Real or fake flowers

I am doing fake flowers from other brides!! As well as dollar store flowers (ones that look real- some look fake there so I went with a better quality one). We are doing the bouquets, boutenirs, etc. And then on the table just a floating flower

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I am still trying to decide. I talked with my bridal party and they said real are good but faux they can keep. I am probably going to go for Faux though. Still have a bit (not much) time to decide I hope by Jan/Feb I will know.

Hey Sara, what did you choose in the end? Have you gone with faux flowers?

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Thanks for the tip. I have seen alot of nice pictures of faux flowers and the whole bridal set on Etsy. I have been tempted to continue looking there. But you never know if they are going to look anything like the pictures. I've never ordered from Etsy so not sure what to expect.

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I got my big calla lilies from Michaels but that was at the beginning of spring. When I went back around August I could not find them anymore. So they do carry calla lilies but only for a short period of time. I would ask the floral associates at what time of year they expect to get them back.

That was my thought exactly! We are doing fake flowers of high quality from michaels, and we spruced them up with a vase filler. My bouquet and the men's boutennieres are real flowers and on the guestbook table and on the mantle behind our sweetheart table we are getting those flowers from costco like in the second picture. Each batch in 19.99$ and we are getting 3 to incorporate them. After you can always donate them to a retirement home or some guests can take them home

I went with real, but most of my flowers were baby's breath (with the exception of my bouquet and my barrel pieces - we got married at a vineyard). My thought process was that I already had decorations that I would need to sell/get rid of and I didn't want to add flowers to that. We've saved some, but the others are gone.

View quoted message Those look really pretty and will look great beside your pictures. And I had no idea you could rent flowers.

Thanks for all the comments and ideas.

I bought inexpensive 2nd hand vases and Costco roses for my center pieces. Before the reception we placed a sticker on the back leg of one chair per table with the word WINNER on it. At the end of the reception, we asked our guests to look at their chair leg and that person took home the vase filled with roses. Costco roses are only $22.00 for two dozen so I only needed 2 packages for our small reception as we had 4 tables. They have other flowers in the store as well. For the center pieces at the head table, I brought some vases that our bouquets could be placed in and that's all we needed along with some candles.

Also look into renting flowers. If you live in a small town area you might have this as an option. They charge a percentage of what the flowers cost and you can rent them for the weekend.

That's what we're doing for our wedding. Real flowers for boquets and boutonnieres. And our centerpieces are photos of us and these cases with tiny lights on wires and leaves.

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I would check their website. I'm not doing lillies so I wouldn't know if they carry off the top of my head.

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Costco - I never thought of them. Thanks for the idea

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Oh growing in my garden that's an idea. I am just not sure I'll have good enough luck to have pretty flowers. I don't have a great green thumb.

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Thank you. I will look there again. Last time I went they didn't have any calla lilies which are my flowers of choice.

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Michaels. Depending on what color scheme your looking they have different flowers per season. I bought some this past spring but I need to get more for my bouquet. So ill be going back to get more. But for my archway flowers I only spent 50$ which is pretty good.

View quoted message Where did u find nice faux flowers Ashley.

You can get really good looking faux flowers for a good deal! That's why I chose faux. And you can keep your bouquet after.

That is our plan; we will be using real flowers for bouquets/boutonnieres and then something else for centrepieces. We had also talked about growing flowers ourselves and making them into a bouquet, but since neither of us are crafty we ditched that idea

I agree with you, I love real flowers but the price is crazy! I think what we are going to do is have real flowers for the bouquets and boutonnieres and then use fake flowers in the centerpieces or order real flowers from Costco and try to make some arrangements myself to save cost.