DIY or Buy? - Bouquets & Bouts

My MOH is a silk flower queen so I'll be enlisting her help with our bouquets and bouts for Dads. We haven't fully decided on real or silk, but either way it'll be gal craft day!

View quoted message Thanks! I looked at Michael's and they're not bad, but one of my bridesmaids recommended checking out Alibaba.com, so I think I'll go that route! Just seeing what everyone else is up to in case I miss a killer spot!

View quoted message Hi Erin, I’m getting them at Micheals

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Where will you be getting your fake flowers from?

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Where did you get your fake flowers from?

Ive got artificial flowers getting made for us. Ive bought most of everything second hand off of Facebook marketplace. we made our own invitation on photoshop, we are getting hugs & Kisses chocolates and putting them in little boxes that we are putting together. Not alot of DIY, but definitely not so much new items and mostly things we can sell after

We are doing fake flowers and have the bouquets, boutenirs, corsages and flower arrangements all made and ready to go!

I'm buying mine through costco!! the whole kit and caboodle for under 400.00!!!

(seriously... look up wedding flowers on costco.ca, you'll thank me later!)

I bought bouquets from a wedding swap and sell page. The toss away one I'm making. Boutiners I made

I'm going to try to make my own bouquets. If I don't like how it turns out then I will buy it. The boutonnieres I was looking at was $10-$13 so we are going buy it.

My mom and I have chosen to make the bouquets, I’m doing faux flowers with brooches in them.

We're getting married in a greenhouse so they have to do the bouquets (no outside seeds) and for the guys we're just doing cute floral lapel pins that I bought online.

My bridesmaid have all offered to help with DIY, so they've all been assigned a task. For our wedding we are DIYing our bouquets (ordered flowers from House of Silk), and our centre pieces, and aisle decoration. The boutonnieres we are purchasing from Moores.

DIY! I'm having my bouquet made of paper flowers and I'm making the bridesmaids bouquets and boutonnières out of artificial flowers I got from the dollar store and Michaels (on sale!).
Heres a picture of the bouquet for the bridesmaid

Buy! We went with a professional florist!

On the fence for this, it boils down to price.

Definitely getting a pro for this! I looooove flowers so it's important to me to have them look perfect!

Not having boutonnieres but definitely leaving it to the pros for the bouquets!

I’m DIYing my flowers. Just have to get the greenery! So excited to see them come together!

I’m so picky and worried all the time, originally I wanted fake flowers to avoid wilting and know what I was getting but I browsed a lot of sites with mixed reviews. My mom eventually convinced me to go with a florist. I love the look of real flowers and this way I know what I’m getting quality wise

I know nothing about flowers so leaving this to the pro. She is an amazing florist and i cannot wait to see our flowers.

My SIL offered to make these! She is only charging for the flowers which is awesome!

I was going to diy bouquets but my mum protested that, and offered to pay the difference so I can’t really argue that!

Professional I found an amazing florist and this is one thing I’m super excited about at our wedding. I cannot wait to see my flowers

Buy. I am for sure not creative enough to make flowers on my own!

I'm leaving this up to the pro and having our florist create them for us.

Leaving it to the pros... probably. So far I'm thinking, keep it simple, order them. The only flowers we are ordering are the bridal bouquet, bridesmaids bouquets and possibly boutonnieres (my FH is considering silk flowers & pocket squares), so I'm looking at Costco. Beautiful, simple white roses.

However my FMIL used to manage a flower shop, she is extremely skilled at floral arrangements. She offered her services, if I take her to a flower wholesaler and purchase the flowers... But coordinating that the week before the wedding, and adding that pressure to her, I'm not sure I want to do it.

I will make my final decision after meeting with the professional florist.

Professionals

Buying them, my florist has bouts for $3 so why not and i am not talented enough to make a bouquet lol!

I'm doing ours. Using white flowers and then purple glitter glued on

My FH sister used to own a Funky Petals flower store. So she is doing all of the bouquets and boutonnieres for me. I just need to purchase all the flowers and materials

Planning on making them myself, similar to the centrepieces! I'm quite nervous/excited about the whole process!