You've always pictured yourself with a stunning bouquet on your wedding day. Then you go shopping and the sticker shock is the only thing that's stunning. You can have cheap wedding flowers for you as the bride and for your wedding party and look like you spent a fortune. And you don't have to be a professional florist to do it.
Keep in mind the season of your wedding. If it's fall, you can order tulips, but you'll pay a fortune. If you go with mums, which are in season in the autumn, you'll pay a lot less.
Stay away from the exotics like tuberoses, gardenias, orchids, or calla lilies incorporated into your bouquet. Stick with more common flowers like carnations, roses, and baby's breath. These types of flowers can be the basis of beautiful but cheap wedding flowers.
You can carry a single spray of orchids or a single calla lily. One flower of an exotic species makes a dramatic statement and doesn't cost a fortune.
You can carry a single white rose tied with a satin ribbon and each of bridesmaids can carry a rose to match or contrast with their dress.
If you have to have the traditional flowing bridal bouquet you can cut costs elsewhere by being creative with your table setting flowers.
Do it yourself, or have a friend do your flowers.
You can make a beautiful hand held rose bouquet.
Buy a dozen roses. Cut the stems leaving about 8 inches of stem from the flower heads. Hold the stems in your hand tightly bunched. Wrap the stems with a rubber band and then cover the rubber band with a satin ribbon. This technique works with carnations, gerbera daisies or any sturdy stemmed large headed flowers. Tie a simple bow over the satin wrapping and leave the ends trailing. Place the bouquets in buckets of water with their stems resting in about three inches of water but the ribbon wrapping dry. Store in a cool, but not freezing, dark place.
You can make a nosegay.
Take a vase that's about 10 inches deep and has an opening no more than 4 inches across. Weight the vase by placing glass marbles in the bottom so it won't tip. If you don't have marbles you can use pennies. You will need about 18 to 24 flowers for each bouquet. Cut the stems of all the flowers to the same length, about 8 inches from the flower head. Start with three roses in the center of the vase. Around the roses, place a circle of carnations; you'll need five to seven. Around the carnations place a circle of roses; you'll need from seven to ten roses. If you want you can insert sprigs of babies breath, and stems of leather leaf fern, in between the carnations and the roses. The bouquet should be circular. Remove it from the vase with your left hand and secure the flowers with a rubber band. Cover the rubber band with a satin ribbon, a length of lace or tulle netting. Store in a cool, but not freezing, dark place.
Carry a basket of flowers.
Line a basket with plastic and place a water soaked piece of oasis (available at craft stores) inside the basket. The oasis should be slightly larger than the basket so when you push it in it is held in place by the pressure of the basket.
Begin sticking stems of greenery into the oasis so it is covered from sight. The greenery should be visible about four to six inches above the top of the basket. Place about four to six large headed blossoms - roses, carnations, lilies, gerbera daisies in the basket about an inch apart. Fill in the gaps with small flowers - baby breath, mini carns, snap dragons, and mums. Tie a bow on the basket handle.
You can have cheap wedding flowers that look like you spent a million dollars.
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