Bloomstall Flower Blog - Everything Flowers - Florist in Columbia, Tennessee

Is it cheaper to buy flowers from a florist?  The short answer is no.  Grocery stores and big box retailers purchase their flowers in bulk.  Their buying power allows them to drive the price down.  Flowers are often a loss leader for grocery stores.  That means that they take a loss on flowers to drive you into the store by advertising cheap prices. A florist is typically more expensive, and the reason is that they are a professional and your flower arrangement will be carefully created by them.  Many grocery store bouquets are little more than six or so of...

Collinsdictionary.com states A florist is a shopkeeper who arranges and sells flowers and sells house plants.  This paints a very small picture and does not really capture the artistry of being a florist.  Many modern florists also do not sell house plants. A florist is more than a shopkeeper.  They are designers and artists that express their artistic vision in flora.  Flower arranging is a skillset and art that requires years of practice and education to perform correctly.  It's easy to drop flowers into a vase, it's hard to arrange and cut them to a desired shape that is aesthetically pleasing.  It's...

A florist is not merely someone who sells flowers and plants as the Merriam-Webster dictionary states.  A florist is a flower designer, even a floral artist.  A florist purchases flowers from floral wholesalers and local growers and then designs and creates floral arrangements.  Independent florists create their own unique designs while florists in a network like FTD or Teleflora copy designs that the network approves. It isn't very often that a full time, brick and mortar florist is also a flower grower.  There just simply isn't enough time to do both jobs well. Flower farming is a full time just...

The top reasons to order from a local florist instead of online from websites like FTD and Telefora are: When you use a local florist, you are dealing with the actual people that will design the flower arrangement you purchase. When you pay a local florist directly all of the money goes to that florist, no percentage is paid to order taking websites like FTD. When you pay a local florist, your money stays in that community. When you use a local, independent florist your flowers won't look like a carbon copy of the run of the mill, old fashioned...

Whether or not $1000 is enough to spend on wedding flowers depends on several factors including your location, the number of flowers you want at your wedding, and how much of your overall budget will be dedicated to flowers. We would suggest that $1000 is a good starting point for personal wedding flowers.  Personal wedding flowers are those that will be carried by the bride, her bridesmaids, the groom and groomsmen, and anyone else that is in the wedding party.  A bridal bouquet can cost anywhere from $200 to $800 alone, depending on the size and types of flowers used. ...