A La Carte Wedding Flowers

If you feel a bit overwhelmed and don’t want all the fuss of designing your wedding flowers, attending consultations and finding ideas, then our a la carte selection may be for you. Almost like selecting a meal from a menu, you choose the types of arrangement you like and we will create them! its a streamlined system, just great value wedding flowers.

How does it work-

Get in Touch - Please fill in our contact form on our wedding page mentioning you are interested in the a la carte option.. Within a couple of days we will get back to you, once we have checked we have availability for your date.

After looking at our pdf brochure (which we will email you), reply to us with which arrangements you might like, ensuring your name and wedding date is in the subject line.  

Quote - Within a few days of receiving your email, we will send you back a fully itemised quotation for your wedding flowers, based on the details given. 

Send Contract and Booking fee - when you have checked through your order and you are happy with it. Please sign the e-contract and send the £50 non refundable booking fee (which is deducted from the total balance). Once these are received your date is reserved on our diary. 

 Make Minor Changes - About 6 weeks before your big day, we will get back in touch to double check all the details. This is when we finalise the order, so any small changes need to be made at this point. 

 Final Payment - please pay the final balance a month before your wedding date. 

 Enjoy Your Flowers! - We know our flowers well, and will always pick the very best we have to offer on your wedding date. They will be freshly picked and expertly arranged just as they are in our full service offering.

We will have your flowers all ready for you to pick up the day before your wedding for 1pm. If you wish to collect at a different time please let us know. Also, please ensure you have plenty of room in your car as it is surprising how much room they can take.

If you wish to discuss the possibility and price of delivery instead, please let us know at the questionnaire stage, as we cannot guarantee we will be available to deliver nearer the date. 

Are Wedding Flowers Bad for the Environment?

Sustainability Policy

This is a question, as with many environmental issues that can have lots of different answers and opinions. Here are our thoughts at the The Flower Farm.

We pride ourself on our honesty regarding environmental issues within our business. While we strive to run The Flower Farm as greenly as we can, we are not perfect and have to be realistic. We are always looking for ways to provide our customers with exactly what they want in the most sustainable way possible.

We are working hard to reduce our carbon footprint and the amount of waste we produce to reduce our impact on the environment.

We aim to provide the highest quality flowers, in the varieties you love, whilst giving you the most value for money, in the most sustainable way possible.

 Please feel free to discuss the environmental impacts of your flower choices with us if you so wish, if you prefer sustainability, say  over choice of varieties, or price, do let us know and we can work with you to create something beautiful and sustainable.

Seasonal flowers

We love seasonal flowers, in our opinion you cannot beat them, they are the best value for money, travel the smallest distances, and just look right for the time of year. We always consider where our flowers come from, and how they are grown to reduce the amount of transportation and air miles. We aim to work with our own, homegrown flowers first and foremost; followed by other British flower growers, and where possible will opt for seasonal and British varieties in our designs before anything else.

However, a lot of flowers used in the floristry industry are imported from other countries, we are always happy to use them, especially during the winter months or if they are specifically requested to get the look you want for your wedding date, for example if you love roses or gypsophila it is often difficult to source British grown ones that are good enough quality to meet our high standards, so we would more often than not import them, always trying to choose a product that has been grown and produced in an ethical and sustainable way.

Reduce and recycle waste

All our green waste is separated from any other rubbish and composted. Any additional cardboard or plastics that can be recycled are.

Our flowers are either picked specifically for your designs, or when ordered in, in the specific required amounts to ensure a minimal storage time so you get to enjoy the flowers at their freshest. This reduces any need for refrigeration and cuts down on the amount of water used to hydrate the flowers.

Minimal use of floral foam

Floral foam provides great support for flower stems and as it is so absorbent, provides a good source of water. However, it is a plastic which does not break down in landfill.

Oasis, the main producer of floral foam has developed a new bio-degradable floral foam which is now our first choice if we need to use foam, however where financially and time efficiently practical, we are opting for alternative methods and more natural materials to form a base for our designs.  

Re-use and recycle packaging and mechanics

Our gift bouquets or bridal bouquets are presented in glass jars or vases which can be reused, rather than in boxes.

Rather than using new plastic containers for all our floral designs we consider more eco-friendly alternatives if it fits with your style, such as milk churns, wooden crates or cut-glass vases that have been upcycled.

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Where possible we offer free hire of containers for our weddings rather than sourcing new for every event. The vases and stands we already own are available to use free of charge along side your flower order with us.

Business policies

We use a green electric supplier and don’t use any artificial lights on our homegrown blooms. We also try to avoid the use of pesticides on our homegrown flowers, in fact we haven’t used any at all in the last three years. We also reuse our seed trays and pots each year and use a peat free compost.

All our quotes, contracts and invoices are sent via email to cut down on paper and energy used for printing.

Our delivery routes are planned to make sure we use the most direct route and reduce fuel emissions. 

We only offer flowers for weddings within our region, the North West of England, we don’t travel all over the country or into Europe.

Wedding Venues

What ever the venue, whether your ceremony is in a church, hotel, stately home or even a field, we can work with you to make your flowers fit the venue perfectly.

Here is a list of some of the venues we have had the pleasure to decorate over the last few years in Lancashire, Merseyside, Cheshire and Cumbria, including some stunning Lake District and Ribble Valley venues.

Just in case you are still trying to find your perfect venue, we would recommend them all!-

Meols Hall, Southport - meolshall.co.uk

Briars Hall, Burscough - briarshallhotel.co.uk

West Tower, Aughton - westtower.com

Hurlston Hall, Ormskirk - hurlstonhall.co.uk

Liverpool Town Hall - liverpooltownhall.co.uk

Oh Me Oh My, Liverpool - .ohmeohmyliverpool.co.uk

Hoghton Tower, Preston - hoghtontower.co.uk

Beeston Manor, Preston - beestonmanor.com

Gibbon Bridge, Chipping - gibbon-bridge.co.uk

Waddow Hall, Clitheroe - girlguidingactivitycentres.org.uk

Mitton Hall, Clitheroe - mittonhallhotel.co.uk

Shireburn Arms, Hurst Green - shireburnarmshotel.co.uk

Holmes Mill, Clitheroe - holmesmill.co.uk

Formby Hall, Formby - formbyhallgolfresort.co.uk

Knowsley Hall, Liverpool - knowsleyhallvenue.co.uk

Eaves Hall, Clitheroe - eaveshall.co.uk

The Villa at Wrea Green - thevillawreagreen.co.uk

Bartle Hall, Preston - bartlehall.co.uk

Brockholes, Preston - brockholes.org

Salmesbury Hall, Preston - samlesburyhall.co.uk

Farrington Lodge, Leyland - classiclodges.co.uk/farington-lodge

Bashall Barn, Clitheroe - bashallbarn.co.uk

The Out Barn, Clitheroe - cloughbottom.co.uk

The Inn at Whitewell - innatwhitewell.com

Browsholme Barn and Hall - browsholme.com

Ashfield House, Wigan - .ashfieldhouseweddings.co.uk

The Wellbeing Farm - thewellbeingfarm.co.uk

Sefton Palm House - palmhouse.org.uk

Silverholme, Ulverston - graythwaite.com

Broadoaks Country House, Windermere - broadoakscountryhouse.co.uk

Langdale Chase, Windermere - langdalechase.co.uk

Coppermines, Conniston - copper mines.co.uk

Sandhole Oak Barn, Congleton - sandholeoakbarn-weddings.co.uk

Thornton Manor, Cheshire - thorntonmanor.co.uk

Hilltop Country House, Macclesfield - yourhilltopwedding.com

Heskin Hall, Eccleston - heskinhall.com

Charnock Farm, Leyland - .charnockfarm.co.uk

Holland Hall, Upholland - hollandhall.co.uk

Rivington Hall Barn, Chorley - rivingtonhallbarn.co.uk

Croston Old School, Croston - croston-old-school.org

The Great Hall at Mains - thegreathallatmains.co.uk

The Old Courts, Wigan - theoldcourts.com

The Oak Tree of Peover - oaktreeofpeover.co.uk

The Titanic, Liverpool - titanichotelliverpool.com

Hobbit Hill, Clitheroe - hobbithill.co.uk

Eden Barn, Kirkby Stephen - edenbarn.co.uk

Larkspur Lodge, Knutsford - larkspurlodge.co.uk

Coleslaw Hall, Knutsford - colshawhall.com