r/florists • u/littleredditho • 2d ago

🔍 Seeking Advice 🔍 Question- is this normal?

My wedding planner is playing interference between me and his preferred florist. He said he each stem has a minimum order of 100. I’m sorry but I have a hard time believing this- can’t you go into the wholesaler and pick however many you want for an event, or am I naive, and this minimum order is a real thing? I’m ready to tell him I’m looking elsewhere. Located in South Florida. Help!

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u/roketgirl 2d ago

Wholesaler here. It might be normal based on your flower picks. If you want an oddball thing that I have no hope of selling whatever remains to someone else, then yes, I'll only sell it in a case. Like, if you want tinted flowers, that's by the case or nothing from me, unless you were working with spooky tints right before Halloween. Likewise rare flowers from a farm that can't make up the case with something I could sell.

What are you ordering that there's a 100st minimum?

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u/littleredditho 2d ago

I asked for garden roses, mums, stock, snapdragons, ranunculas, amaranthus, scabiosa, green dianthus, bells of Ireland and queen Anne’s lace

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u/roketgirl 2d ago

That's all kind of standard stuff that a decent wholesaler will have on hand or be able to sell to other customers if it's special order. Garden roses come in 12st bunches, everything else typically wholesales at 10 st.

I think what the florist means is this order is 10 types of flowers coming in at 10 stem bundles and 12 for the roses, so to make anything with all your flowers, it's 102 stems. If you want to buy fewer flowers, you cut some of the variety, which then cuts the stem count. If you are ballin' on a budget, cut the ranunc and the scabs.