywhere from $75-$300, with an average of $200 depending on the florist. I ended up going with the cheapest one, for multiple reasons.
Even after going into two florist shops and saying I only wanted to spend about $500 on flowers, all the quotes I was given were over $1500. One florist even quoted me $3500 AFTER I spent the time telling her how I was trying to save money. The consultations, which lasted about half an hour each, involved a lot of nodding and headbobbing from the florists and very little input, even though I had chosen flowers that were in-season (except for a few gardenias) and mostly wildflowers to save costs. (This also included the florist who knows me personally and from whom I have bought flowers for the last ten years for multiple events).
I ended up hiring a woman I found on Craigslist when I was planning to order from fiftyflowers.com and just wanted someone to put it together. She works out of her home, but I was so impressed. For $750 I am getting white garden roses, white gardenias, and blue and white orchids with baby's breath for my bouquet, five bridesmaids bouquets, 9 bouts, 5 corsages, 14 reception table centerpieces, and one altar arrangement. Her consultation ended up taking about three hours, and she was really specific and brought pictures of actual flowers she had done, not just pictures I could look at in a professional book. Then we discussed flowers and she showed me her wholesale list. It was phenomenal.
dnag - I just realized how expensive mine is. $250 - $300. :(
mine's $75. it's hydrangeas, stock flowers, garden roses, wax flowers, and more that i don't remember. i just kept pointing to flowers that i like and she kept adding them.
We're budgeting $500 - for 4 buttonholes (groom & 3 groomsmen, ~$10 each), 2 corsages (our mothers ~$15 each, maybe $20), bridal bouquet, 4 bridesmaids bouquets, and I'm not sure what the 2-3 flowergirls will have. So probably around $100 - 120 for mine.
Mine is going to be 37<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> pounds (sorry no idea of the exchange rate) the big lillys take up most of the room so not so many flowers are required
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Mine will be carnations, DIY; ordering them in bulk from Costco!
I was quoted $100 for an all white bouquet of hydrangea, roses, ranunculus, and calla lillies.
My FMIL did my bouqet from silk flowers and its BEATIFUL.... and cheap ;)
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Hey Brides,
I'm trying to figure out my flower budget and am wondering what flowers were in your bouquet and how much it was...I know it's kind of a personal question but it's for research! (: