A few weeks ago, Mom and I decided we would do a test run of the flowers for the wedding. Because I have a VERY budget-conscious fiance, we are going to be doing our own flowers to save money. Mom worked for a florist all through high school and college, so we felt like it was a project we could take on. I want nice flowers, but they are also something that I am not really stressing out about. SO no real pressure.
We went to the wholesale florist in Birmingham to get some ideas about the cost of flowers. They were so helpful there and explained the whole ordering/selecting process that we can go through in September. We brought home roses, hydrangeas and lilies so that we could play around and see what would be involved in making bouquets for the wedding.
My original idea was to model a bouquet I found in a magazine for me and then take the flowers from mine and make each bridesmaid a bouquet from just one of the types of flowers. So one girl may have a bouquet of lilies, one of peach roses, one of purple roses, one of hydrangea, and so forth. That way, each girl has some individuality and are able to choose their favorite flower for themselves. I am hoping we are still going to be able to do this. The only problem is with the lilies. Because of their size/expense, they are hard to make a bouquet by themselves. The bouquet as we made it would be dwarfed by the other bouquets. (See pictures below).
We went to the wholesale florist in Birmingham to get some ideas about the cost of flowers. They were so helpful there and explained the whole ordering/selecting process that we can go through in September. We brought home roses, hydrangeas and lilies so that we could play around and see what would be involved in making bouquets for the wedding.
My original idea was to model a bouquet I found in a magazine for me and then take the flowers from mine and make each bridesmaid a bouquet from just one of the types of flowers. So one girl may have a bouquet of lilies, one of peach roses, one of purple roses, one of hydrangea, and so forth. That way, each girl has some individuality and are able to choose their favorite flower for themselves. I am hoping we are still going to be able to do this. The only problem is with the lilies. Because of their size/expense, they are hard to make a bouquet by themselves. The bouquet as we made it would be dwarfed by the other bouquets. (See pictures below).
The first two pictures are to show the difference between just roses and roses with hydrangea. The last two pictures are to show how sad the bouquet looks when its just lilies.
My next idea was to use hydrangea in each bouquet as a "filler" so that the bouquets are more comparable. We are still trying to figure things out. We also played around with some ideas for mine. It will obviously have more flowers and more variance in colors -- but we werent going to spend all that money right now. (When you buy flowers, you cant buy individual roses. Instead, you buy bunches of 25 roses at a time). We played around with solid-rose bouquets, bouquets with hydrangea as fillers, and bouquets as hydrangea as though they were individual blooms. Here are some of the different ways we arranged them -- let me know what you think!!
My next idea was to use hydrangea in each bouquet as a "filler" so that the bouquets are more comparable. We are still trying to figure things out. We also played around with some ideas for mine. It will obviously have more flowers and more variance in colors -- but we werent going to spend all that money right now. (When you buy flowers, you cant buy individual roses. Instead, you buy bunches of 25 roses at a time). We played around with solid-rose bouquets, bouquets with hydrangea as fillers, and bouquets as hydrangea as though they were individual blooms. Here are some of the different ways we arranged them -- let me know what you think!!
The left side shows hydrangea more as "fillers" and the right side shows the hydrangea more as blooms themselves.
What do you think??
