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An orange Seattle wedding with a candy bouquet, tarot reader, and his-and-her wedding sneakers

Lin and Philip’s wedding had one theme: ORANGE. The color dominated everything from their sneakers (yes, they both wore sneakers!) and wardrobe details to the candy-laden dessert table. Those aren’t the only sweet details: Lin carried a bouquet made entirely from Dum Dums and Philip donned a boutonniere to match. Their dog Hannah served as a key player throughout the day, and a tarot reader performed a reading during the ceremony. Speaking of Hannah, wait until you see the super cute hands-and-paws family photo the three of them took during the reception.

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Corsages made from dried leaves, blueberries, and… Wonder Woman and Buffy the Vampire Slayer?

I’ve seen a few remixed boutonniere ideas floating around out there for gents — ones with Spiderman, Superman, Batman, etc. But what about boutonnieres or corsages for the lady folk? Here’s what I used to create mine.

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Wear a little plant in your wedding jewelry or boutonniere

Laura introduced us to her “wearable planter” earrings at her accordions and succulents wedding. Etsy seller WearablePlanter makes these little plant-holding baubles on a 3D printer!

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All the paper wedding flower inspiration you will ever need!

Paper wedding flowers are rad — there is no doubt — and there are so many kinds and so many ways to incorporate them into your wedding. From bouquets, to centerpieces, to boutonnieres, to backdrops, let’s see what Offbeat Bride readers have done with their paper wedding flowers.

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How to make your own fiddlehead fern boutonnieres from sculpy clay

So the time has come to tackle the boutonnieres. The idea is to use sculpy clay to create fiddlehead ferns. These ferns are mad $$ in real life for the real flower, but they came out awesome in sculpy clay. Here’s how I pulled these off…

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Make flowers out of love letters (or emails)

“Eirik handmade all the flowers. Since we met online, my bouquet was made out of paper that I had printed our very first emails to each other on. My bridesmaids’ flowers had their respective names printed on them, the moms had white flowers with “Mom” printed on them, and the groomsmen and dads had boutonnieres made out of pages from comics books.”