Tiny Hearts Farm

Organically Grown Flowers in the Hudson Valley

Everything You Need to Know about Do-It-Yourself Wedding Flowers

Congratulations on your upcoming wedding! DIY flowers from Tiny Hearts Farm are a great way to bring a creative, personal element to your wedding and to keep within a tighter budget. Whatever your reason for choosing DIY, you’ll be getting beautiful, fresh, vibrant flowers from our fields and greenhouses, and can feel good that they’re locally and organically grown.

The Basics

DIY flowers are sold by the bucket, with each bucket containing seven to ten bunches (generally 10 stems/bunch) of focal flowers, accent flowers, and foliage – the perfect balance you need to make great arrangements. The specific types of flowers/foliage in each bucket will be chosen by Tiny Heart’s farmers and floral designers to ensure that you get the best flowers from the field for your wedding day. 

Bucket Types, Availability, & Pricing

We offer several types of DIY buckets, depending on the season and color palette:

In-Season DIY Buckets 
Available July through mid-October:
Farmer’s Choice – your choice of ‘Brights’ or ‘Pastels’ – $95.00 per bucket
Custom Colors – choose your specific color palette – $135.00 per bucket
Shoulder Season Buckets 
Available mid-May through the month of  June &
mid-October through mid-November:
    Farmer’s Choice – available in seasonal colors – $135.00 per bucket
Foliage-only DIY Buckets 
Available mid-May through mid-November 
 $85.00 per bucket 

Please note:

-Custom colors are not available during the shoulder seasons. Bucket prices do not include sales tax. 

-DIY flower buckets are only available for pick-up from our flower shop in Hillsdale, NY, by appointment.

-We encourage you to bring your own (sparkling clean!) buckets to transfer the flowers into.

-You may borrow our buckets for a $6 fee per bucket, refundable when you bring the buckets back.

-DIY Bucket purchases are non-refundable

Consulting

We hope all the information you need to purchase and create your beautiful DIY wedding flowers is included right here. If you require more help to determine your needs, or need help or have questions about specific flowers, colors, or designs, please consider one of our other wedding flower options. If this is not practical for you, we do offer consulting services via phone or email for $50/hour. 

Placing an Order & Payment

To order, simply contact us to let us know how many buckets you’d like and on which date (Thursday – Saturday) and time you’d like to pick up your flowers. Please let us know if you’d prefer ‘Brights’ or ‘Pastels’ OR a custom color palette (if these are applicable to your date.) We’ll send you an invoice and payment instruction, and will let you know when your payment is received. Payment is required in full at the time of booking. We do often sell out during peak wedding season, so please order as early as possible to reserve your flowers. 

*Please note for DIY flowers, communication is limited to basic ordering and pick-up scheduling. Thank you for understanding that due to time limitations, any further questions asked or advice sought will be subject to consulting fees.  

Frequently Asked Questions

Well, that depends! There are lots of things to think about when choosing whether to go DIY for your wedding flowers. Consider things such as your budget, whether you’ll have enough time, helpers, and workspace to do your own flowers, and your skill/confidence level. Also think about if you’re comfortable with not knowing exactly what flowers you’ll have for your wedding, and can do without extra support and advice.  With DIY flowers, we’ll provide you with buckets of beautiful, vibrant flowers, but everything else is up to you!
Yes. Lots of brides are really excited about DIY flowers but are understandably nervous about making their own bouquet. Bridal bouquets generally range in price from $175 – $400. We can also make other specialty pieces for you such as boutonnieres and corsages. Ask for our ‘A la Carte’ menu for items and pricing.
There isn’t a straightforward answer for this because it depends on how big your vases are, what size you make your bouquets, and your personal arranging style. In general, one bucket can make 5 – 7 arrangements in wide-mouth quart mason jars. Use this as a guide, and remember that if you over-order you can always find more room for flowers at your wedding!
Certainly! Let us know that you’d like to purchase practice buckets at the time you place your wedding flower order. We recommend getting your practice bucket(s) two weeks before your wedding so the types of flowers will be similar to those you’ll be working with for your wedding.
The flowers in your buckets are all grown right here on our farm and the types and colors available will change with the seasons. Unexpected weather, pest, and disease problems make it hard to say exactly what will be in season when. Rather than be frustrated by this, we fully embrace it and love the surprises the seasons bring. There are some flowers that we usually have all season long, like zinnias, sunflowers, cosmos, and snapdragons. If you have a mid-June wedding, you might find the gorgeous poppies, delphinium, and peonies of early summer, but if you’re getting married in September you may find long-awaited lisianthus and dahlias in your buckets.
Check out our Instagram (@tinyheartsfarm and @tinyheartsflowershop), Facebook (Tiny Hearts Farm), and Pinterest (Tiny Hearts Farm) accounts.
No. In order to make sure you get the best and brightest flowers from the field that week, Tiny Heart’s farmers and designers work together to choose the flowers and foliage for your buckets.
A day or two before your wedding, depending on your schedule and how much time you’d like to arrange them.
This will depend on what vehicles you have available and how many buckets you’ve ordered. Flowers can never, never go in a trunk or in the open bed of a pick-up truck. Any vehicle that you put them in should be air-conditioned. You can usually fit 3 – 5 buckets in the back seat of a sedan, and many more in a SUV. Don’t forget to bring a tarp if you’re worried about splashing water!
Any cool, shaded place will be fine. A cool garage would be ideal. Refrigeration is unnecessary, and the flowers will be super fresh and in water, so will easily last 4 – 7 days without any special care. Remember that heat and direct light cause flowers to open quickly and wilt sooner.
You’ll need a workspace (preferably cool and shaded) that has a water source and can get mucked up with stems and plant debris.    You’ll need sharp, clean clippers, since each stem will get at least one cut. For centerpieces all you’ll need are your vases – make sure they’re very clean (bacteria clogs stems and causes premature wilting). If you’re doing bouquets, you’ll need floral tape to wrap the stems together, as well as lovely ribbon and floral pins to hold the ribbon. Once you’ve made the bouquet, it’s convenient to have a mason jar with water at the ready to put your bouquet in until you need it for pictures or the ceremony. For boutonnieres and corsages you’ll need some floral tape, ribbon and floral pins. All of these floral supplies can be found at any craft store.
It’s a good idea to read/watch some on-line tutorials before you get started with your arrangements. There have also been a ton of step-by-step floral design books published lately by really great designers, some of which are available at our flower shop. If you feel like some hands-on coaching would help, check out our class schedule and sign up for one of our ‘DIY Wedding Intensive’ classes, where we teach you how to best utilize your DIY buckets, make centerpieces and bouquets, and more!  Otherwise, have fun with it and remember that the flowers can’t help but be beautiful!