My DIY 1,000 Costco Wedding Flower ummm... tutorial?

Thanks for the pics and information...I am doing my centerpieces and this has been very helpful.

Wow, everything came out so beautiful. I myself was considering Costos's (DIY centerpieces & aisle), but was still debating bak & fourth. But seeing how well urs turned out, I'm thinking this would good/fun (w/help & imagination) way 2 cut cost & fun activity. Thnx 4 the info & pics. Congrats.

Love this! Great job!!!

Can't wait to see!

Commenting just so I can follow as well!!

I'm glad I'm not the only one who did this and enjoyed it. I LOVED making mine the morning of. It gave me something to do with my hands/relaxed me.

I'm loving this tutorial, thank you!!

Awesome idea

Gorgeous! I wish I was brave enough to attempt this.

Can't wait to see the rest. Love everything so far.

..Okay - I'm back. Sorry, I worked 12 hours yesterday and wanted to like, eat and sleep

Okay - I forgot to talk about the spray roses yesterday. These little tiny versions of full size roses when they fully open.

I bought 100 spray rose stems from SAMS online, because Costco didn't have any at the time. Same exact process for ordering, and they were delivered on time as well. $97.00 for 100 stems. However, each stem has anywhere from 3-7 blooms on it.

These really required little processing. I cut each stem at an angle to give it a fresh cut, and into buckets they went.

You can't really use an individual bloom in a full sized vase, because each little stem on the individual blooms aren't very long, maybe 3 inches at most. I wanted to use them in my CPs along with my big roses.

I also had some small jars, (jelly jars and small blue mason jars) that I knew these would be perfect for.

This is a picture of sprays, to give you an idea of how many 100 stems is, I believe these buckets were approximately half of them.

Also, when the spray roses arrived, they were so tight that you couldn't even tell what color the blooms were. Within about 2 hours, they looked like the above picture.

Below are a couple photos of how we used just the spray roses by themselves.

Guestbook table - small glass jars have the sprays in them

Parent/Grandparent wedding picture table - There's a tiny arrangement in the back. There's also a couple jelly jars with baby's breath in them, and a small mason jar with a few regular sized roses.

(sorry, I'm struggling to find good pics, I'm crossing fingers the photog got some good shots!)

Wow this is an awesome guide! Thank you! ~~Saving this~~

What else -- Oh, Filler. I had baby's breath, a white airy filler called white misty, an airy greenery called plumosa. I can't remember the other greenery.. some type of fern.

I didn't want baby's breath in my CPs or Bouquets. I only used it by itself in jelly jars, and in two antique buckets near the front of our venue.

This thread is amazing. Thank you for sharing.

We assembled the CPs and bouquets in the kitchen of the venue the day before. They had a large fridge, and a big island that was perfect for doing this.

After we made 1 CP that I fell in love with, we really just made the others to mirror it.

We used the hand tying method for both CPs and Bouquets. It's really simple, and there are many YouTube tutorials on how to do it. You will need floral wire, wire cutters or scissors, floral tape.

Pic of Aunt Kate and Mom And pic of the cooler in the kitchen of the venue

Centerpieces: From day 1, I knew I wanted to use my Grandma's antique mason jars for CPs. She got them as a gift when she married Grandpa. The blue/green jars looked great with the yellow roses.

I also knew that due to the size of the mouth of the jar, the CPs wouldn't be huge, which I liked. My vision wasn't for a "perfect" arrangement in the jars. I really wanted almost an "undone" look, but I wanted each CP to have the same "undone" look, if that makes sense?

Each large jar had 7 or 9 roses in it, (is it awful that I can't remember?), plus the mini spray roses, and filler. This is the best pic I can find right now. You can also see them in the above pic of them in the cooler.

I have tons of guest photos, but trying to find a decent pic of the tables/CPs is nearly impossible.

Each table had a large blue mason jar in the middle of the table, surrounded by 8-10 candles, and a smaller jar of smaller roses and maybe a small jar of babys breath.

Each table wasn't identical as far as the size/type of candle and smaller arrangement.

Pic 1 - Found this pic that someone took - without any flowers.

Pic 2 - Also found this one, shows what we had on the tables - also without flowers.

Told ya, I'm struggling here!

Bouquets:

I knew I wanted the bouquets to be simple, all yellow roses, no filler, no cascading greenery, just yellow roses. Super simplistic. I hand tied my bouquet and it seriously took like 5 minutes. It had 27 roses in it. I did need someone to wire it and wrap it while I held the stems.

It wasn't anything over the top-spectacular, but it's exactly what I wanted. I wrapped it in an ivory 1.5 inch ribbon and pinned it with floral pins. I also put my grandfathers copper bracelet that he used to always wear, around the ribbon.

Close up of my bouquet. -

**Also, I kept all of the roses for my bouquet and the 9 BM bouquets in the fridge from the moment they arrived at my house, I wanted them to be tighter than the CP roses.

BM Bouquets - I wanted them to be simple also. Basically they were mini versions of mine. I used 9 flowers in theirs. One of my BM's and I literally knocked out 9 BM bouquets in about 30 minutes.

When the roses are all prepped, and you have everything you need, the hand tying method is so fast and easy. I assembled them, she wired and taped them, and bam, done. I asked the BM's if they liked them with ribbon around the stems, or without. They liked them better without. So we went with it. Looking at the pics, I probably should have cut the stems a bit shorter, but - eh.

They aren't anything over the top-spectacular, but again, I was going for simplistic.

This is my daughter and her bouquet. Omgosh. She just looked stunning. Now I'm crying. Gahhhhhhhhh.