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June 2012 Weddings
Just for fun...
What flowers and color(s)are going in your bouquet? What flowers and color(s) are going in your bridesmaid bouquets? 
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Re: Just for fun...
My BMs will have blue hydrangeas with some green cymbidium orchids in it.
BM bouquets are white hydrangea, purple carnations, and green spray roses.
Bouts are white roses.
...sounds like we all love hydrangea so far, it's my absolute "must have" for flowers!
My bouquet will have white hydrangea, white peonies, and white roses.
BM bouquets will have blush/light pink hydrangea and hot pink roses.
FI's bout will be a white rose.
GM bouts will be hot pink roses.
The MOH and BM will have smaller versions of mine.
The flower girl will have brown and coffee break rose petals.
My bouquet: white hydrangea, white roses, white mini calla lillies, and green hydrangea (I think there is another flower in there,but I can't remember what it's called.)
Bridesmaids: lavender roses
Bouts: white mini calla lillies
[QUOTE]Peacock feathers and <strong>coffee break roses </strong>for mine. It's a pretty hefty bouquet from what the florist said. I was worried about just using one flower but it's simple and pretty. The MOH and BM will have smaller versions of mine. The flower girl will have brown and coffee break rose petals.
Posted by melntaitt[/QUOTE]
I have never heard of this, is this just a dark brown rose? love the name
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[QUOTE]I'm surprised do many of you have hydrangea. When my MOH got married in July last year they told her hydrangea wouldn't do well in a bouquet in hot weather. She only put them in her centerpieces for that reason. My boquet: Hot pink mini-calla lilies wrapped in my dress fabric, FI will have a hot pink mini-calla lily bout. BM: White mini-calla lillies wrapped in their dress fabric. GM will have white mini-calla lily bouts.
Posted by jaime10285[/QUOTE]
I decided not to do hydrangeas in bouquets for BMs because my florist said the same thing. She said they'd only be able to carry them during the ceremony and they'd have to be wrapped in wet paper towels then covered with ribbon. If not in ceremony, they'd have to be in vases of water the rest of the time
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[QUOTE]I'm surprised do many of you have hydrangea. When my MOH got married in July last year they told her hydrangea wouldn't do well in a bouquet in hot weather. She only put them in her centerpieces for that reason. My boquet: Hot pink mini-calla lilies wrapped in my dress fabric, FI will have a hot pink mini-calla lily bout. BM: White mini-calla lillies wrapped in their dress fabric. GM will have white mini-calla lily bouts.
Posted by jaime10285[/QUOTE]
Interesting :/ My florist is keeping our bouquets in water for as long as possible, but didn't seem too worried besides that.
All of our flowers (including centerpieces) are white. I'll have a peony bouquet and the bridesmaids will have either hydrangeas or mums. The bouts will have a single ranunculus stem.
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I asked my florist about the hydrangeas holding up in hot weather because I had heard the same thing... she assured me they have done LOTS of summer weddings with hydrangeas and they lasted with no problems. She said if people had bad experiences with their hydrangeas its because the florist didn't handle them correctly. She did say the bouquets would remain in a vial of water but would be covered up of course.
Here are the pictures I gave my florist for our bouquets:
Mine.. there won't be any green in my bouquet, there will be more blue hydrangea in it's place and wrapped in ivory satin ribbon or dark brown burlap (still deciding)
The bridesmaids bouquets: all blue hydrangea wrapped with fabric I am providing:
...Bouquet flowers - gerbera daisies, hibiscus, water lilies and plumerias,
Bouquet colors - corals/oranges/golds/slightly light red and green
i am noting having a bridal party...2 flower girls that will have felt fabric wrist bands..with my bouqut colors
[QUOTE]<strong>I'm surprised do many of you have hydrangea. </strong>When my MOH got married in July last year <strong>they told her hydrangea wouldn't do well in a bouquet in hot weather. </strong>She only put them in her centerpieces for that reason.
Posted by jaime10285[/QUOTE]
I had heard this as well, so when I realized I liked them a lot in the inspiration pictures, I specifically asked my florist about it. She told me there are two types of hydrangeas: African hydrangeas, which have more woody stems, are hardier while growing because of their stems but dry out more quickly and have a much harder time rehydrating, hence they don't do very well in bouquets and wilt quickly. Dutch hydrangeas, on the other hand, have a more typical flower stem and thus hydrate at least as well as other flowers. She will only use Dutch hydrangeas because of this, as well as the fact that African hydrangeas are more expensive anyway. (Note that I realize hydrangeas don't actually grow in Africa; I could have the wrong continent name, haha)
All bouquets will have lavender hydrangeas, lavender roses, purple lisianthus, and purple stock. I might ask her to add really deep purple carnations, as well. My bouquet will also have cascading ivy coming from it.
Do you all think that would look silly?
my bridesmaids are going to have just white gerbera because their dresses are pink, i thought it would off set things nicely.
[QUOTE]Mine: Bridesmaid's inspiration. There are going to be some changes to theirs. There won't be any of those berry looking things, instead of ranculus (sp?) they will be peonies. My daughter (junior bridesmaid) will also carry this, but as a pompander instead. <strong> And I'm at a loss of FI's bout because a peony would be to big for that</strong>. Right now it's slated to be the orange gerber. But I don't know?! Do you all think that would look silly?
Posted by nicole425[/QUOTE]
I agreed at first, but for the heck of it I Googled "Peony boutonniere" and looked at the images, and they look pretty good! <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=peony+boutonniere&hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=1Gd&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&prmd=imvns&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=y5FST8CXKPKw0AHg9JHADQ&ved=0CC0QsAQ&biw=1366&bih=703" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Click here to see them</a>. It looks like a lot of them just take either smaller blossoms or even peony buds. But I'm sure the gerbera daisy would look nice too, and he might be happier if it's orange rather than pink!
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