Well, you can consider succulents as a nice alternative to or addition beside flowers at your wedding. Those plump plants are in no way less charming or romantic than their botanical counterparts are. They work brilliantly on their own or mixed together.

Wedding Flowers: How to Feature Succulents in your Decorations

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Different Type of Succulents to Choose From:

Succulents add just the right amount of texture to the overall look of a decoration arrangement. So, incorporating them into your wedding decorations adds a refreshing touch and uplifts the overall ambience.

If you love greenery, make wreaths of succulents, tillandsia, ferns, and passion vine to grace the doors of the church where you will be saying ‘I Do’. The wedding table can be decorated with succulent printed napkins and seating cards staked into mini succulent pots. The groom and his best man can gussy up their lapel with succulent boutonnieres.

Succulents can also be made great wedding gifts for your guests to take home. Stenciled glass jars filled with cute, tiny succulents or mini terrariums with succulents and air plants nesting in white sand will add a special touch to the ceremony.

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Wedding Centerpieces with Succulents

Stylish succulent arrangements have become a part of wedding trend these days and they are showing up especially in wedding centerpieces because they can be transformed into great wedding centerpieces. Tell your florist to mix up those fleshy plants with different types of flowers and plants such as lady-slipper orchids, air plants, Queen Anne’s lace, lotus pods, and moss and your wedding will be graced with gorgeous centerpieces.

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For a rustic wedding, place the centerpieces on wood blocks and add vintage metal numbers or letters to them. Here’s The Knot photo album to spark your imagination with more succulent wedding flower ideas.

Succulent Arrangements for Wedding Flowers

Succulents are a refreshing alternative to flowers and they can be used making great bridal bouquets. You can apply the mix and match style by pairing different types of succulents with poppies, dusty miller, scabiosa, charm peonies, and ranunculus.

You can also craft bouquets entirely of succulents, which will look modern and stylish and will be perfect for an outdoor wedding. Sometimes, people get confused over how to avoid the succulent bouquet looking too casual in a black-tie wedding. Well, you can easily mix up those pudgy plants with some elegant flowers like black-and-white anemones and scabiosas and you will get the perfect bouquet for your black-tie nuptial!

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Succulents come in a surprising variety of colors and shades, which makes them perfect for wedding decorations. The great thing is these plants are eco-friendly and recyclable so you can take them all and plant in your garden after the wedding ceremony! Plus, they are especially great for summer weddings since, unlike wedding flowers, they are tolerant to heat.

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 Easy DIY Wedding Ideas: Summer Floral Crown

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Wedding Floral Crown Materials:

Assorted fresh flowers

Measuring tape

Green Florist tape

Thick wire

Thin floral wire

Scissors

Satin ribbon

How to Make a Flower Crown Video:

For a link to the floral crown video, see it here.

Floral Crown Directions:

1. Pick your favorite flowers. Take a mix of big and small blooms along with some green foliage. Trim the stem to 2- 3 inches in length.

2. Play around with an arrangement of flowers for the crown. Before you start lay out the arrangement on a table. Click some pictures so you can remember the one you most liked.

3. Take a measuring tape and measure around your head to arrive at the circumference required. Take a piece of thick wire and create a round wire crown according to the measurement. The wire will make your floral crown sturdy and durable. Create a hook at the two ends of the thick wire so it is easier to put on and take off the crown.

4. Use the thin floral wire and floral tape to secure your flowers to the wire crown. Wrap the stem with wire and tape over to hold the flowers in place. Make sure to distribute the weight of the flowers evenly around the crown wire.

5. For larger and heavier flowers like roses and peonies, you make want to add extra tape for sturdiness.

6. Clip of extra wire or stem and tape off any loose wire ends to avoid scratches.

7. You can also attach a piece of ribbon and create a bow to add on the magical feel of the floral crown.

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Floral crowns are best made with fresh flowers, but you can also create this easy DIY with silk or any other fabric as well. Readymade silk flowers are available at hobby shops. Although silk flower crowns are much more durable, fresh floral crowns will lend a magical touch to your outdoor set up. Imagine yourself enjoying whiffs of fresh roses from the crown every time the summer breeze blows.

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Having beautiful flowers at the wedding is traditionally essential. But they are very costly and can be a problem for any wedding’s budget. There are however a few things that can cut the cost of flower decorations, without cutting the overall appeal of the wedding. Here are some ways to save your money on wedding flowers.

Wedding Flowers: Saving Money in your Wedding Planning

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Choose Flowers that are in Season

Flowers are mostly seasonal dependent items. Although one can nowadays find anything at any time, buying out of season flowers can be a quite unbearable expense. The best way to find out what is seasonal is to consult your florist. He will be able to explain all alternatives to you and provide valuable information.

Use Non-Traditional Elements

It really has not to be always traditional flowers. There are so many beautiful items that can provide wonderful effects. Using fruits, branches, succulents or herbs can add fragrance and beauty to any wedding décor.

If using some expensive flowers is a dream that has to come true, try making arrangements that use only a few flowers as highlights, while the rest of the arrangement consists of beautiful greenery.

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Also, using single blossom flowers in amazing vessels can keep the costs down, since you don’t pay only the flowers, but the work of the florist, also. Buy your vessels in bulk to save money. These vessels can be used later in your home, or give them away as favors.

Give Artificial Flowers a Chance

Artificial flowers can look beautiful and few would know the difference. Choose beautiful silk flowers that will last through time. Hanging fake flower arrangements from height over the tables or inside lanterns will make it near to impossible for others to know that they are in fact not real.

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Do Thorough Research on Wedding Flowers

Fancy main street florist may look fabulous, but your neighborhood florist can often make the same amazing job with less money. Research the prizes well and look also on the internet. You might find a great deal on there, especially if you’d pick premade flower arrangements.

Single flowers can be found with better prices if you buy them right from the source. Try to find flower farms near you that sell to the public.

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Wedding planning is not an easy task and glowers are a wonderful way to create a fresh and colorful ambience. However try not to overdo it, since you don’t want to take away the focus from the bride and groom.

After the wedding, think about donating the flowers to an institution to spread some cheer, like a nearby hospital or senior center.

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