Can you really do your own flowers and be stress free? YES!!!!!!
Originally our mama and Elese priced out flowers for the big wedding. It would have cost close to $3000.00 for centrepieces, bouquets, boutonnieres, corsages and flowers for the Church. We decided that we would search for an alternative and see what we could do ourselves. Turns out we could do everything and only spend $400.00 and that included flowers, tape, pins, ribbons and vases!! Major save and totally doable. We looked at pinterest, wedding blogs and loads of pictures to get ideas and see what Elese liked.
Our mama decided to go check at the Superstore and see how much it would cost to order the flowers. Smart move! :)
Elese wanted to have baby's breath as her main flower, so after chatting with the Superstore florist, we chose to order four bunches. This helpful Superstore florist also told us to come and buy the flowers on a Thursday, as that's when the delivery comes in and they have a large flower selection. If you ever do your own flowers, go on a Thursday! It was worth it. We bought beautiful bunches of roses, more baby's breath, carnations (which we didn't like at first, but bought as they were the right colour of pink) and lots of white flowers for fillers.
On Friday we spent the day playing with baby's breath and plenty of ribbons. Leah and Charlotte put together Elese's bouquet, and it was stunning! Our mama wanted to decorate it with ribbons, and so wrapped it up with plenty of pretty satin ribbon from Fabricland.
Our bouquets were full bunches of baby's breath, and the flower girls were mini versions of Elese's.
For the centrepieces, the vases were an Ikea special, and we kept it simple with lots of baby's breath and a few tiny pink carnations. They were elegant, simple and brought a touch of colour to the table. We originally were going to raffle them off to guests, but forgot so gave them away at the end of the night. : )
To decorate the Church, we made three bouquets for the altar. One bunch was a half price Superstore special. The other two bouquets Leah put together with our leftover flowers. Charlotte with her artistic fingers, made a baby's breath crown for Our Lady's statue, and a bouquet for by her side.
Leah and I made the boutonnieres, and thanks to youtube, figured out how to pin them on the lapels. We taught John and he guided the other groomsmen in how to pin them to their lapels.
How do you put the flowers together??
Look at pictures, and mostly just play around with them until you get the look you like!
We bought extra baby's breath and did alot of versions of bouquets until we came up with something we liked. Praying before working together helps too : )
Pew bows that aren't doilies? Is that possible? YES!
Charlotte found this idea online and we did our own version. Our mama found all the tulle in Toronto.
Those pew bows definitely looked so lovely when we walked down the aisle and saw them billowing in the breeze. Lots of love and thanks to our dear brother John who stayed up late with us and helped cut ribbon, tulle and place the bows on the pews. We couldn't have done it without him!
