Bridal White Dinner Plate Dahlia

The Dahlias had a rough year due to the drought in CA so I don't want to be hard on them. I will just say the color of this flower was not creamy white. It was actually more of a pink-fuchsia color. Thankfully I loved the color and they actually really gave the bouquets dimension and pizzazz. So thank you mother nature for creating what I didn't know I wanted.

Unfortunately could not use the majority of these because they were damaged and dried out when they arrived and could not be revived. Too delicate.

I had a pretty good idea of what I wanted our wedding flowers to look like, and a pretty good idea that it wasn't in our budget if we didn't DIY. My MOH bought her flowers from FiftyFlowers, and they were amazing, so I never really looked anywhere else. I ended up way over-ordering, but I'd rather have extra than not enough. Everything about the process was great - the website, ordering*, customer service, delivery, and the actual flowers. I couldn't have been happier with the quality. FiftyFlowers makes GETTING your flowers easy, but real talk: DOING your own flowers takes some work. It took my husband and I an hour or so to unpack them the day they were delivered. I spent a few hours centerpieces the night before the rehearsal. The day of the rehearsal dinner, I was standing in a sea of flowers, trying to wrangle them into centerpieces and bouquets and getting ready to cry because I realized I should have started much much much earlier. My MOH and her husband came over and saved the day - she made our amazing bouquets that I still can't believe were real, and he was my grandma's personal assistant on centerpiece duty. If I didn't have my personal fairy flower godmother, this would be a totally different story. Watch some YouTube videos and practice a few times before your wedding! Make sure you have lots of extra hands to help you, and however long you think it'll take, double that. I'm so happy with how they turned out and I'd order from FiftyFlowers a million times over! *We ended up with half orange and white lilies vs. all dark pink, which initially made me panic, but we made it work. Also, the tulips were pink vs. white. Everything turned out fine, and they were beautiful, it just wasn't exactly what we ordered.

When my son told me the colors for his wedding I searched for the perfect flower to use. The tie dye dendrobium orchids were perfect. I was extremely nervous about ordering flowers online and then having them shipped to our hotel as the wedding was in Pontiac Michigan. But after reading the reviews online I decided to have a little faith. The hotel was wonderful about letting us ship them there and Fifty Flowers was wonderful about calling with instructions and verifying the flowers arrived fine. The reception was beautiful with lots of compliments on the flowers.