Bridesmaids bouquets

cmelliott · September 2013

I never really thought about this until now but, what's the best thing to do with the bridesmaids bouquets? I'm not even keeping mine and using the real one for the bouquet toss, so I don't have any real sentiment towards theirs either but, do you let them keep it? Cause I'm not sure most of them will care that much about it either. What other options do I have or something you guys have done that was unique?

doeydo · September 2013

I will let my BMs take their bouquets home and I won't care if they throw them out once they die.

ShesSoCold · September 2013

The last time I was a bridesmaid, they used all the BM bouquets on the head table. I never even thought about it again until the MOB told me to take it at the end of the night. ..? I left it in the hotel room.

Blue_Bird · September 2013

Of course you let them keep it.

KPBM89 · September 2013

Last year after my brother's wedding, all of us bridesmaids kept our bouquets. My mom kept mine frozen for a while.....I have no idea if she still has it back home (probably not). I thought it was nice that we kept them, but honestly I totally forgot about it until reading this thread!

OliveOilsMom · September 2013

I always took mine home.

My BMs bouquets were used to decorate our sweetheart table. As my BM left, I told them to take their bouquet off my table. There were a few left and I brought them home with me in addition to my bouquet, I put them in vases and put them in various places around the house until they died.

cruffino · September 2013

My brother's friend is an artist who uses flowers in his work. My sister had all of her wedding flowers delivered to him after the reception and he created a painting that now hangs in her house. I'm thinking I'll prob do the same thing.

simplykayla · September 2013

The weddings that I've been a BM for all had fake flowers, and I took my bouquet home with me. I still have one of them, and my mom has another one. I still have one of the toss bouquets that I've caught (fake flowers). The one toss bouquet that I've caught that had real flowers I kept until the flowers died, and then tossed the flowers but kept the ribbon that was tied around them. I have boxes and boxes full of old keepsakes like that! FI keeps begging me to just toss it all haha.

KeptInStitches · September 2013

I don't think I was offered my bouquet when I was a BM, but I couldn't have taken it anyway (it was lilies, and I have a not-too-bright cat). I think it would be nice to give them their bouquets.

WedReMix13 · September 2013

Id let them keep them.

jlazgrl · September 2013

Im having fake flowers and my BM dont want to keep them. I am going to take them home with me. I enjoy crafting, so I will probably take them apart at some point to create something else.

melbelleup · September 2013

They get to keep them if they want it, if not they can pitch it. I might keep one if someone decides to pitch it because my bouquet is different than theirs completely and dry out the flowers and scrap book it along with rest of wedding stuff.

southernbelle0915 · September 2013

I had vases on their table so they could have them in water in case they wanted to keep them. We just let people take our flowers at the end of the night, so I don't really know what they decided to do with them.

button6004 · September 2013

I'm putting vases on the cake table for them to put their bouquets in and will encourage them to take them at the end of the night. But they are baby's breath bouquets so it won't be the end of the world if they don't take them.

KDM323 · September 2013

I guess they will keep them. I'm going to have vases with water for them to put them in during the reception, so hopefully they won't get ruined.

One way or the other, it isn't something I care too much about...its just flowers.

itzMS · September 2013

cmelliott said:

I never really thought about this until now but, what's the best thing to do with the bridesmaids bouquets? I'm not even keeping mine and using the real one for the bouquet toss, so I don't have any real sentiment towards theirs either but, do you let them keep it? Cause I'm not sure most of them will care that much about it either. What other options do I have or something you guys have done that was unique?

They won't care about their flowers.

Some will take them home, and some will leave them at the venue.

Not something for you to be worrying about...

Swazzle · September 2013

I have no idea what my BMs did with their bouquets. I think they were used in vases around the reception for decoration but no clue what happened to them after that.

radleyboo · September 2013

I had 2 BMs. My friend A kept hers, my sister gave hers to our grandmother. Our guests took all of the flowers from the tables home. My MIL took mine and my daughter's home and dried them, but they didn't turn out great. I have a bag of dried flower petals someplace that I don't know what to do with.

grumbledore · September 2013

cmelliott said:

I never really thought about this until now but, what's the best thing to do with the bridesmaids bouquets? I'm not even keeping mine and using the real one for the bouquet toss, so I don't have any real sentiment towards theirs either but, do you let them keep it? Cause I'm not sure most of them will care that much about it either. What other options do I have or something you guys have done that was unique?

I would let them keep them unless you are going to use them as table centerpieces.

LDubHawksFan · September 2013

I have no idea what happen to them after. They put them in vases on the guest book table and the bar I think. I'm sure they got forgotten about at the venue or left in the hotel when they both flew out the next morning. The guests were all able to take the arrangements.

cowgirl8238 · September 2013

My florist likes to compost all her wastes and trimmings, so I am planning on letting my bridesmaids keep their boquets and the guests can have the centerpieces. Whetever is abandoned I will take and keep in vases at home until they are no longer fresh and then will donate them back to my florists compost pile!

Peaseblossom55 · September 2013

I've been a bridesmaid several times I've kept all the bouquets as a nice keepsake. the flower held up and presevered well. Sadly I have on that lasted longer than the marriage.

Jen4948 · September 2013

When I was a bridesmaid I kept my bouquet and preserved it as long as possible. When it died, though, I threw it out.

smalfrie19 · September 2013

We are doing silks an my sister has already asked if she can keep hers, I was like "Sure, what do I need it for?"

AddieCake · September 2013

Why WOULDN'T you let them keep it?

ETA: Or throw it away or eat it or whatever. It's theirs to do with as they wish.

shelyg89 · September 2013

Our bridesmaids bouquets will go on the headtable in vases at the reception. After that, they can take them home, leave them, i dont really care. If you feel like being artsy and sentimental...I have heard of taking flowers from a special event, drying them out, and turning them into beads for jewelry. My cousin had that done, it was actually really pretty and original. I'm just not the type of person to do all that.

thelastdreamer · September 2013

I'm using preserved and sola flowers so the bouquets will last forever. I'm just going to tell them that if they want to keep them they are more than welcome but if they don't it's totally ok and I'll take them because I may use them to decorate parts of our house.

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