Flowers from Costco

Have you looked at the pre-made bouquets at Costco? I would be more comfortable doing that than trying to make them yourself.

We used Costco for bouquets, boutonnieres, and corsages. For the rest of the flowers for aisle, arch, and centerpieces, we did DIY silk flowers. For us it was worth it to save some money.

Costco package that we got was "simply elegant rose wedding collection".

I would not be trying to DIY the flowers that will be most photographed. You are talking about saving a truly tiny amount of money here, proportionately. It's not worth the time and hassle.

If you were talking about cutting your entire $2,000 order to a Costco $300-$400 package that would be one thing, but a hundred or two hundred isn't worth it for the stress.

ETA- your florist may not even allow you to do this, depending on your contract. They worry that if they do some of your flowers but not all, that their name will be associated with all and they won't want it connected to someone's DIY work. I have seen this clause before.

I know this isn't necessarily Costco related, but we ordered ours from bulkwholesaleflowers online, and got about 950 (big) stems for 1500. With vases and floral foam we'll be spending about 2000 in all. If y'all are using mason jars it would be even cheaper, maybe 1900. It is gonna be a lot of work though.

This was our flower/cost spreadsheet in the end.

flower spreadsheet.

Guess I should've added that the items we would be DIY-ing would be fairly simple. Getting married in the woods and we're going for a simple, ethereal feel. I'm not big into flowers and neither is FH, the $2000 quote we currently have from our venue's florist includes all centerpieces and some larger items like our decorated alter and items hanging from the ceiling, which I would never attempt myself. But for the bouquets (bridal bouquet I am not DIY-ing!), boutonnieres, and corsages I just want something similar to the below photos, which from what I've read on how to do this, seems not too challenging. I am a crafty person, as is my mom and sister who would be helping!

BM BouquetsBoutonnieres

That's beautiful, but be careful with lots of baby's breath. Other brides on WW have used it and said it can smell really bad when you use a lot of it. I think one bride even compared it to cat pee.

This is very pretty. you have inspired me!