We have our Florist

I have to say that wedding flowers is the one area JC & I had absolutely no idea how to budget for. How much do flowers cost? Who knows?? Apparently they can cost A LOT.

JC & I have some grand ideas about what we'd like to display at the wedding to keep with the "natural" theme we have going. We'd like to do some cool arrangements using grasses, herbs, and foliage but we also plan to have some beautiful bright flowers as well. JC has transplanted about 30 pg hydrangeas from his little garden plot in the city to his parents' house, so we're going to use lots of these big gorgeous blooms.

We really only interviewed 2 florists in CT: one is pretty well known in Mystic and does lots of events all over the state; the other was referred to us by my cousin Marsha (making her 2nd appearance in this blog!). When we got their proposals, I honestly wouldn't have been surprised if they were $1000 or $10000. Fortunately they weren't $10k, but they were more than we wanted to spend on flowers when there are other priorities (like food!) to focus on.

We decided to work with Leah, Marsha's referral, from It's So Ranunculus in Marlborough, CT. She was so cute and fun and excited about our ideas when we met w/ her. She's also very willing to work w/ any budget and is planning a "mock design" consultation for us because I have absolutely NO creative vision! I'm excited to watch her play w/ flowers and foliage to see what our arrangements are going to look like. Watch for more posts with pictures soon!