How To Find Cheap Wedding Flowers

Cheap Wedding flowers are relatively straight forward to achieve, if you know what to look for.

You can achieve the look you want with inexpensive flowers with just a few smart choices.

Many flowers are imported and therefore available all year round. However, transport and greenhouse costs bump up the price of these flowers, so they tend to be cheaper and better quality when in their ‘natural’ season.

Spring brides also will need to be aware that the price of flowers will peak around Valentine’s Day and Mother’s Day.

If you’re leaving your cheap wedding flowers to the professionals, there are a few things to bear in mind. Shop around for a competitively priced florist. Be up-front and tell the florist how much you’re willing to spend and ask them NOT to show you anything above your budget.

That way you won’t be tempted to blow the budget. If you don’t have a clear idea of the flowers you want, by telling the florist your colour scheme and what flowers you DON’T like, they can work within your budget to find suitable flowers for you.

Some of the topics I will cover in this section include:

• How to Make Wedding Bouquets - Why not have a go yourself? If you have the time and motivation consider going to a flower arranging class or learn online, I have included a video in this section of my site.

• DIY Wedding Flowers - It's not as hard as you imagine to prepare cheap wedding flowers yourself or get someone else to do them for you, here's my best tips on how to do this.

• Cheap Wedding Bouquets - There is always a way of reducing the cost of your wedding bouquet. Check out my favourites in this section.

• Wedding Bouquet Flower Choice - Getting the flower suppler right can save you a significant amount of money. Here are my top tips for sourcing your flowers.

• Inexpensive Silk Wedding Bouquets - Don't be put of by assuming silk flowers look cheap. Modern silk flowers can look fabulous.

• Blue Wedding flowers - Find out what blue flowers are available during the different seasons along with other tips and ideas.
  

• Summer wedding flowers - Getting your in season flowers right will save you a lot and use my tips to get some more unusual choices, after all you don't want the same flowers as everyone else.

• winter wedding flowers - choosing winter flowers for your wedding can seem difficult but if you know what to look for you might just surprise yourself as to how easy it can be.

• DIY Wedding Flowers - (This is what we did). Perhaps you have a relation or friend who can help source and arrange the flowers. This could be their ‘wedding present’ to you.

Remember to keep it simple – a few larger wedding flower arrangements will have a greater impact than lots of smaller ones.

Also, consider using fewer expensive flowers and bulking these out with less expensive ones and striking foliage. For those wedding flower arrangements which are only seen from a distance (e.g. on an altar), consider cheaper big blooms e.g. chrysanthemums.

If logistics permit, consider bringing the flowers used to decorate the ceremony venue to the reception. This can be more hassle than it’s worth however, as it may hold up guests being granted access to the reception.

For those of you having a church ceremony, see also ‘Decorations’ , where I talk about timing your wedding to coincide with an event at the church, so you can benefit from existing flower arrangements. If your reception venue provides candelabras for the tables, these require little, if any, decoration.

So you see, cheap wedding flowers are possible – it just takes a little know-how!

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