What is a cheap flower for my boquet. I am thinking gerber daisies will be cheap, but i?
If you want to save money, buying “cheap” flowers may not save a whole lot of money, though. Case in point: For example, Carnations and Daisies are inexpensive in terms of the stem price, usually ~75 cents a stem. Premium Oriental Lilies, on the other hand, can be very expensive, around $10 a stem. To make a bridal bouquet with carnations, you would need about 20-30 stems of carnations. You would also need a filler (a cheap one would be ‘Baby’s Breath) and some greeneries, so the total cost would be about $25-30. Oriental Lilies have 3-4 blooms per stem and they are BIG. So, to make a bridal bouquet with lilies, you only need 3-4 stems of good-quality lilies (NOT a Supermarket-kind). You don’t need fillers or greeneries for lily bouquet. So the total cost would be about $30-40, more expensive than carnation bouquet, sure, but not as different as the per-stem price difference might suggest (75 cents versus $10). If you want to save money in wedding flowers, the best course of action is