Getting the Most for Your Wedding Floral Budget

Use transitional floral arrangements that can be used for both the ceremony and the reception.

Let’s face it…..we all have a budget. Rarely does a bride have unlimited funds from which to work with. Although our venue has an Open-Vendor Policy (we welcome all of our brides to choose their own vendors for florals, catering, dj’s, rentals, etc), we encourage our brides to meet with Lauren, our on-staff floral designer. Lauren will work with you to help you get the most out of your wedding budget. Many of our fresh flowers are grown right here at our nursery as well as a local flower farm, while others are sourced from a large floral wholesaler that all local florist’s in the area use for things we don’t grow. A great way to stretch your floral budget is to create statement pieces for the ceremony in our Wedding Barn that can be easily transported into our Reception Venue to be used in key places. Aisle-marker floral pieces can be used at the entrance of the church pew aisle and then transitioned into the reception room following the ceremony. The reception venue’s doorway entrance, photo wall backdrop or head table are popular places for these ceremony florals to be re-used, and enjoyed throughout both the ceremony and the reception.

Aisle-marker arrangements created by the floral designer at Metzger Gardens are then moved to the reception venue to adorn the sweetheart table. This particular arrangement is composed of a mixture of florals Metzger Gardens grew in our on-site nursery, some are from a local flower farm while about half were sourced from a wholesale florist supply company.

Originally used for the ceremony as aisle-marker arrangements, these arrangements make a lovely transition to the reception venue to add a soft gentle blooming element to the head table.