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I'm not married yet, but in lieu of giving it away I know that some people have theirs dried. I LOVE this idea but have never spoken to anyone who has done this. I'd love more information about it, though, if anyone has done this. Other people take a sample of each flower that was in their bouquet, and have those pressed, then put on mounting board and framed as a representation of the bouquet. And the last idea I've read about it having a perfume made - not sure if the actual flowers are used, or if you just tell the perfumer which flowers were in your bouquet, but the gist is that you have a perfume made with the scents of the flowers you had. Those the ideas I've come across, but sadly I don't have experience executing any of them!
I pulled out a couple of the flowers, stuck them in a book and threw the rest away. I'm content with the pictures and not all of the flowers in my bouquet dry well so I let it go.
I kept a rose or two and threw the rest out.. it kind of started to smell after a while. I don't really like dead flowers anyway. I like them alive!
Mine got ruined at our day-after shoot (I was so sad!). But we had a destination wedding and I probably wouldn't have been able to bring it back on the flight anyway.
I've been thinking about this, actually, and decided that we're going to have our centerpieces and bouquets delivered to our local inpatient Hospice House after the reception is over.
I am very sentimental and knew I'd want to keep mine; I had a silk boquet for this reason. I also still have the BM boquet and the tossing boquet from a friend's wedding. :)
The idea of delivering them to a hospice is REALLY nice, too. If I'd have had real flowers, that would have been a wonderful thing to do with them.
I thought about dryiing mine, but the flowers I had (mostly tulips) really didn't dry very well. I kept the ribbon and a couple of the dried spray roses, but ai ended up throwing it away.
I tried drying mine but it didn't end up working very well and a bunch of them either went rotten or dried up. I'm happy to have the pictures of them!
I am freeze-framing my flowers. My mom brought them to the place the Monday after the wedding and they preserve them and you can have them transformed into jewelry or (what I am doing) is have them preserved and then put in a box with frame to put on the wall. It is expensive (around $500) but we had minimalist flowers and they were given as a gift by a friend of FH who is a florist, so that was our flower budget. :) It's an Ohio company but people ship flowers from far away.
Well, I wanted to save mine and do something with it, but my brother in law (who was housesitting for us at the time) threw it out while we were on our honeymoon because he thought it was just a bunch of dead flowers and why would I want it?? haha. I was highly annoyed at the time, but I'm okay with it now. I have plenty of beautiful pictures of it.
I either left mine @ the wedding, or in my hotel room - you can't fly into the country with them, so they were just going to have to get thrown out :)
I have absolutely no idea. I put mine in a vase on our table as a centerpiece at the reception, but I really didn't care about it.
I have seen preserving kits in craft stores and I have been meaning to test it to see if it is worth doing on my bouquet.
Should that fail, I guess I will try drying them.
It sat on my kitchen counter in a vase until it started to die, then I pulled a few flowers from it to dry and threw the rest away.
I didn't create a separate toss bouquet. So, the girl who caught my bouquet kept it. I'm guessing it ended up in the trash=)
I threw my bridal bouquet at the wedding. I didn't have a separate throw away bouquet because to me it was a waste of money. I loved my bouquet and have great pictures of them. I was more than happy to use that for the bridal toss and have someone else enjoy them while I was away for two weeks on my honeymoon. :)
I got them freeze dried. They were so beautiful I couldnt part with them. I found a place who would do it for $80, the only one around here! It is actually at the womans home because the florist is too humid to to it properly. They should be done by now. Ive left 4 messages and am getting a little annoyed. I will have to go there. Anyway, my florist used to do them but got rid of the machine so they are giving me a nice glass case to hang on the wall with them! I cant wait to see them!
I ended up tossing mine after a few days..the petals kept falling and started dying.. :(
I gave mine, along with two bridesmaids bouquest to my brother and his gf to take home and enjoy. I didn't feel the need to preserve it, and we were leaving the next day on our honeymoon so they would have been dead when I got back anyway.
I did however order a print of my flowers for my office, so I can always enjoy them that way!
I will be placing my bouquet on my Nana's grave the day after our wedding. I am so sad that she will not be able to be a part of my wedding.
When it dried up, I threw out the flowers and stems, and kept the ribbon they were tied with exactly as it was, complete with pins. I'm putting it in our wedding scrapbook of all our mementos alongside a picture of the actual bouquet.
I also wasn't all that attached to my bouquet. It wasn't exactly what I wanted and I was slightly disappointed with it. But I kept the ribbon for sentimental reasons. It will live on in pictures!
I was hoping that the girl who caught my bouquet during the bouquet toss would have kept it. (I was relieved because I was having an out of state wedding and didn't know what I wanted to do with if I still had it.) But then she felt bad about keeping my bouquet, so she gave it back to me.
My sister said to keep it. Well I hung it upside down to dry but 'forgot' to take it back home. I don't know where it is now. Probably in the trash now.
If I had space to store it, it would be a great thing to keep but I honestly don't have the space.
Since my bouquet was silk, it is in my bedroom sitting in a pretty hat box!
I handed mine to my older sister right before we ran through the crowd to our limo. She did so much to make my day so special, and I wanted to honor her with that gift. I hope she enjoyed it while i was off enjoying my honeymoon!
We left on our honeymoon the next day, and I actually left the bouquet in our Hotel room!
I'm not married yet but I'm thinking about taking a bit of a petal (all of my flowers will be orange) and having it pressed and make a piece of jewelry. While it would be small, I think it's kind of cool.
My bouquet was made of decoclay, so I still have it. It's sitting on a shelf in our house. It's relatively small compared to most bouquets so it looks pretty nice.
My MIL put my bouquet in a storage box filled with these little crystals that dry it out, you use them to make dried flowers and to preserve them. It stayed in there until my SIL's wedding which was about 4 months later but it can stay in as little as 7 days. I took it out and kept its shape and was perfectly dry. I put it in a vase at home on top of one of my cabinets.
I literally only touched mine when I walked down the aisle and for a few pics. While it was gorgeous - it was so hot and humid out that it was losing petals at the alter. Someone else must have brought it from the venue because I saw it the next day at the 'day after' barbeque. It wasn't looking so good. It got thrown out from there.
@stephinPA, the idea of the jewelry is awesome! I might have to steal it!
My aunt will take my bouquet to my grandma's grave, since she recently passed away.
And the centerpieces and BM's bouquets will be taken to a Hospice.
A week afterwards I composted my bouquet so it will return next year to nourish my family's garden.
I love the idea of placing your bouquet on a relative's grave. That is a beautiful gesture.
I stuck mine in a vase on our mantel -- ribbon, pins and all. About a week or 10 days later, it was wilted and moldy (seriously), so I threw it out. I figure: I have the photos to remind me how beautiful it once was!
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Hey hive,
I didn't really think about my bouquet in advance, so my family hung it upside down to dry. 4 months later, it's hanging in my closet, occasionally losing petals when it gets bumped. It's dried up and a lot of it is browning, but I feel sentimental about it and I don't want to just pitch it in the garbage... but I need the closet space back! What did you do with yours?