Do your own wedding flowers

xJayJayx

beautiful!
I went in hobbycraft today and they were selling button holes and corsages for 99p! I was thinking of buying some and personalising them.
But i must say that is beautiful and very well done!

*Louise*

Thanks JayJay

Good tip about hobbycraft - was that a sale offer that was on? Might be able to pick up a few myself and as you say, personalise them.

I love that shop - I can wander round it for aaaages :rotfl:

xJayJayx

haha me too!
Nope no offer just normally 99p, shocking! Very cheapy, not too bad either i must say!
They had bridesmaid posies too.

Mrs.Metallica

elainey i love the two daleks on the cake.. omg that is the shiz!! rock on! \\mm//

*UpsyDaisy*

http://s612.photobucket.com/albums/tt205/UpsyDaisysAlbum/

Here are my flowers

Our colour scheme is Ivory, Silver and Petrol/Turquoise.
Having found it hard to find real flowers we really liked, we decided to go for foam roses.
All the things i used were from Hobbycraft, my new favourite shop lol...
They arent quite finished, need to finish the stems on them, but im really pleased with them, and my family love them

shelovestobuystuff

Has anyone found a good but cheap supplier for wicker baskets,love heart wreaths, ribbons,all florist sundries basically but nice wicker stuff most important.Post a little link please.Have decided what to do just need to find the supplier for the bits now.

debs2327

*UpsyDaisy* wrote: »

http://s612.photobucket.com/albums/tt205/UpsyDaisysAlbum/

Here are my flowers

Our colour scheme is Ivory, Silver and Petrol/Turquoise.
Having found it hard to find real flowers we really liked, we decided to go for foam roses.
All the things i used were from Hobbycraft, my new favourite shop lol...
They arent quite finished, need to finish the stems on them, but im really pleased with them, and my family love them

they are lovely gorgeous colours , well done !!!!

angelavdavis

Inspired by this thread, I created my own bouquet, buttonholes for attendants and also my bridesmaid posy for my civil ceremony at a local museum and art gallery. As I had never made anything like this before, I wanted to keep it simple so stuck to a simple pallet of colours.

I thought I might share the results with you.

I ordered the large cream roses and greenery used in my bouquet from Marks and Spencers (delivered the day before) and then bought slimmer roses for the buttonholes and bridesmaid posy from Tesco (cost less than £5). The bouquet were made on the morning of the ceremony (my ceremony wasn't until 4pm). I made the buttonholes the day before.

I also used bay from my tree in the garden and some ivy which a friend kindly donated, to decorate the bannister in my house. I used cream silk garlands to add colour to these.

Tigerlilley1980

Angela, the flowers are beautiful, well done!! I just hope that mine will be as good as I am going to make the bridesmaids posies, buttonholes and flowergirls wand! Tiger x

angelavdavis

Thanks Tiger.

If you are using fresh, my advice would be not to scrimp on the actual quality of them. My roses for my bouquet weren't cheap but there was sufficient left from making the bouquet for me to add some to the tables for the reception, so they stretched quite a way. I think I spent no more than £40 in total for all the flowers, florist tape, fake asparagus fern, ribbon, oasis and wire and we made 10 table decorations as well as those listed.

I actually easily ebayed the silk arrangements after the wedding day and got my money back for those too.