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Made once, and they match.

Dusty pink dried look artificial wedding bouquet of muted roses, seed heads and bare twigs with the full colour range

Made once, and they match.

Dusty pink dried look artificial wedding bouquet of muted roses, seed heads and bare twigs with the full colour range

Made once, and they match.

Dusty pink dried look artificial wedding bouquet of muted roses, seed heads and bare twigs with the full colour range

THEY MATCH

One batch, so every white is the same white

NOTHING WILTS

Carried, pinned, hugged, left in a hot marquee

ORDER EARLY, KEEP IT SAFE

Buy it in March for a July wedding. Real flowers can’t

be booked that far ahead

YOU KEEP THEM

Still in the box next year, or in someone else’s wedding.

Real flowers can’t

THEY MATCH

One batch, so every white is the same white

NOTHING WILTS

Carried, pinned, hugged, left in a hot marquee

ORDER EARLY, KEEP IT SAFE

Buy it in March for a July wedding. Realflowers can’t be booked that far ahead

YOU KEEP THEM

Still in the box next year, or in someone else’s wedding. Real flowers can’t

THEY MATCH

One batch, so every white is the same white

NOTHING WILTS

Carried, pinned, hugged, left in a hot marquee

ORDER EARLY, KEEP IT SAFE

Buy it in March for a July wedding. Realflowers can’t be booked that far ahead

YOU KEEP THEM

Still in the box next year, or in someone else’s wedding. Real flowers can’t

11 designs

Four things, and only one of them is the bouquet

The bridal bouquet

The only flowers photographed on their own, held at chest height, in every shot she keeps. One item, looked at more closely than anything else on the day — this is the one worth spending on.

Bridesmaid bouquets

Usually a size down from the bridal, in the same palette. Order them together with the bridal rather than separately: they come from one batch that way, and one batch is what makes five bouquets look like a set rather than five near-misses.

Buttonholes

For the groom, best man, family members, and both fathers — six to eight is typical. Our buttonholes are supplied without pins, so you can choose the fastening method that best suits your outfit and clothing.

Ceremony and table flowers

Aisle ends, the top table, and one low arrangement per guest table. This is where the quantity is, and where budgets go. Work out your table count first, then decide how much each one gets.

Nude pink artificial bridesmaid bouquet with a pearl-wrapped handle, held in one hand

Where real flowers still win

A single statement bouquet, in season, from a florist who knows what came in that morning. Peonies in June. Garden roses in July. If that is the one thing you care about and the budget is there, buy it real and buy it local.

What we would not do real is everything else — a dozen buttonholes that have to survive a wool suit all day, a top table that gets built at nine in the morning for a room that hits 26 degrees by four, or bridesmaid bouquets in five cities that all have to be the same white.

Nude pink artificial bridesmaid bouquet with a pearl-wrapped handle, held in one hand

Where real flowers still win

A single statement bouquet, in season, from a florist who knows what came in that morning. Peonies in June. Garden roses in July. If that is the one thing you care about and the budget is there, buy it real and buy it local.

What we would not do real is everything else — a dozen buttonholes that have to survive a wool suit all day, a top table that gets built at nine in the morning for a room that hits 26 degrees by four, or bridesmaid bouquets in five cities that all have to be the same white.

Nude pink artificial bridesmaid bouquet with a pearl-wrapped handle, held in one hand

Where real flowers still win

A single statement bouquet, in season, from a florist who knows what came in that morning. Peonies in June. Garden roses in July. If that is the one thing you care about and the budget is there, buy it real and buy it local.

What we would not do real is everything else — a dozen buttonholes that have to survive a wool suit all day, a top table that gets built at nine in the morning for a room that hits 26 degrees by four, or bridesmaid bouquets in five cities that all have to be the same white.

Asked before buying

The questions people actually type

Taken from what UK couples search before they decide. Answered the way we would if you rang us.

Are artificial flowers tacky for a wedding?

They were, and for a long time they deserved to be. Twenty years ago the only faux flowers you could buy were shiny polyester with a plastic seam down every petal, and everyone in the room could tell from the back row. What changed is the finish: a good petal now has coating rather than print, so the outer edge still passes a little light, and the colour runs deeper towards the throat instead of sitting flat across the head. The honest test is the one we would run ourselves — put one stem in a vase in your kitchen and see how long it takes a visitor to mention it.

Are artificial wedding flowers cheaper than real ones? +

Usually, but the saving is not where people expect it. A single bridal bouquet from a UK florist typically runs £120–£250, and if that one bouquet is all you care about, a good florist in season is hard to beat. The saving is on everything nobody photographs — the small pieces, the top table, the aisle ends, one arrangement on every guest table. That is where the quantity is, and where a florist has to charge for perishable stock and same-week labour. We do not.

Can you mix artificial and real flowers? +

Yes, and it is the option most people should take. The usual split is real for the bride’s bouquet, artificial for everything that has to survive a whole day of being carried, worn or left in a hot marquee. Match on palette rather than on flower — nobody notices two different roses, everybody notices two different whites.

How far in advance should we order? +

As early as you like, and that is most of the point. Everything here is in stock, so the only real deadline is delivery, which takes 7 to 12 working days. Six weeks ahead is comfortable and leaves room to change your mind; three weeks is fine; under two weeks we would not risk it for something you cannot replace on the day. Buying in March for a July wedding is not eccentric — store the box somewhere dry and dark and it will be exactly as it is now.

Will the bridesmaid bouquets match each other? +

If you order them together, yes — they come from one batch, which is what makes five bouquets read as a set rather than five near-misses. If you order more later, we cannot promise that a batch made months apart will be an identical white, and nobody honestly can. So if there is any chance of a sixth bridesmaid, buy the sixth bouquet now.

What do you do with them afterwards? +

This is the part real flowers cannot answer. A bouquet keeps, or gets split between vases, or goes into a box and comes out again the following year. If you would rather not keep them, they resell — there is a steady second-hand market for artificial wedding flowers in the UK, which tells you something about how they hold up.

Can you use artificial flowers on a wedding cake? +

On the cake, yes, if they sit on a barrier — a thin acrylic disc, or a wrapped stem — rather than touching the icing directly. Ours are not made from food-safe materials, and neither are most real flowers, which is a fact that surprises people.

Will I be charged anything when the parcel arrives? +

No. There will be no additional charges when your parcel arrives. You will not be asked to pay anything at the door — the price you see at checkout is the total you pay.

Not sure it will match?

Send a photo of the dress or the swatch. I will tell you plainly whether I have something close, or whether I do not.

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