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Did you know that wedding boutonnieres can cost upwards of $20-25 dollars EACH? Are you kidding me? It’s a little flower (that most guys hate wearing anyway) that goes on a guy’s jacket (which then gets taken off immediately after pictures - bout never to be seen again)! Ridiculous. Not to mention the fact that we have one groom, eight groomsmen, two dads, three grandfathers, and a Godfather (that’s 15 men). Holy crap.

So, I decided I could probably make them myself, and I figured none of the guys would mind very much. My inspiration photos are shown below.

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Of note, the first one is made of fake flowers (a florist informed me of this). Notice that they both have more of a berry-type look than a flower-type look. I feel like berries are a little more masculine than flowers (that seems funny as I type it).

Here are my DIY boutonnieres for the boys (& men):

They each have raspberry-like purple berries, some white berries, some cute tiny green flowers and leaves with a black satin ribbon wrap.

Now, I only made 13 bouts. I figured that Mr. Burger and Brother Burger (who is the Best Man) should probably get some real flowers, since they are special people - plus they are more likely to be photographed.

Here is the inspiration for their floral bouts:

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Lone flower (probably ranunculus or anemone) with some berries (for us this will likely be some baby eucalyptus (very cool-looking sage alternative to the bright green hypericum berries).

I’m looking forward to seeing Burger’s flower bout, but I am also satisfied with the ones I made for the rest of our special guys. The cost for this project was probably about 10 bucks, total.

Did you DIY your bouts?