For bridal bouquet, what should I get? Real flowers or silk flowers?

I like fresh flower, but at the same time I like to have my bouquet preserved as momento for years to come. What should I do? Thank you!

For bridal bouquet, what should I get? Real flowers or silk flowers?
You have have both should you choose. Ask your florist to recreate your wedding bouquet in silk flowers so you can have it last -- a dried bouquet is lovely, but if you would prefer silk - absolutely.



I made my toss bouquet, and no one could tell if they were real or not -- that is how good the quality of the flowers were. Its not tacky at all -- My bridal party carried bouquets that I made as a memento for them as we had a destination wedding and they were so real looking.
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Reply:Personally I think that you should use silk flowers. Then you can keep them longer and they will last longer. It also is a lot cheaper then real flowers. I think that they look the same. I hope that this helps.
Reply:Silk- cheaper and lasts long. Also, they make really good silk flowers nowadays, that you can barely tell they are fake.
Reply:My florist used a mix of silk and real flowers. She used professional quality silk peonies and lily of the valley mixed in with fresh flowers because the peonies and lilys were too delicate and expensive. NOBODY could tell the difference until they touched them, and you cannot tell the difference in the photos.



I had my bouquet dried, but to be honest, I didn't care for how it came out and the shadowbox it's in sits in my closet. I do have the lilys in a small vase on my dresser though.
Reply:Real. Honestly, you don't want the bouquet preserved for years to come. What are you going to do with it? Display it? Between the wedding pictures, unity candle, bouquet, and misc. wedding mementos, your home will be a shrine to your wedding. Stick it in a closet or a box? Not much of a need for preservation, then.
Reply:Both can be totally lovely, so it really is up to you. I wanted fresh flowers, though, because they added something very special to us on our wedding day.
Reply:I'm using silk flowers and I don't think they are tacky at all! I spent a pretty penny on my flowers and they are beautiful and they look real... This is my second marriage and everything I have done is opposite of my first marriage. I spent $500 on flowers 18 years ago and we tried to preserve them, So needless to say I threw $500 in the trash. There are silk flowers that look real and beautiful,,, nothing tacky about it! And they last forever...
Reply:Use fresh flowers. You can keep the dried bouquet as a momento and refer to the pictures to recall its beauty on the wedding day.



Also, silk flowers are just plain tacky.



Congratulations on your wedding!
Reply:Please use real flowers - as suggested you can dry them afterwards and they'll be with you for a long long time.



Also, if you want to throw a bouquet during the reception, get some silk flowers for that.
Reply:Fresh flowers are beautiful, but if you want to save $$ then silk are the way to go. You could do fresh for yours %26amp; silk for the girls to save $$ also.
Reply:Real! Silk flowers look cheap to me. Depending on the fresh flowers you pick you could dry some of them.



Good luck and congrats!
Reply:Silk flowers aren't what they used to be. There are some silks out there that just look plastic and tacky; that much is true - however, there are some higher quality silks out there that are simply stunning.



As for me, personally, I went with silk - but I didn't make that decision until I found what I considered to be "nice" silk flowers. You couldn't tell they were fake unless you touched them. This was also a tremendous bonus for me, who suffers from horrible (HORRIBLE!) allergies. Sounds silly, but it's true!



As long as you don't go with flowers that will be horribly out of season (like using tulips in November!) you CAN get away with silk ones. It IS less expensive, and you don't have to worry about your bouquet drooping. My bouquet is in a vase on my mantle. My SIL took her silk bouquet apart and re-arranged the flowers %26amp; bow onto a grapevine wreath that hangs in her foyer.



As for fresh, of course, you can make the argument that nothing beats fresh flowers, and you CAN have them freeze-dried or preserved after the big day.
Reply:i would use fresh flowers. silk is just not the same. in this case, imitation is not good enough. since you want to keep your bouquet as a momento, just dry them. just remember to hang them upside-down when you dry, so they wont wilt over. or you can press them between heavy objects (text books) and that will even keep the color of the flowers.
Reply:i am getting married in 10 days. i am using silk for all my flowers except my fiancee and the groomsmen are using real flowers
Reply:Real.
Reply:Speaking from someone who had a beautiful real bouquet - I say go for the silk flowers. After all these years I can't remember the bouquet at all except when I look at pictures and all I can think is that if I had gone with silk I've had a beautiful daily reminder of a special day (I figure I wouldn't put it in a vase and could display it somewhere in my house for eterenity). Good luck and God Bless your marriage.
Reply:Today with the right florist - you can have a bouquet with both-



I would suggest you get a bouquet that is three sections- one to keep (silk) one to try to preserve, and a third to toss!



As a Catholic we have been doing this for years. The tradition is to put a bouquet on Mary's altar at the church as part of the ceremony, and the bride always wanted one to dry and one to toss!!!
Reply:real
Reply:I personally would rather have the silk flower bouquet. I could keep it forever and there are some that look extremely real. The one I got for my wedding was actually from a cousin that decided not even to attend the wedding and sent it to me with her sister, but was king of generic. I would have loved something more detailed, more real looking. With some color, maybe some greenery. Mine was all white with tul, articial roses and artificial alcatrases with beads around them.
Reply:I don't see why you can't get your florist to get you real one then maybe preserve them or you can get both artificial and real one. These days florist would know the type of artificial flowers that you can't tell apart from real ones. These flowers are widely used in decorations already so I don't see why you can't get them in bouquets.
Reply:definitely real flowers. There are many ways to save real flowers. You can have them preserved or dry them.
Reply:I was considering silk flowers, some look very pretty. But you can also keep the dried real flowers. Are real flowers important to you, or would you rather they look "realish" forever?
Reply:Real looks better in pictures. As far a preserving it, I have had several brides say that was the biggest waste of their money!
Reply:My flowers for my wedding were fake. My florist had some great roses that looked so real that no one could tell that they were fake. I had tons of people touching it because they could not believe that they were not real. My wedding was 4 years ago and I still have my bouquet as pretty as it was on my wedding day. Good Luck and Congrats!
Reply:Get fresh flowers for the wedding. Do everything exactly the way you want, so there are no regrets. The first thing you said was "I like fresh flowers."

Smell is the sense that affects memory the most. Fresh flowers smell, while fake don't.

There is a spray you can get from the florist to stop the dried flowers from crumbling.
Reply:get a real bouquet much better there will be plenty of pictures anyways
Reply:use real flowers, they look, feel, and smell better.



but you could always preserve them. go on this website and look at what I'm talking about (they are beautiful)



http://www.maweddingguide.com/planning/f...