Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Blue Flowers in the Bouquet?

I've been looking around but the only way to incorporate blue flowers into your bouquet is to either use blue hydrangeas or blue grape hyacinths. Yes, irises have also been used for blues but I find them kind of on the purple-ish side. There are four options that I've come up with:

1) Incorporate blue feathers into the bouquet.
I searched the web for cheap feathers for this and became informed on ostrich plumes, drabs and all sorts of things in between that made my head spin because of all the information and the pricing on some of them for just one freaking feather.
http://www.allcostumes.com has them on sale for $0.63 per each 6-10" mini plume
http://www.wholesaleflowersandsupplies.com for $2.70 for five 9-11" drabs ($0.54 each)
http://www.ecrater.com for $2.30 for a 1/4 oz of 2-6" fluff
http://www.michaels.com has picks for sale but I'm not sure how much they are
Also, there's no Hobby Lobby or other alternative craft store within a day's drive so if I want feathers it's either going to be acquired on-line or at Michaels.

2) Figure out how to dye some flowers blue.















I know this can be done because I've seen blue roses out there on the market. Either they were genetically engineered to grow with the blue color or they were put in water with blue food coloring after they were cut so they'd "suck" up the blue dye and turn blue just like a carnation would. I haven't tested dying them blue yet but as soon as I get some fridge space or the apartment is cold enough (heck I've even though about doing this at work because it's so cold in there) then I'll be doing some testing. What I'll also need to look out for is how long the roses last in certain conditions and how much blue I'll need to either get a full on blue or just a tinge.

3) Dye/paint something blue.
This might be done if I decide to go with silk flowers because I think it would completely destroy a real flower if I dye/paint it blue... although it might be worth it to try and dye a real flower just for fun.

4) Deal without.
I've been searching and there haven't been a lot of brides that have blue flowers in their bouquet but also I figure I should have a plan B just in case none of this works. The backup plan is to try and find an all white bouquet but I'm not liking a lot of what I see. Maybe I'm not much of a bouquet person but to me a lot of bouquets look chaotic and thrown together without a lot of thought.

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