Planning a destination wedding in Mexico and a planner just quoted me almost $40,000 for FLOWERS. Please tell me this is absurd???

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Could be pesos? Roughly $2,000

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Look for florists who have good reviews/word of mouth but no store front. Can cut your quote in half. I got married in Malibu and got some equally crazy quotes from florists that have little boutique shops, but got equally great flowers from a florist that does weddings but rents temporary weekend work space at the flower market and works out of their house for less than half what others were quoting.

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I got a similar quote for a wedding in Hawaii. Apparently they have to ship the flowers to the island, because they don't have enough space to grow them locally? Insane.

Ended up being covid canceled though.

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We paid like $10k for flowers in the mountains. I had a good setup but nothing insane (eg hanging from the ceiling or specific flower type requests)

There’s also a flower shortage in covid

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Oh also give multiple similar flowers you are potentially ok with (e.g. garden roses or peonies, ranunculus or anemones/mini roses) and multiple shades of the same color and they can buy whatever is on sale. I was specific about my bouquet and things like that but was ok mixing it up a bit on the tables as long as the overall look and color palette worked. Dahlias are beautiful and huge and come in lots of colors (and aren’t expensive).

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Yeah time to go to another florist! If you don’t care about flower type ask about what is local and in season. You could do beautiful tropical flowers like birds of paradise and it should definitely not be that expensive!!

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I had a friend get married in Mexico and received a similar quote.

Sounds like a lot. Doing my wedding in Latin America and it’s maybe like $2k

That’s insane!!!!! That could be someone’s annual salary spent on flowers for a day. Are they out of their mind?!

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