"Life is the flower for which love is the honey."--Victor Hugo

Wedding flowers are both a decoration and an unforgettable wedding tradition. Choose wedding flowers according to the season and your style. Using scented flowers in your bouquet will evoke memories of your wedding day whenever you smell them in the future. Popular fragrant flowers for bouquets are gardenias, freesia, stephanotis, bouvardia, and narcissus

SMART Wedding Flower Money Saving Tips

1. Location, Location, Location: Choose wedding ceremony and location settings that are already naturally beautiful with trees and planted flowers galore.

2. Garden Party: If you want your wedding decorations to be all about the flowers, why not make it a garden wedding at a local botanical, public or hotel garden?

3. Keep It Simple: Go for sophisticated, unique floral arrangements such as elegant calla lilies in a glass vases or bowls containing floating candles and gardenias. These arrangements are elegant, understated and relatively inexpensive. Consider using flowering plants like African violets or daffodils in terra cotta pots tied with a chartreuse ribbon.

4. Single And Loving It: Have each bridesmaid carry a single stem tied with a beautiful ribbon instead of a full bouquet. For your Wedding reception décor, fill a pitcher with daisies for a fresh, simple arrangement.

5. Champagne Wishes: Orchids and lily of the valley aren't the only beautiful buds on the vine for your wedding. Go to the flower market and see for yourself. There are other less expensive flower options: dahlias, zinnias, sunflowers, daisies and baby's breath to name a few.

6. Avoid The Holidays: wedding flower prices usually go way up around holidays like Christmas, Mother's Day and Valentine's Day. Be sure to choose your wedding date with this in mind.

7. Buy In Bulk: Found a great price on a flat of tulips? Grab all you can and use them everywhere at your wedding! Garden rose bushes in flower boxes are also available to rent, and as a double treat, make a beautiful and substantial camouflage for the front of a stage or altar.

8. Recycle: Transfer the flowers from your wedding ceremony to your reception. Similarly, re-arrange the wedding flowers from your rehearsal dinner for your cocktail reception.

9. If you have a favorite flower that is costly or out of season, consider using silk for that one flower.

10.Wedding Flowers are always better priced when they are in season.

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