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I wasn't planning on getting that many flowers from FiftyFlowers until the week of my wedding, when I found out that local flowers wouldn't be available. FiftyFlowers has the BEST customer service and absolutely came through for me!

Since about a year before my wedding, I'd been in contact with two local farms to buy flowers from them. I was going to pick them up early Saturday morning for my Sunday wedding. However, we had terrible weather and both farms reached out to me on Monday (six days before the wedding). One said they didn't have anything, and the other said they only had a small amount (10 bunches). If I were to do it all over again I would definitely still try to go the local route because it is so important to support local farmers, but I also can't say enough good things about FiftyFlowers. I called FiftyFlowers on Monday afternoon and they were able to ship the flowers that I wanted by Thursday and Friday, free shipping.

In addition to the flowers from this site, I ended up getting about 40-50 bunches locally (the farm that said they had 10 ended up having more). Therefore, the poppies, the butterfly ranunculus, and some of the ranunculus (white, red, the brighter pink, and the more pastel yellow/orange) in my pictures are not from FiftyFlowers. However, the brighter yellow ranunculus and the "Peachy Watermelon" ranunculus in the pictures is from FiftyFlowers.

With all these flowers, I made 1 bridal bouquet, 2 bridesmaids bouquets, 8 boutonnieres/corsages, a garland, arrangements for 7 dinner tables, and about a million other jars of flowers to place around absolutely everywhere. I started arranging them about 8:00 in the morning. My mom joined me at 9:30 and a friend joined me at 10:00. We all worked until around 12, took a lunch break, and then they both left around 3:00 and I continued until 5:00. In total that's about 22 hours of labor hours. It got rushed towards the end and I wish I had a few more hours, but live and learn! Having the day to arrange flowers with some of my favorite people was so fun and such a special part of the weekend.

In case it helps, here's some details about how we made everything. We are exactly the opposite of pros, but it all worked out great.

Bridal bouquet: I held it in my hands as I went, started with the largest flower in the center, and worked out. When it was too much to hold without the bouquet falling apart I'd wrap wire around the stems (with another set of hands for help!), and then when it was secure again I kept adding more flowers. At the end I added some ruscus, wired it again, and then used ribbon to cover up the wire.

Corsages/boutonnieres: I made the tiny arrangements in my hand, then wrapped the stems together with green floral tape. Then I wrapped that in either ribbon (for the corsages) or twine (for the boutonnieres), but I left the stems long and hydrated in a dish of water. I cut the stems short once we were at the venue getting dressed. No idea if this was necessary, but everything held up with no problems--even the ranunculus and scabiosa.

Dinner table arrangements: Each table had 9 jars: 3 quart jars, 3 medium jars (roughly a pint, but in various shapes), and 3 small jars. For some of the quart jars (dinner table and other quart jars that we set out all over the place) I used clear floral tape to make a grid, then screwed the outside part of the lid over the tape to keep it secure. The tape wasn't really necessary but it was helpful. The arrangements were perfect because they were huge but not too tall so people could still see each other.

Garland: I ordered a garland from FiftyFlowers as a base. I also ordered extra Sprengeri Greens and Ruscus to stick into the garland to make it fuller. I was surprised how easy it was; we didn't end up needing to wire it or anything, and the greens lasted just fine out of water. I also stuck some artificial poppies in it that I happened to have (the white and yellow flowers). In addition, we cut a bunch of other flowers short (used leftover garden roses and disbuds), stuck them in floral water picks, and transported them to the venue separately. We zip-tied the garland to the arch and then stuck the floral picks in (again no tools or wire necessary). After the ceremony a couple friends moved the garland from the arch to the swingset, and after the wedding my dad took the garland and repurposed it, flowers and all. It lasted a long time!

Our flowers were just incredible and I loved the thrown-together look. It took absolutely no skill or practice; the flowers were so beautiful on their own that they didn't need anything except a jar of water. Everyone said they were the most beautiful flowers they'd ever seen! At the end of the night, we asked everyone to take home as many flowers as they wanted and some people's reactions were so cute! It felt amazing to be able to send our friends with (literally) boxes full of flowers!

I am making an engagement party on August 3rd for my son and his lovely fiance! I was nervous about not hiring a local florist for centerpieces but was so intrigued by the website that I decided to order some test centerpieces a few weeks ahead to see whether I would feel comfortable going through fiftyflowers.com. I actually ordered 4 large delightfully pink centerpieces and one medium blushing belles centerpiece. They arrived, as promised on Wednesday and I hydrated them, cut the stems, as directed and made the centerpieces on Saturday as though my affair would be that night. They came out beautiful and the only thing that I did was to take the calla lilies from blushing belles and added them to delightfully pink for a deeper pop of color. I was so happy with them that I ordered 24 large delightfully pink centerpieces for our upcoming party together with extra calla lilies and can't wait to receive them!!!!!

I was blessed to be a bride 27 years ago so this is the story of MY "Wedding Flower" day! I have a small but growing floral business that I do out of my home. It's mostly a container and small space landscaping business but I always wanted to expand to cut flower work. When asked to do Kaitlyn and Tyler's wedding early in the year, I was tentative but willing to give it a shot. In my 20's, I worked at a couple of florists, but this would be my 1st official "solo" run. So planning ensued and stress built! Although I have a local floral distributor that I could have used to buy the flowers from, I was very impressed by the FiftyFlowers website with all it offered, and the ease in which it seemed to make it for brides! So to ease my stress, I took a leap of faith and created my designs through FiftyFlowers. That leap proved to be a brilliant decision. From beginning to end, the staff at FiftyFlowers was exceptional! The constant communication while the flowers were in transit was outstanding. But the flowers, well all I can say is, I have never been so impressed with anything like I was with the flowers I received!!! Hundreds and hundreds of flowers and only 2 were broken !!!!!!! Unbelievable!!! All the flowers were delivered exactly when they needed to be in order to be at their prettiest on the big day. The colors described, spot on! Honestly, no negatives for me!
So with that said, for all brides that want to try to do their own flowers, this is an all-around quality place to start!!! I will no doubt continue to use FiftyFlowers for any future weddings I may have the honor of doing! Thank you FiftyFlowers for helping this BloominCrazy lady be proud of her "Wedding Flower" Day!!!

I have always been a "pink" girl and knew my wedding day would be no different. Thanks to my loving husband, we met in high school, he happily went along. I couldn't just choose one shade, I wanted them all. From the bridesmaids dresses to the cake and shoes, I had it covered. When it came to the flowers, I relied on my bridesmaid Amanda's mother, Michele. Michele had used FiftyFlowers for Amanda's wedding and her bouquets were gorgeous; I knew I wanted the same thing. Michele is amazing talented; she helped me order the flowers and arranged them in the most beautiful way. The hot pink in the bridesmaids dresses popped so well and the soft pink in my bouquet was so elegant and feminine. The corsages and boutonnieres tied everything together. It couldn't have turned out more perfect.

My aunt asked me to do my cousin's wedding reception on a whim and I agreed. I had never done anything like it before, but found this website and read the reviews and they were great, so I went for it! The flowers arrived and they were beautiful and easy to work with. I followed the directions on the website and it all went great. At the reception, one of the waitresses marveled at the beauty of the flowers and wondered which florist in town did them, and I said, I did them. She asked what floral shop I owned, and I said, nope, this is my first time, I ordered the flowers off the internet and they are beautiful. She felt them to make sure they were real. She said they were some of the most beautiful flowers she had ever seen at the venue. It was high praise! The cost of the flowers were amazing compared to what it would have cost to have a florist do 20 centerpieces. I would use them any time again!