Flowers For Intimate Weddings
Calling brides planning intimate weddings! Have you given a thought to your wedding flowers yet? Once you have your wedding dress and accessories, a beautiful floral bouquet will give you the finishing touch that says you’re ready to walk down the aisle! Beautifully coordinated florals can elevate the look and feel of your wedding but unfortunately, they can also work out expensive.
Budget-Friendly Florals for Elopements and Small Weddings
Many couples spend a big part of their wedding budget on florals for their ceremony and reception. 8-10% of the total budget seems to be the usual recommended amount, so it can work out to a fair chunk of change. Check out WeddingWire for a breakdown of potential flower costs if you haven’t got that far in your wedding planning yet. Today we’ll take a look at one company that aims to provide you with beautiful florals without breaking the bank.
FiftyFlowers
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FiftyFlowers is a woman-owned, online bulk wholesale flower source that’s has been in business since 2003. They provide unique, fresh flowers for events including weddings and other special occasions, that are grown year-round at their partner farms in South America. Brides can completely DIY their floral looks or choose from a selection of pre-made packages.
Our focus in this post will be their new line of premade, budget-friendly, flower packages. With a great selection of bouquets, boutonnières, corsages, and more, with conveniently pre-arranged styles and colors, there’s a very good chance you’ll see something that you and your wallet will love!
Elopements and Intimate Weddings
The new 2020 Wedding Collections gives you 10 different themes to browse for small celebrations, each one with different styles, color palettes, and highly sought-after flowers. These arrangements are not customizable, what you see is what you get. Which is, if you’re as crafty as I am, (which is not that much) a big relief! It’s all done for you, no big style and design decisions to make. Take a look at the beautiful floral choices available below.
Once you’ve chosen your favorite look, decide how much of it you need. Choose from an elopement package, small wedding, or medium wedding. Add-on options will complete your wedding floral theme with choices such as a flower crown, corsages, and decor for your reception but this will, of course, add extra expense. Keep an eye on that budget!
Once ordered your flowers will be shipped to your door 2-3 days before your wedding and will be all ready to go! Each delivery includes care instructions, shears, and flower food.
What We Love
The florals are delivered ready to go and are easy to care for. Simply take the flowers out of the box, cut the stems, and place them in water.
If you need help at any stage from ordering to your wedding day, a team of floral experts is on call to chat with you via their website.
FiftyFlowers say that with over 500 boxes of flowers a week delivered, less than 1% of the orders have issues. But, should there be a problem with your order such as damaged flowers, they’ll re-ship flowers to you at no cost or, you can choose a full refund instead.
Starting as low as $119.99 for a professionally arranged, fresh floral bridal bouquet & boutonniere, it’s an affordable option for many brides.
All of the flowers are available year-round. If you want summer flowers in winter, you can have them!
Free Shipping
FiftyFlowers provides free shipping within the lower 48 contiguous United States.
Top Tips to Save Money
When placing your order, consider the old adage, ‘less is more’ and add to that – ‘re-purpose’ what you have. Consider how many flowers you really need and how you can re-use the ones that you have. Making simple and thoughtful floral choices can have a huge impact on your ceremony and reception space, and save you a ton of money. Choose a small amount of what you really love over quantity – plus it’s much easier to deal with on the day!
For example, eliminate bridesmaid bouquets, boutonnieres for groomsmen, and corsages for extended family. If you would still like your bridesmaids to have something floral, consider wrist corsages. Wrist corsages are a more affordable choice plus, they’re more practical, as it frees up hands to help you with your bouquet, veil, or train.
Wedding Reception Ideas
Re-purpose ceremony flowers for your reception decor. Bouquets and other flowers can become cake table decorations. Combine ceremony flowers with fun and unique thrift store finds that go with your theme such as books, mason jars, and teacups. Purchase inexpensive candles and vases. The dollar store is a great place to find inexpensive table decor to fill out the tablespace. You can also ask to borrow decor from family and friends.
Floral Care
When your order arrives, it’s important to get your flowers into water as soon as possible. For a larger order, have a designated space ready for storage until the big day. Have a couple of reliable friends available to help coordinate the arrival and care of your flowers. They can also help on the day of the wedding with transportation and arranging as needed at the ceremony and reception sites. You’ll be glad you did, knowing that you have a good support system that you can rely on will make things much less stressful for you.
Before you order and leading up to the delivery, scour the FiftyFlowers website for lots of tips to make the whole process go smoothly. Figure out the logistics of having fresh florals delivered well in advance. If you have any problems at all with your delivery, don’t panic! Check-in with the seller immediately, as time is of the essence with only a couple of days to go before the wedding. Flowers can be overnighted to you if necessary.
Wedding Collections
As this post is getting long, here are photos of three swoon-worthy, affordable, and on-trend wedding collection choices available from the ten shown above.
Blushing Love Wedding Collection
Kiss of Pink Bridal Party Bouquets
This traditional pink and white look is gorgeous, a color you can’t go wrong with for a wedding. Planning a garden-themed wedding? The Blushing Love Wedding Collection is a great choice. These arrangements feature garden roses, spray roses, calla lilies, and greenery.
Coral Blossom Wedding Collection
Peachy Coral Bridesmaid and Flower Girl Bouquet
These vibrant coral flower arrangements feature garden roses, charmelias, scabiosa, and classic eucalyptus.
Passionate Pink Bridal Bouquet
Pink and Red Roses Bridesmaid and Vintage Love Flower Girl Bouquet
This color palette is so pretty – red and pink flowers together! This collection is perfect for summer intimate weddings and consists of roses, charmelia, dusty miller, and eucalyptus.
This post is the first of several posts in the works with FiftyFlowers, lots more beautiful floral inspirational photos for intimate weddings to come. Stay tuned! Follow on social media for more budget-friendly wedding inspiration like this for intimate weddings. You don’t want to miss it!
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