Flowers. Still feeling clueless about them, but I'm doing all I can to help my indecision along to see the light. Last week I stopped at a flower stand to see if they had some of the flowers I've been considering, so I could see and work with them first hand. Well, they didn't. Foiled! Nah, they actually said they could pick of the flowers up for me on Monday. I requested several bunches of sweet peas, garden roses, and if they had any, wax flowers, all in any color. This is what I picked up:
One bunch of spray roses, one bunch of sweet peas, one bunch of dahlias, and peonies from another stand for free since they were near death. haha. I only needed them to make it until I got home. Total cost $16. Not bad, but it wasn't exactly what I asked for either! Sigh. What's a bride to do? Go on with the experiment of course. I didn't have any ribbon or floral tape, so this was a very informal 10 minute experiment with flowers and a cut up shoe bag. Classy is how I roll.
Bouquet #1. Considering the colors are not right, the dahlias were a last minute fluffy substitute, and unless disaster strikes the flowers won't be seeing the light on our wedding day, I was pretty happy with this bouquet. The sweet peas were dropping like crazy, so the few left with blooms are barely visible, but even still I love 'em.
Bouquet #2. I switched out the peonies for the garden roses. The roses I had considered online were called garden, but were big and fluffy, similar to but not exactly like a peony which is why I asked for the dying peonies. So this bouquet wasn't exactly bringing the image in my head to life, but I think it's actually an alright bouquet ignoring the fire and ice coloring that reminds me of the 1998 prom.
One surprise was just how many flowers it took to fill a bouquet. While the sweet peas look like nothing, I had about 22 skinny stems of them in both bouquets. I was also working with 12 spray rose stems, 8 dahlias, and 4 peonies and the bouquets turned out a bit small, though the stems felt surprisingly bulky. Maybe it was the shoe bag you say? Quite possible. Overall I deem the experiment a success. I know now how tiny sweet peas are, how fragile peonies can be with heavy heads on tiny stems, how resilient dahlias are - and how green, and also how garden rose to one can mean a completely different garden rose to another. This will definitely help me if I order my own flowers. Side note: I just got an email from a florist who might be able to order flowers for me to DIY with (Yeay access to a giant flower fridge). The indecision is waning. I can feel it.
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