Flowers - Splurge or Save?

Save no doubt. I couldn't tell you how much FH and I absolutely don't care for real flowers at our wedding. We just don't. Pretty artificial flowers will suffice.

Much to my chagrin, we splurged… well, my mom did. I'd originally found real silk, natural-touch flowers for $500, but my mom insisted on real flowers, so we ended up spending well over $3k

SAVE! my original budget was nearly $2000 but when i looked at the break down, my jaw dropped-$250 for my bouquet alone!? I found a little local shop that has exactly what I want for $60 and 4 of them and some boutonnieres/corsages. came out to around $500.

Meh, save. I am not looking for centerpieces made predominantly of flowers. We will have giant centerpieces of sticks and branches with some foliage, and perhaps some flowers sprinkled in.

Save. We are not doing floral centerpieces or decorations, but the bouquets and boutonnieres will be real.

Im saving on flowers I have family members and friends that have allergies I have to be careful on flowers right now it looks like real flowers for my bouquet and bridal party but for the tables I have to do fake ones

Save! We got the flowers for our reception centerpieces at a local farm and they were absolutely beautiful! My bouquet and the bridal parties stuff came from a local florist that I know.

Save!!! I found ways to get live flowers and DIY them. (Thank you Fifty Flowers!!!!) I insisted on having tons of floral, and lush greenery for my wedding. My poor FH had no idea, nor did I, how expensive flowers could be. I mean THOUSANDS of dollars can be spent on just 1 days worth of flowers, and that's WITHOUT bridesmaids and groomsmen! Wild stuff. So I took the liberty of DIYing all of our décor. (Or will do it anyways, the big day is not here yet.) But I am so looking forward to putting my personal touch on our special day.

Flowers I am putting together my own bouquets and everything. We are using fake flowers that we can get from amazon and they look amazing. we might throw some babies breath in there that is real but I'm hoping to have bouquets and such done weeks before the wedding so it isn't one more thing to do closer to the day.

I think i figured it out cost wise. After talking to several florists in my area, I can buy everything i need and create them myself for under $100? while several different florists were quoting me $850 and $750.

Save. We are getting married outdoors, on a vineyard, in the fall, in the mountains. So we didn't feel flowers were that necessary. Our florist is going to make our simple flower vision come to life for a fairly reasonable budget.

Haven't even gotten quotes yet (have 3 appointments in the next three weeks though!). Hopefully save. I don't believe in spending thousands of dollars on something that will die in a few days, but FH refuses to have fake flowers.

I wanted to save.. but I splurged, oops lol

I saved money on real flowers so I could spend more on faux flowers as well as more decor

Definitely save. We tried Flora Collective and it took a little while (so I wouldn't use it if you're later in the planning process), but we came in under budget.

Splurge. We're having sort of a destination wedding (ie my fiancé and I live out-of-state), so flowers are an ideal way to decorate--they get used and then get thrown. I'll probably do some DIY with fake flowers for the arch and ceremony decor, but we're definitely doing fresh flowers for bouquets!