MemberAny Chicago florists that could work with a budget less than $2,000? I would love your recommendations!
My mom is convinced we can do florals ourselves but I really don’t want the headache and I am not crafty. But if anyone DID do florals themselves, any advice?
MemberI’m getting married next month in Chicago with a pretty small wedding (90 guests, 3 bridesmaids) and will be spending about $800 on diy florals that are very simple. I was quoted over 2,000 from every shop I went to. I’ll let you know in a month if diy is worth it, but at the moment, I’m wishing I would have went simplier and had a florist do it all.
That being said, if you aren’t a perfectionist, you can handle doing the flowers yourself. Our sample went over pretty smoothly. We made a few centerpieces and bouquets with 3 of us in about an hour. We’re planning that the 5 of us will do all 10 centerpieces and 3 bouquets in about 4 hours. Steve’s Flower Market on Grand Ave. has pretty reasonable prices. They sell wholesale but also do arranged flowers if you wanted to look into doing a mix.
MemberCheck into Whole Foods. I inquired with them (ultimately DIY’d mine since all I had was 2 bouquest and 4 bouts). I was told it’s just the cost of the flowers chosen plus 25% markup for arranging/making
MemberGive flowers for dreams a try. I’m currently working w them w a $800 budget and so far I’m not disappointed.
This is for the bouquet, boutonnière, and centerpieces.
MemberSeconded Whole Foods. We used them too; very fresh, very satisfactory, can get most flowers we are asking for, and way cheaper than florists.
MemberWe used Petals n’ Bloom for our fairly large wedding last month. The owner Kristin was great to work with and very budget friendly! We spent around $1,500 for 7 bouquets, 12 boutonnières, 4 corsages, and 22 centerpieces.
MemberGood Lord, that’s a lot of money! Sheesh!
Have you tried looking into your local Hy-Vee store for your wedding flowers? Now, I know that might sound strange, but Hy-Vee did my wedding flowers and I got nothing but raving compliments from my guests about how gorgeous the flowers and the arrangements were. We used mostly real flowers along with some faux ones (from Hobby Lobby) because some of the flowers I wanted were out of season (and no one had a clue any of them were fake). They did a phenominal job and did it at a great price! At least look into them, no harm in that. 😀
Otherwise, try cutting back on how many flowers you want to have and/or what types of flowers you use.
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MemberAlso check out Bouqs.com. They just started a bridal line, so that people can DIY.
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Member*our spend, with numberous changes and additions down to the last week, was just under $1300.
MemberMemberI also ordered freeze-dried petals for the aisle (we didnt use a runner) from petalgarden.com
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