How Much Do Wedding Flowers Cost in the UK? A 2027 Guide
If you've started planning your wedding and wondering how much to budget for flowers, you're definitely not alone. Flowers can completely transform a venue. But once you start adding bouquets, buttonholes, centrepieces, aisle flowers and those beautiful statement installations you've saved on Pinterest, the numbers can quickly add up!
So, what should you realistically budget for wedding flowers in 2027?
How much do wedding flowers cost?
There isn't one simple answer. Your final cost will depend on the flowers you choose, the season, the size of your wedding and, perhaps most importantly, just how floral you want your day to feel.
As a general guide for fresh flowers, couples might expect to spend on average:
Bridal bouquet: £100–£200
Bridesmaid bouquet: £60–£100 each
Buttonholes: £10–£20 each
Table centrepieces: £70–£150 per table
Small-medium aisle flowers: £50–£100 per arrangement
Large urn arrangements: £150–£300 each
Statement floral arch: £500–£1,500
For a wedding with personal flowers, ceremony arrangements and reception flowers, it's very easy for the overall floral budget to reach £1,500–£3,000 or more.
And if you've fallen in love with the abundant, flower-filled weddings filling your Pinterest boards? Large-scale fresh floristry can run considerably higher.
According to BrideBook's UK Wedding Report data, UK couples getting married in 2025 spent an average of £1,132 on flowers. The average wedding itself cost £20,822, excluding the engagement ring and honeymoon. That’s about 5% of a couple’s overall budget.
Why are wedding flowers so expensive?
It's easy to look at a bouquet and think you're simply paying for the flowers. In reality, you’re paying for much more.
In reality, you're paying for much more.
A wedding florist may spend months planning your designs before ordering, conditioning and preparing hundreds, sometimes thousands, of individual stems. Arrangements then need to be created, carefully transported and installed at your venue, often within a very small window on the morning of your wedding.
Large installations can require several florists, specialist mechanics, vans and hours of work.
Beautiful fresh floristry is a craft, and its price reflects that.
Where should I spend my flower budget?
If you're working with a limited budget, my biggest piece of advice is this: Don’t try to put flowers everywhere.
Instead, think about where they'll have the greatest impact. A beautiful statement arch behind you during your ceremony will appear in countless photographs. That can then be moved to your top table later in the day to punctuate the space and be re-photographed for all of your speeches.
A generous run of aisle flowers can be taken and put onto your dining tables to create beautiful centrepieces.
The best, cost-effective trick in the book is getting your venue, florist, or stylist to move your pieces around throughout your day. A collection of 8 flowers can be used in the place of 24 flowers if planned well!
It's not necessarily about having more flowers. It's about making every arrangement work harder.
Can I DIY my flowers?
The short answer is yes! And for some couples, DIY flowers can be a brilliant way to save money.
If you're happy buying flowers yourself, have a creative eye and don't mind spending the time arranging them, DIY can work particularly well for simpler pieces such as bud vases, small centrepieces or bouquets.
But there are a few things worth thinking about before committing.
With fresh flowers, you'll need to buy and condition your stems, order them with enough time to bloom before your day, store them somewhere cool, create your arrangements close to the wedding day and then work out how everything is getting to the venue. This is not as easy as it sounds, and there is a reason fresh florists charge a lot for their services - it takes a lot of skill and expertise to get right.
With faux flowers, the initial cost can be surprisingly high. You will want to make sure the flowers are good-quality stems and actually fill the bouquet or arrangement. This can mean buying a lot of flowers, as well as vases, mechanics, stands, and structures.
Whichever DYI route you choose, you will need storage and space. Most of what you buy, you’ll likely never need again (thank god for Vinted and Facebook market place!) But from purchase to sale, you will need to be prepared for your home to look like a florist’s stock room!
You might DIY your bud vases or smaller personal touches while hiring the larger pieces that are more expensive and difficult to create and transport yourself – such as arches, aisle meadows, urns and statement centrepieces.
That way, you still get the satisfaction (and savings!) of adding your own creative touches without spending the morning before your wedding constructing a six-foot floral installation.
I love the abundant, romantic floral styling you see in beautiful editorial weddings. Maybe a good mix between professional and self-made it the best way to ensure couples get that wow-factor without breaking the bank!