Inflation has led budding newlyweds to cut costs in ways they may never have expected, and that includes trimming the rising cost of flowers for their ceremonies. Zola, a wedding planning site, says the 2024 average price tag for a wedding is over $30,000.
Wedding experts blame it on inflation, which has hit all categories of planning a wedding, even down to the flowers that are picked. Some couples and florists are having sticker shock from the rising prices. A New York bride says she wanted the "whole nine yards" for her wedding day.
"I knew I wanted flowers everywhere," says bride-to-be Emily Reynolds, who was determined to create the wedding of her dreams. "I even wanted a floral chandelier that I saw on Pinterest, and I thought, I need to have that."
But it was the price of flowers that made her rethink how her wedding planning would go. "The prices were starting at [$8,000]," she says.
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