Fresh or artificial floral arrangements?!

View Quoted Comment Thanks. 😁 The frame has a card stating that we’ll be making donations to charities in lieu of favors.

View Quoted Comment Perfect! The contrast works so well 😊

View Quoted Comment That's a great plan! We want to do something different for "favors" too, can you tell I'm stealing ideas already haha!!

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Go for it, I'm happy to share ideas. Each table will have a different charity.

I really love fresh flowers, so I'm going with my local Kroger's florist for my wedding flowers!

I’m all for artificial and saving as much money as possible!!! I would just make sure that you use good quality fake ones!!

Its really just a personal preference. I’m using artificial for the chapel and natural for the reception. Originally we wanted to use artificial only, but quickly realized we would spend almost as much if not more than natural flowers. It was a big deal to us that the artificial flowers didn’t look so fake/cheap and the really pretty fake ones cost almost as much as the real ones. Good luck! 😌

View Quoted Comment We’re doing the same thing! My heart’s set on real flowers for the bouquet, but there are so many beautiful and creative alternatives when it comes to centerpieces.

If you use good quality artificial no one will notice. If it's more cost effective I would go with that. They'll last longer anyway if people want to take some home.

I strongly suggest fresh for your bouquet i went to check out my bouquet bc its all fakw even my bouquet and i wanted to cry . They were not what i expected and fake doesnt trump fake for your bridal bouquet thats for sure...everything else is fake my centerpeices bridesmaids etc all fake but i should have done my bouquet special and real as you are even my fiance didnt like how the fake ones turned out so i said to heck with it and just kept it already spent the money on them so keeping it that way if i could redo my bouquet had thr extra money to i would do real just for that to ...so good decision on that

I love fake flowers because you can

1) re use them
2) buy them on sale at craft stores months ahead of time
3) change them on a whim without worrying about the fragile stems

My wedding is this Sunday and we opted for artificial! This way you can totally have out of season flowers for half the cost!

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Love this idea!

View Quoted Comment That was my reasoning too. Plus I can resell items after the wedding.

View Quoted Comment Thank you. 😁

I'm doing fresh for my bouquet and boutonnières but fake for decoration. For my bouquet & boutonnieres it was actually cheaper than I expected

View Quoted Comment Those are gorgeous! Where did you buy them? I’m considering fake for my bouquet but only if it looks nice.

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Thank you so much!! I found someone through Mercari who was selling bouquets/arrangements, and set up a custom order - unfortunately her account is no longer active, or I'd send you a link.