Fake flowers vs. Real

I had a silk bouquet when I got married. It still looks as good as new 23 years later!

I don't think artificial is cheaper.... cheap fake flowers are cheaper, good ones are not really. There are some amazing paper flower makers, one that comes to mind is Oricraft and there's a lady in Poland who is incredible but I can't remember her name.

I'm having silk flowers, partly because I want purple and partly because our wedding it the Sunday after Christmas and I thought getting real flowers sorted might be difficult. We're using Pink Lilac.

agree completely with this especially from a money saving point of view, they also make a great memento to keep afterwards

I'd love to know what kind of price it costs you to make these yourself! i'm thinking of making one for myself but no idea if it would be worth just buying one??

We are either having real flowers or none. We're growing our own and if it goes well we'll have bouquets and buttonholes but if it doesn't we won't have flowers. There are so many choices now that it just isn't necessary to have flowers at all: I've seen some amazing tables centres on here which are flower free, button or brooch bouquets, allsorts.

I like flowers so will carry soem if it works out well, but I like them for their delicacy, their scent and the fact that they are flowers, which is rather lost in the artificial ones, even if they do look as good.

We're having artificial flowers as our wedding is in November and if I was having real I would want locally sourced - and there aint much available in November!! I love the idea of the growing your own to use and would definitely have done this!!

My 'fakes' arrived earlier this week and I'm really pleased with them, OK not as lovely as real but as I'm only really going to need them for a walk down the aisle I would rather spend the money on something else.

I've just ordered my fake flowers from The Brides Bouquet - they have a website and a Facebook page.

My main reason for choosing fake over real is so I have my flowers in advance and I don't have to worry about them not arriving on the day!

^^^ this, AND they don't make your eyes swell, your nose go bright red and your throat scratchy!! My number 1 reason!

Ours are fake. I didn't want to spend much on flowers as I don't see them as a focal point. I got some roses from Ebay, they are a dark red with a 'smoked' effect so a hint of black and are absolutely perfect for our colour scheme, I wouldn't have been able to match real flowers so perfectly. They cost about £50 for the whole lot and I had enough to make 3 bouquets, 6 buttonholes and the cake topper.

Ladies

Thanks so much for your replies. The more I think about it, the more confused I get!

H2B likes the idea of real flowers but being a bit of a control freak I do like to see what I am getting before the day!

I am still so unsure on what to do for our table centrepieces. We are collecting jam jars at the moment and we like the idea of pine cones (autumn wedding) - so maybe flowers arent necessary at all. Candles are good too. I also liked the idea of wheat in the middle of the table but when we found some it just didn't look special enough.

Any alternative suggestions for tables? What are you ladies having?

Thanks xx

How about something like this.

We are not having centrepieces as such, we have got some large black candelabras with red candles and will just have one of those on each table. No rules for centrepieces, go with whatever suits your theme :-)

Hi , I'm also getting married in October and having a Navy & Ivory theme. I've gone for foam flowers from the TheBridesBouquet.co.uk. I did post a picture on a previous post so I'll try and add this on to this one for you. The navy blue flowers are lovely. I've also got individual one's to do my table centrepieces and to put round the cake.

You can always hire them!

www.CandyEmporiumRipon.Weebly.com - Absolutely beautiful silk flowers. Really good quality xxxx

I'm getting married in Oct too and have ordered my flowers from Silk Blooms! I haven't had them delivered yet but had excellent service and they look beautiful on the website! Anything can be customised for your needs. They cost more than I thought they would being artificial but I just love the idea of being able to keep them after the day !

I'm also getting married in October and also ordered my flowers from silk blooms, I ordered a buttonhole first so I could see the quality before I took the plunge, the button hole is stunning and the service is second to none, can't wait to receive my bouquets and other flowers now, take a look at their website you have nothing to lose by looking

personally for me I want to keep my bouquet and the cost of preserving real flowers swayed my decision. Xx

My bouquet and the bridesmaids flowers are fake and the buttonholes and mums corsages and ceremony flowers are real. I have ordered my bouquet from a Facebook seller called Not 2 Shabby heirloom blooms. She has really reasonable prices.

My bouquet and OHs buttonhole were made by Over the Rainbow florist who is on here. They are absolutely beautiful and just what I wanted - they also look very real! I highly recommend her, I am so pleased I decided to go for artificial, the main reason being is that I can keep them for many years...