Alternative to fresh flowers

I'm hoping to make my bouquet from felt, paper and wool using this for inspiration...

I've started making my flowers/pom poms and so far so good, so am hoping it will turn out looking decent ;-)

I've already made my buttonholes with felt flowers...

Would felt flowers appeal to you?

Silk flowers can be very reasonable and look very good - you'd be surprised!

Also, I've recently bought some foam rose bouquets from ebay and I was pretty impressed with their quality. Might be worth looking at that too?

I would also say that silk flowers and real flowers can be as expensive or inexpensive as you like. However your H2B sounds like a traditionalist so why not have fresh flowers?

My friend is having wooden ones, if you google "wooden wedding bouquets" you will see them. They are quite fine wood, a little like thick pencil shavings - they look fab

Forgot to add that her bouquet was £16

I'm getting married abroad and the prices the hotel were offereing for a bridal bouquet were starting at $195 !!!! so I bought my own online from Sue's flowers of York. It has cost £27.99 and is made of foam and pearls. I only ordered it yesterday so not sure of the quality yet but for that price if I don't like it I can always look again.

Personally I think go with what you want and H2B will probably not even notice.

I'm making my own button bouquet my oh wasn't 100% but likes it now it is done! We are having silk flowers there is a stall on our local market that does some brilliant ones, we need 22 including some corsages and it will cost us around £120 i think! I have seen some book page bouquets or knitted ones though.

Thanks everyone, lots of bits for me to look at and see if H2B will agree to any of them!

I'm going to be collaborating with a lovely lady that handmakes origami bouquets .. https://www.lilybellekeepsakes.com/index.html her name is Silvia. x

Artificial flowers are so much more realistic these days than they have been in past there are lots of us florists on here by all means look in my album see if there is something to tempt you

I'm making an origami flower bouquet at the moment, haven't assembled it fully yet but here's a flash of what I did this evening to give you an idea.

I have no idea why it's upside down...

I have been to a few weddings where the bride has had a simple and elegant bouquet of fresh 'baby's breath' - a simple, small white, elegant flower and not expensive. Seems to be very popular at the moment.
We use silk flowers quite a lot and the quality available now is incredible - the trick is to know where to source them. Poundland is defo one to avoid! Ha ha!

Thanks everyone.

I love all the crafty things you've done and wanted to do something similar but H2B doesn't like anything I show him pictures of.

He says he's not set on proper flowers, but obviously he is. As real flowers aren't an option due to the gap of several days between the wedding and the reception, I think it may have to be silk ones. I've looked at foam ones, but they seem to just be roses...

Purplemunchkin x