Wedding related <sorry> florist nightmare

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My first AIBU I think so am prepared for a variety of answers. I'll try and keep it brief. DP and I getting married in two weeks. Small reg office do. Only booked a few weeks ago. Since then been trying to find a florist to do one bouquet for me and one buttonhole for DP. Emailed 6 places 5 of which haven't replied and 1 said they were fully booked. I haven't called or called in to said places because it's a faff with my DS and would like to find out their prices first. Anyway I turned to the friend of an ex colleague who runs a business through facebook. I messaged her and she said she'd help me out and to give her a ring on Monday. I've just called her and she was downright rude saying "I can't talk now I'm at work. I don't do flowers all the time" I apologised and said I was sorry I didn't realise and when should I call back "I don't know" she replied and hung up. WIBU to just try and find someone else at this short notice or do it myself or should I give her the benefit of the doubt? My issue is that if she couldn't talk a.) why did she ask me to ring today and b.) why did she even answer her phone? The way she spoke to me has upset me a bit but I am pregnant so....hormones etc.
Sorry that was long!

would you consider artificial flowers - some lovely stuff on etsy

www.etsy.com/uk/search?q=artificial+wedding+bouquet&order=most_relevant&view_type=gallery&ship_to=GB&locationQuery=2635167

Instead of looking for people who tend to do wedding flowers go to a local florist on the high street and see what they can do, the sort of florist you would tend to go to when you get mail order flowers, they may be more likely to help than a specific wedding florist?

Thank you all for your suggestions it's very kind of you

I was a bit last minute with my flowers when I got married. I just wandered into a local florist a couple of weeks before the wedding. They showed me a book of ideas, I pointed at one and asked for that with a bit more pink and a bit less green, with a matching buttonhole. They did it for me no bother. Maybe I was lucky, but it might be worth just popping into your local place?

www.interflora.co.uk/category/wedding-flowers-collection/?rows=all&tstate=1467643985
order on line, then collect on the morning or have delivered the day before.

Plan for tomorrow is trip to local florists in person (maybe should have done this in the first place!) and then if no luck off to hobbycraft and get flowers delivered the day before meanwhile watching you tube vids!

I did my own. They are pretty easy, florists wire and tape and some diamanté pins from Amazon. You tube videos on how to make a buttonhole. Really simple.
Or pop into a nice looking florist shop and ask them?

www.marksandspencer.com/white-rose-and-freesia-wedding-collection-2/p/p60055122?prevPage=plp&pdpredirect

she was very rude!

I used this florist in westhoughton for my wedding 2 months ago. she is absolutely lovely and her prices are really reasonable/cheap! you won't get anywhere emailing her but if you phone I'm sure she'd try to help you out.

www.blooming-flowers.co.uk

M&S have some lovely summery bouquets, I'd order online from them, wrap the stems in tin foil, then in ribbons to match your dress.
M&S

Try Interflora. They do wedding bouquets and coursages. They do a Vera Wang package 😉

Agree pop in a florists and just state your requirements. Sometimes when 'wedding' is mentioned it all gets slightly manic....

When what You actually require is really simple.

The 'friend of friend' was rude
Yanbu

I only had a bridesmaid bouquet and buttonholes needed for my wedding - went to the flower stall in the market and they put them together for me. Might be worth a try!

We just did our own. Prices quoted were bloody ridiculous. 400+ for a bouquet and such. Managed to do it ourselves for 30 and looked fantastic

Our local Morrisons has a lovely lady there who does flowers - I've had experience with bouquets to give as thanks / for anniversaries and for funerals, but I'm pretty confident if you went in and said you wanted one small bouquet and one buttonhole for a really tiny wedding o a Monday, it would be no trouble at all for someone like that.

Just pop into your local florist on Friday and order a hand tied bouquet made up of your preferred colours and tell them you don't want it until Saturday late afternoon. Don't mention wedding.

It will still be in great condition on Monday.

When you pick it up, ask for a matching buttonhole to be made up while you wait.

I walked out of several 'high street' florists after getting a similar reaction as I only wanted a very small, slightly quirky bouquet for myself. I was either dismissed as not being a big enough order or shown the 'book of wedding flowers' and told to pick one. One bloke went so far as to instruct me not to forget flowers for the mothers etc... without even asking anything about me or the wedding. I may not have had a mother, he didn't know.

Anyways, I've ranted... what I did in the end was pop into my local market and ask them. The fact that it wasn't a big 'traditional' order didn't throw them, in fact they seemed to look forward to doing something a bit different. I got thistles, ornamental grasses and some colourful flowers and it looked fab.

I did my own and the bridesmaids with silk flowers from 'The Range' unfortunately in the rush to get out of the door on the wedding morning I forgot mine and didn't notice something was missing until we were 10 minutes from the venue! So I sent my grown up son into a big superstore to buy roses and to ask the person on customer services to cut them down to about 8 inches tall, I then tied them together with some tape and the brown paper they came in, in the back of the car. No one would have guessed unless they had been told!

I don't know where Monday came from!

Anyway, principle is the same: pick it up the day before your wedding!

Wow some great suggestions!
I think the market is on tomorrow so a visit there can go on the list! It's crazy about the whole "wedding" thing. DP and I have been befuddled by the whole palaver. Even our families have gone bonkers asking about wedding lists and whose wearing what and whose invited etc etc. If DP and I had our way we'd bugger off to the back end of beyond with a couple of random witnesses but I was assured by DP that his mother would have a hissy fit so..... here we are......there are only 15 people including us going to be there as it is and it's turning into a circus! I'm glad it's not a big wedding I think I'd end up in an early grave

I think you should be able to persuade a florist in person. After all, they seem to be able to accommodate funeral/new baby/anniversary bouquets without two weeks notice, so I'm sure they could accommodate a bouquet and buttonhole if you seem a reasonable customer.

I got married last weekend on the Saturday, I organised my flowers on Friday evening at Brighton station. There's an amazing florist there with a beautiful selection. It was 6pm so I was a bit stressed but I told her that I was getting married the next day and could should do a wedding bouquet and two posies for my bridesmaids. I couldn't have been more pleased with her creations and it cost me £35 in the end. Do you have any options like that although I wouldn't advise leaving it until the night before

Unless you want something complicated I'd honestly just do your own

I did ALL the wedding flowers for a friend (bride, 2 bridesmaids, 10 pew ends and 2 set pieces) and although I had a brief wobble wondering what the hell I'd taken on, I very quickly realized that florist prices are exorbitant for what's actually involved

I would just pop into a couple of local independent florists.
You'll be able to see what their work is like and talk quote and availability there and then

I wouldn't want somebody with such a pissy, negative attitude to make my wedding bouquet.

Do you have any small, independent florists where you live?