Inquiring with florists about reusing flowers?

If my florist reached out to me and asked this, I would say no. 1) This would probably require another agreement with the original bride on keeping the flowers in pristine shape for your next day wedding so you truly get discounted flowers and I am not going to worry all night about if the flowers get destroyed. I took my bouquet home, flower toss winner took hers, BMs took theirs, boutineers fell off, guests took decorations. What happens if that happens the night before your wedding? The florist isn’t going to give you new, fresh flowers at that rate. 2) Most florists charge a delivery/set up fee so you’d either still get charged for that or gypping then out of income. 3) There’s considerably less (but still some) weddings on fridays, the night before yours. That will lower your chances. 4) Asking florists to go through all their clients, find a style similar to yours, and reach out to brides takes time. And time is money. 5) At the rate I paid for flowers, we acknowledged some would go missing and the rest I wanted donated to a nursing home/hospital.

I think finding a bride willing to sell you her flowers from the night before will be difficult. Finding someone with the same style and color scheme will be next to impossible.

OG Alecia - I haven't - that's worth a shot!

OliviaP - if you don't mind me asking, how much are you paying her to do that (& for how many pieces)?

I don't know a florist who would do that, but it would not hurt to ask.

I wouldn't put a lot of trust in this idea. You never know what will happen to the arrangements at their wedding.

I actually tried to do something similar. My centerpieces are going to be lanterns with flowers bursting out of them, and my florist had a bride that was doing something similar and asked if I would want to buy them off of her (just the lanterns not the flowers). All was well until a month later, after her wedding, it turns out she let her guests take them home. We had discussed pricing and everything.

I was stuck frantically searching for something that would work a few weeks out, it was not fun. I couldn't imagine possibly having to do that the day before my wedding.