How much is a Princess Lasertron felt flower bouquet?

Posted on 13. Jun, 2011 by Princess Lasertron in bouquets, business

“How much is a Princess Lasertron bouquet?” is consistently the #3-5 top keyword search that leads people to my website. It’s easy to fill out our inquiry form, but I understand why it can be uncomfortable to approach designers with those blunt questions. I realize that it’s easier to research prices online without the emotional commitment of direct human contact, and until today my prices couldn’t be found online.

The more I learn about my industry, my customer, and my process, the more comfortable I get with transparency and communication about how my company works and what I have learned over the years in regards to pricing, technique, and marketing. I’d love to explain a little bit about our baseline pricing by sharing some of the most popular bouquets we’ve done and the value of the work that goes into them. I’ll also explain WHY we charge what we do and the value of each project that we do.

It’s important for me that you realize that none of our prices are rigidly set because each bride’s vision offers so many options for customization and flexibility. The fun part of dealing with an independent wedding vendor like me rather than a big-box florist or, on the other extreme, a hobbyist, is that you get to work one-on-one with a person who is emotionally invested in your love story and receive the value of my experience and the endorsement of the nearly 500 brides I have worked with.

How much are your bouquets?

Cristina’s Bouquet – $475

We made this bouquet last February. The bride asked me to take inspiration from Melissa’s bouquet (below) and add a few pops of color plus copious amounts of vintage jewelry, pearls, hand-beading, and ornate detail. When I began concepting the color balance and embellishments, I visualized something very dimensional with pops of color against a neutral base. The felt that we used as the base “white” color was dyed a very light–almost unnoticeable–blue-gray to soften the contrast between the colors. All of the buttons, jewelry, and pearls in this bouquet are vintage and were sourced from my favorite antique shop in Iowa (on my drive up to The Lake!). We created Cristina’s bouquet with eighteen hand-stitched flowers, vintage brooches and button flowers, and hand-dyed tulle mixed together.  Bouquets like these take around 35-40 hours to complete. Click here to see more of our work for Cristina’s wedding.

 

Melissa’s Bouquet – $450

Melissa’s bouquet is, by leaps and bounds, the most popular and requested bouquet we have ever made. This one is also very special to me because it was the first order I completed with Shannon, my first full-time employee. Rather than giving me a palette to work with, Melissa asked me to take inspiration from a selection of vintage fabrics for her outdoor, (rainy!), handmade, French flea market-inspired wedding. The value in this bouquet is in the hand-dyed peach felt, intricate teeny tiny stitches, hand-cut flowers, and vintage jewelry we used to accent some of the posie flowers we mixed in with the embroidered stems. I love this color balance–it’s perfect for the bride who isn’t afraid to show off DIY elements (I mean, these bouquets are never going to look like real flowers) but wants to keep everything very ethereal and “bridal.”  Click here to see more of our work for Melissa’s wedding, and also check out our post featuring her wedding photos.

Linda’s Bouquet – $350

This bouquet is actually one from our earlier years–many of our practices and techniques have changed since I did this order, but the rock ‘n roll palette and rhinestone buttons make it one of the most-requested designs we have done. By doing a mixture of embroidered and simpler ruffled flowers and posie flowers and keeping the stitching to quicker stitches and less intricate techniques, we are able to keep costs down for brides on a tighter budget who still want an embroidered flower bouquet. Click here to see more of our work for Linda’s wedding.

 

Leah’s Bouquet – $350

This bouquet was created a few years ago but remains one of our most-requested styles. I made Leah’s bouquet with about 180 stems of button flowers softened by a ring of fluffy posie flowers. Some colors are very hard to source in vintage buttons, such as teal, purple, and hot pink. When I receive orders that are heavy on those colors, I often source neutral-colored vintage buttons and color them myself. Just painting the buttons doesn’t work–the color can be uneven and even the thinnest coats of paint can obscure beautiful details inherent in vintage buttons. While working on Leah’s bouquet, I developed our technique for coloring buttons that keeps the original detail and shine of each button. Button-only bouquets like this one are also very heavy, which is something that lots of brides really like. It feels very substantial to carry. Just don’t toss it!  Click here to see more of our work for Leah’s wedding.

 

Tanya’s Bouquet – $325

Similar to Leah’s bouquet above, this button bouquet was made with about 150 button stems. I added three small embroidered flowers to bring in some more dimension and keep it from looking too “flat.” After Tanya saw the initial pictures she envisioned the butterfly perched on one of the stems, and this orange millinery butterfly was the perfect pop of color. Tanya’s bouquet was a little bit smaller as well–about 6-7” in diameter, and we easily sourced buttons for her white and blue theme.  Click here to see more of our work for Tanya’s wedding.

 

Alia’s Bouquet – $225

Our posie bouquets–fabric petals stitched together to create three-dimensional blooms–don’t require any embroidery so the amount of labor each bouquet requires is a fraction of the time we spend on each embroidered bouquet. This is why we can offer these designs at lower price points. I love how this design lends itself to so much customization–by changing the petal shape or adding details like dyed edges or extra layers we can create a completely different look without a huge investment in labor. Alia’s bouquet was the first we did with these black dyed edges which has gotten more popular since. We also mixed in regular posies around the edges and a few fringe-y pom flowers throughout the body of the bouquet to fill it out.  Click here to see more of our work for Alia’s wedding.

Asia’s Bouquet – $200

Asia’s bouquet was another one of the first posie bouquets we created. The graphic hand-painted polka dots were designed to add whimsy and almost connote a sort of animal print with their organic pattern. We also created several stems using Russian netting and vintage mother-of-pearl buttons. Centering each carefully layered posie flower is a vintage rhinestone button or jewelry piece.  Click here to see more of our work for Asia’s wedding.

Abby’s Bouquet – $200

This is actually one of the bridesmaid bouquets created for Abby’s wedding last Summer. Though it’s at the same price point as Asia’s bouquet above, we used very different techniques so I wanted to explain some more about it. We created burlap-covered balls to accent the hand-dyed felt posies and centered each flower with vintage buttons. Each bridesmaid in Abby’s wedding also received a removable vintage brooch in her bouquet–a special detail I would love do to more of. Click here to see more of our work for Abby’s wedding.

Yolopattli’s Bouquet – $190

Yolo’s wedding bouquet reminded me of a Mondrian painting, sort of. Her bouquet was the most basic of our posie designs, with the added special detail of the black dyed edges. A mixture of vintage and not-so-vintage buttons also helped her stay within a budget, but we capped off several of the flowers with beautiful vintage glass buttons. Click here to see more of our work for Yolo’s wedding.

 

Yolanda’s Bouquet – $175

Yolanda’s flowers are our most-requested posie bouquet design. Though we are known for our embroidery and hand-stitching, bouquets like these can be made to appeal to such a minimalist sensibility which is a huge draw to many customers. Rather than stitching, the white printed dots around the edges of each wool felt leaf add whimsy without being too visually distracting. The pink gradient in each flower and simple, unobtrusive buttons are also very deliberate for visual impact. The color is eye catching and although it is bright pink, it doesn’t read too “loud” because the contrast in the flower petals is kept to a minimum.  Click here to see more of our work for Yolanda’s wedding.

Kerry’s Bouquet – $175

Another simple, baseline posie bouquet with one of my favorite color schemes to date–it’s very Orla Kiely/Todd Oldham, right? Wool felt sourced from my favorite wholesaler and an even blend of vintage and new buttons help keep this bouquet within a very manageable price range. Fun fact–this was also the last bouquet I made before having Alice–I stitched petals together as I was a week overdue. Click here to see more of our work for Yolanda’s wedding, and check out our post with Kerry’s professional wedding photos to see this bouquet in action.

…Nothing working for you?

Consider ordering one of our Felt Flower Bouquet Kits. They include everything I use to create our bouquets–no corners cut. Each kit is $130 and they are priced to save you money (Because I want you to buy them!). Because I am able to get my materials wholesale and with discounts from my special sources, I can price the supplies in each kit to be a more reasonable rate than you are likely to get from your local craft store or even online. Check out our post featuring wedding photos from Kaitlyn, who DIY’ed her own felt flower bouquet using one of our kits!

Since I started my business in 2005 I have been hesitant to publicly share my prices and pricing structure because it varies so much from customer to customer. The last thing I want is for someone to see some of our most elaborate work and think, “I could never afford that–I better buy this beyond crappy knock-off from Etsy.” I can count on two hands the number of brides who have contacted me for last-minute orders after being disappointed by an imitator, and been surprised by how reasonable our prices are after they never took the time to ask. I’ve been pretty open about the challenges in DIY culture to independent vendors and artisans in the wedding industry and my natural instinct is to think that the more information I share about my methods and pricing, the less control I’ll have over my business. But as I gain more and more experience I’ve realized that assumption is wrong. There is a fine line of “too much information,” and I want to be on the bleeding edge of it.

My life’s mission is to make women feel confident and empower them to seek joy, embrace beauty every day, and be their best selves. My design process is a very careful and thoughtful one because I value quality and our brand integrity more than sales or appealing to every customer. I know our work isn’t right for everybody but if you are in the market for the party dress of the year or the coolest felt flower or vintage-inspired bouquet anybody has ever seen, we have absolutely no competition.

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