Let's talk flowers/greenery cost

You did such a beautiful job on the bouquets!! I probably would have made the same call if I were in your shoes, given the logistics and travel, etc. artificial seems more logical and way less stressful and us brides do not need any added stress that's for sure.

For me the hunt for real flowers ended the second I was quoted $400 for a bridal bouquet I knew they would be pricey, but the quotes I was getting were so expensive! Didn't help that having a wedding 2 hours from home complicates things; options in the area were limited and more expensive, but I couldn't buy them ahead of time in the city since we were spending a few days in Banff prior to the wedding, and they would not look nice by the day of. Ultimately I decided flowers were not super important to me, so I ended up making all the bouquets myself from silk flowers off Amazon, and I ordered the boutonnières and corsages from Etsy, all the way from Ukraine! We ended up spending around $400 on those. Our decorations were all rented so we didn't buy any centerpieces, altar, or aisle flowers, those were all silk as well. Our cake had real flowers, the only ones in the room, and I splurged the extra $40 to do that.

Altogether - 11 centrepieces, decorations/flowers for the sweetheart table, 5 bouquets, 6 boutonnières, 2 corsages, altar w flowers, shepherds hooks with flowers lining aisle, cocktail tables and guestbook table flowers/decorations, and cake flowers, we spent ~$1100

Another great price I feel like!

Oh wow I feel like that's a really great price!

Yea it's crazy, I was convinced I could totally do our centerpieces - does not seem that difficult and the savings would be huge but...once I started trying to do it with hubby they just WERE NOT turning out how I envisioned lol so I paid for someone to do their magic

My husband and I really didn't have a budget. We spent around 950 for 2 bouquets, 5 corsages, 6 boutonnieres and 10 centerpieces

I was also shocked once I started getting quotes back for flowers. I only wanted to spend up to $2,000.00 for flowers for our 40 person wedding. We did end up getting a lot of flowers for the price so I was really happy about that!

We got arch flowers, bridal bouquet, 2 bridesmaid bouquets, 4 boutonniere's, cake flowers and 7 flower centerpieces for $1,830.00 (includes delivery and tax).

So in the end, I was able to come below budget but I still thought it was a lot for flowers. I don't know - just did not expect them to be that much. LOL