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Order Spring flowers for your springtime wedding and you may save hundreds of dollars on your wedding florals. How much you should expect to pay for your flowers depends on your personal preferences and your wedding budget. Most brides will spend between 7% and 10% of their wedding dollar on flowers.  For the bride spending the national average of over $27,000 on her entire wedding, that translates into thousands! It’s not uncommon for a bride to spend over $200 for a professionally designed bridal bouquet alone, even if she is on a tight budget and over $3,000 for her entire wedding floral display and accoutrements. There are many ways to cut costs and still have an exquisite wedding and reception...

Old-world customs often continue to thrive imperfectly—that is, in diluted, disguised, or upgraded form--even though they are obsolete.  For example, the custom of the father presenting the bride:  the “giving away” of the bride is a Protestant heritage.  In Roman Catholic and Jewish weddings, the bride's father escorts, but does not “give away” his daughter.