http://boards.weddingbee.com/ Weddingbee Boards Topic: Bouquet Preservation en Tue, 02 Dec 2008 00:36:09 +0000 http://boards.weddingbee.com/topic/bouquet-preservation-2#post-71737 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 16:38:42 +0000 MissEsq 71737@http://boards.weddingbee.com/ <p>my mom won't let me dry mine.&nbsp; She says dead or dried flowers in the house is back luck, (I guess that expends to freeze dried) </p> http://boards.weddingbee.com/topic/bouquet-preservation-2#post-71686 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 11:24:59 +0000 moncheer 71686@http://boards.weddingbee.com/ <p>If anyone has any more experience with this or can recommend a spray, I would love to hear it!&nbsp; Something not super time-consuming would be awesome!! </p> http://boards.weddingbee.com/topic/bouquet-preservation-2#post-71356 Fri, 25 Jul 2008 03:43:29 +0000 angelinyc2003 71356@http://boards.weddingbee.com/ <p>depending on the type of flowers you use, you can hang the bouquet &quot;up-side-down&quot; to dry, then spray with a craft glue, way less and last for years.<img src="/my-plugins/tinymce/jscripts/tiny_mce/plugins/emotions/images/icon_smile.gif" /> </p> http://boards.weddingbee.com/topic/bouquet-preservation-2#post-71346 Fri, 25 Jul 2008 01:50:49 +0000 suzanno 71346@http://boards.weddingbee.com/ <p>There are places that will freeze dry your bouquet now - it seems pretty expensive.&nbsp; The ones I looked at are charging between $500 and $1000 depending on the size of the bouquet and how they arrange it for display (what kind of case) afterwards.&nbsp; It's a great idea, but I can't really justify the cost - especially when I don't really know what the heck I'm going to do with a dried bouquet anyway.</p> <p>My sister dried hers as a bouquet - using silica gel - and it looked great but it ended up molding where the stems were tied so she had to throw it out.&nbsp; I have disassembled mine (tip from several websites) and put the individual flowers in silica gel, and will try re-assembling it later.&nbsp; So far the flowers look really good.&nbsp; I also took a lot of photos of it, and I figure that for the cost to get it freeze dried I can go out on our anniversary and order a nice arrangement with the same flowers for a number of years.&nbsp; And I plan to do that.</p> http://boards.weddingbee.com/topic/bouquet-preservation-2#post-71258 Thu, 24 Jul 2008 20:00:50 +0000 mamamiya 71258@http://boards.weddingbee.com/ <p>Has anyone ever preserved their bouquet or knows anyone that has? How much does it cost? Does it really preserve the flowers or is it dried? Do you know of any places in LA? </p>