What kind of flowers? Real, faux, sola, or paper?

None of the above. We have gold faux manzinite trees for centerpieces with crystals and LED candles (real arent allowed in our venue) and crystal snowflake bouquets. Mine and my FS's corsage will have dried lavender (so real but not fresh) added in. We will have real flowers on the altar which we are donating to the church for Sunday services after and hopefully some real evergreen swags to go with our artificial tree escort ornament display.

View Quoted Comment Brilliant idea!! Do you have any pictures of what you're envisioning?

We're going with silk flowers.

View Quoted Comment I definitely lol-ed at the "idc idc idc" part of the response!

Faux for me. I'm not into flowers as it is and think it's a waste of money to pay for flowers when they're just going to die after awhile.

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How I envisioned my bouquet.

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Tina your bouquet is gorgeous!! I love the colors

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Wow this sounds gorgeous!! I'm intrigued by the crystal snowflake bouquets! Do you have an inspiration photo?

I love the look, feel and smell of real flowers, so that’s what we went with.

Real! Our florist is included with our venue. If I had to do it myself I would have done real bouquets and close up pieces and fake flowers for archways and decor. I’ve seen a wedding where the “roses” were made up of rolled newspaper and the brides favorite book! I wish I had a picture it was so unique!

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Snowflake 1

Yup! I found this on Pinterest (I think) a while ago and a friend is helping me create it.

Snowflake 2

For placement of the lavender

With the cascading crystals (but I'm planning on a lot more)

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WOW!!!! That is gorgeous!!!!!! I have never seen anything like this!

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Thank you! I was trying to find something more economical for a winter wedding and saw those pictures and knew it had to be that one. Luckily I have a friend who has a laser cutter and is willing to cut the big snowflake for me on it.

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That's awesome and I'm sure will be super helpful!

Still not sure what type of bouquets, I hate to waste beautiful flowers for all of my bridal party and myself and don't know what I'd do with them if I dried them. I am getting married at an herb farm and having them do my bouquets, might go with bunches of lavender and/or other herbs that could be put into sachets to re-use them.

Honestly don't want flowers for me or my maid of honor, it's not a must and could go without.

Solo wood I love my bouquet

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Would you do something else instead of flowers?

Real flowers, seemed like faux was more expensive.

Faux flowers for this girl. All the weddings I've been a BM for have had faux flowers and I've enjoyed bedding able to keep the bouquet. I just can't wrap my head around spending so much for somthing that will die so soon or get thrown away. But I've also had a hard time wrapping my head around how much a I've spent on my wedding dress that I'll only wear for a few hours.