HELP - who gets corsages & boutonnieres

Re: HELP - who gets corsages & boutonnieres

• MobKaz member

  

  July 2014

  With a small wedding, it does seem to become overwhelming.  However, typically, anyone that is considered a member of the wedding party is honored with a flower.  In our family, that would include ushers and readers.  Some couples will also provide flowers for grandparents. 
  
  I agree with your mom that ushers should have a boutonniere.
  

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• hmaxted member

  

  July 2014

  Thanks MobKaz! I am meeting with my flower planner today. I'll see what she says too. I just feel that 12 out of 55 people will have flowers. Will it look weird in photos if everyone has a flower?

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• [Deleted User] member

  

  July 2014

  Not everyone who gets a flower will be in all the pictures. You may do one or two everyone photos but typically you do your family, his family, & then bridal party seperate. We got flowers for our bridal party, parents, god parents (MIL request). Neither of us have any surviving grandparents, else we would have gotten them flowers too. We didn't have any readers and our ushers were last minute so nothing for them also made it easier (I had my nephews who are in their 20's as my ushers, it would have been hard to tell their sister you can't have a flower & then having to explain to my other sister's kids why their cousins all have flowers and they don't).

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• tammym1001 member

  

  July 2014

  We had 35 guests at our wedding. Here is a list of the people that had flowers:

  
  

  Bride

  Groom

  MOH

  3 Bridesmaids

  1 Best Man

  1 Ring bearer 

  FOG

  FOB

  MOG

  MOB 

  Grandma

  Sister of the groom

  
  

  
  

  So 14 of our 35 guests had flowers. No it did not look weird and like another pp said, all of those people aren't going to be in every single picture.

  
  

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• southernbelle0915 mod

  

  July 2014

  The men who had bouts at our wedding were: H, the GMs, our dads, our readers, our ushers, two dear family friends who offered and executed help with a few things.

  
  

  The women who had corsages were: our moms, his grandma, a couple of dear family friends who offered and executed help with a few things.

  
  

  I don't have any living grandparents or they would have had flowers. H's only living grandpa could not come or he would have had a bout also.

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• labro member

  

  July 2014

  We are giving bouts and corsages to the following people (outside of bridesmaids and groomsmen)

  Our grandparents

  My great aunt and uncle

  Our parents

  Ushers

  Ringbearer

  Flowergirl

  
  

  
  

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• hmaxted member

  

  July 2014

  Thanks everyone We've decided to go with the original big group as everyone has "duties" we can always get the ladies to take their flowers off for photos.

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• southernbelle0915 mod

  

  July 2014

  hmaxted said:

  Thanks everyone We've decided to go with the original big group as everyone has "duties" we can always get the ladies to take their flowers off for photos.

  Why would you have them take off corsages and bouts for photos? Even BM bouquets (which are generally much bulkier) don't get in the way. 

  
  

  Just keep it simple and let people keep these on when you take photos. It'd be weird to ask them to remove, plus it'll take more time and just be more complicated overall.

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