Flowers!!!!

Today, Pauline, Ashley and I went to the LA Flower District to look at flowers for my wedding. I've been wanting to see if it would be cheaper to do them myself (with the help of my bridesmaids) or if the convenience of having someone else do them was worth it.  After not being able to find very many of the actual flowers I wanted, I decided I liked these dusty deep red roses. Ashley found this amazing greenery that I had seen on TheKnot.com a lot recently and I've also always really liked these coffee bean looking type berries.

I wanted to make my bridal bouquet, a bridesmaid bouquet and a boutonnière if possible. I'll reveal how much it was later ;)

All of the materials laid out!

I stripped the roses while Pauline wired them. She was SO helpful when it came to putting these together--she used to work for a florist and so she knew all of these tricks--like wireing the roses so the heads on the roses didn't droop.

Pauline starting on my bouquet.

Almost done!

These are what the groomsmen's boutineers will look like. It looks like there's a rose attached, but there isn't. It was just lying on the table. I thought the berries looked really elegant with the green. Very simple and not too girly for the guys =)

Ben's boutinnere. His will be the only one with a rose, and the rose in it will be cut from my bouquet. Very special.

Ashley with her bouquet! After we took this, we actually cut down the stems so it's much shorter now.

Me with my finished bouquet! We will definitley be wrapping all the bouquets with orange and red ribbion, and putting pear stick pins up the sides of both. I haven't decided whether or not I want to keep the bows or not.

Very successful outing! Any guesses as to how much for all? You'll never guess. $17!! 24 roses were $10 and the greenery and berries were $7. I guess we know what we're doing. FTW.