Weddingbee

Rose petals for sure. Very elegant.

I love rose petals, but it depends on your venue. Will you have guests toss the petals outside or inside? Some places don’t like rose petals on the floor due to them being smashed by guests’ feet.

Bubbles are nice if you can get bottles that are easy to open (no chance of spilling while trying to get the sucker open.)

hmm, i like bubbles better because of the way they look in photos. Guess I’m not much help

petals!
besides it seems like everyone is doing bubbles… and as a guest they get all sticky on your hands.

I’m pondering the exact same decision! Although, if I go with bubbles, I won’t give out bottles to all of the guests — I was thinking of just handing out bubble guns to our two nephews and letting them go wild.

I love the way both look, and we’re doing the toss outside, so there won’t be a mess to clean up. Then again, I don’t have to worry about possible stains with petals.

Argh! I’m no help. Let me know what you decide!!

Rose petals for me. I always have a heck of a time with blowing bubbles. Besides, I’d rather throw something up in the air than have to make a kissing face at a little stick.

bubbles: more modern. weddings have enough flowers already in my opinion.

there are bubble machines ($5 - chinatown street vendors on canal in nyc) that make a whole bunch at one time ….the nice large ones too! from someone just holding down a button.

you could do that with guests blowing for extra effect or without out guest bottles and that would definitely be enough for the effect seen in your pic.

good luck!

If you get bubbles, I suggest the bubble guns rather than giving out little bottle of bubbles to people. At a wedding this summer, I was concentrating so hard on blowing bubbles out of a minature wand that I missed the couple coming out of the church!

Rose petals. They’re so much more classic than bubbles. Bubbles just seem a little childish and/or trendy to me. I like the playfulness, but I’m a classic kind of girl.

I love the look of all of these. I agree that bubbles do have a potential for messes. But do you have to consider picking up the petals afterwards? If so, then bubbles it is!

Question though: how do you *arrange* this? The couple walks out of the church/venue first, right? So does a BM ask guests to wait outside while you and the groom go back inside to take photos inside?

Rose Petals!

Bubbles look good in photos, but so do petals when they are a nice rich color. I had a hard time blowing the bubbles using the tiny wand. It’s hard trying to concentrate on blowing bubbles, trying to see the couple, and trying to take a picture of them.

rose petals are definitely very classy but b/c it’s not translucent, it might look like the second picture (groom’s forehead) or worse block the bride’s eyes or something and some people might look at the picture and think it’s just color papers. i personality like bubbles more in pictures =). good luck! keep us posted with your decisions!

We’re doing nothing. Because we’re lame and don’t want to go through the extra expense and trouble. (Our church won’t allow petals or rice or anything like that, and I’m about up to HERE with preparing favors and OOT gift boxes, so I couldn’t care less about the bubbles. People can clap for us as we exit the church…that’ll be enough for me. :))

But I do prefer the look of bubbles in those photos, and others I’ve seen. And personally, the last gazillion weddings I’ve been to have had bubbles for us guests to blow, and I’ve never heard a single complaint about the bubble stuff getting on clothes and making messes. I’ve never experienced it myself, either.

bubbles, we didn’t know how well it would go over at our wedding because it was mostly adults but everyone loved it.. we had about 80 bubble containers and about 100 guests.. it was plenty, inexpensive, clean, and a lot of fun. the kids that were in attendance went wild for it, and the pictures look beautiful. itw as so nice to come out and have all these bubbles floating around after we got married..i have a feeling getting a bunch of petals thrown at you might be more cause of pain..or stain:) happy future wedding!

Originally I wanted to use rice, but our church didn’t allow anything to be thrown that could be slipped on. I even asked about marshmallows, but the priest just laughed at me. So we used bubbles. I conned my little sister who didn’t want to make paper flowers into tying the ribbon on the test tube style bubble containers, put them in a basket and had the guest book attendent hand them out as people were exiting. In the end, I loved the photos we got with the bubbles and I think everyone had fun blowing them!

My girlfriend made a good point. She said it’s up to what type of look and feel you want to give. Rose petals are very romantic and classic and bubbles are fun, lightedhearted and playful. She would go with bubbles cuz thats what she’d want the mood to be and it’s also more cost effective too. And about my previous comment with pictures, if you have Scott Robert as as photographer, all the photos will come out heavenly even if it lands on the head =). Good luck!

I’m going to have to say petals! Sure, there may be some chunks of petals in faces or what not, but I’ve gotten more distracted by looking at bubbles blocking the view….when you get a whooooole lot of people blowing bubbles, the whole frame is just swimming in them. For some people, that’s the point. So, I guess go with your gut for what you like (and want to afford) most!

i actually like both. but if you’re leaning towards petals, a few bees did buy freeze-dried petals and you can search the archives for their reviews. that can help with costs unless you’re able to strike a killer deal with your florist for fresh petals

bubbles!! you don’t have to worry about clean up!

If it’s at night, you could do sparklers.
Check out one of the cycling photos on my phhotographer’s website:
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Thank you all you lovely ladies for the comments! There’s a lot of great points, suggestions out there. I’ll def keep them in mind.

Angel - great idea! Mrs. Bee - any way we can turn this into a poll?

I hate the bubbles and get out of the way when I see it coming. It’s a mess and seems very young.

I was just at a wedding this weekend that used bubbles–and there were no problems with being “messy” or getting on people’s clothes… And I thought the photos of them looked great.

The effect will also be different in that bubbles continue to float once they’ve been sent off–whereas petals are just tossed and fall to the ground…

I had petals thrown at us when we walked down the aisle. A friend of mine hit me in the eye with a wad of petals. Luckily it didn’t damage anything and my photographer caught a pretty cool picture. Bubbles move slower so you can avoid it more easily.. but I love both ideas. I went with petals because it was cheaper.

i think if you can get the bubble machine, do the bubbles! otherwise, i’d go with rose petals

petals!