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How to get the most out of your budget – Part 1
The Smart Spending Series, £1000.00 budget
It can be really hard to know where to start when planning your budget for your wedding day. Pinterest and Instagram are fabulous tools for research and inspiration, however sometimes it can give an unrealistic window into the wedding industry, especially when it comes to choosing what you actually need and can prioritise vs what would be lovely if your budget allowed for it but would most likely take you over your spending cap.
Here at Stock Florist, we pride ourselves on working with your budget to provide a personalised and fully itemised, bespoke quote after your first Consultation with us, as well as a visual moodboard and digital mock-ups to give you an insight to how your wedding day might look.
So, before you join us at one of our beautiful shops in either the quaint village of Stock or the bustling Bishop’s Stortford, consider reading Part 1 of our Smart Spending Series: How we would spend £1000.00 on wedding florals!
The Wedding Party
First things first, choosing your bridal bouquet! Arguably the most important arrangement of the whole day, this bouquet will be by your side throughout most of your wedding: from the moment your florist delivers it to you, to the getting ready photos, walking down the aisle, celebrating becoming husband and wife all the way to the wedding breakfast; your bridal bouquet is the most important bouquet you will ever hold.

Choosing your bridal bouquet should be the most fun part of the consultation as everything centres around that. It should reflect you and your personality: whether that’s classic and chic or fun and bold, no two bridal bouquets are the same. On average, a bridal bouquet ranges from £120.00 - £200.00 depending on the desired look.

Then come your bridesmaids, usually smaller versions of your bouquet that come in typically half the price of your bridal bouquet. For the sake of this example, let’s say you have three bridesmaids and one flower girl, along with five matching buttonholes for the groom and his groomsmen and two corsages for mums – that’s half your £1000.00 budget spent. We would recommend spending this much on your wedding party simply due to the fact that these floral arrangements will be in every photo you will have to look back on! So definitely worth spending a decent amount so you don’t have any post wedding day regret.

The Ceremony and Wedding Breakfast
After spending on average half your £1000.00 budget on your wedding party, it now leaves you with around £400.00 - £600.00 to spend decorating your venue. Focus on arrangements that you can get the most out of on the wedding day, arrangements that can start in one place of the venue and then be moved by ourselves or the wedding venue staff to a second location, thus making the most of your £1000.00 budget.

A popular arrangement would be a Long and Low arrangement. This is as stated in the name: long and low, starting on your ceremony table and then moved to adorn your top table (although some couples choose to have slightly different arrangements such as bud vases or meadows, so this is not the only option, best to discuss this further with your designated florist during your consultation). Long and Low arrangements tend to cost between £160.00 to £200.00 roughly so it’s important that you utilise this display as much as possible, it will frame you both beautifully so would be a crime not to.
Aisle Arrangements Repurposed for Guest Tables
Depending on how many guest tables you have will depend on what kind of guest table centrepieces that you can have.
A good way to get the most out of your wedding florals and actually look after them for the day so that they stay looking as lovely as they do when delivered is to hire vases for your guest tables that your bridesmaids and bridal bouquet can be placed into. Whether you choose to decorate your guest tables with them or not, we would recommend having vases on standby anyway! They could decorate cocktail tables, the bar, gift and cards table, the possibilities are endless.

But if you do happen to have over 5-6 tables, then repurposing the bouquets is a fab and budget optimising option.
Look to our latest blog: Guest Table Options for Weddings in 2026/27 Blog for ideas on the rest of your guest tables. However, we would recommend perhaps 5-6 tables of three mixed bud vases and candles per table, coming in at a budget friendly price of £45.00 - £75.00 including hire, that could be dotted along the aisle or around the room holding the ceremony. For this budget, it really is about optimising all your wedding florals and showing them off as much as possible!
































































