Our Wedding: So Many Blooming Choices!
Written by Sara on December 22, 2009 – 9:00 am -Happy Tuesday, readers! For me, today marks my second-to-last day at work this week – yay for Christmas! I am anxious to spend time with family this week.
Today’s post is all about flowers!
I already plan to incorporate green(er) floral choices in terms of our reception decorations – my Mom and I have discussed planting wildflowers in her backyard garden and utilizing these in mason jars adorned with lace and twine for our reception tables. I’ve also thought about frequenting the local farmer’s market the week of the wedding and picking up a few collections of flowers to utilize on our wedding day.
As you recall, I’ve expressed my disdain for shelling out hundreds of buckaroos for real wedding flowers that will merely die in a week, so I’m making friends with the idea of carrying silk or synthetic flowers. However, the more I think about it, I would love to carry real flowers myself on my wedding day. (As I say that now, I’m wondering if that’s fair to ask my girls to carry synthetic florals and to carry real ones myself?!)
Remember this inspiration board I made a few months ago on the Style Circle?
While I know that my girls will be carrying sunshine-colored flowers, I still haven’t concepted a clear-cut idea of what flowers I want to carry on our wedding day.
My Mom has always loved yellow roses and daisies, and I think they would make a beautiful combination for my wedding bouquet. I also LOVE these little button mums (that’s probably not at all what they are, but I love them), so I’d be delighted to have those in my bouquet as well. I also am a HUGE fan of sunflowers.
Yet, I once saw a bride’s bouquet that was completely beautiful – and white! She carried only one bloom, but it was beautiful – she carried only lily of the valley, tied with a ribbon. Here’s a lily of the valley bouquet found via the Boards on Wedding Bee:
How sweet, simple and lovely!
What are your thoughts, readers?
Real or synthetic flowers for me? For my girls?
What blooms should I carry?
What is your favorite yellow flower?
Tags: DIY centerpieces, mason jars, Style Circle, wedding flowers, wedding reception, yellow wedding flowers
Posted in Budget Weddings, DIY, Decor, Flowers, Our Wedding | 3 Comments »
By Larissa on Dec 22, 2009 | Reply
Personally, I feel that real flowers are the way to go. I know that they make some pretty ‘real’ looking synthetic ones but it’s not the same.. I think it’d be easiest for me to list these out in pros and cons to offer my two cents :)
Synthetic
Pros: cheaper, reusable, more durable (no worries of wilting or bruising or water issues), or worrying about traveling with them to and from destinations.
Cons: they have no fragrance (one of the best attributes of a flower! minus baby’s breath :) ), okay I can better explain this by saying that real flowers give you the ‘feel good’ feeling by seeing them and smelling them, they are REAL, they are ALIVE just like your guys’ love for each other! Synthetic ones don’t capture that. There. My two cents!
By Kristen on Dec 23, 2009 | Reply
Hey Sara Jo! My mom carried real flowers on her wedding day, and her bridesmaids had synthetic. I don’t mind carrying fake flowers at all! You can’t tell anyway, and if it helps you guys save some money, I would be happy to carry any kind of sunshine flower :)
By Stephanie Johnson on Jan 4, 2010 | Reply
I love the idea of planting flowers in your mom’s yard and using them at the reception. I also think it would be just fine for you to use real flowers and go with synthetic for the bridesmaids…if I were a bridesmaid I totally wouldn’t care!
You’ve also inspired me for my someday-in-the-very-far-future wedding: sunflowers. That’s my favorite flower of all time! But it had never occurred to me to use them for my own wedding possibly…think about how the countryside in S.D. looks in the summer..full of sunflowers in the road ditches from July to September! You could always go out and cut some for free anywhere you like and they would be beautiful. I’m keeping the sunflower idea in my own wedding memory bank, but I think your flower girls would be cute with big huge ones on your day :)