Comments on: Floral-induced psychosis

By: Marge

Marge — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 17:08:16 +0000

Just an idea – oasis floral foam comes in rounds/different sizes…place short cut fresh flowers covering entire round and place atop an eiffel tower vase….use different color flowers….one larger one for the sun…..red for Mercury, a green/blue combo for the earth…etc. etc. have fun! Marge

By: janelle

janelle — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 04:29:45 +0000

how did you craft those planets, I need to make centerpieces with different planets, but don't know where to start. I love your idea!!

By: Alicia

Alicia — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 04:02:23 +0000

Do you still have these? How did your husband do them? We have a theme for our group as Planet Mom. I would love to do something like this.

By: Keely

Keely — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 21:43:12 +0000

I've decided to skip the flowers (there will be flowers growing around us, I'd rather not pick them and kill them just to walk around for 15 minutes).
Instead? A VEGETABLE BOUQUET! You can do really cool stuff with carrots and leafy greens (and purples!), even carry it all in a hollowed out gourd. And then, you can eat them for dinner! I plan to start snacking on the carrots once our ceremony is over ; )

By: Erin

Erin — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 21:00:18 +0000

Centerpieces: Flowers that did not go to waste. We donated all our florals to hospitals and nursing homes — each was a location that one of our grandparents had spent time. From the first time we met with our wonderful florist, we warned him that we would be giving our centerpieces away. He planned beautiful containers that he did not expect to get back. Friends help coordinate the day after deliveries and even wrote very nice cards that explained where the flowers had come from and why they were delivered to each location.

Ceremony decor: Behind us at the ceremony we had a wall of strung flowers. The florist had warned us that stringing all the flowers would be expensive, but if family or friends could make them we would save a lot of $$. At our pre-wedding picnic we asked all our family and friends to string at least one strand, and to think of us as they did. The activity gave everyone something to do while they got to know each other and at our ceremony we were surrounded by the energy all our friends and family had put into the flower strands. (sappy, but sweet.) Not to mention the amazing plumeria fragrance filled the room.

By: intimeoflilacs

intimeoflilacs — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 03:39:59 +0000

I used to work for a florist in college, specially onoe summer doing weddings(which is probably what turned me into and off-beat-bride-to-be) and one thing i realised working with my florist… she's an artist and she loved to arrange, so the more particular the bride was about the bouquet, the less amazing it was. The best bouquets i saw her design(and she was an incredible florist) was when the bride gave her colors, a price restriction, and maybe a size idea or a favorite flower and let the florist run with it. Often in these cases the florist would go the extra mile to make it perfect(putting more money into it than she charged for or even picking flowers from her personal garden) because it was something that was her artistic vision. I"m not saying you shouldn't get what you want, but i think that in general knowing a basic flower you love and letting a florist design around it usually works out better than trying to pick out every individual flower, after, they know what's in season and also…they're professionals in this field for a reason.

By: HeidiAphrodite

HeidiAphrodite — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 23:36:34 +0000

My sister wants to make bead flowers for her bouquet when someone worth it finally comes along. I think that's an awesome idea.

By: lizlah

lizlah — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 11:10:36 +0000

im going through the trenches at the moment of wedding paining, but since i found this site its becoming so much fun!!!!

were gonna do it in september this year.

ive decided im going to make the flowers with tissue papers and sticks for the bouquets and centerpieces. i can do this in front of the television which is pretty ace. that way the bouquet can be kept in a glorybox for the future baby (is that cheating?) and also it means no support of the water-wasting cutflower industry. they do better things for us when they stay connected to the earth. yay!

By: Bambi

Bambi — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 00:05:37 +0000

I'm getting married in February and was lucky enough to be pointed to a fabulous florist by our cake designer. I found that the fact that we were referred she cut us a rate and since we were going with gerberas she was very happy because she was worried we'd be scammed by the feb rose deal. If you stay away from roses you're good in February though there is an increase just in general unfortunately.

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