How to Preserve your Bouquet

How do you keep your wedding bouquet beautiful for years to come? While no method of preservation is perfect, vacuum freeze drying is the best method for preserving the original look of the flowers. Heller and Reid offers this service for brides all over the US.
Another method for preservation is hanging the bouquet upside down [...]

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Flower Girl Flowers

When people think of flower girls they often think of rose petals drifting from the hands of adorable little girls, but rose petals aren’t the only things these sweet girl can strew. Some options may be less expensive than bags of rose petals, and others may just fit your style more as a bride.
Whole flowers [...]

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Flower Pot Centerpieces

Potted plants can be beautiful and full of color. They last longer than cut flowers, and make a great gift or door prize. Their pots can be decorated, personalized, and even hidden. In short, potted flowers make excellent centerpieces.
If you have a favorite flower, don’t hesitate to see if it will work for a centerpiece. [...]

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Fixing your Flower Budget

Do you have a wedding budget? If you don’t, you should, or you might find yourself running out of money before you run out of plans. One important thing to consider when you are creating this budget is the flowers. Many brides set aside around 10% for flowers, but do you really know how many [...]

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Hawaiian Flower Tradition

The hibiscus flower is a beautiful flower, big and bold and perfect for tucking behind your ear if you don’t mind a large floral accent. This flower has been treated this way for many generations in Hawaii, and is even used symbolically by women in social situations to signify their relationships status. When a woman [...]

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Signature Vase

For a new take on your guest book, consider having your guests sign the centerpieces! A signature vase is a special kind of ceramic vase that is sold with a black ceramic marker to allow guests to express their warmest wishes on a lovely vase that you can later enjoy prominently for many years. Look [...]

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Letting the Reception Site Handle the Flowers

For some people, planning each detail of a wedding is part of the fun, down to the composition of each centerpiece at the reception. For others, however, the sheer number of details can be overwhelming, and for those people, full  service reception halls can be a lifesaver.
A full service reception hall, among other things, can [...]

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Sugared Violets

There are three kinds of flowers that can be used in the wedding decorations, including artificial flowers, real flowers, and edible flowers that are made of some kind of food item, often frosting or sugar.
Sugared violets combine two of these, and are real violet flowers covered in sugar to make a delicious treat. They are [...]

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Rethinking Gardenias

Gardenias are beautiful flowers, and their sweet perfume and white shade can make them extremely tempting for a wedding flower, but think twice before you ask for it in your bouquet. While gardenias may be gorgeous, they are also extremely sensitive flowers and very easy to damage. Every time a gardenia’s petals are touched, the [...]

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Ordering from an Online Flower Company

Ordering flowers online can be scary, especially if you want to be able to offer detailed input on your bouquets, but it can also be more convenient and potentially a cheaper option for the bride on a budget. OnlineFlowers.com is one online flower company that has a whole section of their web site dedicated to [...]

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