DIY Flowers Update

So I've gotten a lot of great feedback with my trial and will definitely be taking every one's suggestions into consideration. I just wanted to clarify a couple of things that I may have not been clear on.

1. I decided to do DIY flowers to cut down on costs and really personalize my wedding.

2. Obviously I'm not having a Platinum Wedding therefore I'm not trying to go for Platinum Flowers.

3. I've gone into this project realizing that the best way to achieve great DIY Flowers is to KEEP IT SIMPLE (yeah I'm a little boring). Therefore I decided not to add any fillers, greenery etc..otherwise I may as well fork over the extra cash to have a pro do them.

4. I love roses, especially when they are fully blown, I love centerpieces of just roses because it's soo simple, chic and timeless. I didn't want to go with centerpieces that when you look back at pictures would look out of date.

5. I will be adding more flowers to the trial, to get the affect I'm trying to achieve, yet there will not be tons of roses in each other either... DIY=KEEPING COSTS DOWN

6. I did not want to use fake flowers, I don't like the look of them, but to each it's own. I want my guests to be able to take home the roses after the reception if they would like so.

Here are a few pictures that I used as inspiration when I did my trial so you can get a better understanding of the looking I'm aiming for...SIMPLICITY

FOR MY BOUQUET:

MM'S BOUQUET:

Yes my flowers aren't over the top like you may see on many wedding blogs, but obviously I'm my own bride, with my own taste and envision for my wedding and that's is what will make my wedding FABULOUS!!!!

DIY Centerpiece/Bouquet Trial

I did a trial last week that I've been meaning to post about. I just went and grabbed a few roses from Walmart to see if I could really attempt to do my flowers for the wedding. A lot of brides are going the DIY way to keep costs down and really personalize their weddings. I've heard so many good stories about brides doing their own flowers and them turning out fabulous! I think the key is to keep them simple and what couldn't be simpler than roses? It's chic, gorgeous and a sturdy flower to work with. Here's some of the mock's I came up with for my first trial!

Here are the roses after prepping them:

After sitting for a day they opened up nicely, making the following:

Motown Maids Bouquet:

So I think they turned out nicely, this is using 10 roses and it gives the affect I was looking for.

Centerpieces:

Another Angle:

So here's some things that will be different:

1. The roses will be a hot pink to match my color scheme (these where only available for the trial)

2. The ribbon around the vase will be at the bottom, not the top like pictured, this way the stems won't show.

3. We will use 15 roses for the actual centerpiece to make it more lush, this was done with only 10 roses (all that was available)

OKAY HONESTLY MOTOWNETS I NEED YOUR HELP..YAY OR NAY FOR DIY'ING MY FLOWERS

*Note: I'm not worried about not having enough time to do them as my mom's and bm's have agreed to help arrange them; btw I timed my trial and it took 10 mins to do the bouquet (it was actually harder to wrap the ribbon haha) and my DOC (day of coordinator) will set them all up at the reception.