The Complete Guide to Wedding Flower Budgets

Following on from our recent posts about wedding flower costs, I thought it might be helpful to do a quick summary of example wedding flower budgets and what you can expect to receive from us within your budget.

How much should I allocate to my wedding flower budget?

As a good rule of thumb, we suggest your floral budget account for 10-15% of your overall wedding budget. If, on the other hand, you are looking for Pinterest-worthy, abundant design, we would suggest allocating 20-25% of your total wedding budget. Most of our couples spend between £450-£4,000 but some spend less or budget more based on your preferences. Remember, it’s your day and the day should reflect your taste and style.

Below is by no means a complete list. Like everything else wedding-flower-related there are so many ‘what ifs’ and ‘except this’ scenarios. The following is meant to be a rough guide to help you plan which items could be covered within your price range.

To begin, let’s define exactly what I mean by ‘Wedding Packages’ and ‘Custom Weddings’

Wedding Packages: Our Wedding Packages service is a set menu of floral arrangements with prices that allow you to order your wedding florals without the fuss. Choose from one of four carefully-curated colour palettes, order what you want, then that’s it! Choose from collection or delivery.

Custom Weddings: A Custom wedding is a bespoke floral service tailored to your unique style and design requirements. I’ll work hard to design wedding flowers that will complement your wedding venue and you as a couple. 

Now, onto budgets…

Under £500 (Wedding Packages – perfect for intimate weddings, elopements and micro weddings)

• Most often, this will allow for a lush bridal bouquet, several bridesmaid bouquets as well as buttonholes for the groom and groomsmen, cake blooms, plus our curated selection of 20 pretty bud vases filled with seasonal wedding blooms to decorate your venue with
• Alternatively, it could account for your bouquet, several bridesmaid bouquets, buttonholes as well as table centre vase arrangements filled with the most beautiful seasonal blooms available.

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£500 – £1000  (Wedding Packages)

• This price range falls within our typical wedding package option budget – most often this includes personal flowers such as the bridal bouquet, cake flowers, several buttonholes, and three bridesmaid bouquets, a ceremony floral feature such as an urn arrangement, as well as flowers and candles for the tables.
• We would suggest smaller arrangements on each table or a collection of bud vases and feature blooms to fit within the budget.
• Or, instead of table flowers, this could allow for a larger feature at the ceremony or the reception such as luscious urn arrangements on either side of the altar to frame, which can then later be moved to another area of your reception.
• For the higher end of this budget, you could feature all of the above and include medium vase arrangements filled with seasonal blooms for guest tables, floral chair ends to decorate your ceremony and floral hair designs such as flower crowns and floral combs.

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£1500 – £2000 (Custom Weddings)

• We find that this is our typical budget for a full-service Custom Wedding – most often this includes the bridal bouquet, buttonholes, bridesmaid bouquets, floral hair designs, ceremony chair ends, a ceremony feature such as an archway or floral columns, a top-table floral arrangement as well as flowers and candles for the tables.
• Alternatively, for your top table, tablescapes are also a very popular option – these span across one side of the long table to the other and feature a collection of stunning vase arrangements, bud vases, candles, tealights, and bud vases.
• Or, if you do not wish to have an archway or floral installation, we could focus on unique guest table floral arrangements, such as elevated metal frames designs or candelabras.

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£2000 – £3000 (Custom Weddings)

• With this budget, we are often looking at a collection of personal flowers, large statement/impact pieces at the ceremony (for example, urn arrangements, a moon gate, or an archway PLUS aisle flowers OR a feature chuppah installation). For the reception, the budget could allow for a hanging feature as well as flowers and candles for the tables plus more. The photographs will be phenomenal.

A few other factors that affect budgets

It’s almost impossible to provide all the details on every budget because every couple’s wedding is unique. The above looks to provide some guidance on what items can be accounted for within a budget.

Also, prices will vary quite a bit depending on the number of flowers used and how many premium blooms in the full design service are to be included. Peonies, orchids etc. are more premium flowers and the budget needs to account for this.

From our perspective, we are super excited to work with couples regardless of their budget. We are always happy to provide suggestions on where the money is best spent, where to get ‘the most bang for your buck’ at your venue and how to make the greatest impact on the day.

One final note

Finally, remember every florist prices differently and it might be that florists in your area charge more for some items than we do. We’re simply looking to provide this as a guide to help manage expectations, rather than as a bible for a formal quote.

If you’re looking for even more tips, tricks and ideas on how to navigate the world of wedding flowers, I would recommend the following resources from our website:

• Top Ten Tips: Wedding Flower Design Guide
• The Ultimate Wedding Flower Checklist
• Are My Wedding Flowers In Season?

GEMMA NASH

Lover of colour, pretty fabrics and overly-expensive coffe. When I’m not planning gorgeous wedding flowers for my beautiful couples, I’m either doting after my little rescue dog, eating pizza or glued to my laptop working when I should probably be relaxing.