Weddingbee Blog

Let’s talk flowers and stuff.

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Not THIS kind of flower, though he is pretty adorable for a smelly rodent.

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I’m talking about THESE kinds of flowers! Miss Cardigan has already waxed poetic about her love of craspedia (or billy buttons known to some), and well…let’s just say that I jumped on the bandwagon for these fun little spheres of sunshine!

I’m DIYing the flowers for the wedding, and that will include bouquets for me and my ‘maids and our centerpieces. Originally I would have done boutonnieres as well, but I found another solution for that!

Since our wedding will be on the smaller side (approximately 75 guests) I won’t have too many tables to decorate, but they will be the long, rectangular tables that seat 8:

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If you’ll notice in the above picture, the tables don’t have one large centerpiece, but a few smaller ones on the table. I think this is the look that I’ll be going for with our flowers! Small vases with happy little buds peeking out:

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I LOVE the succulent garden, but am looking more at the little bud vases with the craspedia. Perhaps something like…this? (imagine the flower as a little ball, please)

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Look at this cutie! Wanna know the best part about it? This little baby is only 89 CENTS!! I looked high and low at restaurant supply and wholesale stores, and found it for cheap cheap cheap!

So with our set-up, I’m thinking something along these lines:

The top of the picture is an overhead look at our table (the orange rectangles are chairs even though we won’t have orange chairs…I just like orange), and then the bottom picture is a look at what the vases might look like with craspedias.

We also ordered approximately a bajillion candles and glass votives to light the tables up:

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The candles that we ordered look very similar to the clear votives above. We found votives for 49 cents each, and that’s INCLUDING the candles inside! We bought 144 of them from www.candles4less.com.

We’re also buying extra candles to place on the mantle by the fireplace we’ll have our ceremony!

Something similar to this, though probably slightly less dramatic:

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And that display will be placed on the shelf to the right of this fireplace at Ladder 15:

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So let’s break it down:

• 3 vases/table, 12 tables=36 vases. I ordered 50 that way I have backups if needed and can place some extras on cocktail tables during the cocktail hour. 50 seems like a lot, but at 89 cents each, I’ll just feel better with backups! This expense was $53.65 with shipping! They are from www.katom.com.
• 144 Candles+votives at 49 cents each, 12 tall votives at $1.25 each is $84.97 before shipping, $121.99 after shipping (Yikes for shipping, but still less than $1 per unit!)
• 3 stems of craspedia per vase=150 stems. Fifty Flowers sells 200 stems for $169.99. (We’ll have to get more for the bouquets, but I won’t include those on this budget breakdown.)

All in all, our centerpieces and decor comes out to $345.63. Not bad considering we’ll have over 200 vases and candles combined, and all of our decor flowers will be taken care of + leftovers to use in bouquets!

Did you look into wholesale stores for any deals on your wedding? Will you be DIYing your flowers and centerpieces?