Wedding Flowers, Silk Or Fresh?
I love flowers. I would describe them as soft, fragrant, delicate, bright, beautiful, and in every way perfect. As much as I love them I chose to go with silk flowers for my wedding, and if I could do it all again I would still select the silk. Consider my reasons,
♦ Silk flowers can be made ahead of time. This eliminates the worry on your wedding day that the florist will be late in delivering the flowers. Furthermore, in the heaviest of wedding seasons, you’re stuck if the florist delivers the wrong flowers, or forgets something. Everyone makes an occasional mistake and that’s fine as long as it’s not on your wedding day!
♦ Silk flowers are not as likely to attract bees. I actually watched my dear cousin who was married under an arch outside, batting away a bee during the ceremony. They had to stop while the priest and her husband helped to get it to fly away.
♦ It’s impossible to kill silk flowers. Another wedding that I stood up to had fresh flowers. One of the flower girls wanted to make sure her bouquet stayed fresh for the ceremony, she knew they had to be kept cool, so she figured if cool was good, then cold is better, and freezing must be best of all. Needless to say by the time the ceremony was set to begin, her bouquet was dead and nasty looking.
♦ Silk flowers can be saved as mementos and even placed in a special glass case that can serve as art on your wall. Fresh flowers will be dried, smaller, wrinkled, and darker if you try to save those. Touch it too harshly and it will crumple away.
♦ Ever try to reattach a fresh flower head that’s fallen off? This can happen easily in a crowd. A silk flower head will just snap right back on.
♦ I wanted to make my own wedding flowers, my wedding was the first one I did, so I was slow and unsure. Fresh flowers would have been out of the question for such an experiment. With the silks I didn’t have to make room in the frig, and I got to make them a week ahead and take all the time I wanted.
♦ Silk flowers can be dyed with floral spray if desired to better match colors just as fresh can. Silk flowers can be sprayed with flower scented floral sprays which really make them smell just like the fresh do.
♦ You can’t tell the difference in the photographs after the wedding.
Weigh all your options and pick the best one for you! So wedding flowers, silk or fresh? We’d love to hear your opinion. Feel free to leave your comments via the box below.
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May 7th, 2009 at 9:19 am
We decided to go with fresh since we are using sunflowers. It was substantially cheaper to get fresh sunflowers than silk. That might sound odd, but since the price of oil is higher, so are products made from oil (plastic and synthetic materials… ie silk flowers.) Also, there are fields of sunflowers around where I live and I’ve already received permission to cut as many as I need! Yipee!