Wedding Bloom Trial

It's similar a cake case but for flowers haha! Really excited for today's post. It mightiness live 1 of my favorites EVER. It's hence pretty!

Ted Baker: White Dress / Magda Bartym: Bow Heels / BaubleBar: White Earrings / Amazon: Umbrella Stand

If you lot remember this post service almost the inspiration behind our marriage decor, hence today's post service should come upwards equally no surprise! Over the past times few months I've been testing out unlike floral arrangements for the wedding. If you lot follow me on Instagram you lot also know that we're using faux flowers.

Why? This is a multi business office answer. First, it's something my mom did for her marriage that I e'er loved. I beloved the persuasion of using them for something hence special but also having them approximately the solid to relish for years to come upwards (and for other parties). 

Second, cost. Flowers together with florists (especially for weddings) are SO expensive together with it's simply non something I desire to pass coin on. I'm the type of daughter who doesn't fifty-fifty actually similar buying flowers. Why pass coin on something that is going to acquire out inward a few days? I'm to a greater extent than inward the mindset of spending less but getting to relish it longer.

Third, I don't know precisely what I want. With flowers, you lot tin await at photos together with inspiration all twenty-four hr menses but you lot don't actually run into it come upwards to life until marriage day. At that betoken you're stuck amongst it, whether you lot similar it or not. I was betwixt blueish or white hydrangeas, hence pinkish or white peonies, hence blueish together with white or all white vases. What height? What size? What volition await best inward them? I had hence many questions amongst no agency to reply them without testing it everything. 

Fourth, I demand them to last. I've mentioned this before, but my marriage is non the traditional one-day affair. I demand flowers that volition last. If you lot know anything almost hydrangeas it's that they wilt chop-chop together with acquire out easily. Peonies? Not e'er inward season. I wasn't trying to accept whatever guide chances amongst what I wanted together with
I needed these flowers to lastly 4 days. Silk seemed similar the best agency to brand that happen.

Fifth, weather. Who knows what the September conditions volition concur for us on the island. Maybe it's cold, or hot, or muggy, or rainy. Whatever it is, I also demand my flowers to await brilliant together with perky. Best agency to produce that? Go faux.

SO amongst all that, I knew silk flowers were what I needed. Now the challenge was finding some that would work, which is non an tardily task. There are hence many bad looking fakes out at that topographic point inward the blossom world. If I was going to acquire silk, I wanted them to await equally existent equally possible. Shopping for flowers online is non for the faint of pump together with afterwards a lot of case together with error I would urge anyone looking to produce the same to acquire into stores together with store IRL.

I've been burned past times many a mistaken or overly staged photograph inward my hunt. The alone thing I tin guarantee is that if you lot store inward someone you lot won't live fooled. So that's what I've done. Some of what you lot run into to a higher house are from online stores similar Amazon together with Etsy, but the best ones are from Michael's together with Hobby Lobby. 

The large white hydrangeas are from Hobby Lobby together with are HUGE. They're the perfect variety of white amongst a corking stalk together with head. I constitute these amongst my mom inward Chicago. At the fourth dimension they were all one-half off hence nosotros bought 20. Then I was able to notice them online together with bought 20 more. These volition probably be used for the umbrella stands (like you lot run into above) together with whatever other large vases nosotros mightiness accrue over time. Since they're hence large you lot don't demand a ton of them together with they accept upwards a ton of room!

The off-white/slightly pinkish peonies are my diamond inward the rough. These are from Michael's together with they are real-touch peonies. They are the realest looking flowers I've ever seen together with they feel real too. It's crazy. The final result amongst these is that they're non sold online together with are considered boundary flowers, hence they are out of stock until January. I constitute them besides late. 

I did what whatever rational someone would produce together with deployed my household unit of measurement from all over the the U.S. to hunt downwards these flowers. We bought whatever decent blossom inward New York City together with Westchester, North Carolina, Chicago together with Los Angeles! I finally guide keep plenty together with I'm actually excited almost it. These volition likely create sum upwards the smaller vases for the dinner table. I simply LOVE how they await amongst the blueish together with white vases. 

Now of course of report this is simply a case run for what I'm envisioning for floral decor. There may live changes. I've learned a corking deal! First, I hated how the blueish flowers looked amongst whatever colouring vase. So that's out. Plus, finding a truthful blueish stalk is harder than you lot think! Second, I didn't similar the all-white vases amongst anything. They're corking on their ain but non for the wedding. Third, I demand to play approximately amongst to a greater extent than cherry blossoms. I don't know if I similar the electrical current await together with I'll likely stick amongst white-on-white but mayhap displace out the pinkish peonies.

ANYWAY, that's what's going on amongst my floral decor. I'm waiting on the dinner tablecloth to acquire inward hence I tin mock the setup together with create upwards one's heed what I demand for the table. Until then, I guide keep a beautifully bloomed plastic apartment!!