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.

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!

While perusing the internet we recently found this interesting article on wedding flowers. The article speaks on the state of the economy and its direct effect on the wedding industry. This is a truly interesting read for anyone seeking ways to plan for their wedding and wedding flowers.

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1808615,00.html

While recently perusing the Web for articles on wedding flowers, we came across one that spoke about specifically towards DIY (do it yourself) wedding flowers. The opening sentence says it all:

“Couples spend months planning for their wedding day and years paying it off.”

For the complete article, please click on the following link: http://www.digtriad.com/news/local_state/article.aspx?storyid=103562&catid=57.

With Valentine’s Day now passed, many brides-to-be have begun looking forward to wedding season 2008. The date has been set, the reception location confirmed, and the bridesmaids’ dresses picked out. With those tasks aside, the focus now turns to the selection of the wedding flowers! However, with the ever-rising costs associated with weddings, the expense of hiring a floral designer can often be overwhelming. To cut costs, the trend among budget conscious brides is to order wholesale flowers in bulk from online sources like The Wedding Flower Shop (www.weddingflowershop.com) and create their own arrangements of wedding flowers.

The budget conscious bride (Bride-on-a-Budget) and the idea of arranging your own wedding flowers (DIY Wedding Flowers) is becoming more and more popular throughout the wedding industry. On average, brides spend 8% of their total wedding budget on their wedding flowers. This can mean spending up to $1,000 to $4,000 for flowers alone! Many brides are going the way of do-it-yourself wedding flowers because of the significant cost savings and because they it provides them with the freedom to create wedding flower arrangements that truly reflect their own personality and style.