The colors selected for this arrangement are truly timeless. Whites, with a hint of cream, alongside an earthy rose accent, lend a sophisticated depth to the bouquet. While whites are classic on their own, incorporating this earthy tone adds a unique touch that sets it apart.
We hope you enjoy these stunning photos as much as we enjoyed collaborating with our lovely bride. The photos were skillfully captured by an exceptional Whistler-based photographer Angie Gallant Photography.
When booking it’s so easy to read the estimate that says deposits are non-refundable, non-moveable, and not for product, then sign it, and not think about it. What could go wrong? I do it as well, then when something happens, we are all shocked that we are still told they are still non-refundable.
It’s tough to be tough but this is a black-and-white line for us. Remember when setting a policy, it’s not about you, our customer who had something go wrong. It’s about customers who in the past have worked the system and made us turn black and white with our policies.
Remember that even though you have lost your deposit which is 25% of the order, we have lost 75%. Typically, cancellations happen a couple of months or closer to your day. At that stage the chances of rebooking a client are slim. We have turned away a lot of people for your date and we will lose the work we have already done. That is what deposits cover.
We did not set this policy lightly. We dislike not being able to help as all our past clients know. That said it’s a black-and-white line. Deposits are non-refundable.
Spending time with your favorite people is undeniably one of the highlights of any day. Here are some snapshots of our brides, grooms, and their crews. It's fascinating to see how each group is unique, even when the color scheme may be similar. It goes to show that ultimately, it's the people who make the day truly special.
Hello,
Thank you for your interest in Budget Blooms for our 2024 season! We're excited at the prospect of working with you on your big day, provided we're a good fit. To ensure smooth sailing, we'd like to go over some important details upfront. Please take a moment to read through this to ensure everything runs seamlessly on your special day. Feel free to skip anything you feel isn't relevant. We want to ensure there are no surprises on your wedding day.
Consultations: We don't offer in-person consultations, and you must be comfortable with this. We handle all our quotes via email to cut down on service costs, which allows us to allocate those savings toward creating beautiful floral arrangements for you.
Deposit & Non-Refundable Policy: Before your booking is confirmed, a 25% deposit of your total cost (rounded to the nearest dollar) is required. This deposit is non-refundable. Why? Because upon booking, we've already invested time and resources into planning your arrangements, and cancellations result in lost work hours and missed opportunities with other potential clients.
Once You Book: Upon booking, please review your invoice meticulously to ensure all details are correct, as this is what we use to design your flowers. Please clearly indicate if there are any flowers you dislike, as we cannot be held responsible if they're used inadvertently. Providing photos, double-checking venues/addresses, and supplying contact phone numbers are crucial. Additionally, inform us of your ceremony and reception start times if they're at different venues.
Balance Payment: Your balance payment is due one month before your wedding day when we order the flowers. Prompt payment via the Pay Now button on your invoice, email transfer, or requesting a PayPal link is appreciated.
Pickup & Delivery: If you plan to pick up your flowers, please notify us in advance. Please adhere to the agreed-upon pickup time, as we allow only a 30-minute late window due to other deliveries. Ensure your vehicle has enough space for the flowers, as they can bruise easily. During summer, refrain from leaving flowers in parked cars to prevent damage.
Taking Flowers a Day Early: While not recommended, you can store flowers overnight in colder weather. However, they're designed to look their best on your wedding day and aren't intended for a prolonged vase life.
Deliveries: For larger events, we offer delivery services. We require a one-hour delivery window, and delivery should coincide with the venue being fully prepared.
Rentals: We don't rent any items; all vases are purchased. We provide vases for short arrangements, but tall arrangements require vases rented from a rental company. We don't supply stands, but we can offer advice on rental companies if needed.
Natural Product Limitations: While we strive to provide healthy, high-quality products, we reserve the right to substitute promised flowers if they're not up to standard. We won't substitute flowers that are only favored by a few, such as carnations or lilies, without informing you.
If there's anything I haven't covered or if you have any questions, please don't hesitate to reach out. Transparency is key before you book with us. Thank you for taking the time to read through this.
Lastly, we'd love to see photos of you on your wedding day if you're comfortable sharing. Even though our interactions may be limited to email, we genuinely care about your special day and cherish seeing the results.
Warm regards,
Jane
Owner – Budget Blooms
N & A used our services twice! The actual marriage during covid, then a party this year. Love the photos shared by N done by Roselight Photography & Samin Photography. All our best to you both.
Thank you S&N for sharing your photos by Shannon Elmitt Photography at the gorgeous location of L’Abattoir. We were so lucky to have their wedding on the last day of 2020. What a wonderful way to end a strange year.
Wishing our absolute best to our lovely couple.
Letter to prospective clients of Budget Blooms
Hello,
Thanks for your interest in Budget Blooms! We would love to work with you on your big day. We would like to go over some things that will make it easier for both of us in case we do not get time to tell you during our email conversation. Please read this through to ensure all goes well on your day. Please feel free to skip anything you feel isn’t relevant. Please send us a quick email to ask any questions on below and let us know you have read it. We don’t there to be any surprises on your day.
Consultations
We have been going to Hycroft Manor in Vancouver for 14 years and truly it is a wedding venue gem as the pictures from Jenny and Victors wedding show. These gorgeous photos were taken by Noyo Creative another amazing vendor to work with.
What I love about Hycroft, never mind their professionalism, is how many looks you can get from one venue. The big expansive deck, the regal main staircase to the living room elegance.
They have a wonderful Brides room that is picture worthy for your day and can fit your posse. They also have a lovely Grooms room at the other end of the house. A decent parking lot and lots of parking on the surrounding streets.
Jenny has one of our unstructured bridal bouquets in darker rose and whites.
Hycroft does book up so email them as soon as you know your date to confirm at eventsales@uwcvancouver.ca.
#budgetbloomsweddings #hycroftweddings #garden style
In June I was lucky enough to be invited to a friend’s wedding at one of our favorite venues, Brix & Mortar in Yaletown. Until I was able to be a guest, it was a wedding venue I always love due to how great the staff always are to us, and how pretty it is.
Now that I have been a guest, I cannot rave enough about this award-winning wedding venue. It is suitable for up to 95 people to sit down and 120 cocktail reception. The venue itself needs extraordinarily little decoration, even though that is my business, I will share the secret that candles are the only necessity. It is such a great space for the ceremony in the atrium and reception in the restaurant & atrium. The atrium in summer is cool and in winter it is warm and rain-free. It is the perfect setup. Yes, I am raving but it’s well deserved.
The food! I cannot say enough about the food. The appetizers were delicious and the standout for me was the “fish & chip”! When we sat down to dinner, we received top service. Our meals were piping hot and delicious. They have enough staff to ensure your wedding is well served.
After dinner, desserts and coffee were served in the atrium. Dancing was in the bar area. By the way, the bar is a golden glowing “want to hang out at” area. You just want to order something. I was the DD, so it was ginger ale but it was still amazing to stand at. I will not talk about my Husband lol! He had a hand signal with the barman. As the dancing continued the staff danced too as they went back and forth.
In short, it was professional, relaxed yet managed and business to business I think they have figured it out. 750 plus weddings later - they know how to help you have a wonderful wedding day celebration.
It is a great time of year to look back on the 2019 season. When we started in 2007, we saw mostly round bouquets. The odd Bride would have the courage to break up the ball bouquets with greenery but not many. Rounded rose bouquets, which in my eye, are still a classic were the norm. Through the years we saw the ball bouquets move to a more textured look. Then about 4 years ago garden style took over. Greenery was it.
We saw garden style weddings most of the year with lots of laid garland on the tables. Such a great look and luckily it does not look like it’s going anywhere for 2020. A few new touches we saw were the addition of dried, earthy elements like pampas grass and dried foliage and flowers. Bridesmaids’ bouquets and pew decorations with just silver dollar eucalyptus were abundant this year.
Colour wise blush pink, white & cream are still at an all time high with deep red thrown in as an accent. Classic all whites were present and stunning as usual. Bright’s seem to be making a comeback in reds, bright pinks, purples, oranges, and yellows. We had some phenomenal weddings where they allowed us to use bright colours. So fun! Antique colours in blush pink, tan and taupe were still in the mix but not as prevalent, sadly as they are stunning. Yellow and whites did not make an appearance this year for us again sadly such a fresh mix.
Head tables covered in bud vase size arrangements in varying colours and sizes were something new we saw. I mean covered from tip to toe and 2 or 3 deeps. A single rose in a bud vase in a square pattern made a big hit at the Parq Hotel this year.
We have amazing venues we work with such as Brix and Mortar, Brock House, Cecil Green, The Loft at Earls, UBC Sage Bistro and Koerner’ Pub was a big addition this year. Hart House, Swaneset and Westwood Plateau were abundant but so were more personal venues such as family homes, local pubs and gardens. The best thing about your wedding is to pick somewhere that means something to you.
We are quoting steadily for 2020 and have a few weekends that are filling up fast, but we are excited to see what is booking. Tall table centers that are more garden style seem to be back. Lots of greenery and not very round. Garland on tables whether made or laid is always lovely. Bouquets are garden style but with more flowers than greenery, it does increase costs but it is a stunning look.
We are excited to see what else 2020 brings. Each year is a new experience, new challenges, and memories.
When we lost my father in law, we wanted to have a Celebration of life that was on the North Shore. Being in the industry I had done a few weddings at The View on Lonsdale and loved it. The view is incredible, so is the food and service. Both are provided by Forage Restaurant and catering at The Listel Hotel on Robson. Julianna and her team did such an amazing job. I wanted to share a few photos of our event at the View on Lonsdale. I found a great wedding photo on google to show the deck off a little more. Truly a lovely venue for a small to large event.
Julianna was amazing and invited my team and I to dinner at Forage with a tour of the hotel and wedding rooms. It is a stunning boutique hotel who have an amazing indigenous art collection in the rooms.
Forage was an incredible restaurant where we tried Bison. Amazing by the way! Each dish was an adventure and distinct from the next. The pan bread, I cannot say enough about. A few of the wonderful dishes we got to try were farmer green salad, fresh cheese, hazelnut streusel, foraged and cultivated mushrooms and elderflower and fromage frais cheese puff. I highly recommend this west coast inspired farm to table restaurant.
The Forage team are first class event caterers in Vancouver and area.
According to a recent study, the average wedding cost in the US is $33,391—and that’s not even including the amount spent on an engagement ring.
As you might imagine, the figures vary widely from state-to-state. Couples in New York City spend the most at $76,944, while couples in New Mexico spend the least at $17,584.
If that sounds like a lot of money, it is. To put that into historical perspective, wedding spending has increased 3000% since the 1950s! Extravagant, expensive weddings are becoming the norm.
A wedding is an important day and a significant moment in time. It signifies the day we commit the rest of our lives to another human being—to love, cherish, and honor until death do us part. It is a commitment we make in front of friends and family and often represents the joining of two families into one.
This article is, by no means, meant to downplay the importance of that special day. But we should consider if this trend to spend more and more money on weddings is a wise choice.
It is helpful, I think, to consider some of the negative ramifications of an expensive and extravagant wedding. Ever-increasing wedding costs are not necessary and may actually do more harm than good.
Consider the reasons:
1. Extravagant weddings result in increased stress and distraction.Wedding days are stressful enough—adding dozens of unnecessary frills and expenses makes them even more so.
On the other hand, a simple wedding helps keep focus on the bride and groom rather than decorations, accommodations, and food.
2. Expensive weddings bring financial consequences felt for years. If you are going into debt to pay for your wedding, please don’t. Financial pressures consistently rank as one of the top reasons for divorce.
Even if you do have the money saved, it can almost certainly be spent wiser elsewhere: paying off debt, a down payment on your first home, or even the honeymoon experience.
3. Extravagant weddings often distract from the hard work of preparing for marriage. When it comes to joining two lives into one, how many flowers will be in each centerpiece at the reception dinner is the least of your concerns. You and your future spouse should be talking about plans for your life together, methods of communication, and family experiences that may result in mismatched expectations.
Spend as much time together in premarital counseling as you do planning the actual ceremony. That is where the true foundation for a successful marriage is laid.
4. Expensive weddings are not necessarily more beautiful. The early assumption made by brides and grooms is that spending more money will result in a more beautiful experience and ceremony. But that is simply not the case. I have attended expensive weddings that were beautiful, for sure. But I have also attended simple weddings that were even more beautiful and often showcased more of the bride’s (and groom’s) personality.
Simplicity, as they say, is the ultimate sophistication.
5. Extravagant weddings magnify mistakes and mishaps. Almost no wedding gets by without some mishap occurring during the day—whether before, during, or after the ceremony. In my opinion, when a couple has invested so much time, energy, and money into a ceremony, they are more likely to sweat the small stuff thinking their financial investment would have insulated them from any moments of imperfection.
Take heart. The little mishaps on your wedding day will be the memories you talk about the most. Not allowing them to ruin your special moment when they occur is key to enjoying your day.
6. Extravagant weddings tend to promote (or result from) competition.Thinking your wedding day must measure up to a purely subjective standard set by a friend or family member is a foolish way to spend your day. “Comparison is the thief of joy,” Theodore Roosevelt once famously said. Allowing it to creep into your wedding day, in any fashion, is a poor choice.
Your wedding day is about you and your future spouse. Nobody else.
7. Expensive weddings often result in shorter marriages. Believe it or not, there is evidence that marriage duration is inversely associated with spending on the engagement ring and wedding ceremony. Couples who spend less on their ceremony are more likely to remain together longer.
In the same study, there was also connection made between the honeymoon and the marriage: Going on a honeymoon is “significantly associated with a lower hazard of divorce.” Based on these stats, spending money on your honeymoon is a wiser investment than money on the ceremony.
My wedding occurred before my introduction to minimalism. And yet, it was not an extravagant one. It was big, but not expensive.
Kim and I got married at our home church in Omaha, NE with 400-500 people in attendance. Our ceremony was not flashy, but included many beautiful elements you would assume to be present at a traditional church wedding service. For our reception, we served sandwiches and cake and punch. If I could do it over, there’s not a single thing I would change.
Not a single day of our lives have we looked back and regretted not spending more on our wedding. But I know many couples who look back and regret the amount of money they wasted on their ceremony.
If you’d like a simple wedding, here are some helpful ideas to get you started:
Set a budget (and stick to it).
Choose elements that are important to you, but limit the number. Try fewer flowers, simpler decorations, or less food choices. You can keep many of the traditional elements (if that is your style) without needing to go over the top with any of them.
Don’t shell out big money for expensive accommodations. A simple church building can be just as beautiful as an expensive wedding chapel. And if the time of year permits, a backyard can easily host an intimate, informal, unforgettable reception with little expense.
Look for personal touches. A wedding ceremony that communicates your unique personalities and/or time together will always be considered more thoughtful by your guests than expensive add-ons bought at the bridal store.
Realize the wedding industry is built entirely on convincing you that you need x. There are entire stores, catalogs, and websites in business today working tirelessly to convince you that you need x or y in order for your wedding to be perfect. They are wrong. You don’t need anything—except for maybe official paperwork from your state and a few witnesses to sign the document.
Enjoy your simple, precious day focused on the things that matter most.
Marital happiness has nothing to do with your wedding ceremony. It has everything to do with the weeks and years and life together after.
That’s why the simplest weddings are often the happiest.
We are lucky enough to work at one of Vancouver’s prettiest wedding venues a lot. Hycroft Manor. Mix that with one of the prettiest weddings, best photographers, Angela Ruscheinski and a gorgeous couple - brilliant.
#hycroftmanor #budgetblooms #gardenstyleweddings
We are usually gone by the time our customers are putting bouts/corsages on. We hope this helps.
The one major rule is they always go on the left lapel. There will be a back and a front to them. The small flower accents typically sit up front. and the greenery are placed on the back showing best at the front.
Photo credit - Monique Sache, email flaminmopix@yahoo.com
Under the lapel or dress put one pin in sideways capturing the back of the stems
The second pin just captures the stems from the top. Stab it softly downwards into the stem of the bout/corsage. Not enough to go through to the front. This one stabilizes it from swinging side to side.
Purple is one of the colours that can be anything from a pale lavender to a deep plum. It’s incredible how many times the word purple is used to describe so many shades. The lovely thing is they all go together. Be careful when wanting “purple” that you specify with a photo the shades you would like.
I remember in the early days arriving at a hotel with coral-coloured bouquets and the Bride was frustrated. The flowers were lovely, but she had asked for “Coral”. As my heart dropped, she showed me the Bridesmaids dresses that had just arrived. They were also coral, an exact match to the flowers. She had wanted peach but thought it was coral. Her whole wedding was coral, flowers/dresses/linens etc., as she thought that was the name of the colour. It had just been a marketing name.
When we read magazines or read colours of dresses, they can have a marketing name that seems like a colour. It might just be a name of that product that sounded nice.
Please find swatches to send along with your photos if you want a specific colour. It keeps everything clear. Here are examples of these popular colours.
Peach
Coral with light peach accents
A few topics trending are…
1) When are popular wedding flowers in season?
Peony’s - let us do the Brides fav first - in the Vancouver area they are in season May through mid-July. Depending on weather they can start or finish a little early/late. Too hot in the spring then they finish early, too cold and they won’t be ready until mid-May, but the bonus is they may go till the end of July.
Dahlia’s start mid-June and typically go till the first frost. They are a nice big flower and come in a lot of lovely colours.
Roses, hydrangea, lisianthus, freesia, spray roses, stock and most of the other wedding flowers that are available locally & imported are available most of the year.
Anenomes - these beauties are available through out the year but there are gaps. It’s one of the flowers you just have to keep your fingers crossed.
Eryngium - this Steele blue beauty is available most of the year give or take a few weeks for crop rotation.
Eucalyptus - available all year round but in the spring, it can look fairly unhealthy. We had a bad spring with eucalyptus and had to throw a lot out. By mid-summer late fall it’s back to healthy.
2) What are traditional wedding flowers?
Typically, hydrangea, roses, freesia and lisianthus are main wedding flowers. There are some lovely flowers that come and go with fashion such as anenomes, ranunculus, eryngium and carnations. Yes carnations, most of the hot designers use them lower in arrangements for colour. They come in a million colours - and last!
3) What is less expensive but still nice?
We love certain mums. The ones without the green centers can fill a vase well and look more like hydrangea than mums. It is the variety you pick that makes or breaks them. They come in all colours including marsala.
Carnations - I know, I know! They come in every colour and look more like hydrangea when used well. It is all about what you mix them with. Also, they stay low, so they are more hidden. If you play with the carnation, it can look like a scabiosa (terrible name but lovely flower).
Hydrangea - they are an expensive flower, but they are so big that you can use fewer of them to make a big arrangement. They can save you money if you use just hydrangea.
Hope this helps. Email us if I have missed your favorite flowers.
Jane & the BB Team
I was recently lucky enough to go to the Wedding MBA in Las Vegas. I heard Bernadette talk about next years trends and colours for weddings/flowers. Here they are…
1) Moody Hues (navy, black, maroon and deep hunter green)
Suggestions for the more moody colours. We can tint berries or greenery to be black. Anenomes with there black/deep blue centers. Calla’s come in nearly black. Privot berry is a favorite but only available a few times a year. Deep hunter greenery such as the ruscus greens, nagi or Ivy are wonderful in garden style arrangements.
I wanted to share this gorgeous winter wedding. Chelsey and Brendan were as chill as the day. They lucked out with no rain and were able to take these wonderful shots by Clint Bargen Photography.
Marsala is one of the prettiest colour combinations and garden style shows it so well. Wishing Chelsey & Brendan an amazing life together.
