Help for the floral-ly challenged!

Help! Need suggestions!!

Our wedding is in November, I'll be in ivory and BMs in olive green. Anyone have any suggestions for flowers? No theme really-a few Irish touches here and there-but nothing that I feel we need to incorporate into our flowers. I really like the whole fall look-vibrant harvesty colored flowers, grasses, etc.

The florists we've met with have not been very helpful (IMO) in terms of creativity. Most start off with-so, what do you want? I haven't seen anything yet that jumps out at me.

Anyplace that I've lived with garden space, I've always grown flowers, but they tended to be wildflower mixes, sunflowers, climbing vines-very haphazard. I'm having trouble pulling everything together!

We're trying to keep this all under about $ 2000-$2500.

Any ideas, ladies?

Re: Help for the floral-ly challenged!

I've having a fall wedding and using red roses and dalhias, and hydrangeas. All these flowers come in different colors.

With your color dress, I would suggest, yellows, oranges, and reds. You could use sunflowers in that. There are some pics of boquets with sunflowers on the knot.com

Re: Help for the floral-ly challenged!

be careful with sunflowers! these are my absolut favorite flowers and I was going to incorporate them into my wedding but I have learned, they wilt quickly once out of water!
Also, if you don't get them in their seasonal time, June-August, they are more expensive because your florist will have to import them.

Re: Help for the floral-ly challenged!

I am getting married in October and doing fall flowers as well....here are 2 pics I found that I like with fall colors and all.

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Re: Help for the floral-ly challenged!

Sorry but I don't know exact name of flowers. I am bringing pics to Burton's like they had said to show them what I like. Hope this helps.

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Re: Help for the floral-ly challenged!

Since your BM dresses are olive green, I would probably try to keep their bouquets low key and a solid color.

Re: Help for the floral-ly challenged!

I would definitely recommend going to see John at Flower Michelle in Huntington. I'm pretty florally challenged myself and I met with him over the weekend. He had some great ideas and we came up with beautiful combinations. He suggested things I never would have thought of that looked just beautiful. Definitely go see him, he's one of the most highly rated florist on this board also!

Re: Help for the floral-ly challenged!

Check our romanticflowers.com
You can also do a search on bouquets --> there's been a bunch of posts that included tons of photos.

Good luck

Re: Help for the floral-ly challenged!

my bm dresses were a light olive...and they had yellow flowers...not sure if this will work in the fall (n=might be too summery of a look??

but heres a picture..

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Thanks for the pictures and suggestions, ladies. I knew I could count on you all.

Yabbobay, your girls and flowers are beautiful! I have to ask-who is the gentleman in the top hat? His suit is great-very classy and very elegant!!