6 tips for Making A La Carte Wedding Flowers Easy + a Day-of checklist
If you know that A La Carte designs are the right fit for you, I’ve got 6 helpful tips to make sure you’ve got everything covered to fully enjoy your fresh flowers on wedding day.
Not sure if A La Carte is the better option for you than Full-Service designs? Take my quiz or check out my blog post to know your perfect match.
Photograph by Sam Bond Photography
Top 6 Tips for A La Carte Wedding Orders
💗 Have an easy-to-execute plan: Bridesmaids willing to help you drive some vases of water holding their bouquets to your venue that morning? Perfect! Aunt Sally used to work in a florist's shop and volunteered to arrange all your reception table vases for free? Thanks, Aunt Sally! Have a simple plan in place for getting your blooms from point A to point B.
💗 Check with your farmer-florist to see what's going to be in season during your wedding date. If you know what's blooming, that'll make it more likely that any requests for flowers or colors might be possible. Just keep in mind that sometimes nature has different plans.
💗 If you want to ‘wow’ your guests, focus on arrangement size rather than quantity. Floral Features tend to draw more attention than large quantities of smaller arrangements. For example, opt for a cascading bridal bouquet or cake meadow to make a lasting impression for your guests.
💗 If you want to make sure to infuse your wedding memories with floral magic, focus on the pieces that will be photographed the most: bridal bouquet, groom's boutonniere, flower crowns. People tend to be photographed the most, naturally, so Personal Flowers is the category to focus on to achieve this.
💗 Use my Wedding Flowers Calculator to play around with assigning your wedding budget to different designs and quantities.
💗 Don’t be afraid of a little DIY floral arranging. The great thing about using locally-grown flowers for your diy designs? They’re already gorgeous! Seriously, imported blooms rarely compare to the size, fragrance, and unique colors, shapes, and textures that locally grown flowers bring to the table…or your bridal bouquet.
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Wishing you a stress-free day filled with fresh flowers,
Sara
