Weddings are costly affairs, with many different elements adding significantly to the overall costs of organizing a wedding. Right from food and beverage catering, venue hire and decor arrangements, to your bridal dress and accessories everything needs to be accounted for and budgeted. This will ensure you have a flawless wedding and everything stays within your pre-decided budget. If you have budget problems or find your wedding budget exceeding your expectations, then wedding flowers are one area, on which you can save money comfortably. While they are an integral part of the entire wedding decor and add a glamorous look to the entire event, the costs involved in wedding flowers can be controlled and cut down through proper planning and preparations.
Here Are a Few Pointers, To Save Money While Arranging for Your Wedding Flowers:
1. Decide your key decor points
It’s not important to cover every table and arch in your venue with wedding flowers. Decide the key areas you are going to be meeting and greeting the guests and plan your flower walls accordingly in those areas. These flower walls will be a beautiful background in all your photos and can also be used by the guests to click their photos. Identifying such photo opportunity spots will help you plan your floral decor efficiently and ensure that you are always surrounded by flowers, whenever there’s a camera around. Another ideal place for the floral decor will be the area you will be sitting in since that too will be a highly photographed place. Pay special attention to the floral decor in your main entry arch and ensure it stands out from the other areas since that will be the first place your guests will see you when you enter the wedding venue.
2. Decide on a theme for the floral decor
Deciding on a theme using a design of just 2-3 groups of flowers will help you maintain a uniform look and color around the entire wedding area. Combinations and bouquets of 2 to 3 flowers placed strategically all around your wedding venue, will give a very lively and pleasing look to the entire wedding venue. Moreover, it will also help you save money since your florist would be getting the advantage of economies of scale on bulk buying for a smaller range, rather than purchasing lesser quantities of a wider range. This is the most important criteria you should follow while selecting the floral decor arrangements for your wedding as it will have a big impact on the budget for your wedding flowers.
3. Take care of some of the floral arrangements yourself
While doing up the wedding flowers decor of the entire wedding venue may not be easy and hard for you to manage, there are many small floral arrangements that you can manage on your own to save money. The brides and bridesmaids wedding bouquets can be done easily by you, based on the latest styles or designs trending currently. You could look up guides or watch videos for tips on how to make the hand bouquets, since sourcing them from a florist may be very expensive. Similarly, you can also make the guest tables floral arrangements or center pieces that will be displayed at the wedding venue. The flowers for these bouquets and arrangements can be bought directly by you, by visiting the flower markets in your neighborhood.
Wedding flowers are the most important elements in your wedding venue decor and as such it requires adequate attention and planning. With a bit more effort on your part, you can save considerably on the costs you incur on them.
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