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    2bMEL_2010    August 22, 2010   NH

    The 1st florist I went to sent me an estimate for:

    1 bridal bouquet, 6 smaller bouquets (1 MOH, 5 BM), 1 flowergirl, 9 boutonnieres, 2 corsages, 10 table centerpieces (small vases with hydrangeas & orchids, tall vases with orchids).

    This all came to $546 (incs delivery fee). So is this average, below or above? TIA.

     
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    chelseamorning    November 1, 2008   Washington, DC/Atlanta

    Sounds like a great price to me.

     
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    2bMEL_2010    August 22, 2010   NH

    My B... it's $621

     
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    scissors    June 19, 2010   Atlanta, Ga

    Sounds like a great price!

     
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    Beav1279    December 27, 2009   Austin, TX

    It sounds like a great price to me! I'm getting less flowers than you and paying $600.

     
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    lara bee    9/4/09   Minneapolis

    Sounds great to me!

    Typically, a bride's bouquet is $125 - $175, BM's bouquets are $75 - $100, and then Bouts are $8 - $12, all depending on the flowers, etc.

     

     
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    SanDiegoAli    September 18, 2010   San Diego

    Sounds like a good price to me!

     
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    arobb81    January 1, 1990  

    Definitely below average for my area.  In South Florida the average (not wealthy) bride spends between $2500 and $5000, I've been told.  I had to go through several meetings and discussions to get my price down to $1700 for basically the exact same flowers as you (good choice by the way!!!!!), and I'm even doing submerged orchids with a floating votive so that they use fewer flowers.

     
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    artbee    February 28, 2010  

    i'm paying $300 for that with no centerpieces. i think your price is great!

     
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    bruschetta    August 29, 2009   Philadelphia

    Wow, that's a grreat price!  I think determining if it's high, low or average also depends on what type of flowers are in the bouquets and bouts, though.

     
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    sounds like a good price to me

     
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    smilez    june 26, 2010   toronto, on

    that sounds really good to me, but as miss bruschetta said it depends on the type of flowers as well as if they are in season and i would assume your location too.

     
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    kayakgirl73    October 31, 2009   Virginia, (wedding in WV)

    It sounds very good to me. I've been told 75 to 150 for bride. 35 to 75 for BRidesmaids,  altar arrangements $75. Centerpieces I think were $35.

     
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    2bMEL_2010    August 22, 2010   NH

    I was looking over the estimate again, & of course i read it wrong. the $621 is for the wedding party only. to add the centerpeices it's about $1700... BIG difference!!! but is that still decent??

     
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    Mrs. DG    July 18, 2009   Seattle/Tahoe

    That still seems pretty good to me.  Have you priced out other florists in your area?  The florist we went with came in at about half the price of the other bids we got.

     
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    KellyV    September 12, 2009   New York, NY

    that is still decent.  I have similar numbers to you (only with 20 centerpieces) and using hydrangeas, peonies, and delphinium, and my estimate was right around 2K

     
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    pren79    10/17/09   SF Bay Area

    This is below average from my perspective. With 1 bridal, 3 BM, 6 bout, 3 corsage and flowers for cake, I'm paying $658 including taxes and delivery & I don't even have flower centerpieces!

     
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    Miss Disney    November 9, 2009   Dallas Texas

    That is a great price.  I looked around the city of Dallas when I was trying to decide what to do for flowers just to get ballpark costs when I had to then find a florist who would deliever to our cruise...Orchids are not a cheap flower by any means!  All of the florists I found who would be doing my bridal bouquet of roses, hydrangeas and freesia I was looking at somewhere around $300 alone just that one thing....

     
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    2bMEL_2010    August 22, 2010   NH

    I have contacted other florist but they couldn't make an appointment. One was busy with a wedding & the other, well his wedding coordinator leaves at 3:30. It's difficult for me to get to that place since it's 1hr away from me.

     

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