Mossy Votive Jar

Here's a lovely idea if you are doing an eco-chic or organic wedding.  Think simple, clean, streamlined, with classical earth elements:  moss, water, glass, fire.  Contact me if you'd like a price on these for your tables.  These are great as part of a breakaway centerpiece.  I have moss branches and bark available, as well.  Low cost but what an impact...

Sunflower Centerpiece / Coloma and Placerville Wedding Flowers Florist

Here's a great option for a low centerpiece: a beautiful single bloom on zen rocks (or could be on flirty transparent glass gems). This is a great value and can be used with any large blooms - think gerber daisies, fuji mums, football mums, garden roses, etc. Cut your reception costs by alternating high and low wedding centerpieces - and it gives the eye visual relief and provides interest. See my website for this affordable centerpiece!

Valentine's Day Not Budget for Brides / Sacramento and Lake Tahoe Wedding Flowers Florist

See these lovely Renoir callas? I was just at my flower vendors on Friday, to see what was new and fresh for February (more on that in a minute!). As you know, prices on anything goes up when there is a high demand for them. That includes perishable flowers around any holiday, but especially Valentine's Day (you may not think about it...but don't get married around Mother's Day if you don't want to pay high prices, either!). Prices are up, up, up for this major floral holiday. Farms charge more to the wholesalers, the wholesale vendors charge more to the florists, and the florists must mark up their product as well. It's not that the florists are out to make a bigger buck on you...their costs skyrocket and that gets passed to you.

Where was I? Oh yes, the lovely callas. I saw a similar color at my vendor's on Friday...and keep in mind, that these are small posey callas...they come in a bunch of ten stems, which isn't barely a handful...and these callas, for TEN of them, would retail at...gasp...$78 right now! So when you are choosing the date, keep in mind that the two weeks prior to a major flower holiday, the prices are rising. After the holiday, quality would be a concern to me. If you can avoid those times, so much better for your budget!

Oh! But there are some lovely options this time of year. At the end of January, the flowering branches started coming in. Forsythia, at 5 to 6 feet tall; flowering plum; flowering quince with coral blooms.

WOW! Bargain Wedding Dress for the Fabulous Frugal Bride / Sacramento Lake Tahoe Wedding Flowers Florist

I was doing some research for a new concept I have, and came across a blog that has great, informal wedding dress for....LESS THAN $100!!!! They are known designers, for the most part, in a variety of sizes including plus size wedding dresses, and when you visit the ebay link that the photos take you to, it looks like they are bridal shop samples.

Still, look at the dress above. A Maggie Sottero wedding dress, and I love the wrap that goes around to the back. It is lovely, and not one of your guests will guess it only cost you....$51!!!! WOW!!!

For the frugal and fabulous budget brides out there, here is another way to save some hard-earned cash on your wedding.

Click on the title which is linked to >http://www.idotaketwo.com/shopping/wedding-dresses.php

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Wedding Flowers Average Cost for Placerville Area / Sacramento and Lake Tahoe Wedding Flowers Florist

Here's a neat little tool that calculates the average cost brides spend on wedding flowers in the Placerville area. Wow! Compare that with what I charge - remember, my prices are listed on my website - and I'm a bargain!!



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Rose Petal Power! / Lake Tahoe Wedding Flowers Florist

Victoria is deciding whether to choose hot pink rose petals for the base of her venue-provided candelabras, or to go with mixed color rose petals. I charge much less for the mixed color rose petals as my vendor charges me much less. For a specific color, I have to actually buy roses in the color that you want. The bag of mixed rose petals that I buy from my vendor is equal to approximately 75 roses, or three bunches. So Victoria, here is a collage for you. On the top row, first and second on the left, are mixed rose petals on the sand table and on the sweetheart table that I decorated for Beckie's wedding two weeks ago. The other photos are ones I found on the internet with hot pink rose petals.

Collage by Monique Wilber, A Special Day Designs
Mixed flowers petals photos by Monique Wilber, A Special Day Designs

Other photos from:
Vineyard Event Garden
Rhonda Patton Weddings
The Knot
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An Inspiration Board for Cassie in Coral / Sacramento Amador County Wedding Flowers Florist

Cassie is getting married in September in a lovely outdoor Amador County location. She is looking for simple and classic flowers with clean lines in coral and salmon tones. I think that her rose bouquet will be lovely and colorful, and she's chosen chic white carn tight streamlined maids' bouquets (minus the black wrapping in Martha's photo). Mono-color mounded centerpieces of seasonal flowers will be in brown metal rental urns. Prices are based on the Seasonal Flowers Collections. Cassie, this inspiration board is for you!

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