Need help with large wedding church bouquet

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ctherose

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Here's the scoop:

Two bouquets to sit on two tall (41") cocktail tables (24" square) covered in black fabric. I'm using the plastic syndicate #31-24-04 large urns (going to spray flat black so they blend in). Originally I quoted them to be all around, but bride decided 3-sided would be just fine. She wants large, lush bouquets that pretty much cover the tables. She's picturing something fairly grand. Any advice on if this is just too many stems? (Nobody does really grand weddings around here, so I'm just not used to figuring such large bouquets.)

Bouquets are all white:
For each:

25 roses
20 stock
10 oriental lilies
6 hydrangea
5 hybrid delph
asst. greens
8 large white feathers (near bottom)
 
That sounds pretty grand to me especially if it is only three sided. If she's willing to pay that amount, then this sounds fine. I don't think you'd have a problem at all with the number of stems you have and if you do, more greenery would work fine since you have so many flowers already. Hanging pepperberries sound like they'd go nice with this mix.
 
Mocha Rose said:
That sounds pretty grand to me especially if it is only three sided. If she's willing to pay that amount, then this sounds fine.
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That's what I need to know--I have no one to bounce ideas off of! She loves the look of Tess Casey's large bouquets on her home page: www.tesscasey.com, but realized here in Nebraska, that just a little over the top. She doesn't want a whole lot of greens up through the bouquet, just mostly at the bottom & hanging down as necessary. I always hate discussing price on here because everyone is so different, but I quoted her $550 each (I'm thinking she wouldn't mind cutting this down a bit). She's also renting tall iron aisle pedestals in which I am placing round, almost ball-shaped bouqets (3 on each side plus 3 additional bouquets to sit on each side going up the steps at the altar area). Thanks for your help Mocha!
 
Add some snaps?

From looking at the webpage you posted, I would maybe add some snapdragons to help with the upright fullness a little. Otherwise, your flower amounts sound good.
 
550 sounds ok for what you've got listed, especially where the flowers will basically design themselves...on these arrangements what will matter the most is the quality of the flowers, like the lilies and roses, don't skimp out and get cheaper inferior product becuase the size difference will make the end product not as lush....go for 70cm roses for the head size and spent 25-30 dollars on the lilies just to get maximum bloom size and count, it will make a huge difference in the end...

I would think about adding in some dendrobs, I am not too sure the white feathers are going to get you that hanging look on the bottom that the arrangements on the webpage have...
 
The Tess Casey site is beautiful, isn't it?

Lori, I was thinking about dendros but I just never have good luck with them. They never open, half the time they're brown. I just want to play it safe with flowers that I know since this is likely to be a stressful wedding for me--thanks for the suggestion, though!
 
When is the wedding? if it's in the summer the Hawaiian dendros are fantastic and long. They drape beautifully
 
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ctherose said:
Here's the scoop:

Two bouquets to sit on two tall (41") cocktail tables (24" square) covered in black fabric. I'm using the plastic syndicate #31-24-04 large urns (going to spray flat black so they blend in). Originally I quoted them to be all around, but bride decided 3-sided would be just fine. She wants large, lush bouquets that pretty much cover the tables. She's picturing something fairly grand. Any advice on if this is just too many stems? (Nobody does really grand weddings around here, so I'm just not used to figuring such large bouquets.)

Bouquets are all white:
For each:

25 roses
20 stock
10 oriental lilies
6 hydrangea
5 hybrid delph
asst. greens
8 large white feathers (near bottom)
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Your choice of flowers is great, the Tess Casey site you provided is really nice. White Gladiolas add a nice fullness if you didn't want to use snaps.

Be careful using feathers, make sure no one is allergic.
 
Unfortunately, Shannon, the wedding is at the end of next month--oh, how I love to bag huge bouquets--it's typically blizzard season at least once toward the end of Feb. here.

Hmmm...never thought about an allergy issue with the feathers! It was per the bride's request, so we'll see!
 
ctherose said:
The Tess Casey site is beautiful, isn't it?

Lori, I was thinking about dendros but I just never have good luck with them. They never open, half the time they're brown. I just want to play it safe with flowers that I know since this is likely to be a stressful wedding for me--thanks for the suggestion, though!
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Are you very far from a good wholesaler???

I am in Boston and have access to some of the freshest flowers in the world..I would not be able to live without dendrobs...I feel for you...
 
Thanks for posting the Tess Casey link! I just lost 20 minutes oogling the flowers... I might have a new obsession with *movie flowers*
 
Definitely agree with adding white snaps or white delph. I use Belles of Ireland with the white snaps for height. I've never had a problem with dendros either. If you can, I would order the dendros direct ship....we order from Tayama ..they will send just one bunch if that is all you need (you need one bunch per arrangement).
Your price is dead on....
 
Oh...one more thing...make sure you use an Oasis DESIGNER block, not separate Oasis blocks stacked on top of each other. They can crumble with that many stems and water
will not soak up to the top ones. Designer blocks are heavy as ****, but worth it to keep big arrangements together! Bet you do a good job...and get more weddings wanting large altar designs!
OH....and another tip...we do not use the big Lomey trays for this size design. Go to Home Depot and get the heavy duty plastic trays that go under plant pots..not the flimsy kind, but these look like terra cotta...and also come in green. They also have a nice deep lip around the edge. Your greenery will cover this. You need the 14"
or 16" ones. Have had a 15" Lomey tray pop into with the weight as we were carrying it into the church years ago!
 
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Nashvillegirl said:
Oh...one more thing...make sure you use an Oasis DESIGNER block, not separate Oasis blocks stacked on top of each other. They can crumble with that many stems and water
will not soak up to the top ones. Designer blocks are heavy as ****, but worth it to keep big arrangements together! Bet you do a good job...and get more weddings wanting large altar designs!
OH....and another tip...we do not use the big Lomey trays for this size design. Go to Home Depot and get the heavy duty plastic trays that go under plant pots..not the flimsy kind, but these look like terra cotta...and also come in green. They also have a nice deep lip around the edge. Your greenery will cover this. You need the 14"
or 16" ones. Have had a 15" Lomey tray pop into with the weight as we were carrying it into the church years ago!
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Your advice is great about the Designer Blocks.Wise advice to take, to nice a design to skip out on the execution of basic support, please post photo's
sounds so heavenly.
 
Without reading every post here, but I use chicken wire over the top of grande or designer blocks. It really helps. Getting back to the original post, your reciepe is very minimal. Make sure you insert heavy flowers first in whatever container you decide on using.
 
Here are some photos using designer and grande blocks with chicken wire. The two arrangements on top of glass vases are grande blocks taped down to 11 inch lomie dishes.
The other two I used designer blocks inserted in black grower buckets, wired and taped.
 

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