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In most churchs there will be altar flowers, which are typically donated by members of the church every week. If there are vases for altar flowers, you could just remove them. Most churches are beautiful enough on their own so they don't need decoration. No big deal if you don't use flowers. :)
I didn't have flowers at the church. The church was beautiful and definitely didn't need any additional decoration.
Same here... I need to cut the budget where I can and this was my first idea. The ceremony is so short anyway, I figured it would not be a big deal. My church was built in 1803 and has beautiful stained glass and hardwoods, plus I have 9 bridesmaids..so i figured that was decoration enough! :)
I've noticed at my church that sometimes the flowers donated for the altar are from the previous day's wedding. But other times they're just in honor or memory of someone.
If the wedding is right after Christmas or Easter then the church might be filled with flowers already.
But if you don't want to have flowers in the church, there is no need to.
It looks more and more like We're having our ceremony at a seminary chapel (that's actually prettier than the church we were going to have it at) and we will have minimal, if any, flowers...it's just so pretty without the added expense!
our chapel is a historic chapel and doesnt ALLOW much decoration - only one or two arrangements on the altar or ribbon on the pews (i have seen a few who did hanging ball flower thingies from the pews) so that cuts my flower budget WAY down.
if the site speaks for itself you dont necessarily need it.
We didn't have flowers, since we thought the church was pretty enough on its own.
the synagogue we're using for our ceremony is so gorgeous that my florist actually said we really didn't need flowers, and that the my and the bridesmaids' bouquets are enough!
If someone is having a wedding before or after you, you can ask for their contact information and see if they would want to split the cost. Or, depending on what season the church may already be decorated (ours is after Christmas and the church contact said it it would look festive enough without flowers). We are only doing bows on the designated family pews, with some hydrangeas attached to cut back on the cost. You could DIY the bows, and the flowers with wire if you want. You don't NEED flowers, they just look pretty :)
I think we're just renting the candelabras from the church but our church is pretty enough on its own - so no flowers here either
I don't plan to use flowers in the church. Our church is already pretty ornate on its own. Plus, there's usually some kind of flowers in the church on a regular basis anyway. I might put something small the front pews, like a reserved sign or something but that's about it.
My mom had a good idea to save $$ too - to ask the women's auxiliary (whatever organization it is in your church in charge of that stuff) if you can contribute some money to the flowers that they'd buy anyway, or just that they buy white. Not a bad idea.
We're making DIY pomanders for the pews and just have a small floral spray on a table to represent our loved ones that have passed. We're getting married in a beautiful church and I didn't want to take away from that with flowers. Plus, I thought it was sort-of a waste of money since we'll only be there MAYBE an hour!
Im not doing pew decorations, and Im pretty sure Im skipping the alter flowers. If there arent any, I doubt anyone would notice. I feel my money is spent better elsewhere.
I don't think we're going to do flowers/decorations either. Our chapel is historic and beautiful, and we wouldn't want to take away from that.
We had no flowers. Seemed like too much of an expense. Plus our church had some rule about how we would have had to give the flowers to them as a gift afterward. As bad as it sounds, I didn't really want to do that. If I was going to get flowers for the church I would have wanted to bring them to the reception to use them as decor there too. So we had absolutely no decorations in our church besides the flowers that I carried in my bouquet and the flowers my BMs carried.
I'm not planning on using ANY flowers besides mine and my maids' bouquets. No pew decor, no floral centerpieces, no sprays, no bouts... they all just die, and I've got a limited budget to work with!
We didn't get married in a church, but we didn't use ANY flowers in our ceremony location decoration. We figured the room was really cool and distinctive, it didn't need anything else. Not to mention, it saved a bunch of money not to have to worry about flowers there. No one seemed to notice or care and the photos turned out great.
I'm so glad you began this post! I was thinking the exact same thing. Our ceremony will be an hour long, max. I'd rather have nicer bouquets or centerpieces at the reception, which will likely be much more noticeable. I wouldn't say our church is beautiful or anything, but I think adding flowers is a waste!
Ok, great! Thanks, everyone! Our church is beautiful...it's a historic university church. But every time I watch weddings it's flowers, flowers, flowers....
Like I said I'm totally fine without them, so I'm very happy to hear all this!
:)
I'm not! I'm just going with the "natural" beauty of the church! I got lucky in the sense that the church I'm using only allows me to use flowers at the altar (no pew decorations, etc). So, they made my life easy for me!
I don't really want to. If anything I'll just do tissue paper pomanders.
I'm not. Church I am getting married in is very strict on decorations, so they allow decorations, but they frown on them at the same time. I think the church is beautiful enough that no decorations are needed.
Im not and have been feeling bad doing so until now! I dont feel like anyone remembers the flowers or notices it at the church, why spend an extra $300 at least for flowers that will just be left there and die, you can use that money for other things that are more important
In our church, which is a church turned museum, we can't have flowers. There are very strict decorating guidelines you have to follow. But really, most churches are beautiful enough that you don't really need too much decoration.
We're not having flowers in the church.
My church is really pretty and I didn't think that the flowers would really be necessary.
I am confused about our church b/c the instructions are that you have to leave at least two large arrangements as a donation from your wedding for the next day's services. But we were thinking about not doing any flowers at all so I have to ask them about that.
I think pew ends are beautiful, but in my opinion a waste of money. I might do some pretty ribbons in our colors, although I'm sure my florist will charge me for the ribbons as if they were rare and imported flowers :)
An alternative to flowers on the alter would be candles.
Especially if you ceremony is later in the day. You could vary the size of the candles on the alter....obviously more candles the better this idea may not look as good if you only have a few.
You can buy candles on line in bulk for cheap and you could reuse them for your reception or other events....whereas flowers you cannot reuse.
I'm not, our wedding is also a week or two after easter so a lot of the church decorations will still be up. We felt it was a waste of money since the church is very ornate.
I'm definitely not, the chapel we're getting married in is so small and beautifully decorated as is, we're doing candles on the altar but that's it. It's a great place to save some money. You can also have your florist reuse say the Mint Julep cups as centerpieces- that's what ours suggested. But we went with no flowers anyway.
We are haveing altar flowers at the church that can be reused as head table flowers.
Many florists can do pew or aisle flowers that can be reused as your centerpieces. Our church will not allow flowers in th aisles, but we will have centerpieces. I definitely would have reused aisle floweres for centerpieces if that was an option though!
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thinking up money saving ideas.
i don't really care about flowers in the church i don't need them. has anyone done this, or is it the appropriate thing to have flowers (e.g., on the seats)
thanks!