Church Flowers

Hi - some couples do share the cost of church flowers but obviously both couples have to agree to it and also agree to have neutral colours. Regarding moving of church flowers to reception, my experience of this in the trade (20yrs) is that the Church generally expect people to leave the flowers in the Church as a donation if the church ladies have done them even if they have charged you for them. However, if you had a florist do them, and they have provided their own stands etc, then the florist may remove them and transfer them to the reception. This does, however, mean that the florist has to wait until after the ceremony to do this which is time that she will probably charge for.

In essence, the main reason why people want the church flowers moving is to provide an entrance statement at the reception. As it can take a while for the couple to leave church because of photos, congratulation conversations etc. a lot of guests tend to make their way to the reception without waiting for the Bride and Groom to depart. Bad manners I know, but a lot do! So by the time the flowers and the Bride and Groom have arrived, the impact of everything has been lost really as the guests are already at the bar!

Another point is that it is very rare for a church never to have any flowers at all except Lent. Most churches have flowers in even if they aren't any weddings so, if you aren't too bothered about what flowers they are and what colours they are, then you can save money this way. Even if, for some reason, there aren't any flowers, you could put organza bows on the pews/chairs which is a cheerful way of brightening up the aisle and if the church is pretty anyway, this may be enough. Hope that helps.

Edited to say that it is worth getting a couple of quotes for church flowers from florists as some churches charge more than your local florist would. Not meaning to sound suspicious but it's not unusual for this to happen so don't feel bullied into having what the church suggests if you don't really want it.

I'm not bothering with flowers in the church, I like it how it is, and as we're getting married just before harvest Sunday, the church may already have enough in it!

I never notice them anyway, too busy watching people get married ?

Our lady at Church is doing the following:

Altar Flowers

Pedestal in the entrance

Pedestal by the pulpit

Two trailing posies (on the screen next to where we say our vows)

Arrangement on the font

This is for £200.00

We will probably leave most of them at church, move the small one from the font to my Nanas grave.

Our church is fairly small, the cost for the service and organist is £584.00.

Hope that helps.

We are getting married in a church but decided we will not be having any flowers in the church as its beautiful as it is . And for how long we are in there I think it's a waste of money. Like you said the church also asked us if we would like to split the costs between other couples getting married in the same day but we said we will not be wanting anyway.

We did our own church flowers, cost a grand total of £140 and 4 hours the day before the wedding to do them and set them up. I realise this may be awkward for you though as there is another wedding before you. The church people did offer to get us flowers at cost price though, so if you stick for something cheap and in season, it shouldn't be too costly.