this isn't a wedding favor..but just a wedding related idea I recently had and felt like sharing:
Traditionally people throw rice, not cool. Last wedding I was at they had bubbles, very cute. How about rose pedals!
Wow, that would be soooooooo expensive! If a dozen roses is about $50 and is about 5 handfulls of pedals, think about how many roses it would take to get all those pedals! I'm pretty sure the rice-throwing is a tradition that we don't follow, and as far as bubbles, I don't think either Donovan or I are that cute-sy. We could never pull it off.
carnations can be very cheap. buy in bulk. if i ever get married, i'd consider getting my flowers in the city from a street vendor--they have great prices and gorgeous fresh flowers.
Yeah, but keeping them and transporting them is the problem. You need to keep flowers refrigerated and in fresh water, or they'll wilt. You can't handle them out of water until the day you're going to use them, and I don't know what you're planning for your wedding day, but I'm going to have a lot more to do than spend the morning making bouquets and flower arrangements. It's not really practical to do that.
this is why brides have friends.
But brides like to spend time with their friends the morning of their wedding, not turn them into slave laborers. I've done my share of work for friends' weddings, but I would never ask one of my friends to do that.
well hey it's different in each situation. to each her own.
Interesting..there must be a way that this can be done without being expensive.
i want sunflowers. they're just the most gorgeous flower and i can't find pretty ones besides the huge ones that they sell in the city. i might just do that for a wedding.
talk to forreste... she has a whole collection of sunflower items haha
oh goodness no. make them go away. the only thing left is the lamp.
i find very few nice household products decorated with my beloved flower but the real thing is so gorgeous. i once saw a floral arrangement with sunflowers and violets and it was gorgeous. that's what i want.
my neighbor used to grow them every year. they got to be a good 6 ft tall sometimes.