What To Do With Your Wedding Flowers After The Wedding
Florals are beautiful and timeless yet entirely unique for your wedding. You have various options, from fake florals to DIY arrangements or professionally crafted pieces. One of my favorite parts about planning my wedding was designing my floral arrangements with my florist. It is so awesome to see how elaborate brides and grooms choose to display florals. They make beautiful decorations or are perfect just as wedding party accessories. No matter how intricate your florals are for your wedding, you may wonder what happens to the flowers once your wedding is over. Here are some ideas on what to do with your wedding flowers after the wedding.
Donate your flowers
You can consider donating them to different places within the community. Consider calling around hospitals, hospice homes, funeral homes, or women’s centers to see if they will accept your post-wedding flowers. This is a beautiful way to recycle your flowers with the confidence that others will appreciate them. It is also lovely to know that your love will be sprinkled throughout the community. You could also consider placing them on graves in a cemetery. Although some might consider this a bit dark, giving a grave new life is a beautiful gesture. If you don’t want to stress about donating yourself, do a quick google search of companies that will handle the donation process for you.
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Repurpose and Regift
Another option for what to do with your wedding flowers after the wedding is to make smaller bouquets and place them around your home as fresh decor or gift them to your wedding party, vendors, or family as a token of appreciation. It is even a valid option to give some bouquets to people who couldn’t make it to the wedding.
Wedding Favors
A creative way to lighten the load of your flowers is to have a build-your-own bouquet station at your wedding. Between the ceremony and the reception, you could have a designated person break down the bouquets so that people could grab a few flowers on their way out of the reception. You can add butcher paper personalized with your name or hashtag, so your guests feel like they’re picking fresh flowers in a fancy way.
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Dry your flowers
There are a few different processes that you can do to preserve your flowers. Drying them and keeping them in a shadow box is an excellent option for using your wedding flowers as decor in your home.
Have the flowers photographed
Ask your photographer to take very detailed shots of your flowers. You could print the photos of the flowers and use them as decor. You could even ask your photographer to do a styled shoot with them after the wedding. There are many options for how to do a really unique shoot for your flowers after the wedding.
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DIY Projects
There are endless crafts that you can do with your wedding flowers. You can do an epoxy resin craft (or hire someone to do it) that can add your flowers to an array of items, such as a coaster, ring dish, block letters, paperweights, etc. There are a lot of good options. You can add some of the flowers into different made jewelry. Another option is to gift homemade earrings or bracelets to your wedding party with pieces of flowers. You can make your wedding flowers into floral bath salts. This could also be a lovely gift to loved ones post-wedding. You can make a wreath for your door with flowers or simply add them to a frame.
There are options for what to do with your wedding flowers after the wedding, no matter what type of arraignments you use. It doesn’t matter if you used fake flowers, made your own arrangements, or hired a professional. Your flowers deserve to continue being appreciated after your big day. This is a great way to be eco-friendly and continue sharing love with your friends and family.
I hope this gave you some inspiration for what to do with your wedding flowers, and we wish you a beautiful wedding planning season!
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