Small Spend, Big Impact | How to Save Money On Your Wedding Flowers

Are you looking for ways to save money on your wedding flowers?

You’ve come to the right place. Here at Youfloria, we believe beautiful bouquets don’t need to break the bank.

Read on to discover 5 ways you can reuse and repurpose your wedding flowers, spending small for the biggest impact on your special day. 

Flower Power | Save Money On Wedding Flowers 

So, you think you know what you want for your wedding flowers: a bouquet each for the bride squad, and an extra sexy one for you, of course. Oh, and a few buttonholes as well!

Done. Or are you?

Do you want to have floral arrangements at the ceremony? Flowers set up to welcome your guests or as a backdrop for photos? A little something floral on the registrar's table? Flowers outside the reception venue? 

How about table centres, with an especially fancy one for the top table? Perhaps a few arrangements on the bar? Not forgetting thank you bouquets for the mums? 

Now your mind is BLOWN, and likely your budget too. But you can make it easier on yourself (and your wallet!) by reusing your florals in different ways throughout your big day.

From Aisle to Table | Save Money On Wedding Flowers 

Bouquets are likely the first thing you think of when someone mentions wedding flowers. They’re one of the most important accessories on the day, showcasing your colour scheme and setting your bride squad apart from the other guests. 

Once your ceremony is done and dusted, however, with all the wedding album photographs taken, those beautiful bouquets are often left to slowly wilt away whilst the rest of your celebrations take place. 

Here’s a thought - why not get some pretty vases or baskets and reuse those babies as stunning table centres? With the added bonus of getting them back into some water in a timely fashion, your blooms will stay fresh, ready to be preserved.

The Showstoppers | Save Money On Wedding Flowers 

Did some of the slightly more extravagant florals start finding their way onto your Pinterest board? At first, you just wanted to keep things simple, but perhaps now you’ve found yourself becoming the Cruella of wedding flowers? 

Here at Youfloria, we fully support your dreams if you have your heart set on a moongate or flower arch. When we’re setting up weddings, these are always the decorations that stop guests in their tracks. 

Just as a dog isn’t only for Christmas, your wedding flowers aren’t only for the ceremony. They’ll live on in your memories and photographs for years to come, so don’t kiss them goodbye when you’ve said your vows and head for the reception venue, newly hitched. 

Have a plan in place to move them with you - flower arches and moongates can take centre stage the whole day long. If you ask nicely, your reception venue will probably be happy to help facilitate this for you! 

Check out this stunning arch looking incredible at the ceremony door and then again behind the top table. Dreamy.

Bouquet Upgrade | Save Money On Wedding Flowers

Here’s a short but sweet suggestion for upgrading the bouquet used on the registrar’s table at your wedding.

This is often the first place you and your beau are papped as newlyweds, so not flowering up is not an option. 

However, for our Youfloria-approved upgrade, we propose reusing the bouquet on your top table, your cake display stand, or the area where you have the guest book waiting for your nearest and dearest to sign. 

Big Impact Bud Vases | Save Money On Wedding Flowers

Have you heard about bud vases? We’re obsessed. 

They take minutes to make and,  once grouped together, they look utterly gorgeous. Beautiful, effective and they don’t cost the earth! What more could a bride ask for? 

Ridiculously portable - save some cardboard wine bottle carries and off you go! - these little beauties can be easily transported from ceremony to reception.

But it doesn’t end there, oh no. Bud vases make super snazzy wedding favours, so delight your guests with their own personal memento of your nuptials by sending them home with a bud vase full of blooms. 

Mum’s The Word | Save Money On Wedding Flowers

We’re not saying, don’t get your mother-in-law a dedicated bunch of flowers made just for her.

BUT …

We are saying that a large bouquet in an urn or tall vase would make gorgeous ceremony flowers. 

Someone could take them out of said urn or tall vase, pop them in a bag with a lovely little thank you card, and nobody would ever need to know the difference. No harm, no foul. 

To find out more about DIY wedding flowers, please contact one of our floristry experts!

Alternatively, why not read our previous blog for a guide to creating your own beautiful DIY wedding flowers?