Flower help Please!!!!!

I get the feeling she thinks you want round posies for your bridesmaids too and that by adding to them, this will in effect make them pretty much the same price as your bouquet.

You may be better going for something less formal such as a floral spray or a more minimalistic bouquet for your bridesmaids which would work out much cheaper. If you wanted ivory roses, you could have say 3 or 5 ivory roses with purple or ivory lisianthus with a purple edging added with some bear grass which would give you a staggered floral spray similar to this although these aren't your colours or flowers but you get the jist:-

Or something like this where the roses would be all on one level with the lisianthus or similar flowers in between:-

May be an idea for you to show her some photos or has she any she can show you? For something similar to these styles, you wouldn't be looking at much more than £30 in fresh flowers. Hope that helps.

If I remember this is the kind of colour & style you were looking for:

RF I think that must be what she's thinking, I'm not sure, but she said if it's not round they dont normally look very nice, but I dont agree really, i think they look just as nice. I like the 2nd bouquet you posted actually as that was the sort of thing I was thinking, just didnt know what sort of flowers I could go for but I do like those Lisianthus that you've mentioned especially if you can also get them in purple! Thanks so much!!

Sherrie - Those were the colours yes, thank you, how on earth did you remember ? xx

I don't forget anything!

The topo bouquets both also have Lisianthus in them, you could ask her to add the bleached, dried Gypsophelia like in this Bouquet as it is not as bulky. Can't understand how she can't get a round shape with those flowers.

I dont know where you store it all! ? Thanks Sherrie thats fab, I'll show her and hopefully we'll get somewhere xx

If you were thinking of the ivory roses for your bouquet, you could have the same for the bridesmaids and use either the lisianthus in between or freesia. That particular style of bouquet with the roses has 5 roses in so wouldn't cost the earth. A lot of florists think of posies as being all the same size but you can use a variation of the style to bring the price down quite considerably.

Hi There,

Are you just asking for bouquets from her? in that case it is probably down to the wraps of flowers she will need to buy. Roses generally come in 20's altho there are more and more coming in 10's, lisi is in 10's, gerbera and germinis in 20's, but freesias are in 50's, she is probably counting the cost of the flowers she may not use, and so will be charging you for them.

As for them not being round, I would imagine this could be down to her skill level (although I hate saying that!) roses are quite robust and so can be fashioned into a dome of sorts without too many problems, freesisa, lisi, gerbera when added can be more tricky.

if you are not convinced, can you get a second opinion? if your florist is freelance, and you do just want bouquets, perhaps try a retail florist who will absorb the cost of the extra stems into the weeks stock (however her costs will probably be more due to her over heads)

best wishes

Zoe xx