Church Flowers?!

Do you care if there are flowers in the church for your wedding? Unless the church told you that you are required to give them flowers they probably won't care. My church requires a fee but does not require flowers. We asked and they don't care either way. If you do bring flowers for the church it would be weird to take them back.

My church asks the altar flowers to be left behind if you want them. I don't mind, they are next to the tabernacle..it's a little gift, IMO.

I spoke with three different florists when I was searching for mine, and all of them said most people do not leave the flowers in the church anymore. I guess lots of brides are repurposing them by switching out the vases they are in and utilizing them again for the card or welcome tables. I'm personally donating them to the church because I feel like that's the right thing to do, but from what I hear it's no longer a norm and I don't necessarily thing churches expect that anymore.

You could go to a garden center and get beautiful planters with something like hanging begonias for waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay less. As far as the requirement to leave them, I would check with the church. The florist's information may be out of date, it could be accurate, or they could be wanting to sell you other arrangements for the reception.

Most couples at our church take their ceremony arrangements for the guestbook and gift tables.

Our church has flowers donated every week so we were told to take our altar arrangements with us. They were $125 each and we were able to use them as decoration in front of the sweetheart table. Our other option would have been mums. For a June wedding, getting palms or a hearty summer planter can work.

My church wont let our flowers be there for anything but the ceremony. We will only have 2 pots of mums. The ceremony is such a short time compared to the rest of the day so I didn't want to spend the money on decorations for the church.

This is unusual. How important is it to you to do the same as all the other weddings previously? I made my own bouquet with my MIL and SIL. We used silk flowers that didn't even look like fake flowers. I still have them with all my wedding stuff in my display cabinet

This is unusual. How important is it to you to do the same as all the other weddings previously? I made my own bouquet with my MIL and SIL. We used silk flowers that didn't even look like fake flowers. I still have them with all my wedding stuff in my display cabinet. It was so much cheaper. My sister spent more than the cost of my wedding just on her flowers. Her bouquets were so much heavier than mine also.

Our church said they request that we leave them, but not required. We aren't doing alter flowers though because they only allow one specific florist who isn't ours. They do allow other florists to do pew decorations though

If we want altar flowers we are required to use their church florist and they will be left behind. My FMIL is on the altar society and took care of the arrangement.

In our church it's pretty typical to leave any flowers behind as a donation. (That's what we're planning on doing, but we're doing pots of white poinsettias.) I've never heard of a minimum amount though.

My church charges a small fee but doesn't require anything in terms of decorations. They couldn't care less if it was just bare, but I'm doing altar arrangements and leaving them there anyway since it would just be a lot of hassle to move them to the reception after the ceremony is over (the places are about a 20 min drive away and who would I even ask to collect them and bring it to the venue?).