This may be a tacky question.......

for those getting married in a church....

I ordered three flower arrangements for the church...... the bride after me is getting her own delivered.... would it be tacky to take one home for my mom?????????

or is this considered an offering for the church... like do they take them to the cemetary or something?

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In all the weddings I've attended in the past, I've always seen the flowers removed from the Church and brough to the RH.

I think you're safe to take them and give them to your Mom. The other Florist would remove them anyways to set up the next wedding.

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I wondered the same thing and I asked my priest. He said most times the limo drivers come in and take them for the bride to put at the RH. So just let your driver know that yes you want them.

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depends on the church. my church considered any flowers bought into the church part of the donation, and they had to stay there. so we had 2 alter pieces and 6 pew bows.

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hmmmm so I should call the rectory you think?

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Posted by 69

hmmmm so I should call the rectory you think?

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my florist is actually coming back and then bringing them to the RH.

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i would call the rectory and ask, i have never seen anyone take the flowers to the rh, i have always known it to be another donation to the church

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I am taking them to the RH! The $$$ donation is our donation to the church!

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Posted by sarahthegreat

depends on the church. my church considered any flowers bought into the church part of the donation, and they had to stay there. so we had 2 alter pieces and 6 pew bows.

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Message edited 8/16/2006 10:27:32 AM.

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I think it depends on the Church. Our Church said that we can bring them to our RH, but I will probably leave them at the Church if their is not another wedding after us. If their is a wedding after us I don't want to leave it there for them to clean up, so then we will bring it home with us.

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Definitely ask the rectory. My church INSISTS that we remove all flowers.

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take them with you! take all 3!! take whatever you want - you paid for them...

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Agreed.
I have never heard of someone taking them back to RH
They are a donation to the church

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After we had to give $500 as a "donation"
and $250 for music when the organist was a half hour late and he never apologized, and was off key, I was damn sure that I was taking those flowers with me! I was aggravated with them, though, because they had done numerous things to us throughout the planning of the wedding and the ceremony that was unprofessional, so we took them out of spite.

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Posted by Katie&Chris2006

my florist is actually coming back and then bringing them to the RH.

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At the wedding this weekend I went to, they took the flowers with them.

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We took some of the flowers from our church after the wedding. His grandmother & mine took flowers. I paid for them why should my family or his be ale to take them..

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I am pretty sure that the church told us to donate them to the church, but I paid a decent amount of money for mine and I had my sis take them to the RH so they could be put on either side of our table.

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Hmmm. this topic seems kinda controversial. Our church agreement didn't say anything at all about the altar flowers and our florist (who is a member at our church) talked us into NOT having altar flowers at all. We're only doing pew bows for the church. But when we discussed doing the altar flowers, she said that we would just have one of our parents transfer the flowers to the RH.
I guess the best way to handle this is to call the church's rectory.

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well, when i went for an appt. with a florist that often works at my church

she told me NOT to do floral arrangements in the church bc you have to leave them there anyway

my mom is still making me do two arrangements. . .

but we have to leave them there - i would personally feel funny taking them anyway

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ugg just take em - esp if there is someone getting married after you -- more likely it would get tossed! in our paperwork it said we should leave them but my cousins took them over to my mom's hyouse --- where everryone was headed after the church. dont feel bad, you paid for them AND gave the church a "donation"

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I was told by the limo co. that they will take the flower arrgangments at the church nad bring them w/ us to the RH.

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Definitely check with the rectory. My church told me that I should take them since they have so many weddings that most flowers end up in the dumpster.

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FH's church said that we HAVE to take the flowers with us. I thought we were supposed to leave them also, but I guess not. I think you would be fine if you took one of them. It's not like you are leaving them nothing....you still have 2 left behind.