Wedding Florists in Cornwall

Browse wedding florists across Cornwall and enquire directly - plus where a flower budget actually goes, what the season does to a quote, and how to make the ceremony flowers work twice.

Flowers are the part of a wedding most often specified by photograph and quoted by hand, which is why two prices for "something like this" can be hundreds of pounds apart. What moves the number is rarely the florist. It is how many separate arrangements you have asked for, and what is growing when you get married.

Where a flower budget actually goes

Most couples think of the bouquet first, and it is seldom the largest line. A typical order is the bridal bouquet, bouquets for the wedding party, buttonholes and corsages, something at the ceremony, table centrepieces, and whatever sits at the entrance and on the cake table. Centrepieces are where the total quietly multiplies: twelve tables is twelve arrangements, and it is the number of tables rather than their size that drives the cost.

As a rough shape, a Cornish wedding flower order commonly lands between £800 and £2,500, with the bridal bouquet somewhere around £120 to £250 of that. Delivery, setting up at the venue and collecting afterwards are sometimes separate lines rather than part of the quote, so ask which yours is.

Season, and what it does to a quote

Cornwall has a long growing season by British standards, and a florist working with what is available here in June has far more to choose from than the same florist in January. Anything specific and out of season has to be brought in, and you pay for that twice: once in the stem price, and once in the risk that what arrives is not quite what was ordered. The cheaper and steadier approach is to give the florist a palette and a feeling rather than a list of species, and let them buy what is good that week. Ask what will be at its best on your date, and what they would use if the first choice does not come in.

Small arrangements or one thing people stop at

There is a genuine choice between spreading the budget across an arrangement on every surface and putting it into one or two pieces at the points where people actually stop and look - the ceremony backdrop, or a single run down a long table. Ask your florist which of your list they would cut if the budget came down by a quarter. One who answers without hesitating has thought about your room rather than your order form, and that is the difference worth paying for.

Making the ceremony flowers work twice

Ceremony arrangements are looked at for half an hour and are often the largest pieces on the invoice. Moving them through to the reception is a common request and worth raising early, because it needs planning rather than goodwill: somebody has to be free during the gap, the venue has to allow access between the two spaces, and the pieces have to be built so they can be lifted at all. Ask whether the florist will do it, whether it is charged, and what it costs to have them stay on site for the changeover.

Ask too what happens to everything the next morning. Vases, stands, arches and plinths are usually hired rather than yours, and somebody has to gather them up and return them by whenever the hire ends. Agree who that is while you are agreeing everything else, not at eleven the following morning.

Figures on this page are a guide only. What you actually pay depends on the supplier, the time of year, and what each quote includes - always confirm the details directly with the supplier.