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Need your ideas!
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Hey Knotties,
I’m writing an article for The Knot and I want to know your creative flower ideas. Tell me something (anything fun or unique) that you’re doing -- whether it’s with your bouquet, centerpieces or aisle decor. I will also use your Knot name for the quote.
Thanks so much in advance!
KA
I’m writing an article for The Knot and I want to know your creative flower ideas. Tell me something (anything fun or unique) that you’re doing -- whether it’s with your bouquet, centerpieces or aisle decor. I will also use your Knot name for the quote.
Thanks so much in advance!
KA
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All of the bouquets are feathers, the centerpieces are manzanita branches hung with tea lights & crystals nestled in a bed of feathers. We're really ecited about how they're turning out.
An offbeat planning bio
Our colors were green and red, and I wanted the bridesmaid's flowers to have less red and more green.
ETA: Our centerpieces were ornaments, in light of the holiday season.
Crystal and Shawn
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I will be adding an antique styled bouquet charms to mine that will have a picture of my father and aunt who I have lost. This will be one of the many ways I will remebering them on my special day.
For my bridesmaid I am doing happy and sunny orange gerber daisys and will be adding a boquet charm to each of their arrangement with their initials. Since they are all the same, I thought it would be a nice way to have them set apart from eachother.
For me, my venue is rather large and simple, so we want to create some atmosphere and height to the room. I'm working with my florist to incorporate flowers in the blue color family, so hydrangea, delphinium, and so on. We're going to do alternating low and high centerpieces to give a unique look to the room. In each of the vases, there will be blue colored water lit by a submergible light, to give the table and room a blue glow, once again to create an ambiance.
My bouquets are going to be simple balls of hydrangea for my bridesmaids with some delfinium. I really like the simplicity of the ball and how beautiful the hydrangea is like that. For me, my bouquet will incorporate some white roses to match my dress.
Flowers were something I didn't think I was too excited about, but all these ideas becoming a reality are really making me anxious to see the final product at my wedding!
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This is a belated married bio, with no reviews yet because I'm lazy.
Sometimes I feel like people think that brides are delicate little flower princesses who get all dressed up and pretty for one special moment of their dreams, when really they're just normal people who just happen to be getting married. Things shouldn't have to be sugar-coated for grown-ass women. -mstar284
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We are really trying to stay as green and organic as possible by using the in season flowers and doing as many large flower displays as potted plants that can just be moved into someone's yard after the wedding.
"Be yourself, everyone else is already taken".
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Also potentionally adding feathers to the center pieces too!
Jesi
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Each of my daughter's bridesmaids carried different bouquets, - i.e. one was only red parrot tulips, one was sunflowers, one was orange tiger lilies, etc.
My daughter's bouquet was a combination of all of the flowers that the bridesmaids carried as well as calla lilies and hyperculum berries. Her bouquet was wrapped in my wedding gown and she had a pewter elephant of her late Grandpa's wired into the bouquet.
Her husband's family own several farms -- the groomsmen's and ring bearer's boutonnieres were wheat and hyperculum berries. The groom's boutonniere was a calla lily, wheat and hyperculum berries.
The pew decorations were wheat sheaves and a blackbeard wheat wreath was hung outside the Chapel.
Because the Chapel is so incredibly beautiful -- there was no need for a lot of flowers. The Claddagh Unity Candle featured a centerpiece of flowers that matched my daughter's bouquet.
We ordered a customized burnt orange aisle runner with a Claddagh monogram and the bride and groom's name. The orange just really "popped" and was incredibly beautiful.
For the reception centerpieces my daughter made branch centerpieces in tall cyliner vases. She collected rocks from the creek bed of one of the farms, as well as branches from the yard. She made wire hangers for votive candles and also hung glass crystals we purchased from eBay.
She also took twigs from the yard and wired them to over 120 votive candles.
Some of the other table centerpieces were manzanita wood. She had the florist glue real brown Teddy Bear sunflowers to them.
And my daughter put creek rocks in medium sized cylinder vases and has floating orange orchids in them.
We also ordered a manzanita tree and had a wish tree for the guests to write and hang their wedding wishes for the newlyweds.
The wedding cake was carrot (the bride and groom's favorite) and the topper was fresh fruit.
(Favors were wildflower seeds as well as boxed truffles.)
The wedding was country meeting city -- and it was a beautiful and elegant event with a rustic flair.
There are lots of photos in the photo section of my profile.
Instead of a floral centerpiece, I'll have a whirlypops, unicorn pops, and lollipops arranged to look like a bouquet. They'll double as wedding favors, which helps keep the costs down as well.
Every mother in my family:
sisters, mother of bride, mother of groom, step mother, aunts are growning planters full of flowers of my choice, propably hydrangeas (blue and white) and crysanthiums (cream) which will be used to decorate the yard and tent.
I will also have my flower beds filled with blues creams yellows and whites. ( these surround the house.)
The tables will have different colored flower arrangements including wild flowers picked from around our 46 acre yard and fields. (butter cups, daiseys, other blue flowers I cant remeber the name-all wild growing)
I will have an isle of tiki lamps lining both sides, I will take the oil cans out and fill the space with bouquets of wild flowers, and raffia ties with seashells and starfish haning. I will also swag cream and white tulle (propally 9" wide) from one tikki pole to the other, with a few strands hanging to sway in the wind.
We have a home cut path through the bush which we use as a back drive way in the winter. There are beautiful trees lining either side. I will be hanging a sign (Lover's Lane) at it's entrance and hanging mason jar lanterns, from the trees. I wil also hang some of the lanterns with flowers in them. I plan on carving couples names into the trees (Laura + Timothy) and so on.
I've finished the article as of last night. Thank you for the great responses and ideas. I was able to use many (though I had to shorten them to fit) and am amazed by the creativity here.
Stay tuned because I'll come to our Community for awesome ideas in all areas of planning.
KA