Welcome to Floral Week!!

There are a few things that almost all weddings have in common, regardless of the type of wedding or where the wedding is taken place. All weddings have vows. All weddings have some sort of celebratory food. All weddings have special outfits for the bride and groom (even elopements usually have some specially selected outfit). And all weddings have some sort of floral or floral substitute. It's like people can't get married unless there's a bouquet in the room.

So, I thought we could take some time to focus on everything floral and floral-ish, from bouquets and boutonnieres to centerpieces, flower petals, floral wands, garlands, corsages, wreaths...you name it. This is a bit of a tricky topic for me, since the floral in our wedding was nice, but fairly uninspired since I'm not huge on floral stuff. We got all of our wedding flowers at a great discount from Katie, who was also planning a Disney wedding and had just changed her color scheme. I smushed all of the flowers into a duffle bag, checked it, shook them out in Florida, and *bam*...wedding flowers.

To be honest, if we had had a more forgiving budget, I actually think I would have had a lot of fun with the flowers. So, I'm excited to explore floral stuff this week...for both budget weddings and those with a little more legroom. I've seen all kinds of cool interpretations of traditional wedding flowers since we got married, so I know that there's plenty out there to share!

One of the floral projects that I did get involved in had to do with the daughter of one of my bridesmaids. I had a bridesmaid who came down to our wedding with her two year old daughter. Her husband wasn't able to come and my friend wasn't comfortable with childcare, so she ended up carring her daughter down the aisle instead of carrying a bouquet. We dressed her in white (the bouquets were white) and I made her a little floral wand that matched the rest of our wedding flowers.

If you're thinking about doing something similar, you're probably going to like the...


Giveaway
This week's giveaway comes to us from Etsy seller loveablecreations, who makes the cutest little floral baby hats on Etsy. This is a great alternative to giving floral wands to very young flower girls (or mini-bridesmaids, like I had). Although Audrey enjoyed her wand, I would have totally gotten her a flower headband and had her come down the aisle just like a little huggable bouquet if I had seen these before the wedding!






Etsy seller loveablecreations is generously giving away a $15 gift certificate to her shop, which goes a long way since her items are so reasonably priced!

To enter this giveaway, leave a comment on this post that tells me your favorite kind of flower. (If you can't think of your favorite, just name a flower. It's not like I'm going to track you down and demand to know whether you were telling the truth about your love for violets!)

I'll annouce the winner next Saturday. Good luck!

UPDATE: We have a winner!