Bridesmaid Bouquet Alternatives?

Etsy has a ton of dried and silk flower options

Lanterns, fans, parasols, handbags

I am getting faux flowers from etsy. It will be 250 for mine and my maid of honors bouquets

I made my bridesmaid bouquets with hydrangeas from the grocery story. $5 a stem and each flower was so big I only need 3 per bouquet. So $15 for each one! They were super easy to make and looked great! (I think they looked nicer than mine)

You can always use fake flowers. My stepmom & her mom made my bridesmaids their bouquets. I order my bridal one from etsy. I don't like real flowers so I wanted fake ones for the wedding. & I agree that they are expensive, just to die. Here are pictures of what they look like:

Mine were fake from dollar tree… I diy’d

Etsy offers a ton of fake floral arrangements! I just purchased mine for $108 and its beautiful, and looks so real!! I like the fake flower idea as well because I will keep it forever

My MOH, one of my bridesmaids, & I just did my flowers with flowers from Hobby Lobby and Carolina Pottery (I'm in SC). We bought lanterns at Wal-Mart and attached flowers under the hooks using florist foam then did a ribbon loop to carry them. We found fairy lights to put inside instead of a candle. I'll try to attach a picture, but I'm on my computer right now, and the pics are in my phone.

The finished product with and without the fairy lights turned on

Have you looked into artificial flowers? Or woodm sola flowers look amazing. Tons of etsy sites have them premade and colors for you.


Or there are bouqets of broochesn pinterest has alot of ideas.

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I bought lanterns from Hobby Lobby and purchased silk flowers from Ling’s moment and created lantern bouquets for my bridesmaids

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Thank you!

At Michaels they have little flower bouquets for like $5-$10 I bought those and just dressed them up with some nice ribbons etc

Fiftyflowers.com and Costco have fresh flowers much cheaper than most silks.

These are fake! From the good ol hobby lobby. My friends had fun putting together their own arrangements

Sola wood flowers!!! Look real and last forever!

Order real flowers for you and your MOH, but use silk or fake flowers for everything else. Etsy has great options for this but make sure you check the return/exchange policy in case you don't like them in person.

Have you considered skipping them altogether and doing one fantastic Bridal bouquet? Don't feel the need to follow a tradition that either doesn't make sense for you or is out of your budget. I don't even have bridesmaids! Or if you have a theme sort of going on, try to work that in. For example, for my evening fall wedding, if I had bridesmaids I might do small lanterns with fairy lights instead of boutiques, or maybe small pinecone bouquets that I could easily make on the cheap from Hobby Lobby!