Artificial Flowers or Real Flowers?

I went with artificial for my bouquets and boutonnières and corsages! Artificial can look really real now and be inexpensive

I’m Team Real Flowers. Faux for your BMs & GMs, but real for you. 💐

View Quoted Comment Thank you!! Where did you purchase your artificial flowers? Do you know of other places? I want them to look as real as possible!

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View Quoted Comment I got mine from Michaels
The bouquets on the left were $2 for the bridesmaids and the right one was for me where I took a few of the left ones and put them together.

View Quoted Comment Oh wow! Those look nice!

I prefer real flowers. You can diy very inexpensively at fiftyflowers.com

I Prefer Faux Flowers. I Dont Like The Idea Of Spending Triple The Price For Real Flowers That Will Just Die.

I'm doing Sola flowers. I've painted them my colors and picked the kind to go with my theme of Hawaii. I think they are cheaper and I'll have them forever.

I was going to use a company to have mine made from sola wood, but a local florist ended up being cheaper. Definitely shop around to see what’s out there in your budget! (Nothing will be cheaper than the craft ones at stores like Michaels when they go on sale, though.)

I would recommend sola flowers! I was quoted 1/4 of the price of using real flowers. However, I’m hiring a company to create and ship my flowers. I’m not big into DIY.

View Quoted Comment That is what I have kind of thought too!

View Quoted Comment One of my friends used Sola Flowers! Yours looks very beautiful!

View Quoted Comment I will definitely shop around!! Thank you! Sola flowers are beautiful too!

I personally love real flowers, but I found out the colors I wanted would've all have to have been tinted and cost extra. I've opted to go with real silk and the cost was about the same.

View Quoted Comment Didn’t think about that! Where did you get yours?

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Etsy - This is who I used. I went with a cascading wrist corsage we will not have BMs or GMs so I wanted something that I didn't have to pass off to someone.

https://www.etsy.com/shop/Wedideas?listing_id=160349000&ref=shop_overview_header

Personally I prefer real ones but some of the fake ones look beautiful.

We are using faux flowers, for a bunch of different reasons. It is cheaper and we don't have to work with a vendor (too many people to keep track of for me), plus FH and his dad have sensitive allergies and it would be terrible if he had a sneezing fit during the ceremony! But DIYing the bouquets with my BMs was a lot of fun, we made a day of it and we helped each other with our bouquets and had drinks and watched sappy movies, so it was also just a nice bonding experience that made wedding planning less overwhelming.

View Quoted Comment That sounds so much fun!