Wedding Flower Shop

The addition of freeze dried rose petals to wedding invitations, bridal shower invites and thank you cards makes the exchange of these tokens a memorable experience for both the sender and the receiver!

For wedding invitations, choose freeze dried rose petals to match your wedding color scheme and slip a few in each invitation. Your guests will smile at this unexpected and memorable surprise. A few freeze dried rose petals slipped inside an envelope with any invite or thank you gives your card a personalized touch of flair which your recipients will appreciate.

Freeze dried rose petals will last for a very long time - up to 2 years if cared for properly! Order some of your favorite colors to include in your wedding invitations, bridal party invitations and thank you notes, or order a larger quantity and have sufficient for your bridal party, wedding ceremony, reception, and mailers!

If you have any questions about freeze dried rose petals, please do not hesitate to contact us directly at 1-888-297-3000!

Yesterday we came across a very neat article titled ‘Your Wedding Budget - 5 Tips to Help You Stick to It‘ by Cori Russell in the American Chronicle. The article offered the following 5 suggestions:

1. ‘Get a budgeting system‘. Create a system whereby you separate your wedding fund from your personal expenditures so that you can easily see what you have spent on your wedding.

2. ‘Prepare to go over‘. Set aside 5 percent of your budget as a ‘just in case’ fund… for those last minute costs that will arise. Some common last minute costs that you may not have considered include: tips for vendors, trial runs for hair and makeup, overtime fees, last minute dress and tux cleaning, marriage license fees and postage for wedding invitations and RSVP notes.

3. ‘Cut back‘. Make it a 3 course meal instead of a 5 course meal. Have 5 bridesmaids instead of 10. Trim down the list of invites.

4. ‘Beware of the up-sell‘. Everyone has something slightly better for slightly more…

5. ‘Tighten your purse strings‘. Try to save a portion of your income specifically for your wedding. Save more and spend less. Create frugal habits that will carry through your marriage and provide you with more financial stability down the road.

Set a budget and stick to it!

The setting of a budget is the key to success as you approach the planning of weddings and events while being mindful of money. It is very easy to go overboard on spending, especially for large events such as weddings and events, but careful planning and budgeting will help to ease the burdens of financial worries from your shoulders.

In your endeavors to stay within budget, consider the following:

- Explore DIY (do-it-yourself) wedding flowers: Wedding flowers don’t have to cost a fortune. Consider ordering flowers directly from the flower farms and arranging them yourself!

- ALWAYS ask for a discount: Adopt the mentality that ‘it never hurts to ask’. A simple ‘do you offer any discounts’ or ‘is that your best price’ will go a LONG way. You will find many vendors are always willing (if not expecting) to trim a little off the price.

- Look for ‘local talent’: Friends and relatives are an excellent source for ‘local talent’. You may find that you have chefs, floral designers, and photographers in your midst who are ready and willing to lend a helping hand.

Whether you are planning for a wedding or event, seeking wedding flowers or simple centerpieces, visit The Wedding Flower Shop! We have a huge selection of wedding flowers and wholesale flowers at discount prices. Fix your budget and visit us online for our complete catalog of fresh cut wedding flowers.

The Wedding Flower Shop specializes in the shipping and procurement of WEDDING FLOWERS. These wedding flowers are shipped directly to your door in an early blooming stage so as to ensure a safe transit and extremely long-lasting flowers!

Oriental Lilies and Asiatic Lilies are perfect examples of wedding flowers shipped in closed blooms. From time to time (often depending on the weather) these flowers are harvested with very tight blooms which may require additional time to open. Below are some special care tips that can be followed to encourage these blooms to open. These steps are only to be followed if the blooms are not opening after a day or two in water. DO NOT follow these steps if your flowers are opening on their own.

** ONLY FOLLOW THESE STEPS IF YOUR BLOOMS HAVE NOT BEGUN TO OPEN AFTER A DAY OR TWO IN WATER**

Under most circumstances we strongly recommend our customers store flowers in cooler temperatures (we recommend temperatures less than 65 degrees). Cooler temperatures will help the flowers to open slower and last longer.

Warmer temperatures encourage flowers to open faster. Please keep in mind that once flowers are open, there is no reversing the process… they will remain open. ‘Steaming’ Oriental and Asiatic Lilies is a way to encourage these blooms to open by exposing them to warmer temperatures. The steam not only provides a warm atmosphere for these flowers, but also moisture which prevents the flowers from drying out as they are exposed to warmer temperatures.

‘Steaming’ Oriental and Asiatic Lilies:

- Cut the stems about 1 inch up from the bottom and place the flowers in clean water.

- Set the container with the flowers on the bathroom counter (where they will not get wet).

- Close the bathroom door.

- Turn on the shower using only hot water.

- Once the room is sufficiently ’steamed up’, turn off the shower, leave the flowers in the ’steamed up’ bathroom, and shut the door.

- After about 30 minutes, return to the bathroom and steam it up again.

- Repeat this process until the blooms have begun to open.

- Once the flowers have begun to open, set the flowers in a warmer environment (such as on the kitchen counter or dining room table). Again, the warmer temperatures will help these flowers to continue to open.

If you have any questions about caring for your wedding flowers, please do not hesitate to contact our customer service department at 1-888-297-3000.

The question of why the price our packages of wedding flowers with roses increases during the winter time is one that we receive often. The short and direct answer is because of what is known across the floral industry as ‘the pinch’.

Every November during the last few days of the month, flower farms trim back most, if not all, of their rose bushes (especially bushes that grow varieties of red roses) - this is what is known as ‘the pinch’. They do this so that they can manage 2 harvests of roses in the days and weeks leading up to Valentine’s Day. The economics of it is quite simple… rose prices at Valentine’s Day are at a premium and the more they sell, the more they make.

Rose prices increase immediately following ‘the pinch’. Since the bushes are all trimmed back (again, especially bushes which grow varieties of red roses), there is limited availability of these roses during the months of December and January. Looking back to Economics 101: A lower supply with a higher demand pushes the prices upward.

The Wedding Flower Shop is your online superstore for wedding flowers and rose petals. If you have any questions about any of our wedding flowers, please do not hesitate to contact us directly at 1-888-297-3000.

The Wedding Flower Shop is known for its wide selection of packages of wedding flowers. Our wedding-in-a-box packages are a huge hit on the internet and offer DIY (do-it-yourself) and budget conscious brides a variety of combinations of beautiful fresh cut flowers.

The question has been asked why we use the 20-inch (50cm) South American roses in our wedding-in-a-box packages. The answer is really quite simple: The 20-inch South American roses are a bigger, stronger, and more consistent rose!

When you are shopping for wedding flowers, look no further than The Wedding Flower Shop. We source the world over to ship the finest wedding flowers directly from the flower farms to your door!

Did you know that in the month of July that the search term ‘wedding flowers‘ was searched for more than 300,000 times on Google alone???

Rest assured that when you place your order for wedding flowers that you will receive the finest fresh cut wedding flowers shipped directly from our flower farms around the world to your door! The Wedding Flower Shop is the industry leader for online wedding flowers!

We have provided tens of thousands of brides with beautiful wedding flowers for their wedding bouquets, arrangements, and centerpieces. Visit us online for our complete catalog of premium wholesale flowers and wedding flowers - including our highly sought after ‘Wedding-in-a-Box‘ packages!

We received a note today from our provider of premium freeze dried rose petals that they are once again offering white and ivory! After an extremely LONG winter our farm’s rose bushes are once again in bloom, and that means that means production of the freeze dried rose petals have resumed!

White Freeze Dried Rose Petals:

Ivory Freeze Dried Rose Petals:

Order your freeze dried rose petals and wedding flowers from The Wedding Flower Shop! Place your order online or call us toll free at 1-888-297-3000! We look forward to serving you soon!

Dear Valued Customers,

We wanted to take a minute to address a concern of a number of our customers - When trying to place an order online, why is my credit card declined?

Let us first begin by saying that the technology we employ in our website is VERY, VERY secure. We value our customers and are extremely careful with all of their personal information.

In order to provide maximum security to our customers, our system does require that the credit card number, billing information, and CVV code match in order for our system to accept a credit card transaction. Most often, it is an incorrect billing zip code which causes the credit card to be declined. Please pay close attention to this field when filling in your credit card information. If any one of these fields is incorrect, your credit card transaction will be declined.

If for some reason you continue to have problems placing your order online, please do not hesitate to contact one of our customer care representatives at 1-888-297-3000.

Today The Wedding Flower Shop formally announced their grand opening on the World Wide Web. To view the press release on PRWEB, please click on the link below:

http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/06/prweb1019074.htm

The Wedding Flower Shop caters specifically to the budget conscious and do-it-yourself (DIY) bride. The e-commerce store offers a complete catalog of wedding-in-a-box packages consisting of the most popular fresh cut wedding flowers and foliage. Customers can purchase flowers at costs traditionally reserved for retail florists and meet their wedding flower desires without compromising their wedding budgets.

Visit us online for our complete catalog of wedding flowers!