The important part about those glamelias, though, is that they are what sparked my interest in wedding flowers in general. Before I discovered their beauty, I really didn't care about it either way. Flowers seemed like an extra expense, something we didn't need, something that could be easily replaced by candles or bamboo or something of the sort. Which I still think they can be.. but all of a sudden, I didn't want flower replacements at our wedding; I wanted actual, fresh, living flowers. Scratch that. Needed them. Thus began my wedding flower pinning spree.
Then I found it.. my bouquet. The creme de la creme of florals. The photo that made me the second most excited about wedding flowers.
Image via Grey Likes Weddings
I can't even deal. I'm obsessed. Just.. obsessed.
And so, my vision was formed into having a blend of garden and wild flowers - delicate yet unstructured arrangements. Over the past year or so, I've created a vision of exactly what I want at our wedding floral wise, and after our meeting with the florist a few weeks ago? I couldn't be happier. We'll still be keeping the florals to minimum due to budget restrictions, but I think the few we will have will blend with our venue and our scheme just perfectly!
The guidelines for my bouquet were as follows: as close as possible to the picture above - think peonies, garden roses, feverfew, Queen Ann's lace, etc. The one negative is that our florist couldn't quite figure out what the big white flower in the center of the bouquet was, so we'll be "replacing" it with some alstroemeria or possibly a football mum.
Altroemeria via Digging Dog Nursery
Football Mum via Whole Blossoms
The bridesladies will be sporting baby's breath bouquets (I got Foxy to concede on that one), with, as I so specifically requested, "the biggest bulb possible". The keywords here would be "overtime baby's breath".
Image via Style Me Pretty / Photo by You Look Nice Today Photography
As for Foxy and the men, they will be sporting some more alstromeria and baby's breath.
Alstroemeria boutonniere via Schnucks
Foxy Mama requested a corsage, so the mom's will be getting some form of orchid wrist bling.
Image via Flowers by Chris
Image via Lovely Little Details
We also decided to get a few single, long stems of flowers (like dinnerplate dahlias and such) to sit at each food station.
Image via EventTagious
The main trick here was to keep this all in our budget. Foxy and I agreed to give the florist a price point of $550, and mentioned that we wanted to stay as close to that as possible. In the end, our flower budget will be closer to $800, but thanks to some monetary help from Foxy Mama and some ingenuity from our florist (that'd be Amanda's Florist, btw) on good flower substitutions, I think we are a-ok with the end result. Honestly, I'm just happy the ladies will have baby's breath bouquets. Total win.
Were you able to stay in budget with your wedding flowers (if you had any)? Since I'm a total novice at this, would you say $800 for our total cost sounds fair?
2 comments:
Love the mom corsage! Our florist bill was something like $1200 so I think you're getting a pretty good deal! I didn't have a floral budget because, like you, I had no idea what flowers were supposed to cost. After the fact, I realized our flowers were pretty well-priced, which makes your flowers even more well-priced!
Hey Steph! I think the center flower is a white poppy?
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