Our wedding is in three days. Thursday is kind of prep day for getting the flowers together - making my bouquet, my dad and husband-to-be's boutonnieres, and making the last two head wreaths for the nieces to wear.
The plan is carry a bouquet of sunflowers mixed with hydrangeas, but if it looks goofy, I'll just carry sunflowers because they're my favorite. The hydrangeas are coming from my parents gardens and they look amazing. They'll be sitting on tables in clear glass vases - most are globes, but some are in neat, previously emptied liquor and beer bottles. My bouquet stems will be wrapped in burlap, and a thin blue ribbon for part of my "something blue". I may add another accent flower of sorts if I see the right thing when I'm buying my sunflowers on Thursday, but if not, all will be good. My other something blue is going to be tiny little satin roses that I bought at Michael's that the girl doing my hair will tuck into the chignon.
I'm not feeling super confident about making the boutonnieres, so I've bought silk flowers from Hobby Lobby just in case. The plan is to use a small cutting from a hydrangea, wrap the base in burlap and the thin blue ribbon; however, hydrangeas need lots of water and since it's a cutting and not even an entire head, I fear it won't last even through the ceremony.
The head wreaths for our daughter and her cousins are made from a flower wired garland that I bought at Michael's. Our daughter didn't mind wearing hers at all last weekend, so I'm hopeful that her cousins will like theirs just as well. If not, though, my heart won't be broken. I know better dealing with kids.
As for decorations at the reception, the roll of burlap I bought for the flowers is twenty feet long, so there will be plenty to drape at the gazebo entrance where the ceremony will be held, as well as to drape across the fireplace mantel inside the house where the reception will be. I also hope to hang up my collection of white paper lanterns inside the house. They're all different shapes and sizes. The PR person at the house we're renting said that as long as 3M strips are used to hang things and not nails or tacks, it's fine to do. We'll try it out and hope for the best. Again, if it doesn't work, I'm not going to be upset. It's just an idea. The house looks great without any decorations, really.
People are already making it known that they're dying to see pictures of everything, so I'll at least post everything I've mentioned on here as soon as we get the pictures from our photographer. Otherwise, don't expect to see our entire wedding album on here. I'm not a fan of posting our daughter's photo on Facebook, or anywhere else creepy people could get a hold of it. I work among lots of creepers every day, I know what they're capable of and it's not pretty. Anyway, here's a happy note to close on....the hydrangeas
