DIY Wedding Floral Spray

Hope you enjoyed Barb's post about the wedding flowers. 

I was so nervous about the flowers for the wedding because I really didn't know what all those different flowers were going to look like together. Jessica's friend, Sarah, lives in Texas and was handling it all from there. She flew into Chicago on Wednesday, picked up the flowers and luckily spent the night at another of Jess' friend's home in Chicago. Then the next day, she was planning on spending 9 hours at the airport to wait for her other Texas friends who were flying in and then she could drive out to Michigan with everyone. But, the maid of honor, Amy, to the rescue! Amy lives on the east side of Indiana and drove into Chicago to pick up Sarah so she didn't have to sit at the airport all day. Thank goodness for friendship. This wedding really came together because of the work of friends.

Sarah brought in boxes and boxes of flowers. When I saw the hydrangeas, I was a little surprised! My last conversation with Jess was that there weren't going to be any because in September they were so expensive we couldn't really afford them. I knew she was disappointed, but no one had any extra money at that point to add to the budget.

When we saw them, Jess just beamed! I was so happy for her.

Sarah mentioned she bought a few deep blue stems for $16/stem,
then the rest were only $2 or $3/stem.

Hydrangeas

After seeing the flowers, Sarah showed us her secret weapon! FLORAL SPRAY!

Just For Flowers - floral spray

I turned my camera on multi-shot and got pics of the spraying and color transformation in action.

As Sarah begins to spray, you'll be able to see the transformation from photo to photo.

As she sprays, she sprays the bottom and even pulls the large stems apart to spray between the large stem.

This photo really shows the addition of the deep blue color.

You can really see the depth of the color here.

I love this photo because it shows a great action shot of the spray.

The depth of the color really comes into view here.

The transformation is amazing. What a great cost savings.

Can you tell which one is the "pricey" stem and which one is the "cost-effective" stem?

So Sarah went to work and sprayed all the light blue stems to match the beautiful Delphinium blue stems.

I hope you enjoyed this great DIY. I never knew there was such a thing as floral spray.

My hubby found a full can when we were cleaning up and past it onto to Barb.

I bet she'll do something amazing!

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Talk to ya soon!

Vicki

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The Wedding Flowers

Well, the wedding has come and gone. A full year of planning and prepping and now it's all over. Whew. We're exhausted and at the same time, elated. Everything came together beautifully. Jessica and Randy have wonderful families and a great bunch of very talented friends who all worked together to give them a beautiful day. The bride and groom were happy and that makes all of us happy. So, mission accomplished!

I'm really too tired to write much but I want to share some pics of what we did for this DIY wedding. We will write several posts about the wedding and will share lots of photos but today I'm just going to talk briefly about the help we had from everyone and show you the flowers. Vicki and I had a vision of what we wanted the wedding site to look like but it took a team of willing friends to execute our vision. I, for one, could not have been any more pleased with the way everything looked when all was done.

Vicki and I took advantage of all Jessica and Randy's friends and appreciated their willingness to help with so many last minute preparations. We really put them to work!

I would say the biggest on sight task was getting all the floral arrangements together. The floral designer, Jessica's friend, Sarah, flew in from Texas. Sarah is currently getting her master's in art. She is incredibly talented and worked her magic on buckets and buckets of cut flowers.

Sarah was able to save money by doing a real cool DIY "trick of the trade." We will be sharing this in another post. So, check back for that special post. You will be amazed!

Her finished arrangements were breathtaking!

All vessels we brought we used for either flowers or floating candles.

Table Numbers by Vicki

A little peak of the table center piece, with some floral dropped around the table for drama!

The flowers were a huge part of the decorations.

All the center pieces and bouquets were similar but different, and equally beautiful.

Sarah, Jessica, and Amy, the Matron of Honor, worked together on the arbor.

Jess shows us what she wants.

Amy's turn!

Sarah giving Jess some lovin'

I was a little, no, A LOT, intimidated about decorating the arbor, so I was really glad they were willing to tackle that! I'm sure all their theater training in set decoration came in handy for this project. It turned out so pretty. Job well done, ladies!

We'll post again soon and show you how we set up for the ceremony and the transformation of the tent (before here) for the beautiful reception. I must say, it's pretty amazing!

We had BOXES of decorations!

See you soon! Don't forget to check back and see more of this DIY Wedding.

Barb

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