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Ok bees,

I'm finding that actually finding purple flowers (not lavender), is really difficult! I really want a darker purple rose, and white accent flowers for the girls to carry and for me I'd like something a little bit different. I don't know if I want to do white roses, with a purple accent flower, or the same as the bridesmaids.

The rose I'm looking for is something like this:

http://pamelaleejordan.com/purple%20rose.jpg

 any ideas?

That's my problem because we're planning on DIY flowers, so I was trying to buy them wholesale. I could try though. Maybe just order the roses and then set them how I want.

I'm not sure if your opposed to this or not, but you could always spray/dye white flowers to any shade of purple you want.  It requires some still on the florists part to make it look nice, but a good florist should be able to put together something really nice.

 Another option is silk flowers...I think the ones below look a little cheap, but there are some nice realistic ones out there too. 

Good luck!

My wedding colors are dark violet purple, hot pink and touches of teal. I've seen a few dark purple flowers here and there, but when meeting my florist we came up with many ideas.

Lilis, Stock, Hydrangea, Carnations, Burgundy Iceberg Floribunda Rose and Lisanthis

I'm considering getting flowers to dye. I really love that color, and I'd honestly never thought that the picture I have might be altered, but it's a very good possibility. My mom and I were talking about the rose idea  last night, and she actually brought up the tulip idea, which I love! They're really simple and would flow perfectly with the rest of the colors.

I really like that idea with ranunculus too! They're really pretty and I wish I had seen them. Thanks RinaRoo!

It might sounds a bit hoky, but I actually had someone suggest ordering all my flowers from a grocery store, they usually will give you a better deal than a florist.

The only thing I'm trying to avoid is getting a whole bunch of different flowers in my bouquets and centerpieces. I know some may think it's boring, but I love a simple vase with one or two types of flowers and a little green!

I'm planning on buying a bunch of round vases like this one and filling them with the same type of flower as the ones that the girls will be holding, just without the accent flowers.

They'll probably be a little short, so that way they aren't overwhelming the table. I can't stand when you can't see around the centerpieces on a table.

Yeah I'm trying to go really simple. I couldn't get the picture in before but here is what I'm hoping to do-

A fully round fishbowl style vase, wide at the top with purple flowers of some sort with a tiny white flower mixed in just to break it up.

Imagine it with purple roses or ranunculus and a small white flower like this mixed in:

granted these are plumeria but something similar to this. I'm not sure of the name. That's all I'm really looking for.

Time for an update.....

Thank you to all of you! You've had such awesome ideas, and they've really helped me broaden the ideas of what I like. I think I'm going to try to get some purple hydrangeas as well as some ranunculs, and other mixed flowers that are purple and some whites to mix in.

I'll have to see as our day gets closer, but I'm pretty sure that's what I want.

Thanks again to everyone who posted. I know a few of you said that the picture of the rose that I have in the beginning is not possibly real, but I actually found a nursery that sells roses in this color. It's called "Ebb Tide". It's a pretty rare rose and doesn't always  get this to be this vibrant, but I thought I'd be interesting to see what I could find.

Here's the link: http://www.regannursery.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=plants.plantDetail&plant_ID=834&typeID=

RosyChicklet- I don't think I'll grow them for the wedding, but I do think I'm going to order some to get an idea of what they'll look like from the soil around here. Hopefully pretty close.

Depending on the difficulty of maintaining them and the color of the rose once it blooms, I would consider growning my own. We give my mom a rose bush every year for mothers day, so maybe I'll order some of these when we do that. I'm thinking about only using this purple for my bouquet now that I'm finding it to be a little more difficult to find.

@ RinaRoo- Thank you so much! All of those are beautiful flowers! I wish I had the space to do a garden that could accomidate all of these things. I'm going to research more over the weekend where I can get these rose bushes and see how much they'd cost and how many I'd need to do a nice bouquet. I can add those names to the list!