Weddingbee Blog

Hi Miss Penguin!
Just realized you are having Gray bridesmaid dresses- me too! Have you found any you like so far- I have been scouring trying to find dresses that arent ridiculously expensive too! Please post if you find any cocktail type gray ones! thanks!!!! love your posts!

Love it! I might do something similar. I love the look of spider mums!

Those look great! I DIY my flowers too, although I went the route of ordering online. It was really alot of fun. I used spider mums too ’cause they were so cost effective for how much space they filled up. I used them mostly on the table decorations, not too much in the bouquet if you want to see here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/52522962@N00/sets/72157602269768189/

Good Luck!

Ashley - have you seen this Melissa Sweet dress? I really fell in love with it.

http://www.melissasweet.com/dress_detail.jsp?gid=50&sfid=1085

These look awesome Miss Penguin! I’m not going the DIY route for flowers because I want something more complicated than my DIY-impaired self can handle, but if I were going the one-bloom route I might consider it.

I’m thinking of just using blue and white hydrangeas now. No need to mess around with all different types of flowers!

I’ll be doing all of our centerpieces, but leaving the bouquets and such up to the pros…your does look verrry pretty though!

I recently diy’d the bridesmaid bouquets, boutoniers, corsages, and flower girl baskets the night before a wedding, on an emergency basis. The MOB, a dear friend of mine, was planning on putting them together, but had a meltdown at about 9pm the night before the ceremony. It took two bridesmaids and me about 4 hours and $60 in supermarket (Costco and Fred Meyer) roses and hypericum berries to make 3 bouquets, 5 corsages, 7 bouts, and two flower girl baskets. I used ribbons from my stash. They were all roses. We looked up how to make them in a book on the spot, because we were clueless. A florist made the bride’s bouquet.

They turned out fabulous. I think it’s really hard to make flowers look bad. If I’d planned in advance on doing them, I would’ve stressed and fretted and fussed.

The reception centerpieces and altar flowers were gorgeous lush bouquets of pink lilies and dahlias from the Pike St Market in Seattle, costing $5 each for the bouquets and $2.50 each for Ikea vases. Put together by the bride’s grandmother.

This reminds me…I had to help assemble boutonnieres the night before my MIL’s wedding.

A tip: to keep them overnight, place a damp paper towel in a ziploc bag with the finished flowers. Close the bag with lots of air in it, so it’s puffy. Place them on a try in the refrigerator and they’ll stay fresh for the next day.

laurak - for each bouquet, put about 1 inch of water (or less if you’ve already wrapped the stems with ribbon, etc) in a vase. then cut the stems to the length desired and place in the water. just keep the flowers in a relatively cool room, and you should be fine. for the day of, it’s a good idea to place a paper towel with each vase so your bm’s can blot off any drips when they take the bouquets out of the water. good luck!

they look great! I was thinking I wanted to buy some of our flowers wholesale too–and I also live near Sac-town–but it seemed like a trip to SF so near the wedding might be a pill. How’re going to schedule the purchase?

Or do you have someone whose able to pick them up for you?