How much you should expect to pay for your flowers depends on your personal preferences and your wedding budget.

Most brides will spend between 7% and 10% of their wedding dollar on flowers.  For the bride spending the national average of over $27,000 on her entire wedding, that translates into thousands!

It’s not uncommon for a bride to spend over $200 for a professionally designed bouquet alone, even if she is on a tight budget and over $3,000 for her entire floral accoutrements.

There are many ways to cut costs and still have an exquisite wedding and reception beautifully ornamented and adorned without spending the cost of redecorating your entire home doing so.

Regardless the time of year you’re planning your wedding, you can save hundreds of dollars by choosing flowers that are in season.

For your spring wedding, beautiful bouquets and reception centerpieces could include daffodils, tulips, bird of paradise, calla lilies, and anomones.

Daisies, lavender, carnation or freesia round out the perfect April wedding and if your wedding is in late spring add a few touches of lily of the valley for fragrance and texture.

Tulips, long a wedding favorite, comes in so many beautiful light pastel colors, and the daffodils, inexpensive and colorful bring vibrant color to bridal bouquets and reception centerpieces.

Anomones are a beautiful addition in both pastel and jewel tones.