Weddings on a Budget

How can I get more flowers for less money

1. DIY

For Weddings DIY can be a great money saver….. or is it?
You can buy the flowers and make them up yourself. It isn’t difficult to do. What is difficult is making those flowers look good without a lot of stress to yourself.
Most florists will make the flowers up from midnight till 9am the following morning or they will have a team to work on your flowers to give you the best and freshest flowers for your wedding. This will ensure not a blemish will show in your photos and not a petal shall fall. Artificial is always an option or dried but Fresh is always going to look and smell the best. So here’s the tricks if you want to do the job yourself.
Do absolutely everything else beforehand and forget the false nails. Set aside the night before the wedding or the morning of for your flowers to get the best result. Be so, so organised or have a lot of help or it will be a disaster. Do a practice run. It doesn’t have to be with the best flowers, just a cheap bunch or even greenery from the garden. Practice putting the stems together and doing whatever you plan in roughly the same number of stems. That will allow you time each piece and calculate exactly how much time it will all take to put together.

2. When to order

If you order well ahead of time, you will get the better prices and far more likely to get the flowers you really hope for. Eumundi Roses charges 20% deposit on made up bouquets and 50% deposit on cut flowers. You’ll have plenty of time to pay off the balance. Eumundi Roses has been in business for 30 plus years and will be here for many more to come. If you leave it too late, you may only get the flowers at the back of the coldroom or settle for something other than what you really wanted. You might be lucky and your florist or supplier may have just the thing you’re after but it’s not always the case. Some flowers are imported and need to be ordered well ahead of time. It’s always best to give your florist and their suppliers plenty of time to make sure all of the flowers and foliage you need are brought in from the farms and overseas suppliers. It can take up to 4 weeks or more from ordering to delivery and when the shipment arrives it is most likely all sold to those who ordered ahead. Last minute is not the way to save money.

Don’t tell your florist it’s for a wedding.. Is that smart?

Oh.. my .. If you only knew. This is going to get you the worst flowers. If you tell your florist or flower supplier it is for a wedding they will reserve the best flowers just for you. What is the extra you pay for; It’s paperwork, consultation and service as well as the optimum in flowers available at the time. Eumundi Roses offers easy bride discount. On our website under the weddings heading there is a form to download. Fill that in with lot of detail and inspiration photos. Set a budget of how much you’d like to spend; even put the figures in the column for a budget for each item. Email it to eumundiroses1@gmail.com. We send that back to you with any alteration of figures needed and with an easy bride discount if you’ve done a great job of your form. The reason wedding flowers cost so much is emails and paperwork, consultations and discussion. These may be necessary but most times they’re not. In fact they can cause distress and anxt on the day. What you see in the coldroom the day of the consult, will be completely different even a day later. No flower is the same, No season is the same. Summer flowers are completely different varieties to Winter flowers. We see it so often; a bride will fall in love with a flower shown on the day of consult and it won’t be available for the wedding. The bride is heart-broken over not receiving the dream flower. It may be something clearly beyond control. Better to trust the florist with your concept photos and give lots of detail in the instructions.

Oh.. my .. If you only knew. This is going to get you the worst flowers. If you tell your florist or flower supplier it is for a wedding they will reserve the best flowers just for you. What is the extra you pay for; It’s paperwork, consultation and service as well as the optimum in flowers available at the time. Eumundi Roses offers easy bride discount. On our website under the weddings heading there is a form to download. Fill that in with lot of detail and inspiration photos. Set a budget of how much you’d like to spend; even put the figures in the column for a budget for each item. Email it to eumundiroses1@gmail.com. We send that back to you with any alteration of figures needed and with an easy bride discount if you’ve done a great job of your form. The reason wedding flowers cost so much is emails and paperwork, consultations and discussion. These may be necessary but most times they’re not. In fact they can cause distress and anxt on the day. What you see in the coldroom the day of the consult, will be completely different even a day later. No flower is the same, No season is the same. Summer flowers are completely different varieties to Winter flowers. We see it so often; a bride will fall in love with a flower shown on the day of consult and it won’t be available for the wedding. The bride is heart-broken over not receiving the dream flower. It may be something clearly beyond control. Better to trust the florist with your concept photos and give lots of detail in the instructions.Eumundi Roses will offer you optional consultation. The consultation is worth $70 hr. If you supply to us our form all filled out with the order requirements and inspiration photos that is all we really need. You don’t need the consult. The flowers you look at on that day won’t be available exactly the same on the day or your wedding. It may be a different season or simply all cut and sold the week before. Best to have a concept in mind and let the florist do the rest. That can all be done with photos and our form. If you want to see what the actual flowers look like our market stall is a good option if you prefer not to pay the consult fee but please look and don’t touch unless you wish to buy the bunches. I write this because even florists can’t help but touch the petals to feel how lovely and soft and silky like marshmallow or to check the freshness. A firm petal means they’re fresh… Ah.. no! Flower petals bruise. I know they feel lovely and soft and like marshmallow and smell divine, and are totally irresistible. Smell all you want but touching is a no no. Flowers are best handled as little as possible. For DIY work quickly with minimal touching of the petals will achieve the best results.

Oh.. my .. If you only knew. This is going to get you the worst flowers. If you tell your florist or flower supplier it is for a wedding they will reserve the best flowers just for you. What is the extra you pay for; It’s paperwork, consultation and service as well as the optimum in flowers available at the time. Eumundi Roses offers easy bride discount. On our website under the weddings heading there is a form to download. Fill that in with lot of detail and inspiration photos. Set a budget of how much you’d like to spend; even put the figures in the column for a budget for each item. Email it to eumundiroses1@gmail.com. We send that back to you with any alteration of figures needed and with an easy bride discount if you’ve done a great job of your form. The reason wedding flowers cost so much is emails and paperwork, consultations and discussion. These may be necessary but most times they’re not. In fact they can cause distress and anxt on the day. What you see in the coldroom the day of the consult, will be completely different even a day later. No flower is the same, No season is the same. Summer flowers are completely different varieties to Winter flowers. We see it so often; a bride will fall in love with a flower shown on the day of consult and it won’t be available for the wedding. The bride is heart-broken over not receiving the dream flower. It may be something clearly beyond control. Better to trust the florist with your concept photos and give lots of detail in the instructions.Eumundi Roses will offer you optional consultation. The consultation is worth $70 hr. If you supply to us our form all filled out with the order requirements and inspiration photos that is all we really need. You don’t need the consult. The flowers you look at on that day won’t be available exactly the same on the day or your wedding. It may be a different season or simply all cut and sold the week before. Best to have a concept in mind and let the florist do the rest. That can all be done with photos and our form. If you want to see what the actual flowers look like our market stall is a good option if you prefer not to pay the consult fee but please look and don’t touch unless you wish to buy the bunches. I write this because even florists can’t help but touch the petals to feel how lovely and soft and silky like marshmallow or to check the freshness. A firm petal means they’re fresh… Ah.. no! Flower petals bruise. I know they feel lovely and soft and like marshmallow and smell divine, and are totally irresistible. Smell all you want but touching is a no no. Flowers are best handled as little as possible. For DIY work quickly with minimal touching of the petals will achieve the best results.More than happy to do the consult if you wish. This will discuss all of the items you list on your quote sheet and then the quote will be sent back to you via email. We’ll happily show you anything you need to know if you choose to do diy.

How to communicate with your florist

Email is best for us. Send to eumundiroses1@gmail.com. We will send you back a form or you can download from our website. Fill in the form, send it back. We send it back with pricing. 20% deposit will secure the order and the order will be entered into the system. Facebook, phone calls, texts etc are more time consuming and less likely to earn bonus points with your florist.

If you want the best prices be very clear in what you want. For DIY a list of items in stem quantity, colour and length with date required and DATE of EVENT. This will ensure you get the best flowers for the day you need them. Your florist will make sure they are going to be open, but not too open. The stem length is important. Flowers with longer stems will generally cost more. Being a flower farm, there are always shorter stems available. Be flexible. The more precise the flowers the more difficult they may be to procure. Best and freshest will always be what’s in Season and available in our own country and on our farm here.

So hopefully this helps you plan your budget friendly wedding and gives a little insight to why you might pay a little more for Wedding flowers compared to flowers for the house. Quality and Service is what you pay for, not the florists bonus pocket money as many reports suggest it to be.

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