Wedding bouquet after wedding

[Kacie_bride]

What did/will you do with your bouquet after your wedding?

[WhiskeyGirl]

I dried mine and have it on display in the basement.

http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e181/CanadianBride/DSC00283.jpg

[Kacie_bride]

I am having mine professionaly preserved. I met with some very nice vendors at a bridal fair I attended this weekend. I have lots of information to look through to decide who to go with!

[cowboysbride]

Mine are silk and are going into the curio cabinet with the other wedding keepsakes.
http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g287/cowboysbride/5e0194e2.jpg

[KristyGirl]

I dried it and now it sits in a vase with a few other wedding momentos on a table in the living room. I hadn't planned to keep my flowers, but they were too pretty to get rid of!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v308/kaflorey/IMG_0539.jpg

[AngelinLove]

I'm not quite sure what I am gonna do yet...it depends on how much I like the flowers and how sentimental I am feeling at the time!!!

[hummingbird521]

Mine was silk so it went into a box for safekeeping. I am hoping someday my daughter will find a use for it or some of it in her wedding.

[LaceyinPgh]

Mine is in the process of being professionally preserved, It takes about 3 months. I was suprised at how expensive it was but considering what I paid for the flowers what the heck, right? I should have it back in August/September.

[Kacie_bride]

Mine is in the process of being professionally preserved, It takes about 3 months. I was suprised at how expensive it was but considering what I paid for the flowers what the heck, right? I should have it back in August/September.

The quotes that I received this weekend ranged from $200 on up to a really nice and large shadowbox frame for $500. I don't think it is all that bad considering you will pay over $100 to have a nice picture framed if you take it to a frame shop and have it matted and have nice glass etc. Are you getting it in a shadowbox or are you getting them pressed?

[AllyM1]

I hung mine and dried them out. I just go it all down to petals and I am getting a nice glass vase and I'm putting a candle in and then filling it with the petals.

[Kacie_bride]

http://www.flowersforevertx.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/.pond/red1.JPG.w300h400.jpg

I was thinking of something like this. I saw this lady's work this weekend and they looked this fabulous.

[LaceyinPgh]

The quotes that I received this weekend ranged from $200 on up to a really nice and large shadowbox frame for $500. I don't think it is all that bad considering you will pay over $100 to have a nice picture framed if you take it to a frame shop and have it matted and have nice glass etc. Are you getting it in a shadowbox or are you getting them pressed?
It is sort of a cross between the two. It is in a domed frame. The frame is carved cherry wood with a black velvet backing. Very striking with the soft pink and white flowers and crystals. It is going to be about $400 I think for everything. Like I said though, considering what I paid in total for flowers for this wedding, it is a very small drop in the bucket to have a piece of them with me. (The flowers were more important to me than my dress.)

[Kacie_bride]

It is sort of a cross between the two. It is in a domed frame. The frame is carved cherry wood with a black velvet backing. Very striking with the soft pink and white flowers and crystals. It is going to be about $400 I think for everything. Like I said though, considering what I paid in total for flowers for this wedding, it is a very small drop in the bucket to have a piece of them with me. (The flowers were more important to me than my dress.)

I saw those type too. They are very nice.

[nikkiana]

I voted for "my flowers are silk" but that's not true.... my flowers are beaded (and not flowers) so it'l look good forever!

[Amber818]

My florist provides a toss but I do not know what I will do with my bouquet. I can't imagine having them sitting out...I have 5 cats that love to get into any and every thing. I am not overly sentimental so they could just go into a box with hopes they won't get too damaged.

[ladymelissa]

Mine are silk and it is currently in a wedding memory box in the closet. I plan to get a shadow box to display it in, but I am not sure when I will get around to that.

[ikkin510]

I put I'm not sure. I don't know if I can afford to have them professionally preserved, thought I would love to. I might just do them myself.

[Crystal05]

I wish I would have dried mine, but I didn't know how to at the time. It wasn't until months after that my SIL told me how to do it. AAHHHHHH.

[Valmai]

If i was having fresh flowers then it would have been placed on my mothers grave afterwards but as we will be abroad i opted for artificial ones that i can bring home with me and use to decorate the cake table in our reception here. (thinking bout it im not sure where the tradition of placing flowers from the wedding on a close relatives grave comes from tho?) xxx

[Kacie_bride]

If i was having fresh flowers then it would have been placed on my mothers grave afterwards but as we will be abroad i opted for artificial ones that i can bring home with me and use to decorate the cake table in our reception here. (thinking bout it im not sure where the tradition of placing flowers from the wedding on a close relatives grave comes from tho?) xxx

That is a very sweet tradition.

[brewsells]

I don't know exactly what I am going to do with mine yet. I am thinking I will just dry them myself and keep them.

[SoontobeMrsClark07]

I want to have it professionally preserved but I'm not sure if I will.

My flower shop will do it for brides as part of a package and I think you get a discount but we have to get a certain number of BM bouquets, bouts, and things like that in order to get the preservation in the package. So I'm not exactly sure if I'll actually do it if I cant get it in the package.

[auchlisa]

Ours are silk so we will be putting them in a shdow box that corey is making for any of the wedding momentos that i want to save.

[katieandalex]

Probably just tossing it.