3 Ways to Save Money on Your Wedding Bouquets

Planning a wedding can be an expensive task, yet with a little thought and planning you can achieve your dream wedding on a budget. One area of wedding planning in which you can save money with a little planning is your wedding bouquets.

You can have a beautiful wedding bouquet without spending a small fortune by considering the following tips.

Reduce the Size of Your Wedding Bouquet
1. One way to still have the flowers of your choice without spending a small fortune is to cut down the size of your bouquet. A small bouquet can still be as stunning and is often more effective that a larger bouquet.

2. Reduce the Size of Your Bridesmaids Bouquet
Another option is to leave the bridal bouquet in its original size and reduce the size of the bridesmaid’s bouquets. Aesthetically, this can be a great look.

3. Ditch the Wedding Bouquet – The Single Rose
Alternatively, you could ditch the bridesmaid’s bouquets completely, and have them each carry a beautiful single red rose down the aisle.

Reuse Wedding Church Flowers

Are you decorating the church with you own wedding flowers. See if you can then transfer these flowers to the wedding reception, to save the cost of buying flowers at both venues. Don’t take the existing church flowers, only the ones that you brought in specifically for the service.

Wedding Flowers

If you felt like being frugal, you could very well find some nice flowers from the supermarket for your wedding. Go and check out what type of flowers they have and see if you can put in an order so that the ones that you want will be available for you when you are ready to pick them up.

If you didn’t want to use them as your  bridal flowers, they could be the flowers used for table décor. Ask for a bulk discount if you buy several.

The Benefits of Using Silk Flowers at Weddings

Silk flowers can be an inexpensive alternative to having fresh flowers at your wedding. You could either opt to use silk flowers for all your floral needs, or use a combination of fresh flowers and silk. For example, your bridal bouquet could be made up of fresh flowers and your bridesmaids bouquets could be made up of silk flowers. Another approach, would be for the all the bouquets to be made up of a mixture of silk and real flowers, using the silk flowers as the ‘filler’ flowers.

Some Benefits of Using Silk Flowers

1. The main benefit of using silk flowers is that it is a cheaper alternative to fresh flowers. If flower arrangements feature heavily in your wedding (table décor, room décor, bouquets) fresh flowers can end up being very costly.

2. Using silk flowers, you have a greater variety of flowers available to you. Certain flowers are only in season at certain times of the year. If you are after a certain flower, one that has special meaning to you, you will find that it will be available to you all year round as a silk flower.

3. The silk flowers that you use at your wedding can be transferred into your home, so that you have a reminder of your wedding day.

4. Silk flowers are great for brides who suffer from hay fever.

5. You can pick-up the silk flowers as early as you want, alleviating the pressure from the ‘wedding week.’
They key in using silk flowers as an alternative to fresh flowers is to buy from a quality supplier. Good quality silk flowers can really look like the real thing. You could even add some floral essence to the petals of the flowers to give it a more genuine effect.