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Nashville · DIY wedding flowers

Bucket &
Bloom

Farm flowers by the bucket, cut the day before. You and your friends make the bouquets.

Pick your colors.

DIY buckets $650 · about 400 stemsOrder buckets

  • Friends picking stems from a long table of flower bucketsRanunculus, stock, peonies · April
  • Friends arranging flowers in a garden on a Friday eveningArranging party, Friday
  • Mason jars of wildflowers on picnic tables at a receptionMason jars · the picnic tables
  • Buckets of flowers on a wagon at the barnPickup at the barn

Cut ThursdayPick up FridayArrange with friendsAbout a quarter of a florist’s price

How it works

Four steps, one fun Friday.

  1. 1TodayPick your colors

    Right here, any time. Two or three colors and a bucket of greens is the classic.

  2. 2The week ofWe cut on Thursday

    Lacey and two pickers cut at dawn and let the stems drink all day in the barn.

  3. 3FridayPick up at the barn

    Friday, any time from 9 to 6. Eight buckets fit in the back of an SUV, with a towel down.

  4. 4Friday nightArrange with your people

    Friday night, a long table and a pizza. Everything stays fresh through Sunday.

Build your buckets

Pick your colors, fill your shelf.

Tap a color to add it. Each bucket is one color, about 50 stems. Eight buckets is the Party Pack.

    A bucket of blush flowers

    8 buckets · 400 stems

    $650The Party Pack

    Enough for about

    Order these buckets

    Under 8 buckets, $85 each. 8 to 14, $650 plus $80 a bucket. 15 or more, $1,150 plus $75.

    Prices

    Priced by the bucket, not by the bride.

    • Most couples The Party Pack

      $6508 buckets · about 400 stems

      • A bridal bouquet and 4 to 5 bridesmaids
      • 10 boutonnieres
      • 20 to 25 mason jars
      • The kit and the cheat sheet
    • The Big Party

      $1,15015 buckets · about 750 stems

      • A bridal bouquet and up to 8 bridesmaids
      • 16 boutonnieres and corsages
      • 45 to 50 jars, or an arch of greens
      • The kit and the cheat sheet
    • By the bucket

      $85a bucket · about 50 stems

      • Four buckets or more
      • One color each, or mixed
      • For showers, rehearsal dinners and top-ups
      • Twine and the cheat sheet
    The kit: clippers, jute twine, cream ribbon, pins and bud vases
    The kit, in every order

    • Arranging party at the barn$300

      Friday 5 to 8 PM. Lacey teaches, up to 12 friends, tables and clippers for everyone.

    • Delivery to your venue$75

      Within 25 miles of the barn, Friday afternoon.

    • Jars and bud vases to borrow$40

      Sixty of them, washed and boxed. Bring them back Monday.

    What’s in bloom

    Every month has its colors.

    Grown in Bells Bend or by two farms we trust within an hour. The dots are the colors that are easy that month.

    1. Mar

      Tulips, daffodils, anemones

    2. Apr

      Ranunculus, stock, snapdragons

    3. May

      Peonies, sweet peas, larkspur

    4. Jun

      Roses, zinnias, cosmos, Queen Anne’s lace

    5. Jul

      Zinnias, sunflowers, lisianthus

    6. Aug

      Sunflowers, zinnias, celosia

    7. Sep

      Dahlias, cosmos, scabiosa

    8. Oct

      Dahlias, mums, amaranth

    9. Nov

      Mums, eucalyptus, dried grasses

    Lacey, who runs Bucket & Bloom, in the barn doorway holding a bucket of peoniesLacey, at the barn in Bells Bend

    Hi, I’m Lacey

    I used to teach kindergarten. Anyone can arrange flowers.

    When my sister Molly got married in 2018, the florist’s quote was more than her dress and the venue put together. So we bought every bucket at the Saturday farmers’ market, and fourteen of us sat on my back porch the night before with a box of wine and a how-to video. Molly still says it was the best night of the whole wedding.

    The next spring I planted three acres of my grandparents’ land in Bells Bend with zinnias and sweet peas. Now we grow about forty kinds of flowers, and I spend Thursdays in the field at dawn and Fridays at the barn door, loading buckets into hatchbacks and telling people it will be fine. It always is.

    Nine years with five-year-olds taught me how to explain anything in three steps. That’s what the cheat sheet is.

    • 3 acresin Bells Bend
    • 40kinds of flowers
    • 260weddings since 2019

    Made by friends

    Weddings our buckets turned into.

    • Peonies, ranunculus, sweet peas, Leiper’s ForkLeiper’s Fork · JunePeonies, ranunculus, sweet peas
    • Zinnias, cosmos, snapdragons in jars, Bells BendBells Bend · JulyZinnias, cosmos, snapdragons in jars
    • Garden roses, ranunculus, eucalyptus, East NashvilleEast Nashville · AprilGarden roses, ranunculus, eucalyptus
    • Daisies, cornflowers, Queen Anne’s lace, FranklinFranklin · MayDaisies, cornflowers, Queen Anne’s lace
    • Blush and white, nine friends, GermantownGermantown · MayBlush and white, nine friends

    5.0 from 180 couples, and their friends.

    • “Eleven of us, two pizzas, eight buckets. My bouquet was lopsided and perfect.”

      Brooke · East Nashville, May

    • “We saved about four thousand dollars, and my mom says Friday night was her favorite part of the whole weekend.”

      Hayley & Sam · Franklin, June

    • “The cheat sheet is genius. My brother made all twelve boutonnieres, and he had never touched a flower.”

      Jenna · Murfreesboro, September

    Pickup

    Fridays at the barn.

    © OpenStreetMap contributors
    The barn, Bells Bend Twenty minutes from downtown Nashville Open the map
    The red barn with buckets on a table and a couple loading a pickup truck
    Pickup
    Fridays, 9 AM to 6 PM
    Early pickup
    Thursday evening, on request
    Bring
    An SUV or a truck, and a towel for the floor
    Returns
    Buckets back by Monday, or we pick them up for $20
    Delivery
    $75 within 25 miles

    Questions

    Good questions, easy answers.

    Can we really do this ourselves?

    Yes. Every bucket comes with Lacey’s cheat sheet: how to strip a stem, a bouquet in eight steps, a boutonniere in three, how full to fill a jar. If you’d like a teacher in the room, book the arranging party at the barn.

    How many buckets do we need?

    Eight buckets make a bridal bouquet, four or five bridesmaids, ten boutonnieres and about twenty jars, which suits 80 to 120 guests. The builder above does the math for your colors.

    How long do the flowers last?

    We cut Thursday, you pick up Friday, and they look their best through Sunday. Keep the buckets in the shade with water to the halfway mark, and arrange no earlier than Friday night.

    What if my colors aren’t in season?

    Every color has something in bloom from April to October, just different flowers. Look at the month above. If your heart is set on peonies in August, Lacey will tell you honestly and suggest the next best thing.

    What comes with the buckets?

    The buckets themselves (bring them back Monday), two pairs of clippers, jute twine, cream ribbon, boutonniere pins and the cheat sheet.

    Can you deliver?

    Within 25 miles of the barn for $75, on Friday afternoon. Most couples come out to the barn: it’s twenty minutes from downtown and there are lemonade and barn cats.

    How do I hold my pickup day?

    Pick it below and pay the $100 deposit. Your Friday is held and your stems are planned. The rest is due the Monday before, and you can change your colors until then.

    Order

    Hold your Friday with $100.

    Pick the day before your wedding (or two days before, for a Sunday). Lacey texts you within the day to say hi and talk colors.

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