5 Pro tips to consider if you are planning on doing your own wedding flowers. 

 You don’t get married everyday so think very carefully about DIYing everything yourselves. I hope this helps you to decide which way is best for you both.

Start early – the flower arrangements will need to be made up the day before your wedding so plan backwards to ensure you can make your designs in the time frame you have. The last thing you need is to be finishing off your flowers late into the evening before your wedding day. If your Mum or a friend has offered to do your flowers don’t take advantage and demand lots of arrangements as they will also want time to relax and get ready for your big day too. The evening before a wedding is usually very busy with last minute prep, we also had family coming to stay, which meant last minute cleaning and meals to think about too!

 Do some designs tests – bouquets and arrangements take more flowers than you think so make a mock up so you know how many flowers to order. If you don’t order enough the arrangements will look sparse and unprofessional. If you order too many you may end up spending more than if you hired a florist. So work out how many stems for each design you need and add on a small percentage to cover for any broken or unusable stems. Another consideration is where will you store your flowers when you get them and when you have made up the arrangements. Flowers do not like being in heated rooms or bright light, so definitely something to bear in mind especially in case of a heatwave.

Research – you may be a fabulous gardener who has a garden full of beautiful blooms, if not research  where you will source your flowers from. Buying seasonal flowers from a local grower will be your most cost effective way to buy the flowers. Research colours and different forms and textures of flowers to give your arrangements that unique personal look or that will fit with the theme and style of your wedding. My big piece of advice would be to not limit yourself to specific blooms as this could make sourcing your flowers more difficult, stressful and expensive.

Transporting – consider how you will get your finished arrangements to your venue, flowers take up a lot of space and can easily get squashed. You don’t want your hard work getting ruined on route. Check to see if you can get into your venue the day before your wedding as transporting flowers on the morning of your wedding will be stressful. Also think about the weather conditions if any arrangements are going outside. Sun, wind and rain will all be damaging to your arrangements, so move these into position at the last minute.

Large Installations – ceremony/venue installations will need to be made up on the day and ideally just in time. We always plan to finish set up an hour before the ceremony to ensure everything looks it’s absolute best for your photos. This is a really big one to think about, please don’t put friends and family under so much stress and be prepared to choose arrangements that can be made off site and put into position on the day.

If all that sounds too much and way too stressful, then we can help with our fully styled bespoke service were we’ll take care of everything for you, create amazing arrangements and be there to set up at your venue on the day and even stay to move the flowers to other areas of your venue if you need us to.

If you would still love to do some of the flowers yourself then our Flower Packages service will be ideal. We will arrange your beautiful individually created seasonal bouquets, buttonholes and hair flowers, then supply DIY flower buckets for you to use to decorate your venue. The best of both worlds!

If you are still keen and ready to embrace the full DIY option then we do hold DIY wedding flower workshops which will give you all the information you need to create your own beautiful flowers as stress free as possible.

I hope you find this useful, it is often the practical side of being a creative that causes issues. If I can help further then I’d love to hear from you or see you on one of our workshops.