Your Cheap Wedding Bouquet
By Suzanne Daykin
Your cheap wedding bouquet could easily end up being very expensive, flowers cost a fortune especially if you have your heart set on a particular color or flower and you may have to write a blank cheque if you have chosen an out of season flower!
There is an alternative and that is looking at artificial flowers, don't think cheap and plastic, artificial flowers have come a long way since the sixties! The new age silk flowers (or cotton/polyester blend) can look stunning, manufacturers use real flowers to create the look and spend a fortune on getting the color just right. This does mean that when you first look at this alternative for your bouquet the price can be the same as real, in some cases more!
Where you save money is shopping around for the best price, look at the resell value of all your flowers - check out online auctions and if you were looking to preserve your bouquet you have saved yourself that cost. The best artificial flowers seem to be online or in florist shops, craft shop's artificial flowers tend to look a bit tacky but still worth a look as they could have a great buyer for their store
Don't just think cheap wedding bouquet you could have silk flowers for button holes and if silk flowers are not your thing you could have a very sparkly bouquet made of silver wire and crystals, if you wrapped the stems with ribbon it would look stunning. Most craft and gift stores have these already to be used as a display in your home and you could use it for that after!
