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Luckily....the really awesome thing about Amazon is free returns! If you buy them and don't like them just ship them back and try again Good luck and let us know what you find!

If it's Gatsby, perhaps beaded purses for your bridesmaids. They can keep them as gifts. Amazon has tons of beaded vintage style purses.

Keeping with your theme, the maids can have wrist corsages made with high-quality faux flowers, feathers, and beading. Try Amazon, Michaels (watch for 50% sales), Joann's (watch for 50-75% sales), and Afloral.com for faux flowers. Michaels, Joann's, and Amazon for feathers, beads, ribbon, etc. Another definite gatsby item to carry would be feather and rhinestone fans.

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This helped a lot. I was looking into feather fans

I am just doing lanterns/candles for centerpieces, then some greenery to add a little bit extra to the centerpiece, not flowers.

I will actually only be using flowers for the bouquets

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The fans are so fun and they really make a statement. They would be beautiful in your photos too. You can get totally creative with your colors. Go to a craft store and just spend some time putting samples together for yourself. Take some pics of what you come up with to help get your ideas organized. They will be very special.

The only flowers we had at our wedding were bouquets for myself and the bridesmaids. I got my bouquet from a professional florist for $70. Then we DIYd the bridesmaid bouquets with grocery store flowers, and spent $30 total for all 4 bridesmaid bouquets. I really think they looked just as good as my professional one and were less than $10 each

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Omg so cute! These would be perfect. I was going to suggest candles are lanterns but they are a very generic design choice. Bottles like this would be beautiful and fit great in your theme. Do you like the ones that you made?

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This is awesome. How hard was it to make your own bouquets. I really wanted to do it just wasn't sure how hard it would be.

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I think I will do candles and lanterns on the cocktail tables. I do like the ones I made.

View Quoted Comment Have you thought about doing feathered fans? That would fit right into your theme.

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What spray paint did you use?? I'm going to do something similar but I am not sure what brand is good for spray paint.

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I like the idea of feathered fans for the bridesmaids. Just having a hard time finding where to get them. I think I'll have to make them

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My favorite spray paint brand is Rust-Oleum. i did several different techniques. I did some with spray paint. I also used Mod Podge and glitter for some, and Super 77 Adhesive and glitter.

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Have you thought about wood flowers? That's what we're doing for my bouquet, MOH bouquet, boutonnieres and corsages. There are people on Etsy and Facebook that put these together, and they're rather inexpensive! For centerpieces, we're doing a painted mason jar that has star cut outs with fairy lights on the inside and 'floating pearl' vases. You can get the water pearls from Amazon by the thousands and only cost like 10 bucks.

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I have not looked into wood flowers. I'll have to look into that. thank you. I like those centerpieces.

I am doing flowerless centerpieces but will still be using real flowers for the ceremony. However, I am still using real greenery for centerpieces.

I am going flowerless! I made my brooch bouquet and I am going to make mini ones for my bridal party.. and gonna use rose pins for the groom and groomsmen👍🏽

Hi Martika! Check out Something Borrowed Blooms. They offer 3D premium silk floral arrangements that you actually rent for your wedding day! How neat is that? They ship the flowers to you and you return them after the wedding is over

View Quoted Comment Not really hard at all. We did it the day before, it took well under an hour! My one bridesmaid is an event coordinator so she had a vague knowledge of what she was doing. Definitely watch tutorials in advance (or buy some flowers one random day in advance to just practice?) but it wasn’t complicated at all. We just arranged them together in a way that looked nice, and used ribbon and a hot glue gun to hold it together.

I couldn't do without it would look so plain. I found a lady wgo does centerpieces at 25 bucks per table and there the real touch fake flowers but look amazing ...maybe look into seeing if there is someone around your area to do something like that to if your looking to save money ...still cost me 900.00 but that includes my bouqet and the girls the boutineers and 2 mother corsages. A welcome sign with flowers and couple other decorations and wood doors for our ceremony to. Just gotta look into other choices is all.