We read every published wedding flower price we could find: 9,534 of them, posted by florists across Canada and the United States and collected on August 19, 2026 for the 2026 Wedding Flower Price Study. Seven findings surprised us. Fewer than half of florists publish any pricing at all. Bridal bouquets land within $2 of each other across the border. American arch installations run from $159 to $9,250. Published minimums reach $40,000. A modelled 50–100 guest order comes to $3,404 CAD in Canada and $4,403 USD in the US. The boutonniere is the trade's most-published price. And centrepieces, not the bouquet, decide what you spend.
One ground rule before the list: every figure below is a list price a florist chose to publish on their own website. Nothing here is an invoice, and nothing is a survey answer. US figures are in US dollars, Canadian figures in Canadian dollars, and we never convert between the two editions. Averages only take a couple so far, and for weddings within three hours of Toronto, Cindy's Flowers attaches a published price to every piece it makes, sold à la carte with no fixed packages and no consultation fee.
1. Fewer than half of florists publish any wedding pricing
This number is why the study exists. Before collecting a single price, we screened a random sample of florists in each country to see who publishes anything at all. In Canada, 44% of 277 randomly screened florists published pricing of some kind (43.7% measured). In the United States, 43% of 396 did (43.4% measured). Correcting for pricing pages our search missed settles both at 47%.
So: fewer than half of florists publish any wedding pricing at all; our corrected estimate is 47% in both countries. The data can't tell us why the other half keeps prices offline, and we won't guess on their behalf. The screening method and the country-by-country splits get a full write-up in our post on how many florists publish their wedding prices.
Full disclosure of where we sit: Cindy's Flowers publishes every wedding price up front from our Toronto studio, which is exactly why this number bothered us enough to measure it.
2. Bridal bouquets land within $2 of each other across the border
The average published bridal bouquet is $246 CAD in Canada, from 146 florists, and $248 USD in the United States, from 247. Two dollars apart, each in its own currency. We never convert between editions, so that near-match is a coincidence of nominal figures, not evidence the two markets charge the same. It startled us anyway: two separate floral economies arriving at almost the same list price.
The top end even inverts. Canada's priciest tenth charges $364 CAD or more for a bouquet; America's charges $332 USD or more.
Then ceremony florals shatter the symmetry. Altar and ceremony arrangements average $464 CAD in Canada (43 florists) against $954 USD in the United States (79 florists): in nominal terms, each in its own currency, the American figure is roughly double. The complete item-by-item tables live in our Canadian price study and the United States edition, each with the full downloadable dataset behind every figure.
3. No item spreads wider than the arch
Arch, chuppah and mandap work averages $1,682 USD in the United States across 66 florists, with the top tenth at $3,625 and up. The full range runs from $159 to $9,250, and the spread between what typical low-end and typical high-end florists charge for it is the widest of any item we surveyed. Canada is calmer but still stretched: an $851 CAD average across 48 florists, a top tenth of $1,750 and up, and a range of $150 to $4,237.
The spread makes sense once you picture what "arch" can mean: a spray of blooms tied to a rented frame at one end, a fully built floral surround at the other. Poppy Flowers' cost-breakdown explainer credits skilled labour, perishable materials and supply-chain markups for wedding florals costing more than people expect, and in our own studio nothing swallows labour like an arch. We take this piece apart properly in why wedding arches cost more.
4. Published minimums reach $40,000
In the United States, 196 florists publish a minimum spend, the smallest order they'll accept. It averages $4,629 USD, and the published range runs from $100 to $40,000. In Canada, 72 florists publish one, averaging $3,890 CAD with a range of $100 to $25,000.
A minimum reframes the shortlist conversation entirely. An item price tells you what a piece costs; a minimum tells you whether a florist will take your wedding at all. For a couple budgeting $2,000, that $4,629 American average among minimum-publishing florists matters more than any bouquet figure. How to read minimums, and how to shortlist around them, has its own guide.
5. A 50–100 guest order models out to $3,404 CAD or $4,403 USD
Multiply each country's average item prices by a typical order (one bridal bouquet, wedding-party flowers, one ceremony piece, a centrepiece for roughly every ten guests) and a 50–100 guest wedding models out to $3,404 in Canada and $4,403 in the United States. Modelled is the operative word: these totals are published list prices times a fixed mix, flowers only, and not what any couple actually spent.
The full modelled bands:
- Canada (CAD): under 25 guests $1,566 · 25–50 guests $2,077 · 50–100 $3,404 · 100–150 $4,443 · 150–250 $5,963
- United States (USD): under 25 guests $2,242 · 25–50 $2,846 · 50–100 $4,403 · 100–150 $5,697 · 150–250 $7,570 · 250+ $9,698
For contrast, The Knot's Real Weddings Study reports the average cost of wedding flowers as $2,800 USD, a figure for what surveyed American couples spent. A spend survey and a published-price census measure different things, and the two kinds of number should never be blended or compared as equivalents. To rebuild the mix around your own guest count and pieces, our wedding flower calculator starts from these same averages and lets you edit every line.
6. The boutonniere is floristry's most-published price
No item in either edition has a bigger sample than the boutonniere. In the United States, 270 florists publish a price for one, averaging $27 USD; in Canada, 170 do, averaging $31 CAD. The runner-up in each country is the bridal bouquet, at 247 American florists and 146 Canadian.
We did not expect the smallest piece on the order sheet to be its best-documented line. It is also the least ambiguous: a few stems wired, taped and pinned, with no ten-times-the-price version lurking behind a consultation. Whatever the reason, if you want one like-for-like number to compare florists on, the boutonniere is the closest thing the trade has to a posted standard.
7. Centrepieces, not the bouquet, decide the total
The average published centrepiece looks modest: $176 CAD in Canada (87 florists) and $230 USD in the United States (206 florists). But the centrepiece is the one item in our modelled orders whose count is set by the guest list itself. The bridal bouquet appears once in every guest band, and so do the ceremony florals. Centrepieces track the guest list at roughly one per ten guests, so every added table is another arrangement on the invoice.
That inverts how most couples budget. The bouquet draws the attention and the photographs, yet upgrading from the $246 CAD Canadian average to the $364 top-tenth threshold adds $118 to a total. Inviting thirty more guests adds roughly three centrepieces, which is over $500 at the Canadian average. Table count is the lever; the bouquet is a rounding error beside it.
If your wedding is within reach of Toronto, you can put real prices against your own table plan: build a wedding flower package with every piece listed at its price, and a written line-by-line quote comes back within one business day.
