Who gets boutonnieres?

If your brother is walking you down the aisle I would get him a boutonniere. The women of the family typically get corsages - I'm getting one for all mothers and grandmothers (MOB/MOG and grandmother of bride)

Mother and Grandmother should get corsages. They might be more expensive. Your brother should have one if he is walking you down the aisle. Other than the bridal party (groom, groomsmen, ring bearer) the rest is really optional but if you do one you should include the others.

I think all parents and grandparents get boutonnieres or corsages, along with men in the bridal party (including ushers and ring bearer) and if you have godparents, they get them as well.

For us, we had the groom, all six groomsmen, three ushers, the officiant and the three fathers. The ring bearer had one, but it was free.

Corsages went to all three moms and one grandma.

Grandparents, parents, wedding party, and officiant.

You might be able to get a cheaper boutonniere for everyone but the groom? For just a single rose (which is what FH wants), we're only paying $15. But we are getting a lot of them. Him, his best man, both dads, his stepdad, ushers (we don't have groomsmen), and the officiant. Compared to one corsage for his mom (my mom and all the grandparents are passed away).

We didn't do bouts or corsages for the moms/grandmothers. We asked our moms and they didn't care about them so we skipped them,

We didn’t do boutonnières or corsages for grandparents. Parents, groomsmen, and officiant only.

Usually MOG & GMOB will get corsages, not boutonieres. We are getting them for groomsmen, groom, and our fathers. Our grandparents aren't with us.

The only people were gave boutonnières to were the groomsmen and dads, and groom of coarse.
The florist made my husbands and the dads, because I wanted them to be “nicer”
I bought roses for $10 at the grocery store and tied some ribbon on them. I think the groomsmen’s flowers looked the nicest! I used the rest of them for the “winner” of the anniversary dance.
This could be a money saving option for you if you need a lot. It was so easy to do too! No way it was worth $30 a piece

I got them for our groomsmen, ring bearer, fathers, ushers and readers. My mom wanted a small nose gay, my future mil wanted a corsage, our female reader is getting a courage as is my Godmother. (His godmother is also a reader)

It doesn’t really matter— this one is up to you and your budgets. We only gave flowers to the members of the bridal party (bridesmaids and groomsmen) and didn’t give them to any other family members

View Quoted Comment Hah this exactly. I asked the moms and they were both kinda “meh” so I decided not to waste the time and money on something no one cared about !

$30 seems very high. Mine are $10 each. You could make them for less than that!

We're getting bouts for pretty much everyone not a bridesmaid. But. We have a mixed party, and the 2 women on FH's side are wearing tuxes, so they asked for bouts. My stepmother asked for a bout, so then I asked FMIL and my mother if they wanted bouts or corsages.
In the end, we decided bouts for everyone, so the look would be uniform.

We're also doing fake flowers, so the bouts are pretty cheap.

Well corsages are for women, even if they're pinned on. They are usually a different price. Anyone in the wedding ceremony should get one. So yes, your brother gets one for walking you down. Mother of the groom should get a corsage. And if you can swing it and your grandmother is super important to you she can have one too. We are not doing corsages/bouts for grandparents simply for the cost and because they will not partake in walking in for the ceremony. It'd be nice for the ring bearer also. I am not doing the officiant because I think that's pointless. A pastor doesn't want nor care about a bout.

$30 a pop is crazy. I am a crafty-ISH person, and making boutonnieres is extremely easy, I promise. A quick youtube video or two and you should have it down, it is literally just wrapping floral wire around a big flower and some little flowers until its in the right place, then wrapping floral tape around that. You can buy the pins at Michaels for next to nothing. I made them for myself and some friends for all our proms for two years, we estimated that it came out to $5 a pop when we bought the supplies to make 6. $15 is a reasonable price though if you don't want to make them. If you have a lot of crafty aunts/grandmas/friends coming out of the woodwork looking to help, maybe have someone reliable make them the night before the wedding. If you're nervous about it, have them just make the extras you arent sure about that won't be in tons of photos, and the one for the ring bearer (since if hes young itll go missing in an hour anyways). One of the easiest things to DIY if you're into that sort of thing, if not though, $30 is too much.
Ladies would get a corsage, ask them if they care, if not, no need to do it. A corsage is the thing that should cost you $30. Maybe write grandmothers/mother of the groom/bride a nice note and put some ribbon and small flowers around the envelope to give to them when handing out boutonnieres, they would probably love a note more anyways and it's way cheaper than a corsage. In the photo below is one of the boutonnieres and corsages I made, as you can see the boutonniere looks great and really it took two seconds, the corsage on the other hand is ah...definitely worth just buying.

Flower

I would not pay $30 for a single stem and spray of baby's breath or whatever. But if you will, before deciding who you should buy them for, see who wants or is willing to wear them. Lots if women do not want any corsage clipped or pinned to the front of any dress or blouse made of delicate material. The flower weight can pull down fabric on one side, and pins and clips on any silky or satin type fabric will often do permanent damage. And lots of wrist corsages last until the first time they annoy someone, especially at a meal, then they are discarded. So ask each person if they will wear a coursage or bout. None of our 10 older family women, either side, would wear one, except a great aunt with a heavyweight woven wool bouclé jacket. Not on dress, not on wrist. Years of working catering, I saw far more discarded in minutes than worn. And not kept as souvenirs, either. I know a fair number of people who have looked at $20-45 bout and corsage costs, and gone with a selection of 50-100 stems from fifty flowers, or similar, for $65 to $90 dollars. A little floral tape, a spray of tiny flowers if wanted, and they have made 5-10 bouts, and a corsage or two. And divided up the remaining 40-90 stems of whatever flower into bouquets to go in to vases near MOG, MOB, grandmothers, and anyone else not wanting a corsage. If you have an extra flower girl or guy, you cannot have strew flower petals do to venue or church regs, they can give small bouquets to honired mothers, grandmothers, going down the aisle. Easy, and easier on the wallet than $240-$350 in bouts and corsages.

Came here to see responses. I wasn't planning on doing any flowers outside of my bouquet. What the heck is the significance anyway? Our wedding is close immediate family and a few close friends and we have no wedding party.