Eucalyptus Garland Willow Seeded

Used this to hang on the barn and on our welcome sign.

This loving couple were married at the Basilica at Holy Hill in Hubertus Wisconsin. Fr. Michael Berry, Fr. Jude Peters, and Fr. Bonaventure concelebrated the mass. We later went to the MOWA, Museum of Wisconsin Art in West Bend for the dinner and reception. It was a beautiful fall day and so much fun.

Beautiful outdoor fall wedding in West Virginia.

I've always loved DIY crafting, and when I discovered I could make my own bouquets I was really excited! Plus, cost was a major factor for the entire wedding. I picked up artificial flowers from my local art thrift store for centerpieces, but wanted the real deal for my bouquets. So happy Fifty Flowers made my dreams a reality! We picked a sunset theme because our favorite colors are pink and orange. The foliage package helped a lot because as someone who has never made bouquets before I had a hard time choosing. Then I discovered the garden pack, which included all my favorites! I could choose the colors too, which was very important. So with orange ranunculus, pink scabiosa, and pink/white anemone I instantly had all the flowers I needed.

I'm also a major deal hunter. Fifty Flowers is not the DIY flower site I started with, but it is the one I chose after hours and hours of price/quality research. This was the ONLY place where I could find the specific flowers I wanted, in the colors I wanted, the quantity I wanted, at the best price. In the end it was a NO BRAINER!

Drop-off was super easy. I got a text the day they came to deliver with a time window, and it was all there on schedule. This was great because I had planned to gather all my friends together to help me create! Every bridesmaid made their own, and I could get their opinions on mine. It truly was a team-building exercise! None of us had experience with flowers, but I looked up a couple YouTube videos in advance and that helped a ton. Most of it came down to intuition, and just taking the time to build them up layer by layer. My group made sure to check in with each other so all of them looked the same, but with a fun uniqueness. I liked that they weren't all exactly identical, just like their dresses. The foliage pack made it easy to get the height I was looking for. After crafting, we kept them in buckets and vases of water with some plant food mixed in. It worked out very well - the buds opened up beautifully!

The venue was a gorgeous manor house in at the North Carolina/Virginia border (where I spent over 50% of my budget). I didn't feel it needed much decorating because the garden was already so naturally beautiful, but we did end up using extra flowers/foliage to put in mason jars as a way to line the aisles.

In the end it was just a great experience that actually helped me relieve stress because it gave me something constructive to do the weekend of! Thanks Fifty Flowers!

I really wanted to create the flowers for my son and daughter-in-law's wedding. I was thrilled when they asked me. The bride, Sarah, was a joy to work with. She told me she wanted a white and green color scheme. Together we looked at floral designs on Pinterest. When Sarah found a design she like she always said that the finished product should be "Inspired by Pinterest." I appreciated that she was realistic that a non-professional florist might not be able to recreate the original exactly.

When it came time to create the centerpieces, bouquets, corsages and boutonnieres I was so fortunate that my sister, three dear friends and even my nephew came and helped. None of them had any experience with flowers but they learned quickly and were fantastic helpers. The wedding was on a Sunday so we created the greenery for the wreaths on Friday afternoon. On Saturday morning we assembled the bouquets, corsages and boutonnieres. We also cut all the floral elements for the centerpieces and placed them in floral tubes so that the flowers were never without water. The 78 floral tubes were transported in carriers that we created out of the boxes that the flowers arrived in. On Sunday just before the wedding the wreaths were set on the tables and six floral tubes were tucked into each wreath. Everyone loved the finished result.