Wedding Flower Help-Gerber Brides should read this

Original post by PeteysBride

Jun 11, 2007 12:08 PM

Ok so i need help..I feel like this topic has been the biggest pain in my hoo-haw throughout the wedding planning: flowers.

Originally we wanted gerbers but after seeing how quickly they died when out of a water source I nixed the idea. Lats night was my best friend's shower and we took them out of water for a game we played for maybe 15 minutes tops and by the end they had started to curl. This was in an AC room, not a hot one, which is what the 4 florists I have spoken to have told me makes gerbers wilt quickly. Sooo late July heat will probably make them curl unless they have a water source. All the florists I spoke to want to charge us between 70 and 85 dollars for a bo-k of 5 gerbers! CRAZY! We were going to do hand-picked bo-ks but after seeing what can happen to them out of water, had to nix that idea. So now this is our new dilemna...

If we have to pay a florist for bok's, should we suck it up and stay with gerbers which is our main theme, or just buy heartier flowers like dahlias or roses in our colors and hand tie our own? Please vote!
Choice #1: Dahlia bo-k's for BM's: They would be in colors of our theme but hand tied like these

Choice #2 for BM's-red orange and pink rose bo'ks
Some of these I posted for color but they are all the basic idea of roses and maybe some greenery

Choice#3 for BM's: Stick to our original gerber bo-k idea and suck up the obscene cost.

OR anyone have another idea? please post pics and suggestions if you do.

PeteysBride Posted: Jul 19, 2007 06:08 PM

Re: Wedding Flower Help-Gerber Brides should read this

Posted by MrsChrisClark

An idea right be use mostly roses in your color But still throw in a few Gerber daisies, maybe even silk ones. I have seen several pics of bo-k like that just a suggestion. Good Luck!

Thanks honey. Got all my bouquet s squared away because my weedding is nine days away.
-wink-s this is an old post but thanks so mych for the idea. We are going with real flowers-bit the bullet and just paying the high price because I found out that our florist who is pretty low key has been in wedding businesss for 30 years and he actually provides flowers for the runway bridal shows. So he came up with a plan of roses and gerbers with this pretty green stuff as filler and that what we're going with.

Belongs2DanBuckley Posted: Jul 19, 2007 07:35 PM

Re: Wedding Flower Help-Gerber Brides should read this

Posted by FlowerBride

if you really want gerbs heres what you can do. ask your florist to make your bouquet with water tubes on the bottom of the flowers. have them cut the stems a few inches shorter than normal and have them wrap the entire bouquet - no stems hanging out the bottom. this SHOULD work if the bouquet is made right before and they arent outside in the sun. FM me if you want more info.

That's exactly what I was going to suggest...