Florals - What are You Doing?

MikesAngie · May 2010

Due to allergies we opted for silk flowers, which I was able to do myself and that helped keep the floral budget low. Which will allow us to use the money saved for a hosted cocktail hour. Plus they will make nice keepsakes for those who want to keep them.

What are you doing?

SheDiva4 · May 2010

I may have the same problem with one of the GM, allergies. So I have a plan and it may sound a bit crazy and non uniform but I'm think it will be fine.

My bouquet artificial-natural touch white roses
BM real flowers in shades of purple
GM- Wood rose boutonniere's in purple(still a work in progress)

arllinma · May 2010

He can't possibly be allergic to every flower could he?? What about ones that have no scent? Will one teeny bout really cause that many problems? When he gets to the reception the jacket will be off I'm sure.

2dBride · May 2010

We had real flowers for the two bridal bouquets, the MOH bouquet, and the dude of honor bout. We had fake flowers inside the clear acrylic cake stands. We had freeze-dried rose petals to scatter on the reception tables and the cake. Everything else was nonfloral. We had a chuppah (wedding canopy) up front at the ceremony, and it was the focal point. We had pew bows and gold sashes as ceremony seat decorations. At the reception, we had candle centerpieces, plus lots of paper lanterns and uplighting.

mswood1977 · May 2010

We are doing real flowers at the wedding and the few flowers we have at the reception will be silk. The ceremony flowers are being put together by friend of my FMIL that use to work for a florist so we are just paying wholesale price and getting her a nice gift card, saved us tons. At the reception we are mostly using candles for decorations and I am doing the few floral accents myself.

Sue-n-Kevin · May 2010

I'm ordering my flowers from costco.com (they have wedding packages & bulk flowers to match) as well as californiaflowergrowers.com, a recent find on one of the knot threads that has some fresh flowers for less than costco. It will be either calla lillies or white roses with accent flowers to be determined.

I have branches (from a local Michael's that closed, 90% off) to spray paint white, black or silver (our colors) and tall cylinder vases and low silver swirl vases I bought from a local florist going out of business.

I'm also having votives with vellum paper wraps I made in black toile & black damask (I have patterns I can email if you PM me).

I'm also making table runners out of black & white toile fabric I bought online as curtains, really cheap, we'll cut them & hem them.

It sounds like a lot, but hell, I've never been married & have been planning an elegant wedding my whole friggin life!

We are lucky in that we have no allergies in our families.

Marrin713 · May 2010

Allergic here too so no flowers - maybe not even artificial ones.

Sue - I am interested in the branches you'll be spraypainting. Do you have a pic of what you bought?

Sue-n-Kevin · May 2010

Marrin, I'd love to supply pics of all my DIY projects, but unfortunately I don't have a digital camera (should be fixed next week for my birthday,when fiance is getting me one).

I'll put some up on my knottie page once I can take some pics. But they are just very tall & medium height branches, all currently brown. I bought ALL the ones Michael's had, because for 90% off, why not? LOL.

Marrin713 · May 2010

Thanks Sue - I will go on Michael's website and see what I can find. My friend and I were thinking about doing our own centerpieces because the two different things the venue had just seem too generic.

pamila51510 · May 2010

Fresh for my bouquet no purple in my actual bouquet at all. My daughters will have wrist corsages and my MOH will have all white rose bouquet best man will have white rose and groom will have white rose and some blue in his bout. All fresh!

The centerpieces and they are silk this is one of they DIY things. Help my mom with her allergies.

melissamc2 · May 2010

I'm making everyone crazy by proving them wrong and having peonies in October. There is a greenhouse atop the Andes, in Equador, that grows a few hundred for shipment in October. I have to place the order about 4 months in advance and they will end up costing roughly $7.50 per stem in the end, but damned if I won't look smug when I'm walking down the aisle with a bouquet of them!

We're ordering enough to cover bouquets, Mothers' corsages, altar flowers, and centerpieces on each table. I'm going to use roses for the men, as peonies are a bit large for lapels.

All kidding aside, they are gorgeous flowers with a wonderful scent. I was going to substitute cabbage roses and football mums when I found out how (nearly) impossible they were to obtain that time of year, but my fiance took a look atthe cost and said 'fly them in," so why argue with that?

thealphabride · May 2010

Sue, you make me laugh! I've been planning an elegant wedding all my life too!
All of your weddings sound so beautiful.

On the tables we are having a trio orchids and cala's submerged with a floating candle on top. The girls (my 2 sisters) are carrying a bouquet, the florist is designing them, I totally trust her so I'm sure they will be beautiful.
Our son's (benny 14 and kyle 17) are the best man and groomsman, they are having a tro of stephanotis, (our names are stephanei and stephen, so I have to have stephanotis throughout the flowers. The ushers will have the same. The mothers are having lily wrist corsages on triple pearl bracelets.

For my bouquet, I have a little snafoo. I showed a picture of my bouquet which is orchids in blue and lavendar and he said it was UGLY. and he was emphatic about it. He thought I would be carrying white flowers. He said of course it is my decision and I can carry what I want, and now I am thinking I can have a beautiful white orchid and lilly bouquet.

Here's my Bouquet: The one he thinks is ugly. I don't get it, it's beautiful!

Here's my centerpiece: But not in pink, the flowers will be like in the colors above in the bouquet. And there will be 3 vases in varying heights.

rapunnzzll · May 2010

Alphabride I'm with you, the bouquet is gorgeous. Looks like we are doing very similar centerpieces. We have to decide if we want to use a pedastal cylinder with one or two orchids with the candle on top, or do the cylinder vases with a stem and candle on top. Also doing 3 small clusters of votive candles on the tables with single orchids on the menu cards at each place setting. Haven't decided on bouquets, but we are doing orchids and roses.

Melissa good for you for getting what you want! Would love to see the look on your face as you show everyone you got your peonies!

Marrin713 · May 2010

Alpha - are your centerpieces DIY? I'm kinda liking them.

Marrin713 · May 2010

BTW - if FI had his way, I'd be carrying a golf club instead of a bouquet.

Ken&Cass · May 2010

The only real flowers at my wedding will be in my bouquet, the corsages and boutennieres. It seems kind of silly to me to spend a bunch of money on flowers that aren't going to be in close up photos...

thealphabride · May 2010

Marrin, my florist is doing all the centerpieces, I am DYI my invtes and paper products and I could use that club for my own head for trying that.

adrianzbride · May 2010

You guys are giving me good ideas! I want real flowers for the bouquets and boutonnieres, but I might get silk for the reception. I like the silk flower centerpieces. I might do that, too!

adrianzbride · May 2010

I was wondering what vellum wraps on the votives were, and I found this link:

http://www.weddingbee.com/2007/03/02/lovin-the-diy/

It looks like a lot of work, but fun and so pretty.

Marrin713 · May 2010

<passing Alpha the Nine Iron>

BTW you have PM

arv266 · May 2010

We're on a tight budget and the bulk of our money is going to the reception. I am making all the flowers myself. So far I have finished the bridesmaid bouquets and my bouquet. I am now working on the centerpieces for the reception (low glass vases with silk roses - I just cant decide on burgandy or ivory roses)

Here is a pic of the bridesmaid bouquets....

Lisa50 · June 2010

I will have a multi-colored, fresh flower bouquet (color TBD when dress is selected). The groom, his best man and my best man will have fresh flower boutonnieres (possibly matching). There will probably not be any other flowers, our venue (a historic inn) provides hurricanes and candles, which are absolutely perfect in the setting.

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