Bouquets, Boutonnières, Corsages: OH MY!

I think bouquets are a good place to spend a good amount of your flower budget on. I am using half the flower budget for ours BUT I think it’s important not to skimp on the bouquets because those are carried around all day and in pictures. I’m saving money by using local and in season blooms so that helps. There are some flowers out there that are seriously tempting to use but I have to remember we have a BUDGET and every time I catch myself google’ing pictures of ranunculus and peonies I say NO lol plus I would have to break my no white rule, which I possibly made so I wouldn’t be tempted by these beauties. It’s such a shame too because peonies are one of my favorites! But they are a budget buster if I ever saw one.

For the bouquets I did countless searching on BING, GOOGLE, and The Knot. After what seemed like eternity of looking as lots of boring bouquets (ok some where beautiful but just not my style) I came across this bouquet that I just fell in love with. It looks like you are holding a mini meadow in your hands!

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Ok maybe that’s a little silly to say but that’s what it looks like to me! This was what I was going to base my bridesmaids’ bouquets on …. Ok you got me I want them to look EXACTLY like that lol. THEIF! THEIF! I know, I know and I don’t care, besides you can’t paten a flower arrangement so ha-HAA!

The thing is I have no idea what to do for MY bouquet. I want mine to be a grander version on that but I just can’t picture it. I want more purple and bigger flowers, maybe some green spider mums and purple football mums (I kind of have a mum obsession lol I love the textures). I love purple tulips but they don’t go style wise. My florist suggested cool water roses which are beautiful I just have an aversion to roses in general but I probably will use them. Maybe I should just forget mine looking anything like the bridesmaid bouquets …. Nahhh.

Then there are the boutonnières. I found one I love that goes with the girls bouquets perfectly...

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but I didn’t think about the groom’s having to be different lol or the fathers and my florist also said the best man has to be different as well …. WTF! Who knew because I sure didn’t? Anyways my florist and I came up with some great options like using purple lisianthus which I love and are in the bouquets.Source

I had suggested maybe using grape hyacinths but our wedding is at the end of the season so we shall see … I just think they are more of a “manly” flower if a flower can be called manly lol. Source

That picture of course is the LEAST manly picture ever!

I’m still not sure about the best man but the fathers are possibly wearing purple freesia...Source

It’s simple and I love the look of it BUT if those grape hyacinths are in season I will most likely do something with them instea…. Both our dads are a true "man's man" if you will and sometimes I think pinning delicate freesia, in purple non the less, might be a little silly. The mothers though I will probably definitely go with freesia, I mean seriously it’s beautiful AND smells good lol. I’m not concerned about people having different flowers and not being SUPER matchy matchy, it is a garden wedding after all ;-)