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Looks fine. If you weren't sure you'd end up with what you wanted with the peach and pale pink, white and green should be easier for them to meet your expectations.
@julies1949: Thanks! I tried a few florists and was running into the same problem. I toyed with DIY, but I will already be doing the centerpieces and I decided in the end that I just don't want to deal with it.
I think I like this better with the black bridesmaids dresses anyway. I was worried the bridal party would be too stiff looking with the burlap decor. I think this is a better balance!
@Amaryllis: just my 2 cents - the images you posted don't look vintage to me really. Additionally, I'm worried that if you have that many "white on white" flowers, they will not have enough depth to show up on the photos.
For your original meetings with florists - did you give them photographs and/or give them specific names of flowers? When you say vintage -can expand on that? Do you want flowers that look like the teens 1910-1915 or more deco 1920s? On your old palette - to get the peach and the soft pinks to pop, i would have suggested using dusty miller and/or varigated pittisporum(spelling?) as a filler and then used pink astilbe with sonia pink roses (very 90's but has a different look if you use different fillers). Pieces of brunnia, seeded eucalptus, and hosta leaves can also create texture and look old fashion/vintage. Cottage yarrow, hellebores and white scabiosa are textures i love too.
Because you are getting married in August, you could possibly have lots of field flowers available to you that would add to your look.
Imagine this with peach instead of the lemon yellow
Dusty Miller, Lisianthius, pussy willow, waxflower etc etc
white veronica,
snowberry, caspia, wheat, pink hellebores,
white dendrobium orchids, seeded eucalyptus, ranunculas, peach roses
scabiosa pods, varigated pitt, white veronica (can't remember specific name), peach stock, pink peonies, maybe a bit of white hydraenga, white spray roses
pink astilbe on its own - it can really look peachy pink when put together with other flowers.................
Hope this doesn't overwhelm you! :)
@sfchick: Wow, your suggestions are beautiful! My previous connotation of 'vintage' was just in that rustic way -- burlap and lace and garden roses and texture. I guess what I didn't convey appropriately is that I am relieved to be moving away from that aesthetic! I have black bridesmaid dresses and formal tuxes and as I was proceeding, I thought it looked too formal and stuffy for that decor look. So now I will just have the milkglass as my nod to that feel but keep everything more streamlined and neutral. Since the milkglass are obviously all white, I don't feel like it would be out of place with my new gray and white scheme, but I am not going to go all the way in that direction. But you really went above and beyond, and I do appreciate the gesture.
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Hey, bees! So two things have combined recently to help me decide to change my flowers. I have said before that they were the one thing I thought I knew all along -- apparently not! The first and most important factor in this decision was that I actually met with florists, and honestly, I don't think any of them understood my vision. My original flower colors were to be peach and pale pinks, very vintagey and warm. I saw a lot of 90s plain peach roses. That made me nervous, and no matter how many times I said "garden roses," it just didn't seem to click. The other change was the addition of gray to my color scheme thanks to my awesome new shoes. Taken with a frothy new dress that I am about 98% sure I will be wearing, I decided to go with white flowers and greenery now. I think it will be fresh and clean and impossible to ruin! So here is my new inspiration board...
What do you think? Honestly, even though I am departing from what I had originally envisioned, I feel so much better about how it is all going to work together now.