Hydrangeas Question

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I love love love hydrangeas, but heard a horror story from my cousin about a wedding she was in where the hydrangeas in all the bridesmaids and bridal bouquet got so brown before the wedding that they were sitting in the bridal room in the church taking apart the bouquets to get all of them out and putting the bouquets back together before the wedding because they looked so awful... I am wondering if she had a really bad florist or if hydrangeas are really that tempermental.... Anyone have any experience with them in your bouquet good or bad? I have my eye on this beauty for my bouquet, but I think I'm too nervous to have them after hearing that story!

barbie92

I have heard the same thing, but I don't know for sure.
I am using hydrangeas, but I am doing silk ones so that they can be done

opalsky007

Mine had some light spots on them, but they definitely didn't turn brown.

baystateapple

I had white hydrangeas in my bridal bouquet and they were beautiful all day.  They were still white when we came home from our honeymoon a week later.  I'd say the person you're referencing had a bad florist or a bad bunch of hydrangeas, one or the other. 

louisvillebride21

We kept our flowers wrapped in wet paper towels until right before the wedding and they did well the rest of the night. Let me rustle up a picture here...

baystateapple

(I keep trying to post and it won't let me, so sorry if this posts multiple times.)

I had hydrangeas and they were fresh and beautiful all day.  They were still white a week later after our honeymoon.

louisvillebride21

We kept our flowers wrapped in wet paper towels until right before the wedding and they did well the rest of the night. Let me rustle up a picture here...

This is the best I could find at work. This was several hours after the wedding.

alixzafiris

We had them attached to the end rows of the ceremony chairs and they were wilted before I even walked down the aisle. To be fair, it was like, the warmest day of the past decade and it was outside.

Karen's MOH

I have heard you should keep them in water as long as possible. One friend who had hydrangeas said her florist told her to put them in an inch of water in between photos and things like that, but her photographer recommended she not (wet spots on dresses aren't pretty) and hers were fine at the end of the day-- and she got married on the beach on an unseasonably hot day.

i had white hydrangeas in my bouquet and they may have been slightly wilted/brown at the end of the night, but they held up 100% fine through ceremony, pictures, and through to the beginning of the reception, with no water until I sat down for dinner.

In short-- I think you will be fine.

LesPaul

I had hydrangeas in my bouquets and large head table arrangement, and they were fine (in August).  Nothing wilted.  Here's a pic of the arrangement:

missy68

I don't know if it's hydrangeas or not, but one flower they seal the end with a little wax to preserve the moisture that's in them to keep the flowers from wilting.

I wonder, also, if you could try those little water reserve things they slip on the bottom of fresh cut flowers? They are usually green with a rubber top that has a slit cut into it?

Calypso1977

i carried hydrangeas in my bouquet.  they were blue, and did not appear to turn brown at all, but they did look wilted by teh end of the day.  however, we did all of our pictures before hadn so they looked great for that and the ceremony, which is all i really cared abotu anyway.

however, we were married in wintertime so they were subject to extreme heat.  that could make a difference.