Repurposing Wedding Florals

Many couples come to us unsure of how the floral process works as it is their first time ordering wedding flowers. Though we are here to design and create beautiful florals... we always love to recommend and offer advice on many areas of the floral process, one being how and what designs you can repurpose. 

Repurposing items throughout the day and into the evening can be super helpful and effective. Floral costs can quickly add up and it makes sense to want to make things feel purposeful. Here are some tips and advice we love to share with our couples on ways to repurpose their florals.

Use designs that CAN be repurposed...there are some designs that just cannot be repurposed unfortunately. While others can be moved easily and flow great into a different space.

Many of our brides love florals attached to an arch or arbor. However, many of these pieces cannot be moved (permantley in the ground or too heavy to do so) and the design on the arch itself doesn’t really work to be placed anywhere. Instead we recommend tiered pedestal pieces, lush ground meadow, a floral arch, or more. These are high customizable and you can really make the florals feel like “you.” Playing with different styles urns, compotes, baskets, textures, sizes, and more can be fun and a great way to change up the ceremony space from the typical look! 

If you love a garden style look, think of tiered woven baskets in all shapes and sizes piled together and overspilling with flowers. If you're a more elegant and traditional bride think of sleek white urns on top of pedestals. Wanting to really make the flowers stand out? Select a garden entrance gate with flowers intertwining and curving all around it.  The options here are truly endless and all of these can be repurposed into the reception! 

Though florals attached to the chairs are adorable... summer weddings and florals outside of water can lead to a disappointment. They can quickly wilt and then you have to remove them from the chairs, by the end of the ceremony they aren’t in the best shape. Instead, we recommend meadow markers to line the aisle. You can do as many or as few as you’d like and these are much more customizable in size. We even have some brides that will opt to place these on their tables for centerpieces after the ceremony ends. In that case we design them double sided instead of one sided. Or if you’d rather have a different look for your centerpieces, many will reuse meadow markers as signage decor, bar florals, memory table florals, and more!

To allow the end of the night clean up to go a little more smoothly, we try to design the florals in a take home container if possible. This allows the us, wedding coordinator or clean up crew to easily remove the florals from your rental container so you can pass the florals out to bridal party members, friends, and family members to take home at the end of the night. While still allowing the rental containers to get back to use safely.

Instead of just having your bridesmaids throw their bouquets on the floor or laying them around at random. We always recommend placing bridesmaids bouquets and bridal bouquets up at the head table or another area during the reception. We happily rent out cylinder vases and will fill the with water so when the bridal party comes in they simply place their bouquet in the water and it becomes another floral piece for the reception.

If brides are looking to keep their bouquet forever we offer pressed petal preservation. You simply drop your bouquet off to our studio within 48 hours of the wedding and it is a 6-12 week process as we intricately press each and every petal and put them back together. Your flowers should last more than one day to hold the memories forever!

From the garden with love, 

Isabel