What wedding flowers actually cost in London, Ontario
People don't ask this question because they're cheap. They ask because nobody tells them, and the internet gives them numbers that don't mean anything — American averages, vague ranges, lists that somehow manage to say everything and nothing at once.
So here's a straight answer from someone who actually quotes and makes wedding florals in London, Ontario.
For personals only — a bridal bouquet, bridesmaids, boutonnieres, corsages, picked up from the studio — you're looking at somewhere between $600 and $1,800 depending on the size of your party. That's real flowers, designed work, made the week of your wedding.
Add a ceremony installation and you're starting around $2,000. A meaningful arch, something lush and considered, sits closer to $3,500 to $4,500. The installations that actually stop people — the ones that look like they grew there — cost more than that.
Full service, meaning personals plus ceremony plus reception tablescapes, starts around $3,500 for something simple and goes up from there. Most weddings that want all of it done well land somewhere between $5,000 and $8,000. Large-scale or heavily designed work goes beyond that.
The reason nobody gives you a clean number is that the number doesn't exist until someone knows what you're actually building. Two weddings with the same guest count can have wildly different floral budgets depending on whether one wants bud vases and the other wants compote arrangements and hanging installations. Labour, materials, and complexity drive the cost — not how many people are coming to dinner.
The things that move the number most: the size of your bridal party (each bouquet is real work), the scale of your ceremony installation (often the largest single line item), whether your ceremony and reception are in the same space (it changes what's possible to move and reuse), and what the season is actually offering. Requesting flowers that aren't growing anywhere near here in October is going to cost more than working with what's honest to the time of year.
The thing most couples underestimate is setup. A florist doing full-service work is at your venue for hours, transporting work that took days to prepare, placing each piece, often returning to collect everything afterward. That time is part of what you're paying for.
If you're planning a wedding in London and trying to set a realistic budget before reaching out to anyone: allow at least $1,500 if you want personal flowers only, at least $2,500 if you want a ceremony element, and at least $4,000 if you want the whole day considered. Those numbers won't get you everything — but they'll get you something honest.
If you want to talk through what's possible for your day specifically, the enquiry form is the place to start. Bring your budget. A good florist will tell you what's realistic within it.