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I decided on having a bouquet of all white, and I love peonies but can't have them since my wedding is in August. At least this is what I have been told.

Soooo, I decided I wanted white Garden Roses or white English Roses and apparently I can't have those either? Does that sound right to anyone.

I've heard of people getting Peonies in August and September....and I don't understand why its so difficult to get English or Garden Roses....I could purchase them online so why can't my florist get them? Is it because they are contracted to only one Grower? 

I am really started to get frustrated. I already signed my contract with them....but I want to find another florist that can do what they say the can do.

but I don't know if these are legitimate "excuses" that my current florist is telling me. please help.

Thank you all for your input it really helps to hear others opinions.

I interviewed 4 florists before deciding on this one, and I decided to go with this florist because they seemed like they were willing to work with me to get the desired look I wanted for flowers.

I am on somewhat of a budget. I kept everything to a minimum including the bridesmaids bouquets are quite small about 7 - 9 stems. But I told her I was willing to go a little higher for my own bouquet. I just am starting to feel a little restricted more so now than when I first signed my contract because of all my ideas being shot down. I am going to talk to her and see if I can purchase the flowers and she can possibly make the bouquet that way.

I looked at silk flowers (before looking at florists).....I bought some on sav-on-crafts.....but i felt like they looked artificial in pictures so I returned them. I'll checkout Angel's accents, but I'm not sure I could even get out of my contract at this point. 

I don't really want any green in my bouquet. I think I want to go with English roses and white hydrangea, but going back to my florist she says hydrangea will wilt very fast in august (in Chicago). She said that lots of girls do hydrangea for their bouquets in August but to forewarn me that they will most likely wilt.

My florist created a mock bouquet for me to see, and the White Roses were more like yellowish/cream with a slight tint of green. Yuck.

She said this was as white as they get them...but that they have more Roses coming in next weekend and that she will look at those to see if they are whiter.  (geeez.......can't get the shape of rose i like and now can't even get the right color of rose i wanted)

So I told her I wanted the bouquet to look more white and that I assumed the Roses would not look yellowish/cream/green. ( I wasn't expecting paper white, but at least resemble white). 

That's when she told me how hard it was because there aren't many "white" flowers available in August.  Hmm, this is not what she told me when I was deciding on a florist.  Sigh..............so I'm waiting til a couple weeks before I can see the revised bouquet. If its still not up to par, I will have to see if I can get my deposit back.

 Did any of you regret a white bouquet?

oh thanks so much for your messages! i didn't know that florists can get silk flowers.......i didn't know they varied in quality either.

 thanks again!

Ok so after all the great input I received I called up my florist and actually got to talk to the owner. I told her how I was disappointed with my mockup bouquet and the color (which she was aware of since she was there the day I went to see my mock up). I told her that I had wanted Garden Roses and that I felt that I got the impression that I can't get them and the roses (Akito) in my bouquet were yellowish/greenish and that I wanted more of a white. I told her I understand that the roses vary in shade a bit, and that I didnt expect them to be SUPER white, but that it should look more white than cream/yellow/green.  She asked me what roses in particular..........and again I said Garden. I then told her that I see the type of roses I want online, so I gave her the sites, and she saw what I was looking at and said she could get them in and she'll put those into my mock up bouquet that they are re-doing, and so my appt is in a couple weeks and I'm keeping my fingers crossed.

I really started to feel that I was asking for too much or that I was the one being difficult and that my expectations were out of line.........thanks for all your feedback it really helped me muddy up the courage to demand what I really wanted.