Tips on how to plan your wedding flowers in advance to ensure nothing goes wrong

Ensure that you have enough time to make the arrangements either on the day or the night before, perhaps get someone in to help– it’s amazing how long it will take to make one or two wedding arrangements. Again, practices before the day to make sure you don’t make mistakes and run out of materials or decide create a new flower design which may end up horribly wrong, stick to what you know.

If you think you’d hate to part with your bouquet at the end of the day, plan ahead. Make up a small bouquet that is perhaps a smaller version of the official bridal bouquet and use it on the guest book or gift table. At the end of the day, this will be the one that you toss it to the women who will all be desperate to catch it, and after you spent money on your wedding flowers it will be a shame to give them away so easily!

Above you will also need to see if the person you have consulted with will be doing your flowers. You’ve spent hours with your florist choosing what flowers you want only to realise on the big day that someone else is creating your perfect wedding flowers.  To ensure this doesn’t happen ask your florist. They will have a vast amount of experience in wedding flowers and planning big days.

There are many different types of flowers, just a quick search showed me - Aster Flower,  Carnations, Chrysanthemums, Daffodils, Dahlia, Daisy, Gerbera’s, Gladioli, Iris, Lilies, Orchids, Roses, Snapdragons, Sunflowers and Tulips to mention just a few!  This means it’s vital you get a florist who knows there Carnations from their chrysanthemums and you get one fast as they do get booked up.

The florist being reliable is a big issue on your special day the last thing you need to worried about is whether the florist is going to turn up. You should look out for testimonials from previous clients all good florists should have them

If you are planning to have your wedding ceremony at a church, the reception and evening party at a different location this will result in you requiring two sets of wedding flowers. It may be worth seeing if you get them moved by the florist or by a relative on the day.

Remember that your wedding day is history in the making and if you take a blasé attitude toward how your special memories will be remembered, then all you will have left is tears and tantrums – so remember choosing your florist is vitally important.

A key question to ask is how many other weddings do they do on wedding day. Do you really want your florist more concerned with someone else’s wedding when they are creating your flowers, after you plan them so well you don’t want the ideal getting lost on the day, ideally they should only book in a few per day but do check if you are having complicated designs however a wedding Florist in Durham should be able to cater to this for you.