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Hi Twinky! I live in Charlotte as well. I am not aware of any wholesalers where non-florists can go, but I can recommend the Farmer's Market off of Yorkmont Road. The flowers there are GORGEOUS. I was planning to use them for my wedding in July until my best friend and her family told me that between them all they had enough blue hydrangea bushes to fill my centerpieces. I am ordering roses online from Sam's Club. I know someone else who ordered online from Sam's and had great luck.
I would definitely check out the Farmer's Market. I think the flower people are only there on Saturday and Sunday mornings. Good luck! And if you're looking for decorations or anything, let me know. I'll have a bunch of things after the wedding, and since you're here in Charlotte, it would be easy to get them to you.
I'm planning on using the farmer's market for flowers as well! I got a card from one of the vendors that sells uptown during the week so I'm going to make arrangements with them. I'm doing seasonal flowers based on october availability :)
The only thing that is hard about the farmer's market is you may not be able to plan ahead as well with those vendors. You could try stores like The Fresh Market or Whole Foods and they can do special orders for you so you know what you are getting specifically. I ordered flowers from The Fresh Market for a friend's wedding and they were perfect (red and white lilies and gerbera daisies and roses).
Thanks for the tips ladies! I'll have to check into both of the farmer's markets. I may try the one off Yorkmont this Saturday. Do you know what their hours are?? I can't find it on the website.
Also, we just got a Sam's membership so we could buy stuff for our OOT boxes on the cheap. Namarie, did you order your flowers online through Sam's club or did they have a place in the store you could look at samples before you purchased?
Mcnetn3, I would think flowers from Fresh Market would be pricey. Is that not the case?
It depends on what you are getting. Their roses are actually really cheap compared to everywhere else b/c they don't add greenery to them (like 75cents/stem). Some of the stores also carry local flowers that are priced well (like my store in Cary has a 5 stem lily bouquet from a Durham farm that is $15 and each stem will bloom at least 5 lilies). You'd have to go in and talk to the floral specialist.
There was a wedding featured in Wedding Unveiled that was in Charlotte and they used The Fresh Market for their flowers.
http://www.weddingsunveiledmagazine.com/RealWeddings/8/realweddings8.html
Twinky, I did order my flowers from Sam's online, but they do have a floral section in the store and I assume that the flowers that are there are of the same quality. They just don't sell as many in the store (ie - they sell bunches of maybe 20-40 roses instead of 125 roses like you can get online). I ended up having to order my hydrangeas from there as well because the hydrangeas have bloomed early this year in NC and we were afraid they would be bloomed out by July 4 (and it looks like we were right).
The Yorkmont flower market opens early, like maybe around 7 or 8 am. I'd try to get there early . . . things get picked over and the vendors start to leave after noon or so.
Hey there, there are no wholeseller's open to the public, the farmers market idea is really good, if youre crafty. Im a free lance florist in Charlotte you guys can check out my web site www.zeemeforflowers.com Im alot cheaper than going to a floral shop and I do great work. I live in Charlotte But could also do surrounding areas. feel free to contact me, on here or email advise is always free. :)
Zee
Twinky, please let me know if you find out anything because I'm planning to do the same thing.
I want DIY all my arrangements, bouquets and boutonnoires.
Thanks!
Houa
Hi, I just wanted to re-post since my wedding has come and gone now and I did all my flowers myself in Charlotte. . . I ended up ordering hydrangeas and roses from Sam's Club and supplemented them with flowers from the farmer's market for a few smaller arrangements. The flowers that came from Sam's were fabulous (and supposedly lasted for over a week). My wedding was on a Sunday and I had my flowers shipped to arrive on Friday. We put them all together on Friday and they all looked great except for a few of the farmer's market flowers that didn't turn out to be as hardy as the others and had to be picked out of the arrangements. I ended up having to go to the farmer's market on Friday afternoon when there weren't many floral vendors there, but there was enough that I was able to find something that worked. If you are planning to use the farmer's market, I would just try to be flexible on the type of flowers you're going to use. If you have your heart set on certain flowers though, you should order those online.
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....are there any? I'm hoping to do the flowers (bouquets, centerpieces, etc) myself (and of course with help from LOTS of family and friends) but I need to know if there's any sort of wholesale flower market in the Charlotte area? I see alot of bees who DIY their own flowers in Cali that go to the L.A. flower market and the San Fran flower market but I've never heard of one in Charlotte and wanted to see if there was anything comparable. I'd rather buy the flowers from somewhere like that instead of online so I can see the quality of what I'm getting.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!