How to Save Money on Wedding Flowers

Visit your local grocery store. for instance costco and sam's club have flower packages that are way more inexpensive.

or try artificial flowers? craft stores like hobby lobby, michael's, etc. are always having sales on fake flowers.

View Quoted Comment Thanks!! I will try both!!

Go to local grocery store/Costco or buy them on fiftyflowers.com which is the cheapest option.


Artificial flowers are not cheaper.

View Quoted Comment Thank you so much for the tip! Have you used fiftyflowers.com?

We were quoted $2,500 for the above just for a couple of tables... so went to Michaels and spent $750.

Yes I've ordered from them for past events and they have great quality and customer service. Also several positive reviews in the search feature of the forums.

Do you want real flowers? For me, I didn't want fake flowers at all. I love flowers so it was important to me that my flowers be real. The best way to save money on real flowers is to make sure you pick flowers that are in season. You could also do centerpieces with petals rather than full flowers or one's that don't include flowers at all then you'd just need flowers for the bridal party and ceremony decor. For our wedding, I had small bouquets which consisted of one or two roses and baby's breath. Baby's breath is rather inexpensive. My bouquet did have more roses. I liked the simplicity of the bouquets I picked plus they weren't outrageously expensive. Also, using a lot of greenery would cut on costs. I've included some inspiration photos below. Not sure what your colors are, but you could adjust the centerpieces to incorporate your colors. My mom bought vases/candle holders very similar to the ones in the last picture from the dollar store so if you got greenery from a florist you could very easily pull off something similar to that photo for rather inexpensively.

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I LOVE the greenery idea!! Thank you for the photos!

I agree with Melle, use a local grocery store.

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Michael's wisteria . . . I would recognize those anywhere. I have them sprinkled throughout my wedding decor as well. Beautiful centerpieces!

I am using fifty flowers, they are bulk and it depends on how much you wanna spend.

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Glad I could help!

I went with fake flowers, real flowers are beautiful however I couldn't justify spending 2 or 3 times more on things that would die. So I am actually working on my flower arrangements right now. I have spent probably $400 at Jo-Anns on flowers at this point.

They weren’t a priority AT ALL to me either, in fact my mom and I went to florists 2 weeks before my wedding 🤦🏻‍♀️😂 they all gave me SUCH judgy looks when I said I was getting married in 2 weeks and had no flowers lol. We ended up wrapping our own bridesmaid bouquets with flowers from the grocery store (cost $30 total for 4 of them) and we got my bouquet from a florist for $70. In hindsight it would’ve been fine to DIY mine as well but we weren’t sure how they were going to turn out so my mom insisted on buying mine professionally just to make sure I at least had one lol. They all turned out great though! And the bouquets were the only flowers we had at the wedding. It wasn’t missed.

We used old bath and body candles and cleaned them out. Placed water and floating white candles throughout the space. Family members gave me their old ones too, which I cleaned out and used! Minimizes the rental fee for candle votives ❤️

View Quoted Comment I am sure it is so lovely!!

Fifty f lowers.com is a good resource also you can make your own

Check for sales. I just bought a bunch of artificial from Joanns because they had a huge sale going on. About 10 bucks a centerpiece with the arrangements I did.

Sam's Club delivered beautiful flowers right to my door! Very reasonably priced too.

When you meet with florists, tell them what your budget is and what you want. Tell them that is all you’re will to spend. That is what we did and were able to get exactly what we wanted.