Fussy Gerberas

A few weekends ago, mom and I took my dress into J’Marie’s for an alterations consultation. There are a few improvements to be made to make the dress exactly the way I’ve envisioned it to look. We’re going to put in a whole new neckline and material on the top of the dress. The person doing the alterations seems really excited about the "redesign project" (as she calls it).

We also went into HyVee floral to talk about possibly ordering some flowers to arrange ourselves for the bouquets. It sounds like the color scheme I have in mind will work well with the season and have good visual interest. A few of the flowers I was hoping for are either very expensive or not in season during our wedding, but for the most part I can see my vision for the bouquets coming together. The only problem is that the gerbera daisies don’t do well out of water for very long. I guess they begin to droop. Gerbera’s are the flower I’ve designed the whole bouquet around, they’re featured on the wedding invitation I designed and they are the flowers we’re going to use on the centerpieces at the reception. Any other flower, and I would just replace it with anohter (less fussy) option.

So, we have a few options. We can have a pro put the bouquet together with a floral foam-plastic core, and cover it to get the "hand-tied" look I want. We can try to do this ourselves (mom and I watched an instructional video about this online last night). That only leaves us with the dilemma of how to attach the ribbon to the plastic foam core to get the look I want...and I suppose also the dilemma of whether or not I’m skilled enough to even pull off the hand-tied look this way. We could put the bouquets together ourselves, just like we’d planned, and have a water source handy for the photos, at the ceremony (rather than having Liz hold my flowers) and again at the reception. We could also forgo the gerbera’s in the bridesmaids’ bouquets, so that there will only be one fussy arrangement to contend with.

The truth is, I don’t want to "contend with" things on my wedding day. I’d like for it to be as stress-free as possible, so that I don’t chance getting a migraine and so that I can have fun. It’s still been a lot of fun to think about. I like doing things myself, so I always seem to steer that way. With the decorations, the invitations, the flowers, etc. I’m just glad that mom and I spoke to a pro and found this out so that it wasn’t a surprise to have a droopy bouquet on my wedding day!