Thanks for that Costco flower link! Looking that up was on my to do list, and I finally put on my wedding big boy pants to wade through this thread. Ds wedding in is May, and I am doing flowers. Flower arranging is something I enjoy. In my area, we have many, many flower vendors at our farmer’s markets and I have a new bundle to arrange for $6 most weeks in the season. The DC area markets, from what D says, have few. So I am thinking Costco as we need a Costco run on the day prior to wedding day regardless. Though Counting Down had mentioned a wholesaler in the DC area.
A friend has greenery in her garden that I will use to supplement.
She is also thinking of making paper flowers, to decorate benches and the aisle. For Christmas someone gave her a book on how to make them. Being crafty is one of her many interests.
When D was home last fall, we found sufficient small glass ware pieces at St. Vinnies for table arrangements, and votive holders. This is a great time to find strings of lights on sale, as well as battery powered candles, needed for our venue.
Her venue has round tables that can be bare or covered. She is thinking bare, with a runner. Opinions? On Pinterest, it looks like a thing…I am mixed.
What are those bare tables made of? If they are solid wood…maybe. Will you be using charger plates or something else? If they are those bare wood tables with the metal trim…cover them.
Here is where I went – https://flowerwholesale.com/ in Silver Spring, MD. Basically, you can go through their warehouse and pick what you want. There is a wide variety, but what they have is what you can buy, unless you make prior arrangements (and then the cost is higher). I got there at 7 am for best selection. I was looking for blues, which are always a little harder to find, but it all worked out great.
I think it mostly depends on what the table is made of,but I agree that it seems like more of a rectangle thing than a round thing.
I saw a friend yesterday who told me that her S, a HS classmate of my S, is getting married this spring in the Southwest. Both he and the bride come from here, met in Boston, and most of their friends and family are in the northeast. The bride’s parents have a place in the southeastern location. No one else, not even the B&G, live there. Fine for them…big $$ for everyone else! She says she understands that they are inviting about 150. She also says that there is no way that she and her H can afford to pay for a “rehearsal” dinner for all of the out of town guests, which would be everyone! We were reminiscing about the days, no very long ago, when a rehearsal dinner was just that: the wedding party and their SOs, plus perhaps grandparents.
She said that they are going to do “something,” but she doesn’t know what yet. The wedding is in March.
I’ve looked for bulk order LED candles as well…we are going with regular votives which are fine with our venue as long as the holder is taller than the candle…and we are good on that!
The battery powered candles we bought on sale were from both Macy’s and Pier 1.
No metal trim on the tables. They are a polished wood. The wedding is in a park, so a little rustic is part of the charm, but hard to figure out where to draw certain lines. The place was set up for another wedding and she was less than impressed with the wrinkled tablecloths. I would prefer to get our own.
I appreciate that difference between rectangular with runners and round with a runner. We will have to talk more.
I hear you Thumper on not doing too much. This is a smaller wedding, and she was thinking paper flowers only to save money, and that is when I said I would do flowers. It is spring after all! My family will help and it is good to have a common project.
@Consolation - we are having a small rehearsal dinner, with just the immediate family and bridal party. I had to call some people and tell them they weren’t invited, lol. That’s the way the B & G wanted it. I figure since it’s a real foodie city that everyone will happily find something they like. We are having an open house brunch at my house the day after the wedding, so there’s that (pray for me…).
D escaped the frosty north and made it here this weekend to pick up her dress and go for her first fitting. I told her later she had what looked like a mini mammogram with the tailor doing everything she could to figure out a good support system for the bodice. She was very, very happy with the dress and terrified that it wouldn’t fit right or something. So nice to see her happy face!
We also met with the florist who was a lovely person and very chill. It was quite reassuring and we’re off to look for shoes tomorrow.
Please help a socially awkward MOG ;-). What do I wear to a Bridal Brunch at the end of Jan? It’s in a small town about an hour away at the bride’s aunt’s home. I live in the south, so it will probably be in the 60’s-70’s. I’m more comfortable in pants (and my legs are pasty white), but I don’t want to be terribly under-dressed. Ideas?
@Consolation an option for the rehearsal dinner is BBQ or Mexican food, a keg of beer and very casual. Most people in the west would prefer that anyway, but I don’t know how the groom’s family would feel about it. I know I’d have it catered from a bbq place or Chipolte/Qdoba.
@AllThisIsNewToMe, silk pants and a dressy top/jacket would work, but I suspect all but the grandmothers will be in dresses. This particular outfit is out of my price range but gives you an idea:
Dressier pants and a nice top are perfectly acceptable. Many women forgo wearing dresses/skirts these days. I can’t remember the last time I wore one actually. Do what makes you feel comfortable. A smile is the most important thing you can wear that day.
I live in the Midwest but to my dil’s shower I wore a dress with leggings. Actually that’s what I wore to the rehearsal dinner also lol! It’s a look I’m comfortable with.
My cousin lives in the Deep South now and her D got married right after my son. It did look like most of the people at the shower were in dresses, if that’s any help. I do think the south dresses a little differently than people do here, maybe a little more dressy.
But saying all that, wear something you are comfortable in. Pants and a nice blouse is perfectly acceptable.
being comfortable is all that matters. To my DIL’s bridesmaid luncheon the day before the wedding, I wore dressy winter white pants, a dressy top and heels. Yes, the bridesmaids were all in dresses, but that is what they wear daily, so not unusual. The brides mother also wore pants, but she never wears dress, although she did for the wedding itself. My mother wore a beautiful dress, but that is my mother, always dressed!
I never wear dresses, either (the only one I even OWN is the one I bought for my S’s wedding), but for the bridal shower hosted by the bride’s friends, I wore a long skirt (ankle length) with a simple knit top and cute jewelry. It covered my pasty legs and looked dressy enough, too.