{"id":4255,"date":"2012-03-06T14:36:17","date_gmt":"2012-03-06T19:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.topweddingsites.com\/wedding-blog\/?p=4255"},"modified":"2015-11-06T08:38:19","modified_gmt":"2015-11-06T13:38:19","slug":"how-to-avoid-diy-wedding-flowers-disaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.topweddingsites.com\/wedding-blog\/wedding-flowers\/how-to-avoid-diy-wedding-flowers-disaster","title":{"rendered":"How To Avoid DIY Wedding Flowers Disaster"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thinking about DIY Wedding Flowers? Here’s How To Avoid Disasters<\/h1>\n

I had a very interesting experience last week I was in Las Vegas for the Event Solutions Conference and because the new Preston Bailey Fundamentals of Floral Design Course was launched there and I am the author of the course in collaboration with The Wedding Planning Institute and Preston Bailey.<\/p>\n

Anyway, The Wedding Planning Institute teaches several classes including a Preston Bailey Event Design Course. They decided to add on a special one day LIVE version of this class the day before all the Event Solutions activities began and offered the 42 students an extra day of \u201cinternship\u201d experiences on Sunday which included working with me to prepare two floral projects.\u00a0 The first was a desert stand that needed to be floralized for our booth and the second was a flower encrusted candelabra to be used as decoration for a dinner party with Preston Bailey as the guest of honor on Sunday night, and then to be used in our booth.<\/p>\n

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From my perspective, the experience was a disaster, but from the students perspective the experience was a \u201cmillion dollar day\u201d. \u00a0Those were the words specifically used by one of the students.\u00a0 The students absolutely loved the experience.\u00a0 The reason it was a disaster to me was because the flowers didn\u2019t make it to our booth.\u00a0 The flowers died!<\/strong><\/p>\n

The reason I am telling you about this is because these are lessons you must be aware of when doing your own flowers for your wedding.\u00a0 Flowers do die, they are living things that, if not properly handled, will die earlier than might be expected.<\/p>\n

There are two reasons why the flowers died. 1. We used hydrangeas for the stylized desert stand.\u00a0 Hydrangeas are very intolerant of heat and being handled too much. The hydrangea simply drooped and, even though I could have brought them back to life, I had no guarantee that they would stay looking vibrant and alive and chose to completely redesign the desert stand with flower I felt would live and look good for the following two days (carnations and roses).<\/p>\n

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