Wedding Flowers, Is this an average/over priced Quote??

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As you know im getting married soon and getting really stressed out, i have no idea on what price is a good price and i ve tried serching the net but there is no price guide. i know its gonna depend on what you want but i just want a sort of guide. i ve been give one quote of:-

£60 for the brides bouquet
£35 for the adult bridesmaids
£25 for the flower girl bouquet/basket

BUTTON HOLES:-

£3.50 For a single rose
£7.00 for a double

and also i need advice on flowers for the reception, i hadnt really thought of flowers for the reception, do you have to have flowers?

i ve been given a qouote for
Table posies £10
candelabras £15
and the top table package
£80 Inc 3 arrangements and a garland.

did any one who got married in a church have Pew Ends? im totally lost with all this stuff.

Well my bouquet was £100 for a round posy of cream roses.

Not sure about the button holes etc.

So your quote seems reasonable.

The prices sound quite fair really, but it's very hard to say for sure not knowing what flowers are being used in the bouquets etc

The candelabras...how many are you having. I saw some for sale on ebay for less than a tenner I think...if you're having alot that could be quite a saving and you could sell them afterwards?

they sound about the same as my florist.

i just had two big oriental lillies for £15 although my wedding was cheap too.

prices sound right. i didn't have flowers for pew ends. check with church cos they decorated church with flowers that were free. i would only have had to pay if i wanted something different from white. as for table decs, dont need to go over board cos looks good with all the crockery glasses etc. flowers for hair?

iggle piggles - where abouts are you?

My florist was fantastic, my bouquet of cream roses with foliage was only £30 and she said it was only that 'expensive!!' because it was winter!

I agree with cosima...flowers can often crowd a table and with all cutlery, wine glasses, crockery, and your candelabras with nice candles you could manage without them..perhaps just have some for your top table?
personally I hate the overpowering smell of some strong scented flowers when I am trying to eat.

Im in Swansea South wales, the quote was from Jonathans in Skewen www.jonathansflowers.co.uk

well i wasnt fussed either way about pew ends, and as for table flowers i wasnt gonna really bother apart from top table.

as for hair, alice bands £22 circlets £2.50 per inch and combs £15

im really in the dark about all of this!!

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I had tall stands with flowers and candles for beside the altar at my church wedding and the florist transferred them to the reception after the service and stood them beside the top table, instead of having flowers on the table, so I only had to pay for one set of flowers. It was a good set up, it was a while ago so I don't really remember the cost.

I think the other stuff sounds reasonable, but again my memory is a bit shady about price now (believe it or not!)

Congratulations and best wishes!

can you have any colours for your buoqet. i mean my dress is white bridesmaids in ice pink and DP best man ushers and and DS (page boy) in silver waistcoats wiv pink scrolls and pink ruches

loads of brides etc have had white but i want pink (babypink)is this gonna look odd or do a lot of people do it??

Sounds fine to me. You can have any colour for your bouquet.

I think if you don't want flowers on your tables its fine, candles look fab.

sorry to be a pain but one other question.

the wedding cake, the place where we want reception has said we have to have their style wedding cake made by them, if we get our own (which would be a family friend who is a proffesional cake maker wanted to do it as a wedding gift) we d have to pay £150 to bring it in!! is this normal??

Iggle piggle if you would be willing to travel to manchester I would say do oit!

adults bridesmaids were £25

and childres were £10!!

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the woman is sooo nice, i would say its worth the trip

you need to have flowers done locally because they do them on the day. and you need to have them delivered or allocate someone to pick them up

I only had bouquets done, and they cost about £200 (for 1 x bride and 3 x bridesmaids) so I'd say yours sounds reasonable.

We did the rest of the flowers ourselves - worth thinking about if you don't want an elaborate arrangement?

We went to ikea and got 20 vases at £1.00 each, and then went to a flower place (attached to a garden centre) and spent £75 on lots and lots of green and white. I got all my friends to put together the vases the day before - it was brilliant fun and looked beautiful. They were just informal bunches but I didn't want stiff oasis-style arrangements as it wouldn't have been in keeping with our "country" wedding.

At the end we told everyone to take their vase home with them.

The cake - I think that charge is a bit stiff but sadly quite normal as they have to cover their costs in providing plates, cutlery, service and the lost profit they would have made, had they provided the cake themselves.

yeah i know, i think im gonna go with jonathans he s seems the most resonable but then again i know sweet FA about flowers etc lol

Sounds fine to me - baby pink sounds gorgeous too Go for it!

Charging corkage for own supplied wine is one thing, but for the cake???? I've never heard that before.

wrt to venue flowers, ours were included in the price of the venue, they just asked our colour scheme. They were small and not overpowering on the tables.

The prices for the bouquets sounds similar to what I paid two years ago, but that was with a discount as a family friend works in a florists.

Agree the church sometimes provides flowers as they will often have three or four weddings on the same day and this will be included in whatever you pay for the use of the church.

It is all very confusing though. I can see why people use wedding planners more and more these days.