The Wedding Planner

[ailbhe]

I have finally found a florist who is (a) not booked already and (b) willing and able to do pot-plant hire. I am going to see them on Thursday morning.

It's going to be expensive. I want a bunch of daisies, and apparently it's going to cost 30 UK pounds. The bridesmaids flowers may well cost about the same. Perhaps I will go very very heavy on the cheap decorating plants and light on the more expensive, pretty ones.

I have also spoken to a printer; getting "order of service" type things done will be about 30 quid as well, which seems reasonable. And they'll do it from jpg, which means that they won't mess up any of the Swedish or Irish parts. The trick now is to get my ceremony finalised and laid out so that I can produce these jpgs.

Comments

[djm4]

Geek Answer Syndrome (ignore at will): if you can possibly get them to do it from a PNG or TIFF - and if you can create those - the quality should be better. JPEG encoding works well with photographs, but tends to make type look fuzzy or fringed.

They wanted Word docs

[ailbhe]

They rejected postscript, and suggested jpg. I will make sure to include png and tiff on the disk, though, so that they can use them if they're able to.

Or maybe I'll manage to print them myself, there's no way of knowing yet.

[astrogeek.livejournal.com]

30 pounds for a bride's bouquet seems pretty good value to me. I will be paying more like 100-150.

[ailbhe]

Gosh. That's... amazing. I assume you're having something a little more flamboyant than I am?

I'm astounded at 30 pounds, because I want a bunch of daisies, and I've seen them in buckets outside florists for a fiver. As far as I can see, I'm paying 25 pounds to make sure they are in the shop for collection on the day. It's the "wedding" markup.

However, I have no choice unless I want to risk not having flowers, so I'll bite down and bear it.

A.

[astrogeek.livejournal.com]

well, the price of virtually everything doubles on Martha's Vineyard, but yes, I am going for a bouquet containing a mixture of pale pink roses and wildflowers, so slightly more extravagant than a bunch of daisies. Still, wedding bouquets generally cost upwards of 100 pounds ime.

[nitoda]

I think the thing you are maybe less aware of is the amount of work it takes to turn the basic bunch of flowers into an actual pukka bouquet. You don't want to be walking down the aisle with the wet stems of flowers in your hands or dripping onto your clothes, which is what you would have with your basic bunch. The florist's art is in presenting the flowers so that they stay looking good and, well, arranged!

I think 30 pounds seems quite reasonable to me ... but in general the cost of weddings does horrify me.

The work involved in making a bouquet

[ailbhe]

Well, I've done it; flower-arranging (and flower-pressing) were a reasonably clarge part ofmy childhood. What I think is the problem is that they don't know that I actually want a bunch of cut flowers, without a holder; this is one reason I chose ox-eye daisies, as they cope very well with being out of water and unprotected long enough to let the stems dry off. We'll see what they say after I go and actually meet them tomorrow morning. Perhaps I can get them to just give me the flowers and let me "arrange" them.