Frugal Wedding Flowers

For our wedding I knew exactly what I wanted but also knew that I could not afford to hire a florist or decorator to make my vision a reality. So instead we made it happen with the help of some truly amazing friends. We bought our flowers from Costco. We found out that you can special order flowers ahead of time and they will have them ready the day that you need them. We met with the flower person from Costco a few months before the wedding and placed our order. We ended up picking them up in Spokane and transporting them to Leavenworth in the back of the minivan we rented.

I am not sure how we got them all to fit but the van smelled absolutely amazing on our drive to Leavenworth. I really wanted a big bouquet of multicolor roses for my bouquet. We had a great friend at the wedding who made my bouquet vision a reality. She used floral tape, ribbon and the framed pictures of my grandparents and truly made a bouquet I loved. The Bridesmaids bouquets were were very similar just tied with brown ribbon.

 Our reception was inside a 1910 dairy farm outside of Leavenworth Washington. I wanted our table decorations to fit the theme and look of the barn. I used mason jars to achieve this look.  The Mason jars were incredibly frugal since we had a ton of them on hand at my Moms house and found a lot more at the Goodwill and thrift stores.

I was able to get the Mason Jars ready for the reception before we left for the wedding. I had all of them decorated and ready to go weeks before the wedding which worked out great. I tied each Mason Jar with a brown and cream ribbon and then attached a glass John Deere tractor to the ribbon. For years everyone gave John tractors as gifts and I wanted to find a way to tie the decorations to him.

Buying the flowers at Costco and putting together the decorations and our bouquets saved us a ton of money for the wedding. I loved how they turned out and they fit the look of the wedding exactly as I hoped they would.