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Diy flower confusion!

Maya, on August 31, 2019 at 11:50 PM Posted in Do It Yourself 0 12

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Hey ladies! So I’m super confused by the diy flower idea. I definitely want to go that route for financial reasons. Thinking Sams Club based on preliminary research and cost comparison. But this is my dilemma: My venue does not allow anything to be dropped off until that morning and our centerpieces are going to be clusters of small and medium vases and bud vases (as pictured).

so what is the best way to go about this?? Set them up in the individual vases when they arrive to my house but then how to get them safely to venue morning of??? Hire a day-of-coordinator to deal with the whole mess? Is that too much for her to do in the span of a few hours for 16ish tables? Or just hire a florist to handle it? I’m so confused. Thanks in advance!!

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Latest activity by Maya, on September 2, 2019 at 9:43 PM

Savvy September 2020
Maya · on August 31, 2019 at 11:51 PM
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Whoops forgot to attach pic
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Expert August 2019
Ami · on September 1, 2019 at 12:08 AM
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I cant help with the DIY portion, but I do know that my florist set up all the centerpieces at her shop pruor to the day of the wedding and then transported them to the venue. So it's possible to do them the day before and then carefully transport
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Melle · on September 1, 2019 at 1:31 AM
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My venue let me drop off everything the night before and I hired a day of coordinator to do the set up for me. All I did was provide him demo pics of what I wanted it to look like.
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Devin · on September 1, 2019 at 8:53 AM
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We are doing our own flowers. We will cut & arrange them in their vases the day before and probably put them together in a box to transport them to the venue on the morning of.
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Super September 2019
Selena · on September 1, 2019 at 9:15 AM
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So use boxes to transport, several heights of boxes ( a little bit shorter than the vases) tape the boxes closed, cut an x the size of the case and push through to hold for transport. Hopefully that makes sense. Like making a big drink carrier.
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Anna · on September 1, 2019 at 9:39 AM
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Can you designate a friend or family member for this job? I would have them prearranged in the vases and then show the designated person photos of how you want it set up. Ask them to do that and let the venue know that *name* will be doing some set up. My concern is that if you have to hire a day of coordinator then you might reach the point of financial cost where you should have just hired a florist instead of going DIY. So to keep costs low, ask a friend.
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Dedicated December 2019
Lauren · on September 1, 2019 at 1:54 PM
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I plan on ordering greenery from Sams club and am just going to put keep them in buckets and transport to the venue(hotel) and continue to spray them. The morning of my DOC will take them from my hotel room down to downstairs and set up.
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Devoted October 2019
Roxana · on September 1, 2019 at 2:36 PM
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I'm DIYing flowers the day before and also will be doing clusters of bud vases for our decor.
So, the most effective way I'm thinking to transport is to put them in soda/wine bottle boxes (the ones with divided sections for each bottle). I guess from there you just gotta pray that nothing gets knocked around too much on the trip to the venue!
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VIP September 2019
Mrs. Bubba · on September 1, 2019 at 7:30 PM
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Did you see the post about the Costco Flowers?
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Savvy September 2020
Maya · on September 2, 2019 at 9:42 PM
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Very smart thank you!!
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Savvy September 2020
Maya · on September 2, 2019 at 9:42 PM
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This is probably what I’ll end up doing
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