rehearsal bouquet

The tradition is to collect all of your bows from your gifts and make a bouquet out of them for your wedding rehearsal, but a lot of my gifts haven't had bows.  And let's be honest... those bow bouquets are just plain ugly.  So my awesome bridesmaid Bethany made this rehearsal bouquet for me out of felt.

hey ribbon bouquet!  There's a new bouquet in town.  Watch your back.

rehearsal dinner vases

We are having a Mexican fiesta as our rehearsal dinner and I am trying to keep the cost of decoration for this pretty low.  I wanted to find some vintage tin cans to put paper flowers in, but they are a little more than I want to spend online and I don't have time to go thrifting for them.  So this is what I came up with...

Scrapbook paper glued onto pencil holders!  Less than $10 for 16 vases.

me... a florist?

So I came across a blog post about a month or so ago about a nearly vendorless bride.  It intrigued me and I began to realize that I'm nearly vendorless myself.  Since I was still lost in florist world, I took some inspiration from the vendorless bride and decided to order flowers from Fifty Flowers and arrange them myself with the assistance of my sister-in-law and a few friends.  I saved a ton of money.  This was a great option to have in lieu of a professional florist.  Since I know nothing about flowers, I'm nervous.  This is what I ordered...

larkspur

lisianthus

spider mums

I hope I ordered enough.  Thinking about going back and ordering hypericum berries as a filler.