I think I’ve been driving my florist crazy. I originally wanted this bout for my groom:

a sophisticated white anemone.

After some research and after ordering samples to show me, she tells me that anemones are too fragile (their petals are tissue paper thin) to hold up to July heat. They’ll make it through the ceremony, but she’s afraid they will wilt during the reception. Yeah, as if the groom isn’t going to be photographed during the reception. So this clearly doesn’t work.

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I’m starting to look into flowers more seriously now. Although I’ve been saving inspiration pics for ages, I’ve realized that I am really drawn to big, “fluffy” flowers with lots of petals. Like so:

peonies, ranunculus, anemonies

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Here comes my in-depth recap of my bridesmatron experience!  My friend Green’s wedding ceremony and reception took place at the beautiful Flowerfield property in St James, Long Island, NY.

The ceremony began at 10:30am and was held outside around a beautiful white gazebo:

Source: http://www.flowerfield.com/

Source: http://www.flowerfield.com/

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I opted for Hydrangeas for my girls because one bunch is about the size I wanted for their bouquets and they mixed our blue and green colors nicely.

I wrapped the stem of each in yarn so they would have white bases and something for the girls to grip.

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I purchased white silk roses, green roses (they were made out of a foam-like material), and ribbon then I got to work making my bouquet. Like I did with my veil, I’ll give you a photo overview.

My stem of roses (it came with fake rubber stems)

My green tea roses

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One of the most common bouquet types I’ve seen this year is the hand-wrapped bouquet. The stems of the flowers are wrapped in ribbon, lace, or cloth.

Photo from Digital504

From some florists the hand-wrapped style is even cheaper! And for DIY brides it’s an easy option for making bouquets.

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Sometimes I feel like I bit off more than I can chew when I decided to be a DIY bride. Other times I get extremely excited to make so many things myself and put myself into the wedding.

From 100layercake.com

Here’s my tentative list of DIY wedding projects:

1. My veil – this is for sure because it’s 60% finished

2. Bridesmaid jewelry- I was very close to scrapping this and then I was inspired by Moon Bud’s DIY pearl stringing post here

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My Aunt P is a wonderful gardener and among her pretty flowers she has a beautiful peony bush. A couple of days ago she cut off one peony bud that was almost to the blooming stage and floated it in a bowl of water on the table. It was an instant centerpiece straight from the garden.

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I love my fiancé, I love cakes and I also love my camera phone. I own the Sony Erickson Cyber Shot Camera Phone. This phone was not meant to text or access the Internet, but, it has great technology for taking pictures. With my camera phone I am able to take pictures of anything that inspires me to create or use for our wedding. I get inspired by colors and textures all the time.

The other day, I was brainstorming on the colors for our rehearsal dinner. Towie Bear and I decided to not use the same colors of our wedding. We want the ambiance to be different and fun. I visited a wedding store and I found the most elegant and show stopping bridal bouquet. The following flower arrangement was created by Fantasia Floral.

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