Cabbage Garden Rose Romantic Antique Pink

We had planned to have a 50 person wedding on the Washington coast on 10/31/2020 with neon sign photo backdrop, large garlands on each table, and curtains of lights. It the 31st fell on a Saturday, we wanted a Samhain wedding, and it was a blue moon! But the world had other plans, so in June 2020, we decided to postpone our big party and elope at home. Our original aesthetic was moody, lush, overgrown, rustic, like a feast at a witch's house, but we had to tone it down to make it easy to celebrate with just our parents and officiant.

My mom and I did all the flowers ourselves, including a bridal bouquet, a wedding arch, and table decorations for our indoor serving table and the outdoor table where the 8 of us ate. I decided to keep it simple and inexpensive and order this single mixed pack of flowers. The roses in the first shipment arrived damaged, but fiftyflowers came to the rescue and made sure I had 2 dozen more roses to use by the day of my elopement. We made the arch from local foraged plants from my yard and tucked flowers into it. We made several full size bouquets, many small ones to tuck into various trinkets, and layered the outdoor table with greens and roses.

Overall, fairly easy and stress-free experience both working with fiftyflowers and DIYing my flowers. I intend on DIYing my much larger ceremony (fingers crossed for October 2021) and using fiftyflowers for a much larger order.

My husband and I originally planned to have an elopement-style wedding in Italy last summer in order to keep it simple, but after COVID-19 broke out, we decided to hold a micro-wedding in my hometown of Albuquerque, New Mexico this past October. We invited friends, family, and co-workers to stream our wedding online, and I was determined to have lots of flowers at our ceremony! It took 4 of us a full 3 days to make all of the arrangements, and we eventually ran out of time, so we had some flowers left over. I barely slept those 3 days, but the end result was so worth it. We got so many compliments on our flowers from guests watching from home! It was nice to create a beautiful elegant setting for everyone to enjoy especially in these trying times. We also made arrangements for a small rehearsal dinner and small wedding dinner. I ordered mostly shades of pinks and a few accent colors, and I was amazed how I was able to create three distinct "looks" for the events (whites, pinks, and lavender for the rehearsal dinner, pastels for the wedding ceremony, and romantic pinks, reds, and maroon for the wedding dinner). I plan to use Fifty Flowers for my wedding reception next year--fingers crossed it is safe for everyone to be together then!

This flower photographed so beautifully!

Absolutely stunning. HUGE flower heads and the color was exactly as it looks.

Truly lovely color and shape. Soft and old-fashioned.