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MaggieF1990
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Bouquet to throw + a bouquet to keep?
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We are meeting with our florist for final flower decisions this weekend, and my mom mentioned something about me having two bouquets - one to throw for the bouquet toss, and one to keep. My thought is that the flowers will die anyway so why spend extra money on another one, but she said if you hang them upside down they dry and keep longer...? I am no flower expert, but is it common to order two bouquets?
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Re: Bouquet to throw + a bouquet to keep?
If it's an additional cost and you don't plan on trying to preserve your bouquet anyway, it's probably not worth it.
I love bouquet tosses (mostly because I catch them!) but won't be doing a toss as I'm the last of my friends to get married. If I did, I would have grabbed a cheap bouquet instead of using my personal flowers. I'm going with silk flowers and would like to keep my bouquet. There are lots of ways to preserve your flowers, so if you want to keep, consider getting a tossing bouquet.
I had leftovers from my aisle flowers so made a "break apart" bouquet for my toss then had good luck/well wishes ribbons (meant to go on the toss bouquet) from a flower craft store... Had I not done that I'd have ordered a small toss bouquet from the florist (it doesn't have to match your bouquet or be your bouquet because as another pointed out, I couldn't imagine tossing mine with how much I spent on it!). I had a friend use her wedding bouquet as the toss bouquet because she forgot to order one and didn't want to take me up on my offer to run to the local grocery and pick up some blooms to toss together into one. Let's just say it looked like it went through the weed whacker by the time the petals had dropped and I think she was about to cry because of what happened to her lovely bouquet!
As for preservation - Hanging it upside down is definitely one option, another is sending it in to be freeze dried, and another option is purchasing Silica Jell. Sadly, my bouquet is still sitting in the Silica Jell because I've not had the time nor opportunity to take it out and display it and really, I'm more concerned about being able to do that with our Unity Candle...
If it were real flowers and I had to pay for an extra, I think it would depend. If I could get the second "toss" bouquet for free or relatively inexpensively, I might consider it. But personally, while I can understand that keeping your bridal bouquet might be meaningful for some brides, I just don't think it would be that big of a deal for me, so I might just get the one to give away in the toss.
The toss bouquet doesn't get preserved, that gets tossed... Your main bouquet is what gets preserved should you choose, and it's a lot easier if you do this early... With mine I put it in silica sand the next day in a storage container. There it still sits... My SIL sent hers out to be freeze dried and framed, they still look lovely today even though it was more money. My aunt just put it into a display box and allowed it to dry naturally and it looks nice over 30 years later...
I didn't care care to keep and preserve mine, so I just threw the bouquet I carried. Three and a half years later, I have no regrets.