Why Dried Bouquets Are the Perfect Wedding Keepsake
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If you’ve read a couple of my posts, by now you probably know that I am married. The story of how I met my husband is kind of a whirlwind one that I’ll likely detail in another post, but for now here’s the short version: after meeting on a dating app, we fell in love almost immediately in the height of the pandemic, and the rest is history. We had a crazy few months of pandemic dating, covid tests, styaing 6 feet apart, and not being able to be inside together. It was just as crazy as it sounds, and it worked for two romantics like us.
We got married on August 13, 2022, in the beautiful La Conner, Washington, at a little venue called the Hope Island Beach Club, located on Swinomish Tribal lands. It was an epic venue— a beautiful outdoor setting overlooking Whidbey Island, surrounded by gorgeous trees right on the water. It was simple and understated but exactly what we wanted: something to highlight the beautiful PNW for our out of town guests, and most of all something with lots of gorgeous natural features.
I had always envisioned my wedding, but in my daydreams I never pictured anything specific, so when it came to flowers, I didn’t necessarily have my dream boquets already planned out. I spend a lot of time on Pinterest, especially when planning my wedding, and I aboslutely loved the trend of using dried flowers as a way to add some texture to the wedding table decor, as well as a way to escape the often extreme price points of using live flowers in every arrangement. So I decided that for my table top decorations, I would create dried bouquets. I had some amazing bridesmaids and family that volunteered to help me create these dream boquets, and they turned out so perfect, I couldn’t have envisioned them any differently.
Here are the dried pampas grass and other dried plants I included to make these arrangements:
An array of different colored pampas grass
A beautiful dark green dried eucalyptus
Some reddish pink rabbit tail grass
Dried baby’s breath
Dried phalaris grass (dark red)
Billy buttons (a yellow round ball-like plant)
Some pink amaranth
The final result was 2 very different bouquets, which my bridesmaids split out into ones with more pinks and yellows and the other with the dark green eucalyptus and the red phalaris grass. These went well with our summer transitioning to fall color palette, which was what I wanted for our mid-August wedding. You can look at some pictures of the final product, both at the wedding and now lovingly displayed all over my home. I also had so many boquets I gifted them to bridesmaids afterwards as keepsakes. They’ve kept remarkably well over the last year and are such a fun reminder of the most beautiful day of my life.
