Frequently Asked Questions

Yes. Please fill out our contact form to set up an appointment. All appointments are scheduled during our normal business hours. Note that during the busy wedding season we try not to book appointments on Saturday, since we are usually busy working with weddings scheduled for that day.

We will meet with you after you have chosen your venue, attendants’ dresses and color scheme. In general, eight to twelve months in advance of your wedding date is a good time to select the flowers for your wedding.

We do not charge for a consultation occurring during our normal business hours. If an employee needs to stay into the evening or come in after hours for your appointment, there is a $50.00 charge for a one-hour appointment.

Our free consultation includes a one-hour initial consultation, as well as a short follow-up (that may take place via phone or email) closer to the wedding date. We reserve the right to charge for more extensive consultation for major changes from the initial proposal at the rate of $50.00 an hour.

To schedule your appointment, fill our our consultation form. Upload to us, or bring to the appointment any inspiration photos you may have of colors, flowers and bouquets that you like. Most brides bring photos from Pinterest or other wedding planning websites, to give us an idea of what they envision for their wedding.

Some brides don’t have any pre-formed ideas, and we will guide them through their choices with photos and flowers that we have in the store.

Allow one hour for your appointment. After meeting with you, we will draw up a proposal with prices, and email it to you.

We don’t recommend large retinues! One or both members of the couple and/or a trusted friend or parent are all good people to have along. The appointment goes more smoothly with fewer people attending.

Our policy is that we will only schedule you on our calendar after receiving a minimum $250.00 date retainer (which is applied to the price of your flowers.) We limit the number of weddings we book on any given weekend. Some dates do fill up quickly. We recommend that you phone or email us to see if your date is available. Depending on what we have already booked for your date, you may want to send in your deposit to get on our calendar before you actually meet with us.

Note that flower prices are higher around Valentine’s Day and Mother’s Day. If you have a choice, we recommend avoiding Mother’s Day weekend for your wedding! (Many florists will not book a wedding for that weekend.) We limit our bookings around those holidays, and we will hold that booking for current customers of the Blumengarten.

We have on-street parking in front of our store. We also have a small parking lot behind our building. As long as you don’t block a floral truck, you may park in our lot behind any car, since they belong to our employees.

No, it is not final. We will work with your budget. Often a bouquet or centerpiece can be scaled up or down, with a corresponding increase or decrease in price. Other changes can be made as the wedding date draws near. Final numbers are due three weeks before the date as flowers need to be ordered.

We have a wedding flower estimator spreadsheet on our website. Most of our weddings fall in the middle “Most Popular Flowers” price range.

We are experts in taking your inspiration photos and transforming them into something that fits your budget!

No. We have found that every wedding is unique. We can offer our brides quality and value without a standardized package.

No. Some of our weddings consist only of a bride’s bouquet, while others have bouquets for multiple bridal attendants and dozens of reception centerpieces and decorations. We do have a $1500 minimum for delivery and set up during wedding season and a $3000 minimum for locations more than 45 minutes away.

We ask that all wedding flowers be paid in full at least 3 weeks prior to the wedding date, as this is when we order the flowers needed.

We deliver to wedding venues within Allegheny County. We will sometimes travel outside Allegheny County. Contact us for more information. You also have the option of picking up your wedding flowers at our store, if your location is too far for us to travel.

We have a delivery charge, depending on distance from our store, how difficult the set-up is, and if we need to return to pick up rental items. This is decided on a case-by-case basis.

We usually deliver to the church or ceremony venue one hour before the wedding. This allows us to set up ceremony flowers, aisle crash, pew bows, etc. and gives us the opportunity to pin on boutonnieres and corsages. We will deliver earlier if the flowers are needed for photos, but will still allot one hour of our time to the setup. You will be responsible for pinning on corsages and boutonnieres for guests who have not arrived during that time.

We will work with your reception venue to arrange a time for delivery of any reception flowers.

Some of our reception arrangements are priced with the container as a rental. These include our tall pedestal centerpieces and our cylinders with submerged flowers. Most other arrangements are sold with the vase included, so that the centerpieces are yours for your guests to take home.

We have a selection of vases in varying price ranges available in our shop, which can be used for your table arrangements. Some brides prefer to purchase their own vases, in which case we would adjust the centerpiece prices accordingly. If containers are not prepped for flower design (assembled, cleaned, stickers removed) we reserve the right to charge at $50 an hour to prep the vases. Vases need to be dropped off a week before the event.

We offer flowers in box and bunch quantities for those who would like to arrange their own centerpieces. Click here for more information.

However, we caution brides against taking on too much of the actual floral preparation themselves. Do you really need the stress of assembling floral arrangements and bouquets the night before your wedding? We are the flower experts! Let us do the work, and avoid the worry over how everything will turn out.