Foam flowers or real flowers - discuss...

I will be honest, the thought of foam flowers doesn't appeal to me at all. But then I have never seen them IRL.

What are your plans for other flowers on the day?

I think if you go for it you need to make sure you pick a quality supplier.

Have you looked into local florists near your venue? Do the foam flowers work out cheaper or more expensive?

Thanks both - I have emailed a couple of local florists for prices so that I can compare them. Have been quote £80 for foam ones (my bouquet, my sisters and 6 buttonholes) we're not having floral centrepieces so dont really need any others.

JoJo - I only thought about foam as they were the ones I've found online that look like what I want but I'll def take a look at where you had yours from too. Like Bea, I've never actually seen any artificial bridal flowers so its hard to know how good they are so its good to hear from others experiences.

N

Real all the way for me! Cant beat the smell of fresh flowers!

I'm having artificial flowers and am considering foam. I saw these online and love them (our theme is black and white). We only need bouquets as we're not having floral table decorations:

I had silk flowers for my bouquet and everyone thouight they were real. With good ones (in realistic colours) it is very hard to tell.

Like you, I wanted to be able to get as much as I could done before the day and it was one less worry.

I now have the advantage of being able to get my bouquet out and put it on the mantlepiece for our anniversary!

Hi,

My daughter got married I did the flowers and they were silk red roses from Van Hage garden centre and Village green wholesaler. They looked stunning and were very reasonable. Village Green bunches were great. Hope that helps

L:ynne

I had silk and no one could tell, and no one attempted to smell them! ?

I even had friend after the wedding who bitched about silk flowers and didnt believe that mine were silk and some that saw mine on my mantlepiece and were shocked at 'how well they had lasted'

plus, I won best flowers at the 2011 Hitched awards! Oh yeah! *polishes virtual trophy*

mine were by Hitched's very own Rainbow Florist!

Real for me too! but i understand the difficulty of that with your situation and i have seen some really convincing fakes online just not in real life

I'm travelling to my wedding venue too so i'm having artificial bridesmaids flowers and button hole and I'm having a button bouquet which one of the OM's on here is making (and it's nearly done!) ?

Foam flowers can often look more realistic than silk flowers, as long as they are the colourfast range they will be of high quality. Artificial flowers are increasingly becoming the first choice for brides.

I got foam flowers from an actual florist who makes them for you over at http://foambridalflowers.co.uk/ and I was over the moon!

I was debating either silk or foam for the best part of a year and finally opted for foam and I honestly cannot fault them. SO much cheaper too.

Everybody compliments how lovely they were, and the best part is that I got to keep them!