Weddingbee Blog

I was in the same boat you are. I am a total flower person, but could not rationalize the amount of money a florist wanted for a bouquet. I planned to order from Costco as well, but then waited too long to order and used fiftyflowers.com instead. They were a bit more expensive than Costco, but still extremely reasonable. I ordered 100 red roses, 50 black magic roses and 25 white roses and it came to about $250. I ordered more than needed to make sure that I didn’t run out. Like everyone says they come very wilted and thirsty, but after trimming the ends and putting them in water for a few hours, they looked gorgeous! I had them delivered on Thursday for my Saturday wedding and by Friday afternoon they looked perfect. I planned to use the red and black magic roses for the bouts, corsages, 4 bridesmaid bouquets and toss bouquet and the white for my bouquet and groom bout. Unfortunately, the white roses were much smaller than the red roses and 2 dozen wasn’t enough to make a good sized bouquet. I’m not sure why they were so much smaller than the red (online it listed them as the same size), but they also were a little more off-white than I expected. By this point I was past stressing about all of the details and had 4 trusty friends putting together the flowers for me. They added black magic in with the white for my bouquet to give it some extra size. They turned out amazing, though I wouldn’t have been able to do it without help. There is just too much to do at the end regardless of how organized you are. Since I had ordered extras they were even able to make 6 centerpieces for random tables at the reception. Let me know if you would like photos of how they turned out. For me it was definitely the way to go! One last piece of advice, make sure you get plenty of floral wire, tape and thorn strippers! Getting the thorns and leaves off would have been a nightmare without a thorn stripper! Also, have a few 5 gallon buckets cleaned out and ready to go to store the flowers in. We didn’t have enough at first and had to improvise with coolers until we got a couple more buckets.