September 2009 Weddings
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Bouquet
Lets see your and your bridesmaids bouquets from your wedding.
Also, I am running low on topics, so I need some ideas and suggestions please.
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Re: Bouquet
My bouquet: white hydrangea, white roses, blue delphinium, and fiddle head ferns (the black curly-cues).
Bridesmaids' bouquets: blue hydrangea, white roses and blue delphinium.
We also assembled these bouquets ourselves at a wholesale florist.
Congrats to both my TTC buddies, Amberley18 and sb2006 on their beautiful babies!
Will have to come back for the bouquet pics...
but other topics could be:
Living room pics
Yard when it is nicer out
athletic accomplishments(although i think there was a talents post)
parents (or did i miss this)
Alma Maters
Wedding location/reception
My bouquet was red/yellow/orange roses, hypericum berries and greens. Stems were wrapped in white satin and my Grandmother's rosary beads:
My MOH's bouquet was almost naught. Our florist brought a smaller version of my bouquet for my sister, but the bouquet I wanted (and what was written in the contract) was for a lily bouquet. So with a half hour before the ceremony to go, she brought the new bouquet--which could have eaten my bouquet:
Bridesmaids bouquets are lilies and gerbera daisies. Stems wrapped in red satin:
Flower Girl basket of gerbera daisies:
My bouquet was different types/shades of red roses with red berry looking things. My BMs were cream roses with the same red berry looking things. I absolutely loved my flowers, they were exactly what I wanted and fit the look of our wedding exactly. LOVED!
My Bouquet: Eskimo Roses, Stephanotis with Pearls, and Blue Two-Toned Dendrobium Orchids along with crystal embellishments and my grandmother's wedding necklace.
Bridesmaids Bouquets: Sunflowers, Iris's, Hot Pink Roses, Purple Statis, Orange Gerber Daisies and Small Red Roses with Rhinestone and Embellishments
Me and my MOH(shows the pretty cascade of my bouquet) I'll admit I was worried the cascade was going to look stupid and out of date but I loved it!
The one request CB had for the wedding was that he didn't want any white or pink flowers. I didn't like the look of red with the navy dresses and wasn't wild about and blue or purple flowers, so I decided to go with colors on the orange spectrum, as sort of a nod to late summer/fall. My bouquet was all mango calla lilies surrounded by lily leaves, with a white ribbon. The bridesmaids bouquets were a combination of mango calla lilies and sunset roses, surrounded by lily leaves and accented with thin strips of lilies, wrapped in burnt orange/gold ribbon. I absolutely loved how bright and vibrant the colors looked and how everything turned out!
My bouquet was white roses, hydrangea, and some other white flowers with green orchids, berries, buds, and looped grass. I was really happy with the way it turned out.
"Something old" vintage rhinestone brooch and Robin's bout
My sister and the bm's bouquets. They were basically just a smaller and little more green version of my bouquet.
Mine:
Bridesmaids:
Bridesmaids carried a single dozen roses in a single color- tied with black satin and rhinestones. Each color was picked from my bouquet. Here is what it looked like with all of them:
a few views of mine:: I loved it- Mark actually designed it which is why I loved it so much!
Points to sig pic.
Green hydrangeas and white roses. MOH's bouquet was a smaller version of mine. I actually wanted more green than white, and I had wanted to have the stems exposed for a more natural look but the florist talked me out of that by scaring me that the greens would stain my gown. I was a sucker.
We had some flower "drama" the day of the wedding. Originally, I ordered blue hydrangeas for all of the bouquets - then, I thought that would clash with the green dresses, so, I switched to pink hydrangeas. BUT - the florist didn't change my bouquet. But, all in all, I think I liked it much better than having pink. My bouquet was blue hydrangea, a similar flower to stephanotis with crystals, and white roses. I also had my grandfather's wedding band (which was bent into a heart shaped pendant) wrapped around the bouquet. And the bridesmaids just had pink hydrangea bouquets.
And just for fun...here's my BIL wishing he could be a bridesmaid, haha
I DIY'd the flowers and weren't happy with it at all! Mine was white ranunculus, mums, and dahlias.
Bridesmaids were smaller versions of mine:
If nothing else, I was definitely happy with how our flowers came out.
Mine:
The BMs:
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My bouquet was pink roses with white stephanoits. This pic was taken as I was inserting some rhinestone picks into the centers of each stephanotis and rose
MOH had a slightly different bouquet than the rest of the girls. Her's was slightly larger and more light pink colors b/c her dress was a lighter pink than the other girls'
Bridesmaids:
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I DIY'ed my flowers and I was actually really happy with how they turned out. I just had a bouquet of white roses tied with silver ribbon, and my MOH's had white and lavender roses, and then my other two BM's just had the lavender. All the BM's bouquets were tied with black ribbon. I wanted to keep the flowers really simple. The only thing I would have changed is that we left the stems long because we thought it looked cool, but now looking back I wish we would have cut them.
My bouquet:
MOH's bouquets
BM's bouquet
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I loved my flowers. I have no idea what all of them are, I told the florist to just go with it. She was a fmaily friend and has won awards on her flowers so I trusted her to just go with it.
Mine:
My girls:
like kelklump, each of my BMs had different colors. everyone had roses. the girls had either yellow, orange, or pink and because i had two best men and one MOH i gave the best man the colors the MOH didnt pick, so all three colors were in one pair. then Andy had a green bout, and i had yellow, orange, pink, and green roses in mine.
since andy and i are both colorblind, and i didnt have a specific flower in mind i just let the florist pick and design everything (a family friend). i was happy with how things turned out.
I didn't really like how my flowers came out:( In fact, I basically hated them.
It's hard to tell in this pic, but my bouquet was all white roses, nothing else. The BM's had white, blush and champagne roses in theirs.
I tied a charm on mine which held pictures of my mom's parents (one on each side of the charm). The florist actually left this at her shop and barely made it back in time to get it in my bouquet before the ceremony.
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I wanted local flowers for my bouquet, so we got woman from a farm in the next town over to do them. We've bought a lot of bouquets from her over the years and they're always lovely! She made the base of the bouquet and mom and I added philodendron and wrapped the stems with ribbon. Flowers were a really stressful thing because we didn't get them til last minute (which you can't really do because who knows what will be blooming months in advance) but I'm really pleased with them.
I had white lisianthus, stratus and the philodendron that was in my grandma's BMs' bouquets (her MOH rooted it and my mom has the plant). I was supposed to also have snow on the mountain, a pretty white and green leaf thing, but that ended up only in the table arrangements. It's wrapped with satin ribbon from one of my bridal shower gifts.
My BMs had pink lisianthus, zinnias and stratus, and also the philodendron. We wrapped theirs in navy grosgrain ribbon. My MOH had a slightly bigger bouquet than the other girls, but you couldn't really tell.
My bouquet had red calla lilies, red roses, and hypericum berries. I was really picky about mine. The florist acted as if it was unheard of that a bride not carry white flowers.
Bridesmaids bouquets were similar to mine. I wanted mini replicas in white but they were very expensive so we added Dahlia's to bring the cost down a bit.
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