u/c_c186

Would love to see ideas like what flowers, candles, menus were used :)

90% of our wedding flowers are out of season, but I located a greenhouse grower (and tested them) that can provide enough of the needed flower for our date.

The florist we contracted doesn’t have a guaranteed grower because they are being shipped from out of the country and they’re weather dependent. She told me her sources told her that no one in the US can do it.

My grower is greenhouse, and within the U.S. they’re not technically wholesale, unless you’re getting 5-10k stems and usually they wholesale in person to not deal with overnight shipping.

I was able to get the amount of stems my florist needs for $1500 shipped over night. It’s not wholesale, but a little better than website pricing. Our florist is charging us 10.5k for all our wedding florals.
I feel like this pricing isn’t unreasonable, but if it is what’s the best way to move forward with the florist if she can’t source the flowers, split the cost of the stems? The only thing that’s not included in the 1500 cost are maybe 100 rose heads and greenery.

I don’t know what profit margins florists try to hit, and I can tell everyone is unhappy so I’m just trying to make it work while still getting the flower type I originally asked for. When we hired her I don’t recall her telling me there’s a chance she would want to sub out or main flower, because our wedding is heavily themed after it.

Couple of our friends told us this morning that our wedding room block rates are higher than booking through the Marriott website, even as a non member.

I called our sales manager that’s in charge of our wedding events and our block and he said he would escalate it and get back to me. He told me to just tell the families waiting to book to not book yet through the website.

He called me back just now to tell me that he got the overall rates made higher so now my room block is the cheapest option.
How is that ethical? When he told me to tell our friends and family to not book the cheapest rate, but to wait until he gets back to me. If I knew this I would have had them book.
Instead of adjusting our rates, they just raised the overall price?

It’s just not sitting right with me and I’m pretty upset that I now have to tell my friends the rates were raised.

Trying to figure out if we should splurge for a white/ white oak checkerboard floor for inside our venue. Right now it’s just a plain white oak floor, no carpets. The dance floor is not required by the venue.

I’ve been seeing them a lot lately so not sure if it’s just one of those things that will be dated in a while. Of course everything will be, but I just feel it’s trending more so than other things

They didn’t mention it to me or give me a heads up that I was invited, I had to RSVP through email.
It starts after the boutique closes, so I’m just not sure what I am walking into.

I’d like to note that I am not a big spender, especially for this particular boutique I’d be considered really small.