So says:I used spreadsheets religiously to keep track of vendors I talked to and their prices. In fact I know another bride getting married in the same place I did, so I sent her the list of all the vendors I found! I had a great venue coordinator also who did a lot of work for me so I only had to drop off decorations and the staff set them up. I also used weddingwire.com because they have a huge checklist that tells you when things need to be done.

Overbudget, don’t underbudget. Try to keep things simple, because they’ll naturally balloon on their own. STAY ORGANIZED…this will lead to less stress. Let other people help you when they volunteer, you’re only one person. Don’t expect your groom to want to help very much, they don’t usually. You cannot please everyone, so don’t even try–please yourself and your Fiance.Lastly, a great way to keep things orderly and in one place is Theknot.com Happy planning!

My fiance and I are expcrieneing a bit of a role reversal, in that I am in the minority of grooms, one who is the primary planner/coordinator of our upcoming wedding. My fiance has great taste and is involved with all major decisions, but is also an extremely busy professional, so I was happy to step up as the experienced party planner, doing the homework and pre-negotiating with vendors, before my fiance and I together make final selections of vendors and the plan. However, I had never planned a wedding before, so I've bought many books and read lots of websites and paged through many magazines (I don't think I can look at another magazine ad of a bride-model laying horizontal on a couch without snickering). Virtually everything is written for the bride who typically plans the wedding which to me means there is a heavy emphasis on decorations and flowers and invitations and linens and color schemes it was all driving me crazy as a guy trying to put together a wedding plan that is simply fun and action oriented, while still allows for nice things. I've attended many dozens of weddings over the years and I've kept an eye on what makes weddings enjoyable and memorable: keep it festive, keep guests involved, and make sure there is time for the happy couple to spend time with each of the guests. I never saw any correlation with the size of the party, the location, the decorations, even the food quality (and I'm a big foodie), with how successful and fun the wedding was. Given this perspective, I looked and looked for wedding planning advice in all the books and magazines and websites, hoping to find action oriented advice for having a festive wedding reception frankly, I found little useful advice. Finally, just three months before our upcoming wedding, I have found the book I really needed on the recommendation of a wedding DJ friend (who lives and works in another state), I ordered Peter Merry's book, which I have found to be chock full of actionable ideas from an experienced wedding DJ/entertainment director. He focuses on the concept of entertainment and leaves decorations and other more frivolous things to the other books. He is a welcome voice, a rare male perspective in wedding planning books, that a planning groom, and presumably planning brides as well, needs. I've already made adjustments to the reception agenda and found validation with some activity ideas we already had in place. Rest assured, there will be great food and many touches of elegance in the design of our wedding, but I am now more confident as ever we will have a truly festive wedding with Peter Merry's advice influencing our plan. Many thanks to the author the advice is easily 10 times worth the cover price of the book. I strongly recommend this book to anyone planning their wedding.

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I don’t know that you can buy from the warehouse, but even if you buy unarranged stems from a flower shop, you still save money if you arrange them yourself. HOWEVER, one caveat, think about whether you have the time and patience to take this on. Remember that you will want to have fresh flowers for your wedding so that means you will need to prepare them likely the day before. Will you have time to do that will all of the other things you need to take care of? Also, are you knowledgable enough regarding flower arranging to do the bouquets? Calla lillies are simple in that you can just put your two chosen colors in a bouquet by themselves, though. They look nice without filler flowers.

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I need suggestions on wedding flowers. I was trying to plan for an elegant but in my budget wedding. I am only having one bridesmaid, and possibly a matron of honor (if my sis who hasn’t had a wedding chooses to participate). One groomsman poss best man. I don’t know a flower girl or a ring bearer. The facilatator from my church wants me to have a flowre girl, ring bearer, and at least three ushers and three hostess. Now she has said I need corsages, boutineers (spelling) and I don’t know how to budget for this. I don’t know how much wrist corsages cost and boutineers and I can’t afford to spend over a thousand dollars on florwers. Any ideas on how to cut florist cost. I was thinking of making at least the bridesmaid bouquet and my throwaway bouquet from Michaels but she my facilatator got a little racial and stated african americans buy their flowers making them is too cheap. Please help me. I am getting married in April 08

Buy fresh flowers in Walmart and make them your self. Enroll the help of crafty relatives or friends. orHave silk flowers instead.As far as the church attentdant, be honest and tell her that you are looking into a more simple affair and that you don’t need all of that. It seems like your church “buddy” is trying to bully you into something completly unnecesary, how tacky is that? You don’t have to have a flower girl or ring bearer. They are out of style as a matter of fact. You need a bouquet for you, one for your bridesmaid and MOH, and bouttonniers for the groom, groomsman, best man, mother of the bride and father of the bride, That’s it.I’ve never hear of corsages for attendants!!! Do what you can afford and don’t let nobody twist your arm and intimidate you into getting additional and unnecesary expenses just because they need to feel superior giving you so called “advice”. Do not listen to her and stand up to her and tell then that you have other plans in mind and that it’s ultimately YOUR choice what to do at your own wedding. Good luck

Hello,I need some thoughts, advice, suggestions please! Here it goes… So, I’m getting married in about a month, and I thought I had my flower arrangements pretty much set until my design session yesterday. We were wrapping up the session until I noticed a price discrepancy of $50 in the contract, yes, it’s not a huge amount but I mentioned it. The who was helping us mentioned it to the owner and he became very irate and mentioned that if I signed the paperwork for the wrong amount then I have to pay the “wrong” amount??? Crazy, I know. The nice who was helping us asked him to please fix it for us, and so he did after she mentioned it but he already treated me so rudely. So, being all stressed out because my wedding is in a month, when she came back I began to cry and told her how rude he was and I didn’t deserved that. She apologized but kept saying he didn’t mean it. My maid of honor who was also at the design session was there and mentioned that he was a jerk and he treated me badly.Few moment later a guy comes into the flower shop and says “who owns the honda parked in the back?”, my MOH states she does and he follows to say that someone keyed the car. Ok, to make the long story short, the owner of the shop, who made me cry for treating me so badly was the one who keyed her car!! When the owner came outside, the witness pointed him out and said that it was him to he saw key her car, crazy!! My called the cops ASAP, and they came and we all saw the keyed scartches on the car.The owner ultimately got arrested and the nice who helped us she gave me all my money back but still defended him that he did not do it because she believes her boss. Horror story, i know… To finish it off, she tells me at the end that they want to compensate me for the aggravation by paying for all the flowers in my wedding and whatever I wanted, and even double the flowers, for free..My who’s car is keyed will be compensated for the damage and the owner who KEYED the car is saying he still didn’t do it (bs!) but will compensate because it happened in his property..Now, my question to you all is if I should go with it and accept the flowers being done for free as promised, or just dont deal with them?? Only reason why i’m thinking of going with them is bc it will be done for free and my future hubby and I can save money, and also bc i know they get a lot of business from my venue so they do not want to look bad because they know i will tell.Thoughts????

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Two of my favourite flowers [if one has to pick only two] combined to perfection! Fantastic result Pauline, and how lovely to reconnect with a former bride for such a wonderful occasion as the celebration of twins!

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John Haydn-Jones - Wow you cranny-snatcher!! Who knew? Beautiful, beautiful pic… and the bride ain’t half-bad either! The Vagina Monologues and your morning Bailey’s coffee, negotiating the grimy London life, must seem like donkey’s years ago. Wishing you both all Blessings! John x

Mom - What beautiful otohpgraphy!!! Stunning pictures of a very handsome groom and a most beautiful bride. What a magical day it was from start to finish. Thank goodness Tamara has the magic on film for us all to enjoy for many years to come. Can't wait for Christmas just maybe we'll get a . . . . . .

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Joyce - Hi Honey — You’re right, I do know what they are — These flowers are clematis. It’s a beautiful vine that comes back year after year. They come in many colors and styles: double flowering, etc. You can find them in Home Depot and any garden center. Enjoy!! Love, Joyce

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Hi. I’m trying to get an idea of how much money I saved (if any) by doing my own wedding flowers (middle to high quality silks). Anybody out there (brides, florists, etc) who can make an educated guess of how much the following list of items would have cost me if I had used a traditional wedding florist? All of the flowers used were roses, and some filler flowers and fall leaves were used as accents.1 very large round bride bouquet with 2-3 dozen large open roses, fall leaves, and filler flowers, with handle fully wrapped in satin ribbon 2 large round maid of honor bouquets with 5 open roses and 10 rose buds, few fall leaves, some filler flowers, handles fully wrapped in satin ribbon.5 medium sized bridesmaids bouquets containing 4 open roses, and 8 rosebuds, few fall leaves, some filler flower handles fully wrapped in satin ribbon.3 mother wrist corsages, 2-3 roses each11 single rose bud boutonnieres 1 groom boutonniere with 2 rosebuds, accent flowers16 pew markers, containing satin bows and 3 roses each4 medium sized church arrangements containing about 2 dozen roses each2 small swags and 2 garlands, 4 additional decoration bouquetsFYI, I already have the flowers. The list above is everything that I have and have already done. The bouquets look real from a few feet away. Actually, a few months ago I bought a bouquet of fresh orange roses from the grocery store and then compared them to my silks and they looked extremely similar…actually the silks looked better because their color was more vibrant. Honestly, flowers weren’t all that important to me…I mean I want them to be nice but I didn’t want the flowers to be one of the biggest expenses of my wedding. There were other places I would rather spend money, on things that mean more to me. So that is why I went with silks. But I’ve just been wondering what I would have paid ballpark for all of those fresh roses if I had gone through a florist.

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Hi. I’m trying to get an idea of how much money I saved (if any) by doing my own dwndieg flowers (middle to high quality silks). Anybody out there (brides, florists, etc) who can make an educated guess of how much the following list of items would have cost me if I had used a traditional dwndieg florist? All of the flowers used were roses, and some filler flowers and fall leaves were used as accents.1 very large round bride bouquet with 2-3 dozen large open roses, fall leaves, and filler flowers, with handle fully wrapped in satin ribbon 2 large round maid of honor bouquets with 5 open roses and 10 rose buds, few fall leaves, some filler flowers, handles fully wrapped in satin ribbon.5 medium sized bridesmaids bouquets containing 4 open roses, and 8 rosebuds, few fall leaves, some filler flower handles fully wrapped in satin ribbon.3 mother wrist corsages, 2-3 roses each11 single rose bud boutonnieres 1 groom boutonniere with 2 rosebuds, accent flowers16 pew markers, containing satin bows and 3 roses each4 medium sized church arrangements containing about 2 dozen roses each2 small swags and 2 garlands, 4 additional decoration bouquetsFYI, I already have the flowers. The list above is everything that I have and have already done. The bouquets look real from a few feet away. Actually, a few months ago I bought a bouquet of fresh orange roses from the grocery store and then compared them to my silks and they looked extremely similar…actually the silks looked better because their color was more vibrant. Honestly, flowers weren’t all that important to me…I mean I want them to be nice but I didn’t want the flowers to be one of the biggest expenses of my dwndieg. There were other places I would rather spend money, on things that mean more to me. So that is why I went with silks. But I’ve just been wondering what I would have paid ballpark for all of those fresh roses if I had gone through a florist.

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Red roses for Valentine's Day... flowers toruhghout the year vary seasonally... and by arrangement. He knows that I'm not a HUGE flowers girl, but I do appreciate "different' flowers and he usually does a good job picking out the non-traditional flowers (:

I just love flowers, especially roses, I find it very romantic despite its thorns. I “won” the heart of my then mother in law to be when I brought her a dozen roses one Mother’s Day many years ago. But my secret wish up to this time is to receive flowers from my husband. I got flowers from my son & daughter in law in Vegas two years ago for my birthday. I’m not sure if Frederick MD Florist has a contact office or person here but I think my son & wife ordered the flowers thru the internet. My son & his wife had a good laugh when I told them about my secret wish, & that all I ever got from their dad was a “talunang manok, fighting cocks being his one great love, aside from me, of course,( I would like to think.) Well, love comes in many faces.

I want to know how much it cost you to have flowers at your iwddeng. I am thinking about having roses.How much did it cost you to have flowers at your iwddeng? What type of flowers, and was it through a florist.Now on a second note, I know how to make boutonnieres and corsages on my own, and bouquets.. So we were just gonna by bunches of roses and do it ourselves. =) I am trying to figure how much we are saving based on how much you guys spent on flowers for your iwddeng.

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