Artificial Flowers

RuckingSwimmer

Hi everyone. My sister is getting married in January and is looking to get artificial bouquets/buttonholes rather than real flowers.

She had met a guy doing paper flowers at one of the bridal fairs, but he seems to have gone out of business and never replied to any emails. The only place she's found that do something similar are freckledfeather.ie so she was wondering if anyone had any other suggestions?

GingerLily

Etsy has loads of suppliers!!

irishgirl19

Theres a place in arklow called all about weddings who do silk flower packages

RuckingSwimmer

thanks for the suggestions! will get her to have a look at both - arklow would be ideal as she could go and see them before deciding to buy them

pooch90

I made buttonholes out of paper flowers, lashed rain-buttonholes disintegrated!

mcgiggles

pooch90 wrote: »

I made buttonholes out of paper flowers, lashed rain-buttonholes disintegrated!

ohhhhhh I never even thought of that I was thinking of paper flowers, I love books so was going to make flowers out of book pages... May reconsider! this is Ireland after all..... and I'm getting married in the back ar*e of winter

pooch90

I made table centrepieces from them instead.

bee06

I got mine from an seller called Orchid Alley on EBay http://stores.ebay.com/Orchid-Alley-Wedding-Designers

They are based in the UK and mostly do Calla lily bouquets etc. I got my bouquet, 2 bridesmaids, flower girl wand, 2 corsages for the mothers for around 100 euro and they were fab. No one could tell they were artificial and I have my bouquet in a vase in my house now.

ThatGeekGirl

got mine from central floral supplies in Cork, bought online and talked to them on the phone, had them the next working day!! I live in the midlands btw

mcgiggles

bee06 wrote: »

I got mine from an seller called Orchid Alley on EBay http://stores.ebay.com/Orchid-Alley-Wedding-Designers

They are based in the UK and mostly do Calla lily bouquets etc. I got my bouquet, 2 bridesmaids, flower girl wand, 2 corsages for the mothers for around 100 euro and they were fab. No one could tell they were artificial and I have my bouquet in a vase in my house now.

wow they look stunning!! I LOVE calla Lillies but theres no way I could have them, getting married at christmas but these look like the real deal! What was your bouquet like? She doesn't really have bouquet photos up on the site..

witchgirl26

My sister got our bridesmaids ones from aliexpress. They are absolutely gorgeous but you do need to give yourself time when ordering them as ours took 2 weeks to arrive.

mcgiggles

witchgirl26 wrote: »

My sister got our bridesmaids ones from aliexpress. They are absolutely gorgeous but you do need to give yourself time when ordering them as ours took 2 weeks to arrive.

Definitely need to give yourself time!! I ordered some on ebay last night just to see what they are like and they will arrive on or before October 12th :P.. luckily time is on my side (Wedding is Christmas 2017!)

Mimojo

I got dried flowers from this lady on etsy, cant recommend her highly enough.

They look great, came out great in pictures, swift delivery, can order way ahead of time and takes the stress out of fresh flowers, and are cheap!

mcgiggles

Mimojo wrote: »

I got dried flowers from this lady on etsy, cant recommend her highly enough.

They look stunning!!

RuckingSwimmer

irishgirl19 wrote: »

Theres a place in arklow called all about weddings who do silk flower packages

She ordered the flowers from here today. Got a better deal than what she was originally getting from bioflowers too. Thanks for the suggestions everyone