did you do your own wedding flowers??

[leah]

I did my own flowers back in 1999 what in the world was I thinking? looks like a bush! could I have gotten it any bigger??I guess back then HUGE was in!!!LOL

I was married in the dark ages of '88. And "big" was even bigger back then. My parents owned the shop and as I was youngest daughter - my wedding was a floral extravangza. I just let them run with it. LOL, I didn't really care. They picked out what they wanted; the girls' bouquets(5), my bouquet, the corsages (4 -5), the boutonnieres (7-9), arrangements for the church (10 - and its not that big a church!), pew bows (too many to count), wreaths for the doors to the church (2), flowers for the antique car (2) and the reception looked like the inside of wholesalers cooler a week before a holiday - there were flowers everywhere!

They loved it! However, as an employee of at the shop, I worked really hard to create the bouquets they chose. I did everything BUT my bouquet. My Mom did it, it was surprise. It was big. And it was beautiful. I'll have to track down some pictures. . . .

What an interesting thread.

 

[Joe Mioux]

I didn't do any of the design work, other than select the flowers and the type of arrangements.

I spent the first three days running into STL buying and then the next few days delivering stuff and flowers back into STL to the hotel and church.

While Anna was lounging around I worked up until 12:00 pm on my wedding day. The wedding was at 3.

ONe of my wholesalers gave me all the dendrobium and stargazers for the reception tables. There were 36 tables and the arrangements were double tiered. K. Felley, if you are reading this thanks you.

joe

 

[Rhonda]

I didn't do mine but took over the shop that did it one week later!!
Have done older daughter's two (ugh).....and baby daughter's - that was a hoot (she's the flower person in my family with a love of calla lilies)
If I had done mine.........I probably wouldn't have done it quite as it was done but I also know better now........

 

[Carrington]

I was told that it was unlucky to make your own bouquets .... not sure if that's an old wives tale or just a ploy to stop brides thinking alonging the DIY route.Of course it doesn't apply to florists who have special exemption!
Night

 

[Toddxxx]

Yes I did my own flowers. It was stressful but not too bad as I only did my wifes bouquet and a few table centres, luckily I'm from a family of florists so there was plenty of help. Actually, it was the last trailing style bouquet I ever did - I leave them to my more talented sister now. Told the wholesaler it was for my wedding so instead of the usual small anthuriums we normaly get I wound up with the large so had to change the design at the last minute but I was happy with it and wife loved it.

 

[bloomz]

Get this - when I married we came close to forgetting flowers!

And yes - we owned the store.

We had just had a fire that destroyed the store 1 week before, except for the contents of the cooler - the flowers. We operated for the Christmas holiday from my parent's garage so we could get our previously placed, tho charred orders that we recovered from the daily board (corners burned on them but readable)

Twila remembered about 2 hours before the wedding that we didn't have any flowers.

One of our employees quite literally whipped something up, a small clutch of roses, just in time.

 

[logan]

Told the wholesaler it was for my wedding so instead of the usual small anthuriums we normaly get I wound up with the large so had to change the design at the last minute but I was happy with it and wife loved it.

love anthurium bridal bouquets, are you able to share a picture?

Get this - when I married we came close to forgetting flowers!
And yes - we owned the store.
We had just had a fire that destroyed the store 1 week before, except for the contents of the cooler - the flowers. We operated for the Christmas holiday from my parent's garage so we could get our previously placed, tho charred orders that we recovered from the daily board (corners burned on them but readable)
Twila remembered about 2 hours before the wedding that we didn't have any flowers.
One of our employees quite literally whipped something up, a small clutch of roses, just in time.

Bloomz that is Pure Madness, hope the honeymoon was a little less chaotic. ps: my little one is missing your bouncing elephant

 

[Flame]

I wasn't even a florist then ( 10yrs ago ) and we got married in a mountain country town so we went to the only florist up there. At that time I did not really care too much about flowers and I let my Mum make the choice for me and my bridesmaid. We ended up having white orientals with raphis and tropical leaves....lovely bouquets but not at ALL what I would want now!!! hahaha Thanks to my Mum we have the same taste and I thought she chose perfectly for the gown and the overall theme.
BTW great flower lady...you look beautiful and so does your bouquet. A big WHOPPIN high five for making your own VERY long and VERY heavy bouquet

 

[Posh Weddings]

Yep worked on my own as well. Had lots of help however. We spent so much time working on everything. I found it necessary to have 7 maid, 7 groomsmen, 5 ushers, 4 children, ect...and 72 centerpieces. The shop I worked for was fully supportive and helped out tremendously or I couldn't have done it. I had nothing to do with the delivery...would have been too crazy.
I do wish I would have done less of work and just enjoyed my week, but I was pretty new to the industry at the time and thought I had to have a major floral affair. Imagine that!

 

[allielux]

I did my own bouquets and bouts, small wedding so only a few centerpieces. We were married in a bed and breakfast south of Atlanta and I asked the owners when their gardens looked the best - so in may we had wisteria and new dawn climbing roses blooming everywhere. Floxglove and snapdragons, lace cap hydrangeas peeking out too. We stood in a pecan orchard and I didn't have to worry about a thing decor-wise. I had enough on my hands with our two families!

 

[logan]

Allielux, that is a gorgeous bouquet!

 

[allielux]

Thank you! I did it the morning of the wedding, and it just came together nicely. I included three white roses in memory of my parents and my husband's father. And I had to have lilac as it is my favorite flower.