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This is the sole reason why i am doing silk flowers i want to keep them and shadow box them on our wall with our marriage certificate. but im kind of a sap i have the reciept from our first date hahaha (long story)..
Right now I have no plans. And the idea of just throwing it away doesn't really bug me. I would love for some space effective suggestions, though. Certainly don't want to dry the whole thing. Where would I put it?
I will actually be using it for my bouquet toss during the wedding - so someone else will have some nice flower for a little while
I actually plan to take mine to the graveyard where my grandfather is buried and leave them there. He passed away about a week after we got engaged, so I think it would be special to at least leave a part of my wedding with him. :-)
I knew I couldn't take them with me (we were leaving directly for our honeymoon after the wedding) so I gave them to my mom. She LOVED having them as her kitchen centerpiece until they died. I was happy with that because someone got to enjoy them! (I had tulips, which don't dry very well so drying and keeping them was out.)
I kept one flower from the bouquet dried it and framed it.
I am ordering a BEAUTIFUL silk bouquet off of Etsy and plan on putting it in a beautiful vase and keeping it forever! So excited!
Probably just putting them in water until they die - then toss them! I'm using real flowers so there's not much that I can do with them.
@lifeinshutter: SUCH a good idea! How do you drain flowers? Never heard of this before..I'd like to learn more! Framing it would be SUCH a nice addition to your home!
Well since we left the day after, I gave it to my mom. And I haven't seen my mom since that day, and every time I am on the phone I keep forgetting to ask her, so I have no clue what became of my bouquet after the wedding! It was real flowers, so I wanted someone to enjoy it more than I could, that's why I gave it to her in the first place! Hopefully it sat on their table for a while before she threw it out!
My mom and I just talked about this. I am not attached to the bouquet, I will remove the portion of my grandmother's dress from the stem wrapping, but then I am tossing it before we leave! (to a guest)
@amanda.lynn - that is such a sweet idea - very touching. if i lived close to where my grandpa was buried, i would have really liked to do something similiar.
I made my bouquet too and thought about the shadow box thing, but I think mine is too big. I've been considering a plan to take it apart and make some holiday decorations out of the flowers and feathers - maybe a garland of sorts?
@amanda.lynn - That is such a sweet idea.
I think I am going to do something like this with mine:
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=33652340
I'd love to be able to look at it later.
I let mine dry while we were on our honeymoon. Now, it's sitting on a bookshelf with our guestbook, an invitiation, and some honeymoon mementos. I like to look at it sometimes, so I'm glad I kept it. :)
One of my friends received a beaded bracelet that had been made from the dried petals of her BM bouquet the bride had one made from her bouquet. I had never heard of this before, but I thought it would be a more useful way to "keep" my bouquet
not sure what I'm doing yet.. if I go with silk flowers, I'll certainly keep it. Real flowers dried out become too fragile to keep.... at least for me!
@amanda that's a beautifully sweet idea
@Puggy I love that idea, I may go ahead and do that- honestly I just thought I was tossing it before. :o)
@puggy, I love that idea! Now I want to do that! I was just going to put mine in a vase until it died but having it forever in a frame would mean so much to me
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I don't know what to do with my bouquet after... do you dry it? Freeze it? Let it die then throw it away?