Home grown flowers & secondhand silk bouquets
Mar 5th, 2008 by Jenny
Well my big day is less than two weeks away. all my flowers have come up early (as perhaps I should have guessed they would) and I think they’ll be drooping before the big day comes.
So a few days ago I had a panic about bouquets!
There should still be enough plants in flower to do the table decorations, as there are some which haven’t come up yet - but not enough to make the posies for me and my bridesmaids from.
Googling for inspiration I discovered that lots of people sell silk flower bouquets (new and second hand) on ebay, for a fraction of the price they cost in the shops! I bought three small rosebud bouquets for my bridesmaids and a bigger bouquet for me, all for less than £15. It all arrived all within two days as well.
So even though my potted flowers have turned out to have their own timescale ideas, I have still managed to avoid nipping to Tescos and panic-buying hothouse flowers the night before the wedding. Hooray! I can thoroughly recommend Ebay for all things cheap and cheerful - and of course reused if you are buying second hand.
Not only that… the pots of flowers that have all come up early are decorating the house and garden at the moment helping me get into the wedding mood.
If I had to do it again, I think I would get round the problem by planting more different varieties that come up at different times, and planting some indoors and some out - so that there are some blooms every couple of weeks throughout the spring.
If anyone else has had more success with this I’d love to hear how you did it… I plan to grow flowers for other big parties in the future now too. It’s been a lot of fun.