Do It Yourself Wedding Bouquet

Making a do it yourself wedding bouquet and other flower arrangements can be helpful in keeping your wedding expenses down. Bridal flowers are expensive, especially when a florist is doing all of the work.

Now it is popular for brides to carry silk flowers so they can be kept after the wedding. Brides sometimes have a second set of flowers put together for the bouquet toss. This also applies with fresh flowers. Some brides choose not to toss the bouquet. So whatever you decide to do is fine.

Crafty brides are making their own silk arrangements to carry and/or throw and they are saving a ton of money, too. If you choose to make your own silk flower wedding bouquets, you can put them together in advance and store them in plastic bins to keep them dust-free and to avoid the flowers getting smashed.

Most brides still carry fresh flowers. They are so beautiful and most smell wonderful.

You can make a do it yourself wedding bouquet for you and for your bridal party.

Make Wrist Corsages.

Make Boutonnieres for the men in the wedding party.

You can even make your own reception centerpieces and possibly church flower arrangements a few days ahead of time. This is only if you want to and if you feel that you have the time to do so.

By all means, get some help from family and friends if you are thinking of doing a lot of the pieces yourself! Have fun, relaxing evenings with friends and family who want to help you and who are creative. Get photos from magazines of the bouquets and flower arrangements that you want before you start.

Fresh flowers, if put together a few days ahead of time, should still be fresh on the day of the wedding. Of course, they will need a fresh water supply and they must be kept in a cool place, like a basement or an air conditioned room.

Making your flower arrangements can save you a ton of money. In order to pull it off, you will need expert help. You can get great tips on how to make do it yourself bouquets and other flower arrangements online.

Your do it yourself wedding bouquet should be made using your favorite flowers. My mom loves roses so she carried white roses with a brand new white Bible on her wedding day back in 1958. Roses are pretty but they are not my favorite flower.

My favorite flower is the daisy. My wedding colors were pink and white so I carried a beautiful mix of pink daisies with baby's breath and greenery. My attendants also carried pink daisy bouquets.

Pictured below, me with my beautiful pink daisy bouquet. In this photo, I was 96 pounds and in a size 5 dress. Shortly after the wedding, I got pregnant and I have never been so tiny since...

Ever since I was a little girl, daisies have been my favorite flower so it seemed natural that my wedding bouquet would be daisies.

My point--carry the flowers you love and want to use in your wedding bouquet and don't worry about what other people think. This is your wedding and its memory will be etched in your mind for always so make it the way you want it to be.

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