Save a bundle, make your own wedding flowers.

With my first marriage I made my own flowers but you'll not believe what they were made out of: kleenex My stepmother showed me how to make them to look just like carnations and you can use all different colors or white and tint them a little. Until people touched them they didn't know they weren't real. They were really fun to make as well.

I've seen a lot of people using silk flowers at their weddings, but I had to have real ones. I just love the smell and the feel of them. And I still have my flowers but I have them in a bowl now and use them as pot pourri in my bedroom so that they'll always remind me of my special day.

When I was married I carried a plastic fan with silken flowers on it. It was not a real formal wedding and not in a church so we had plenty of friends and a nice meeting room for the reception. My flowers on the fan matched the cake and my groom wore corresponding rental tuxedo colors too! We had a really nice time and saved plenty of money. This is a great way to make your dollars go even farther when you are blessed with a good budget!

I have a friend who is such a wonderful flower arranger. She has talent but she is a nervious person so she does not do it for a living. I had her do my youngest daughters centerpieces for the wedding shower, wedding and reception. I did not give her a spending limit. I told her to make them beautiful. I gave her my daughters colors. She purchased all the supplies she needed and kept her receipt. I ended up owing her $130. They were beautiful. She bought her flowers at the dollar store. She purchased floral wird from the local florist and the ribbon at a factory outlet store. We used some of the center pices from hte shower for the reception. We received so many wonderful compliments. She would not let me give her any money for her time. She said all the compliments and hugs she received made up for more than money ever could. I would encourage everyone to use silk flowers and make your own for all events. Elusive is correct, you will save a bundle.

You are correct We made my daughters flowers and we did save mucho dollars and the best part is they did not die in a week or to and looked fresh for entrire wedding

My step mom made all the flower bouquets and did all the decorating for my wedding . She did such a beautiful job and it was so much cheaper . When you go back and check my wedding pictures you can not tell by looking at them if they are real or not . Also you can keep them for a lot longer then the real thing because they are sure not to die on you .

Oh! we love to do floral decoration in different parties all by ourselves. It gives us, me and my friends, lots of pleasure and excitement. We usually go to the wholesale flower stores in early morning hours wherefrom we can buy flowers at a lower cost, atleast one-fifth the price they are available in local market. Then we use cotton thread, ribbons, plastic tape, metal wires and sundry other items to make different decorative shapes- like rings, oval and straight-chain form. Whatever we do, we always keep in mind that symmetry is beauty so we try to make everything symmetrical. We have earned a lot of accredition for what we have done so far. But this is not our profession, we simply do it for enjoyment and a little bit savings as well.

i think we have the same interest on doing flower arrangement, i alsoa help some of my friend to make their own wedding boquet and arranging the flower decoration of the wedding reception.

Boy, I wish I knew you before I got married. That sounds like a great idea and a way to spend less money too.

When I got married, I ordered all of my flowers wholesale and loose and with the help of my husband's aunt who is a florist, assembled all of our bouquets and floral arrangements ourselves. We spent about $300 and had beautiful bouquets for all of the women, flowers for tables, corsages, etc. We did a beautiful mix of white and red roses, carnations, baby's breat and ferns and black eyed susan's and baby sunflowers. IT was alot of effort, but we saved so much. :O)

Oh yes! I made my own flowers for my wedding. I shopped for weeks finding loose flowers on sale or discount here and there. I even made the mans there little single flowers for their lapels. It's been 9 years since our wedding and I still have my bouquet. It's still as pretty as the day I made it.

Yes, I agree. I used real flowers for my wedding, but unfortunately I didn't end up saving in the long run, because I miscalculated the temp in my fridge, and on the day of my wedding, I opened up the door of my fridge to find all of my roses, FROZEN!!! I was very upset, but luckily one of my friends makes boquets, so she made up some new ones for me while I got ready for my wedding, I would have saved money, had I not had to buy them TWICE.. (: oh well..

Thanks for this tips. I think this will be usefull for any important ocassion with want to share with our love ones. I reallu like natural flowers but they don't late so much, but are beautiest than artificial, anyway, that's everyone decission. Thanks for the tip again

good idea thanks for the idea

In my family, I was raised around everyone always making the arrangements. My mother in particular would be the one that would make them because she took classes on floral arrangements. And your right, some of the artificial flowers look incredibly real. I saw this one rose that looked so real that it even had simulated dew drops on them! It was so great, I had to touch it to see how the dew drop felt! :)

I still prefer the real flowers. When my daughter got married, my son's fiance was a florist, she got the flowers at cost, and the labor was free. We also used live plants and flowers when she married my son. At my own wedding,(second) I bought live plants, and flowering plants, I used some silk flowers along with them. That was before either of my kids got married. I do like to use silks for shower decorations.

Buying flower arrangements and bouquets from florists can be very expensive so I used to make quite a lot of flower arrangements for our local church, particulary for special for confirmations, communions and weddings. I purchased the cheapest flowers available and cut the greenery from my garden. I always saved the oasis and ribbons from previous flower arrangements so this saved a lot of money.

A friend of the family made all of the flowers for my wedding, even the ones for the men. In the middle of my bouquet were a few real flowers and this is what I removed and threw at the reception. That was 30 years ago and when my daughter go married, I pulled my boquet out of the cedar chest and she used it for her wedding. All we had to do was purchase a small bouquet of real flowers for the center and she also ussed that to throw at her wedding. We made all of her flowers for the wedding also and saved a whole lot of money, not to mention the fun of doing it together!