Why Silk?

There are many benefits for using a silk bridal bouquet, wedding bouquets, silk arrangements or other floral items used in a wedding.  Using silk wedding bouquets and arrangements can save money, worry of how they will look and can be used more than one way for the wedding.   Listed below are a few reasons for using beautiful, natural looking silk wedding flowers
Examples:

• Silk bouquets and arrangements can be designed ahead of time, giving the bride the opportunity to see them before-hand.  It also gives the bride the chance to make changes and gives her peace of mind.  With fresh flowers she would only know just a few moments before she marches down the aisle if she likes them or not.  There's always the worry fresh flowers will arriving looking  brown and wilting.  This is a chance she has to take.
   

• The bride's bouquet can be made ahead of time and used for her portrait.
   

• She can carry the same bouquet on her wedding day.
   

• Her bouquet along with the bridesmaid's bouquets can be used on the head table to make a beautiful arrangement by clipping them on the front of the table along with draping tulle or other soft fabric
   

• She can cherish it for years to come without preservation.  It also will stay the same color, unlike preserved fresh flowers that turn brown and dry out.  Preservation of fresh flowers can run into hundreds of dollars whereas silk flowers need no preservation.
   

• The bride's bouquet could also be used on the couples twenty fifth anniversary should they decide to renew their wedding vows.
   

• The arrangements used in the ceremony can be carried to the reception and then placed in the couples new home to enjoy for years to come.  You may carry your fresh flowers arrangements home after the ceremony and reception but they will only last a few days before they turn brown, wilt and you have to toss them out.
   

• For an out-of-town or out-of-country wedding, silk flowers travel well.  Should the couple decide to have a small intimate wedding on a cruse ship, the bouquets, corsages and boutonnieres could be used again at a larger reception after returning home from their honeymoon days or weeks later.  This saves the expense of buying them twice.
   

• Silk wedding flowers are great for the bride or groom that's allergic to real flowers.  Fresh flowers can cause itchy watery eyes and nose from allergies causing you to sneeze throughout your entire ceremony.  To the allergic bride or groom this could cause embarrassment and not being able to enjoy your special day.
   

• Nothing is cuter than a little girl dressed up like a princess scattering flower petals down the aisle before the brides grand entrance.  Fresh flower petals if stepped upon sometimes will leave stains.  For this reason lots of churches or wedding venues will not allow the tossing of flower petals by the flower girl.  This is another reason for using silk flowers.  Silk petals will not stain carpet and are easily gathered after the wedding ceremony.
   

• A tradition that is becoming more popular is the silk toss bouquet and silk bridesmaids bouquet.  Silk bouquets can be saved and a bridesmaid not married  can use the silk wedding bouquet she carried in your wedding as her toss bouquet.  Also the lucky girl that catches your toss bouquet can save it and use it for her wedding to toss.  This is said to be good luck for the newly wed couple as well the lucky girl that catches it.

So save yourself the worry of using fresh flowers, save money and have cherished mementos  of a very special event in your life.

 
Article Written By:
Bonnie Goodwin Ray, Author