Looking For Cheap Wedding Flowers? This Out-Of-The-Box Idea May Cut Your Costs By 50% (Or More!)
This is something that has been going around from bride to bride, and now you can pass along this great money saving tip, too! I personally have not tried it yet (but I cannot wait to try it or recommend it to the next bride that comes along!) but can’t wait for someone to try it and get back to me because it is a FANTABULOUS tip if it works!
So the magical tip is: when you book your wedding on a weekend, there is possibly up to four other weddings happening on the same weekend at the same venue! Because the possible booking times are:
Friday Night
Saturday Morning/Afternoon
Saturday Afternoon/Evening
Sunday Morning/Afternoon
Sunday Afternoon/Evening
You might be able to figure out where I’m headed with this.
Contact all brides having their wedding on the same weekend and see if any of them are interested in sharing the same flowers, centerpieces, and decorations and also split the cost. You probably can’t split the cost of the bride’s bouquet if you’re doing a bouquet toss. And depending on themes and colors you may not be able to share everything, but it definitely is worth the time to find out.
If you think about it: sharing with just one other wedding means cutting the cost in half of what you are able to share. Two additional weddings means a 66% reduction in cost. And so forth. Talk about your inexpensive wedding flowers!
How to get in touch with the other brides:
One way is to just use a bit of gentle persuasion with the coordinator at the venue your wedding will be at. You could possibly tell her straight up what your thought is and see if she will give you the contact info of other brides. You may want to think about building a bit of relationship with the coordinator first and then later relaying this idea to them about reducing flower costs by sharing with other possible weddings that weekend.
As an example, as you are meeting with the venue coordinator to discuss pricing of some aspect of your wedding (a great example is catering if the venue is catering the event). With catering, there is a lot of price flexibility. During your negotiation with your venue coordinator, you can let on that you would really like package X but unfortunately you can’t afford it. Talk to whomever came with you (spouse, relative) and start talking about maybe other things you can cut from the budget a bit in order to dedicate MORE money to the venue catering
(I think you can see where this is going: the implication is that if you can save money in one place you may be able to direct it to another place, in this case more money to the venue!)
Work in that maybe you can find out if other brides are willing to share flower costs with you at that point. It’s definitely worth a shot.
Just to manage your expectations after hearing about this idea, I have not yet personally tried it or had a chance to recommend it to any friends yet, so I don’t know if it will work. It definitely sounds like something worth trying and could potentially save you thousands of dollars on your flowers and decorations.
Good luck! More cheap wedding flowers ideas to come!
