I love the look of phlox. It might be a good sub for hydrangea for your bride. I believe it is a year rounder and we usually get it from La Hacienda.
Good Luck!
Hydrangea Bouts and Corsages
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I love the look of phlox. It might be a good sub for hydrangea for your bride. I believe it is a year rounder and we usually get it from La Hacienda.
Good Luck!
How about Stock to replace the hydrangea in the bout's?
I just used Kalanchoe successfully in corsages...nice tight small flower look. I think the Kalanchoe would make a good prom flower too, and reasonably priced for the plants.
I just used Kalanchoe successfully in corsages...nice tight small flower look. I think the Kalanchoe would make a good prom flower too, and reasonably priced for the plants.
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Kalanchoes do work great--have used when bride wants bouvardia--hate that stuff!
Dahlia's do hold well for body flowers in my limited experience. Have used those dark "chocolate" ones with rhinestone pin stuck in center for prom--very elegant!
Dahlia's do hold well for body flowers in my limited experience. Have used those dark "chocolate" ones with rhinestone pin stuck in center for prom--very elegant!
Turn that impossible situation into profit!
Well there's a chance to triple your profit! Tell the bride that the hydrangea bout will last for an hour, but you'll gladly supply someone at her disposal all day that will keep making fresh hydrangea bouts as the previous ones fade!
You could charge her $20 per hour for about 5 hours, pay someone $8.75 to make the bouts throughout the day and you make about $10 per hour for doing nothing.
Now that sounds like a successful hydrangea plan to me.
And I kid you not, I did this last year for a bride who said she wanted only hydrangea. I warned her it doesn't do well in bouquets/bout/corsages, but she insisted on having them. I told her that the only circumstances I would make those bouquets for her would be if she hired me for the day, and paid upfront for 3 bouquets. On her wedding day, I kept making fresh bouquets as her old one would fade and look like an old kleenex...
All the other suggestions are great: hydrate the head under water for a few hours, CG if you have some left (I don't and I'm pretty upset), and do pray to the flower Gods.... Some say it works!
Well there's a chance to triple your profit! Tell the bride that the hydrangea bout will last for an hour, but you'll gladly supply someone at her disposal all day that will keep making fresh hydrangea bouts as the previous ones fade!
You could charge her $20 per hour for about 5 hours, pay someone $8.75 to make the bouts throughout the day and you make about $10 per hour for doing nothing.
Now that sounds like a successful hydrangea plan to me.
And I kid you not, I did this last year for a bride who said she wanted only hydrangea. I warned her it doesn't do well in bouquets/bout/corsages, but she insisted on having them. I told her that the only circumstances I would make those bouquets for her would be if she hired me for the day, and paid upfront for 3 bouquets. On her wedding day, I kept making fresh bouquets as her old one would fade and look like an old kleenex...
All the other suggestions are great: hydrate the head under water for a few hours, CG if you have some left (I don't and I'm pretty upset), and do pray to the flower Gods.... Some say it works!
Thank you!!
Thank you everyone so very much! our shop has a bride right now--a good regular customer--for whom we're about to order $188 (wholesale) worth of hydrangea among many other flowers. She wants--guess what?--corsages and bouts made of the stuff as well as using it in HUGE outdoor bouquets. I'm at the library on my lunch hour, as I don't own a computer, and have just printed out this thread to bring back to my boss. It will be very helpful I'm sure. We've been concerned about the whole hydrangea issue. Thanks again for sharing. Hope I'm helpful to all of you sometime.
Thank you everyone so very much! our shop has a bride right now--a good regular customer--for whom we're about to order $188 (wholesale) worth of hydrangea among many other flowers. She wants--guess what?--corsages and bouts made of the stuff as well as using it in HUGE outdoor bouquets. I'm at the library on my lunch hour, as I don't own a computer, and have just printed out this thread to bring back to my boss. It will be very helpful I'm sure. We've been concerned about the whole hydrangea issue. Thanks again for sharing. Hope I'm helpful to all of you sometime.
If you use the concealed water source technique with hydrangea bouquets you will generally not run into issues with the bouquets wilting. We have never run into an issue when we've used this technique, even on the hottest days.
Here's a thread that talks about the technique: http://www.flowerchat.com/forums/showthread.php?t=10518
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