Comments on: Our Wedding: So Many Blooming Choices! http://ecovintageweddings.com/2009/12/our-wedding-so-many-blooming-choices/ Just another WordPress weblog Wed, 29 Feb 2012 17:51:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Stephanie Johnson http://ecovintageweddings.com/2009/12/our-wedding-so-many-blooming-choices/comment-page-1/#comment-222 Stephanie Johnson Mon, 04 Jan 2010 22:39:40 +0000 http://ecovintageweddings.com/?p=356#comment-222 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 :) 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 :)

]]> By: Kristen http://ecovintageweddings.com/2009/12/our-wedding-so-many-blooming-choices/comment-page-1/#comment-211 Kristen Wed, 23 Dec 2009 16:16:37 +0000 http://ecovintageweddings.com/?p=356#comment-211 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 :) 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: Larissa http://ecovintageweddings.com/2009/12/our-wedding-so-many-blooming-choices/comment-page-1/#comment-210 Larissa Wed, 23 Dec 2009 05:17:48 +0000 http://ecovintageweddings.com/?p=356#comment-210 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! 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!

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