- lishar
- 6 years ago
- Wedding: August 2015
I am going back and fOrth on whether to use real or artificial flowers, but don’t know which to go, help ladies!! What do you think to use real or not to use real?
I am going back and fOrth on whether to use real or artificial flowers, but don’t know which to go, help ladies!! What do you think to use real or not to use real?
I’m using real flowers for the bouquets, pin-on corsages, and boutineers, and fake flowers for everything else.
I’m doing mostly fake so I can do them way in advance, but I’ll have some real single stem ones here and there for scent.
This is a Public Service Announcement, right now Hobby Lobby’s weekly deal is 50% floral and they have a bunch of true touch flowers. They’re incredibly cheap for real touch, like $3 each. I’ve ordered samples of fake and real touch flowers from basically everywhere and real touch look just like real flowers, silk is hit or miss. I really wanted a fake bouquet (at least) so I can keep it. They also have some silk ones called Fresh Picked i think and they’re really good quality silk. The weekly deal ends sometime tomorrow though.
http://shop.hobbylobby.com/search/?keyword=true%20touch&perpage=12&match=AND&F_Sort=2
http://shop.hobbylobby.com/search/?keyword=fresh%20picked&perpage=12&match=AND&F_Sort=2
It depends on your wedding, the colors you want, the look you want and your budget. For example, If you want delicate flowers and your venue is outdoors in the heat I would use fake becasue real ones are likely to wilt quickly. As long as they are done well the will both be gorgeous.
It depends on your taste – me personally i want something that i can keep as a keepsake for myself so looking at
Seashell Boquet:
https://www.etsy.com/listing/120987944/bridesmaid-seashell-bouquet-beach?ref=shop_home_feat_2
or
Broch Boquet:
https://www.etsy.com/listing/161662097/brooch-bouquet-bridal-bouquet-wedding?ref=market
Theyare both different & not the typical boquet (i love things unique and different)
By The Way Michaels has lovely fake flowers for like $10 a bunch – check em out 🙂
Real is all I would use.
I’m doing a mix of both…I’m getting a butt load of real fillers like baby’s breath from sams club and raiding the lilies my mom and I planted the day of. We have a ton of faux sunflowers though and a few other things. So far, I’ve spent like $30 at Michaels and will maybe spend $20 more on the real stuff.
I wish people weren’t so snobby about fake flowers, but since flowers have never really been THAT important to me I guess I never really got it. For us we’ll be using fake and I love the Real Touch ones which we’ll be using mixed with some cheaper ones for filler, along with some ribbon roses as well.
For us it was primarily out of practicality-my bouqet will be half brooches, half flowers, and I wanted to keep it afterward so fake was the way to go. Additionally, we’re getting married about 6 hours away from where we live, real flowers would never survive that trek and I didn’t really want to be stressed out and up late the night before trying to find the right, real flowers I needed and arranging them and desperately hoping they’d last until the next morning. Logistically speaking, real flowers just seemed like a nightmare, so I’m happy to use the fake ones to get that worry out of the way and still have beautiful flowers.
I’ll be using fake flowers on things that will be far from guests. For instance, we’re getting married between two trees in front of an orchard and the flower garland that will be coming down the tree or the monograms (if we do them) will be fake. Boquets, table scapes will be real.
I am a photographer and almost every wedding i have done the bride used silk flowers.
I used real flowers for every thing that would be held by anyone. I really don’t care for the look of fake flowers.I did use some artificial flowers for centerpieces. I did one of those water centerpieces with a flower on the bottom and a floating candle on top.
If you have the extra money to spend, I suggest real!!!
I had a bad exprieince with fake flowers, that caused my first wedding meltdown lol
I ordered them off ebay, they arrived either squished, weird smell or wrong color. I cut my losses and ordered some off AFloral. They were a bit more than I was expecting to pay but good quality. They arrived alot smaller than I anticiapted and had to order a few more bouquets (spending lots in shipping as I am in Canada)
Michaels, Wal Mart, Dollarstores had nothing the same color as I went with pastel pinks and creams.
I probablly spent just under what I would have if I just went with real flowers… do your research in regard to what size you want etc. Dont do what i did lol
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