I love the concept of potted flowers for weddings and rehearsal dinners! So much of weddings is for one day only, it makes me happy to know that these flowers will continue blooming all summer long. It’s also charming!
Like the napkin ring idea I wrote about earlier, if you commit to potted plant centerpieces, make [...]
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DIY Potted Plants for Centerpieces
Posted in Do It Yourself, Wedding Budget, Wedding Crafts, Wedding Flowers, Wedding Reception, tagged cheap wedding arrangments, Cheap Wedding Flowers, Country chic wedding, DIY flowers, Do it yourself arrangements, Do it Yourself Wedding, lakeside wedding, original flowers, Potted Centerpieces, potted flowers, unique flowers, unique ideas on July 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
DIY Summer Wedding Floral Napkin Rings
Posted in AvantBride, Do It Yourself, Wedding Budget, Wedding Crafts, Wedding Flowers, Wedding Reception, tagged Avant Bride, Country wedding, Cute wedding table, DIY Wedding, Do it Yourself Wedding, Floral Wedding Napkin Rings, Napkin Rings Creative, Summer Wedding, Unique Wedding Napkin Rings, Wedding Chic, www.AvantBride.com on July 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I saw this done at a wedding I went to recently and absolutely loved the concept. The event was actually the rehearsal dinner and the theme was country chic with a pig roast. The tables were covered with checkered tablecloths and had potted flowers for centerpieces. It was beautifully put together. My favorite part, however, was [...]
Seattle’s Safeway Announces Budgeting Tools for Thrifty Brides
Posted in Seattle, Wedding Budget, Wedding Cake, Wedding Flowers, tagged Avant Bride, Bridal Flowers, Budget Wedding, cheap seattle wedding cake, Cheap Wedding Flowers, do-it-yourself wedding seattle, grocery store flowers, inexpensive seattle wedding flowers, Safeway, Seattle, seattle wedding budgeting tool, seattle wedding cakes, seattle wedding vendors, Supermarket flowers, Wedding Flowers, wedding wine, www.AvantBride.com on February 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It appears that supermarkets are catching on to the trend of thrifty brides purchasing more things for their weddings at supermarkets. They’ve long sold cakes etc, but now are attempting to make a do-it-yourself wedding a little simpler. I played around with Safeway’s “budgeting tool” and found it very intuitive to use. On their website they [...]
How To Have Gorgeous But Affordable Wedding Flowers
Posted in Wedding Flowers, tagged affordable wedding flowers, affordable wedding flowers seattle, AvantBride, Bridal Flowers, budget flowers, budget flowers wedding, budget tips wedding, Budget Wedding, cheap L.A. flowers, cheap LA wedding flowers, cheap seattle flowers, Cheap Wedding Flowers, flower pictures, los angeles wedding flowers, savvy bride, Seattle Wedding, seattle wedding flowers, socal flowers, trendy wedding flowers, wedding flower photos, Whole Foods Florist, Whole Foods Flowers, whole foods flowers for my malibu wedding, woodland hills wedding flowers, www.AvantBride.com on January 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A Savvy Bride’s Guide to Cheap Flowers!
I’ve had a lot of brides email me with questions and comments regarding two blogs that I’ve written about on Whole Foods wedding flowers. (Los Angeles and Seattle) You’d think Whole Foods was paying me to promote them! They’re not, I just happen to love what they offer a [...]
Wholesale Wedding Flowers – Dorsey Floral
Posted in Wedding Flowers, tagged Budget Wedding Flowers, Calla Lily Seattle, Cheap Wedding Flowers, Dorsey Floral Seattle, Dorsey Wholesale, Green Roses Seattle, Quality Wedding Flowers Seattle, Wedding Flowers, Wedding Flowers Seattle, Wholesale Wedding Flowers, www.AvantBride.com on August 28, 2008 | 2 Comments »
A savvy bride wrote a review about Dorsey Floral and it piqued my interest so I thought I would write more about it. When I asked her about her experience using Dorsey Floral she had nothing but great things to say about them. She said she had wanted to have calla lilies but was told [...]
Whole Foods Wedding Flowers in Seattle
Posted in Wedding Flowers, tagged Beautiful Wedding Flowers Seattle, Cheap Wedding Flowers, Good Customer Service Florist, Great Florist Seattle, Inexpensive Wedding Flowers, Natural Wedding Flowers Seattle, Orange Flowers Seattle, Wedding Centerpiece, Wedding Centerpieces, Whole Foods Florist, Whole Foods Wedding Flowers, Whole Foods Wedding Seattle on July 10, 2008 | 6 Comments »
A local Seattle bride, Kate, is taking over this blog today with her experience using the florist at Whole Foods Westlake in Seattle for her wedding.
She writes, “I called Lilly at Whole Foods about two months in advance and told her the wedding colors. I didn’t have any specific flowers in mind, but specified that [...]
Wedding Flowers in SoCal
Posted in Wedding Flowers, tagged Bridal Flowers, Florist, Flower girl, Los Angeles, Southern California flowers, Stephanotis, Supermarket flowers, Wedding, Wedding Flowers, Whole Foods Flowers, www.AvantBride.com on March 29, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Flowers
I knew from the beginning that I wouldn’t be spending a lot of time or money on flowers. Most wedding planners recommend spending between 10-15% of your budget on flowers, but my fiancé and I had rationalized the price of our location by including our flower budget in it! It was, after all, a giant [...]
