Personal flowers
Bouquets, boutonnieres, corsages, and crowns — the flowers your people carry and wear.
Also called: bouquet, bridal bouquet, bouquets, boutonniere, boutonnieres, buttonhole, corsage, wrist corsage, flower crown, toss bouquet, hair flowers, petal basket, flower girl, personal flowers, wearable 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 color palette and style are you picturing?
What bouquet shape do you love?
Want a toss bouquet?
What to ask each candidate
Facts that differ from one vendor to the next — worth writing down while you shop.
How are out-of-season or unavailable stems handled?
What settles once booked
The working details you and your vendor pin down together.
Pieces needed
DERIVED from party roles — the count that's easiest to get wrong by hand.
Color palette & style
Bouquet shape
Toss bouquet?
Where and when do personal flowers arrive?
Who pins boutonnieres and corsages?
Preserving the bouquet afterward?
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
Personal flowers delivered
Lands at the getting-ready suite during hair & makeup, before photos start.
Boutonnieres & corsages pinned
How it’s usually priced
Usually priced per arrangement.
Lines that sometimes ride along: Delivery (per drop-off location).
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 day, design, pieces, logistics, contacts.
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Plan your personal flowers — 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.