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Lots of appointments done! PIP
In the past two weeks....
I've met with 3 florists and I'm just waiting on the floral quotes from them. Everyone's ideas were fantastic and I'm sure will be way out of my price range, but my planner has assured me we'll find a way to still make it beautiful at my price.
My fiance finished his job of cake tasting and I think has picked the baker to do it. He is waiting on a sketch and quote from her.
And yesterday, I picked my bridesmaids dress'. I've decided to go with 3 from Davids, and let the girls choose which one of the 3 they want.
And my junior bm's dress
Feeling really good about my progress!
I've met with 3 florists and I'm just waiting on the floral quotes from them. Everyone's ideas were fantastic and I'm sure will be way out of my price range, but my planner has assured me we'll find a way to still make it beautiful at my price.
My fiance finished his job of cake tasting and I think has picked the baker to do it. He is waiting on a sketch and quote from her.
And yesterday, I picked my bridesmaids dress'. I've decided to go with 3 from Davids, and let the girls choose which one of the 3 they want.
And my junior bm's dress
Feeling really good about my progress!
Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that. --Michael Leunig--
Planning Bio
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Re: Lots of appointments done! PIP
[QUOTE]yes, what baker and florist did you look at??? I wanna see this sketch, too. lol
Posted by catarntina[/QUOTE]
For the baker's, we did cake tastings with Thrush's, Wixey and Wendy Komer. I'm leaving my fiancee totally in charge of the cake (along with my wedding planner's approval of his decisions) and letting it be a surprise for me that day. I really don't care about the cake and this is a a great way to get him involved. So, I won't get to see this sketch. Although, I do know his best tasting experience was with Wendy Komer. She really went out of her way for their tasting.
For florists, I met with Beautiful Blooms by Jen, Keith Brooks and Bartz Viviano. I got the quote in from Jen and I'm embarressed to say how much it was.... 5,000. I almost cried. I met with Keith and Bartz after I received that quote and Keith's ideas were unbelievable. I left that meeting excited and super sad. Excited, because his ideas were so dang good. Sad, cause I doubt we'll ever ben able to afford it. So.... I'll let you guys kow what my quotes come in at. I know we'll have to make some changes....
17 centerpieces
1 bride's bouquet w/ a free toss bouquet
2 BM bouquets
5 bouts
4 corsages for mom's/grandma's
= $680 with delivery to both reception hall & church. They also setup the flowers on the tables at the hall.
I used orange calla lilies, purple lisianthus, white roses for my bouquet.
BM bouquets are orange callas and purple lisianthus
the bouts are orange callas
the corsages are orange roses
the centerpieces are orange alstroemeria, orange roses, and purple lisianthus.
My planning bio has pictures of all the flowers in case you don't know what they look like. They are not cheap flowers by any means. We did not use gerbera daisies and carnations -- which you can use to save a little money.
We bought the vases from Libbey Glass outlet for 70 cents a piece so that the guests could take them home afterward. They do rent them out, however.
Way to go with letting your girls pick their own dresses... That's what we did and it was so nice!!! Every girl got what they felt comfortable in and they all looked stunning!!!
In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/local-wedding-boards_ohio-toldeo_lots-of-appointments-done-pip?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Local%20Wedding%20BoardsForum:237Discussion:fde2891e-46d7-49bf-81d8-84baa7e11074Post:22cfd128-74dd-4e89-ad2b-5b0c0730012f">Re: Lots of appointments done! PIP</a>:
[QUOTE]$5,000 is absurd for flowers.
Posted by catarntina[/QUOTE]
For what its worth, I agree thats a ton for flowers but Jen's not all bad. My quote from her included bridal bouquet, 5 bridesmaids bouquets, and about 9 bouts and 9 or 10 corsages, and 25 centerpieces and came out to around $1200. Granted, we're keeping it simple--I think we only talked about 3 kinds of flowers (blue hydrangeas, white roses, pink roses). We did pick another florist though, whose estimate for the bouquets/boutineirs was more but for centerpieces was much much less. OP--maybe you can figure out something less floral for your centerpieces? That could save a lot...
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I did like Jen and I know she could have gotten things down to my level more, I was just sticker shocked on the $5,000 right off the bat. We would have never spent that.
I'm so excited!
My FI would have peed his pants if I would have showed him a florist quote for $5000, lol.
Keith's has several different types of flowers in red and white. His price is still higher than we budgeted. However, it also includes our linens and table rentals and all our decorations so it evens out.
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[QUOTE]Britton- Your sister's pictures are beautiful! OMG, I want to steal her arch! That is gorgeous!
Posted by rak123[/QUOTE]
Thanks! I'll tell her. She loved it, too. Her photographer said she wanted to steal it and keep it in her apartment! Ha ha
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