My Flowers - I Love Peonies

I was thrilled with our flowers. A year ago, I never even thought about peonies for our wedding. Now it is amazing how I wish peonies were in season all year round. Thank goodness - our florist - Laura recommended them. She did an outstanding job.

Bouquets
Remember the cover of the Real Simple magazine?

That was my inspiration for our bouquets but we had peonies.

I went back and forth on if I should have a white peonies or have something that popped for my bouquet! I am so happy I went with the pink peonies instead of white. It just was stunning!

For the groomsmen we went with hot pink roses. Again, great, because they just popped.

One concern with the peonies was the wilt factor, but they did hold up for the majority of the ceremony. Then we quickly got them in water which totally woke them up again!

Centerpieces
We kept it very simple (due to the price) - Just clear vases and then cut flowers. I wish I had gone for more volume on this, but then I do think it would have just gotten lost in the crowd a bit. We alternated with peonies and hot pink/orange roses for the centerpieces. I have to say that I liked the roses, but was totally drawn more to the peonies.

Extras

I wish I had the money for all the extras that I wanted to do. However, I went really simple because Meyer's Castle already has a lot of natural color around where we were getting married.

We had these gorgeous urns filled with flowers for our ceremony. (You can see them in this photo...)

I was happy with our flowers, but wish that we could have done more. It is just crazy how much flowers cost. My only advice is go through your flower list and make sure you have everything. I had actually cut out a couple things like an aisle runner but forgot to then check that I wanted flower petals to be used instead. Again it was one of those because I had cut the aisle runner they thought I wanted the petals to be cut too. And I didn't think to check!