As a wedding photographer, the wedding flowers are one of favorite details of the day to capture. From traditional, compact bouquets to towering floral centerpieces, I love me some pretty wedding flowers. This being said, it may come off as a surprise when I say that on Mr. C and I's list of wedding "priorities", the flowers were pretty dang low on the list. Since we've been planning our wedding on a smaller budget, and paying for a lot of it ourselves, we knew we had to make some sacrifices when it comes to how we plan on using/displaying flowers on our wedding day.
I knew from the beginning that while I definitely wanted to have flowers, we had to be strategic and make our smaller floral budget stretch as much as possible. While I'm ALL for DIYing, I knew there was no way I would be doing my own wedding flowers. The idea crossed my mind early on in the planning process, but as soon as I realized just how much effort/time would be involved, I opted to let a professional handle it. Best. Decision. Ever. We were saving so much money in other areas (my dress, the invitations, etc.) that I knew we would be able to hire a florist as long as we kept our blooms relatively simple and as inexpensive as possible.
Since getting engaged, I had been pinning some "inspiration bouquets" on my wedding board and gathering some ideas of the colors and kinds of flowers that I liked. I knew right away that I didn't want lilies, and didn't want any bold colors or textures. I loved the softer colors, and I wanted to stick with flowers that fit into our color palette. Basically, pinks and creams. Oh, and a small side note: Mr. C totally let me handle this aspect of the wedding and fully supported me/trusted me in picking out our wedding flowers. As a man who doesn't know the different between a peony and a poppy, he didn't have much to contribute to the wedding flower discussions, and he totally let me take the lead on this one.
When I was looking for some floral inspiration, I felt myself continuously being drawn to fuller, lush bouquets filled with babies breath, pink and cream roses, and peonies....
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| I love this concept for the bridesmaids bouquets, but a bit fuller/bigger, with more roses and babies breath. Photo via Bridal Musings / Photo by Live View Studios |
When it came to centerpieces, I knew I wanted light pink roses. Simple, beautiful, and classic. Easy to execute, it fits our wedding "style", and they're relatively inexpensive. Emphasis on the inexpensive. I stumbled on this picture and instantly fell in love. Gold and baby's breath...need I say more? I knew I wanted to try and execute a very similar idea for the ceremony flowers...
I had an initial vision for the wedding flowers, and I all I needed was an expert flower lover to make it all happen. After reaching out to friends and family for local florist recommendations, I was put in touch with a young woman who was just getting started with her floral business. Her FB page displayed some of her floral designs, and I was totally impressed by her work. We set up a consultation, and I realized just a few minutes into the meeting that Megan was someone I wanted to work with on my wedding day. She was not only incredibly knowledgable about flowers (who knew there were dozens of varieties of roses?), but incredible sweet and had so many great ideas I had never even considered. Her prices were stellar, and she was willing to work with my budget to get me the most floral bang for my buck....
After our initial consultation, Megan drafted up an invoice and detailed out how every kind of flower will be used, and even what specific kind of flowers she would include in each bouquet, boutonnière, etc. I had never heard of some of these flowers (pink lisianthus and cream ranunculus, to be exact), so it was so helpful to be able to straight up Google what these flowers looked like. I know Megan is going to do an incredible job on our wedding flowers, and we are so grateful that she is willing to work with out smaller budget to give us some beautiful florals for our wedding day! Lots of gorgeous wedding flower detail shots to come in T-minus 3 months :)
Were you super hands-on with your wedding flowers? How did you find floral inspiration?
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