Q.
The church I'm getting married in is very ornate. It really doesn't need added fresh flowers. Is it all right if I skip the floral arrangements
A.
If the natural beauty of your ceremony site can stand on its own, by all means save some money and skip the extra arrangements. In fact, many couples cut back on their flower budgets by getting married around the holidays, when they can take advantage of the beautiful holiday decorations already on display in their ceremony locations. An easy and inexpensive way to add a personal touch to your site is to add simple tulle or ribbon at the end of each pew or on the last chair in each row.
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dusta01
The church we are getting married in actually WON'T let us decorate. No aisle runners, no arrangements except on the unity candle stand and entry table. We can't even use pew bows. I'm actually excited about this, since I can save alot on decor and will have the ability to use it elsewhere, like the honeymoon! ;)
ennaerb80
The church I'm getting married at isn't ornate per say, but it is really beautiful and I thought the same thing as you. It really doesn't need much, if anything for arrangments. The more I thought about it though, I realized that I also don't want people to feel like they're just at church so I plan on adding arrangements, but I'm going to do them myself. You can find beautiful silk flowers for way cheaper. My sister-n-law ordered her fresh flowers from Costco and arranged them herself. It sounds funny to get them from there, but they were very pretty and super cheap. It sounds like even if you do go with some arrangments, you won't need much so you could get away with not even mentioning to the florist that it's for a wedding. That way you won't get charged the "wedding rate."
Future Mrs. Lindstrom
Find out if your site has decorations that can be used. The church I was married at had pew decoratins and flower arrangements that we used and it looked great.
law67
we're getting married in a very ornate church and the only flowers we're having there is a small arrangement around our unity candle to bring some color up to the alter where people will be looking for about an hour :)