Save Money on Your Wedding Flowers and Still Enjoy Beautiful Floral Arrangements!
I had to put this cheap wedding flowers tip up in an article. It’s not actually my idea, but I take full 100% credit for hearing it *smirk.*
When you book your wedding, if it is on a weekend, there are potentially four other weddings that will happen on that same weekend at the same venue. If you think about it, the possible wedding slots are:
Friday Night
Saturday Morning/Afternoon
Saturday Afternoon/Evening
Sunday Morning/Afternoon
Sunday Afternoon/Evening
You might already know where I’m going with this.
Contact all brides having their wedding on the same weekend and see if any of them are interested in sharing the same flowers, centerpieces, and decorations and also split the cost. You probably can’t split the cost of the bride’s bouquet if you’re doing a bouquet toss. And depending on themes and colors you may not be able to share everything, but it definitely is worth the time to find out.
If you can share with just one other bride, that is a 50% savings on what you can share. Two other brides is a 66% savings. And so forth. That is what I call cheap wedding flowers!
Now, how to get in touch with other wedding it comes to getting in touch with other brides:
One way is to just use a bit of gentle persuasion with the coordinator at the venue your wedding will be at. You could possibly tell her straight up what your thought is and see if she will give you the contact info of other brides. You may want to think about building a bit of relationship with the coordinator first and then later relaying this idea to them about reducing flower costs by sharing with other possible weddings that weekend.
You could also use some finesse with your venue coordinator. As an example, as you are meeting with the venue coordinator to discuss pricing of some aspect of your wedding that has some flexibility, such as the catering menu, you could let on that you would like to add more to the menu but are working with a budget. If you have your fiance, mother, friend, etc, you can start a conversation about possible ways to work the budget money and involve the venue coordinator in your brainstorming session.
(I think you can see where this is going: the implication is that if you can save money in one place you may be able to direct it to another place, in this case more money to the venue!)
At that point bring up the suggestion of cutting the budget on flowers, start brainstorming together, and one of you can bring up the idea of sharing flowers with other brides. Heck, maybe the coordinator will come up with the idea herself! But at that point the context of the conversation is cutting a budget to possibly have more to spend on the venue.
Just to manage your expectations after hearing about this idea, I have not yet personally tried it or had a chance to recommend it to any friends yet, so I don’t know if it will work. It definitely sounds like something worth trying and could potentially save you thousands of dollars on your flowers and decorations.
Good luck! I’ll have more cheap wedding flower ideas in another article so keep an eye out for it!
Related posts
Comments are closed.