Reception florals
Flowers and arrangements for your reception. Build the arrangement list and the plan counts centerpieces from your tables.
Also called: florist, flowers, florals, centerpieces, floral design, table flowers.
When couples book this
Usually booked about 9 months out. It moves with your date.
Your wishlist, before you talk to anyone
Questions you can answer early — they become the yardstick you compare candidates against.
What floral style are you picturing?
What colors are you picturing?
Wishlist mirror of the color_palette design field below — a few words is plenty while shopping.
What do you most want the flowers to do?
Wishlist mirror of the installations candidate fact — where the couple wants the budget to land.
What to ask each candidate
Facts that differ from one vendor to the next — worth writing down while you shop.
Large installations
What settles once booked
The working details you and your vendor pin down together.
Color palette & style
Centerpieces needed
DERIVED from the table inventory. Add head-table and sweetheart variations as separate line items.
Personal flowers (bouquets, boutonnieres, corsages)
DERIVED from party roles — the count that's easiest to get wrong by hand.
Reuse ceremony flowers at the reception?
The flip is the single biggest florals cost-saver — coordinated with ceremony florals and the day-of coordinator.
Delivery, setup & strike
What time do they arrive?
The time you agreed together, not an estimate worked back from the ceremony.
What time do they finish?
Who do you call on the day?
The name and cell number of whoever is on site — not the office line.
Where do they come in, and where do they park?
The load-in door or dock, where the vehicles go, and who opens up.
Do they need a meal?
Counts toward your caterer's vendor-meal number.
What balance is due on the day?
Your own figure, from your contract — what is still owed when they arrive.
What gratuity are you planning?
Your own figure. It rides beside the balance on the day-of money sheet.
Who clears the flowers at the end?
Who takes flowers home, and which ones?
Names and arrangements. Vases that belong to the florist usually stay — worth writing down which are which.
How it lands on your day
Floral delivery & setup
Floral strike
How it’s usually priced
Usually priced per arrangement.
Lines that sometimes ride along: Delivery, setup & strike, Vase / vessel rental, Large installation (arch, ceiling, wall).
What your vendor reads from your plan
Book on or off Beetrothed — either way the plan assembles a brief your vendor can work from: the event, design, arrangements, full list, logistics, contacts.
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Plan your reception florals — and everything around it
These questions live as one cell of a connected plan: your budget, guest list, checklist and timeline all read from the same answers. See the whole board work, or join the waitlist and we’ll write when it’s your turn.
We will write when there is something worth telling you.