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?
There are places that will freeze dry your bouquet now - it seems pretty expensive. 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. 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.
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. I have disassembled mine (tip from several websites) and put the individual flowers in silica gel, and will try re-assembling it later. So far the flowers look really good. 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. And I plan to do that.
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?
posted by mamamiya 1 month agoThere are places that will freeze dry your bouquet now - it seems pretty expensive. 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. 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.
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. I have disassembled mine (tip from several websites) and put the individual flowers in silica gel, and will try re-assembling it later. So far the flowers look really good. 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. And I plan to do that.
posted by suzanno 1 month agodepending on the type of flowers you use, you can hang the bouquet "up-side-down" to dry, then spray with a craft glue, way less and last for years.
posted by angelinyc2003 1 month agoIf anyone has any more experience with this or can recommend a spray, I would love to hear it! Something not super time-consuming would be awesome!!
posted by moncheer 1 month agomy mom won't let me dry mine. She says dead or dried flowers in the house is back luck, (I guess that expends to freeze dried)
posted by MissEsq 1 month ago