Silk Vs. Real Bridal Bouquets

Video Transcript

"The types of flowers is the next thing you need to talk to the bride about. What I mean there is, whether she wants to use fresh flowers, or whether she wants to use silk flowers, or whether she would rather use dried flowers. Fresh flowers is always a number one item, number one time to use, thing to use because it's a one in a lifetime deal and fresh flowers last for the day. The design is to be made so that it looks good as you're walking down the aisle for the photographs. It will hold up later. Silk flowers have their positive attributes too. It's something that could be made ahead of time, that you're able to go with the photographer and have pre-pictures taken, you can keep it as a keepsake afterwards, have it designed into a swag or a table centerpiece or something like that if you like to keep it that way. The other thing is dried flowers. Dried flowers is a more Victorian flower design. It's something that will last, it doesn't last as well if you're in a humid area or it starts to get cobwebs and dusty, and things like that. Nowadays, if you do go to the silk flowers, which is what I'm going to demonstrate today, they've come a long way than what most people think of fresh flowers or silk flowers. They look so real it's unreal, with the technology and how they're making them. This particular one we're going to use is a cabbage rose which is a very open and bloomed flower. It looks really good for bridal bouquets. Then they also have like spray roses here where they've got the buds as well as the individual flowers that are opened that can be shaped any way you want them. Small filler flowers, again, they look very realistic. This will add bounce to the bouquet because of the fact that it's a thin flower. And then you go into the greenery of the flowers and the fill, which is again, there's different types of bushes out there, different ivies that they have that you could use in it and it looks really great. Fresh flowers and silk flowers are treated the same. When you make a bouquet, you have to make little picks out of them to go into the flowers and you can cut them up. This was a tubular rose, which is a very long fragranted flower. A silk arranged flower arrangement is also better if a bride has allergies and doesn't want to be sneezing and crying up there at the altar because of her flowers, she can do it because that's why she's there and is happy, but not because of your flowers. If they do want a scent in them, you can put oils scent into the silk flowers as well and it will give you a fragrance. And that's what you need to do and think about when you're selecting the type of flowers you want to use, whether it's dried, fresh or silk."