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getting the most from your florist

March 25, 2009 by abluebirdbride

wedding ikebana from flickr

Or… as the ever to-the-point Offbeat Bride put it “How to not get screwed by your florist” hahaha.

Great article here by a wedding florist who got married… about how to deal with your wedding florist.

I live right around the corner from the Melbourne Wholesale Flower Markett so it’s rather tempting idea to find a way to purchase flowers from there (though I don’t think they sell to the general public so hmmm) and DIY it. My Mum has picked up Ikebana in recent years and become very active in the Adelaide chapter so it’d be great to get her to do some flower arangements for the wedding… though considering we’re planning to have the wedding up in the Dandenong Ranges maybe that’d end up being a drag. But fingers crossed we could make it work

Any of you DIY your wedding flowers

I did have this great idea that I could get lots of flowers and have small ribbons individually wrapped around each stem, with a big wide stem around the bouquet. And then instead of that RIDICULOUS tradition of throwing your bouquet to the women at the wedding making the massive assumption that EVERY single woman wants to be married, I could instead undo the bouquet and give a flower to each of the women at the wedding, as my way of honouring them in my life. What do you think?

Posted in flowers | Tagged flowers, wedding flowers | 5 Comments

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on March 26, 2009 at 9:39 am | Reply Clare

I’m thinking about DIY-ing them. My mum is horrified at the idea… Maybe it’s an age thing, but at the only wedding I’ve been to for a friend the bride had given no thought to bouquet tossing, and ended up doing it because every damn girl in the room was dying to (average age 24)! Maybe we’re still at an age where it’s fun? I don’t know… guess I’ll gauge the sentiment at the time. I wouldn’t expect every girl to get involved, but I’m pretty sure there’ll be quite a few that are keen.

I’m not a fan of giving out single flowers, personally. But that’s just me.
on March 29, 2009 at 5:07 am | Reply hinakuu

I like it
that seems like a very nice way to make everyone feel involved.
on March 29, 2009 at 7:28 pm | Reply Bonnie

I think that is a really sweet idea. I loathe the tradition of throwing the bouquet and this is really special.
on March 30, 2009 at 12:56 pm | Reply Trish

What a great idea and would be very personal to every lady who received a flower would make all of them feel very honoured.
on April 7, 2009 at 8:35 am | Reply My 1920s Wedding

What a great idea! No bouquet tossing at my wedding — I despise that tradition. But I think your idea is really unique and SO much better!