What's cheaper for wedding flowers - silk or real?

Hi....It all depends!





If you want the real good quality silks...they are as much as fresh flowers. I used to work at Michael's craft store and some of their good quality roses were $4 and that is what I paid for real ones!





You can also buy fresh flowers wholesale or at places like Walmart or Costco and have someone make up your bouquets.





Many brides like the silks as they can keep them....but trust me...you are not going to want to look at your bouquet for the rest of your lifetime.





Personally, I like fresh even if it 3 roses tied together with a silk ribbon. Yes, they die....but what do you do with a whole basket of silks after the wedding (bouquets and centerpieces.)





Check around in YOUR area to price silk verses fresh. Also get a quote from a couple of florists. It doesn't cost to go into a florist for a consultation and get a quote.

What's cheaper for wedding flowers - silk or real?
In general, real flowers are cheaper unless you are getting something exotic (tropical flowers) or naturally expensive (callas, stephanotis, etc). You can find inexpensive silks that are under $1/stem but they aren't going to be high quality and will obviously look fake, even from a distance. "High quality" silks like you find at Michaels, etc are more expensive than most fresh flowers. It depends on the look you're going for.
Reply:It depends on the quality of flowers. There are alot of websites where you can by bulk real flowers for cheaper then silk flowers. That is what I am going to do for my wedding.
Reply:Your going to pay a lot more for real flowers for sure. So I would have to say the silk flowers would be cheaper.
Reply:Silk is cheaper but i hate silk, so we got real for our wedding flowers. they look GORGEOUS and smell so pretty!!! you can tell a difference in pictures also but that is my personal thoughts.


also, i think silk looks fake and tacky. i understand the thought of saving money by using silk but to me a wedding to be pulled off elegant is the use of fresh flowers. this is one thing i would not skimp on when it come sto budgeting. you need to go to a florist and give her ideas what you want. they will work up a pricelist and then you can modify. mine was so cheap we ended up adding more!!!! just stay away from the costly flowers and you will be quite surprised!!!!
Reply:Silk are cheaper but please don't do silk!!!!!





If you are concerned about money then minimize the flowers but keep it classy with real flowers.





Put one beautiful flower per table. Find an exotic flower that you love and carry only several of them with you down the isle and the same for your bridemaids.





I would rather see less real beautiful flowers then a ton of silk ones that look cheap and everyone will know are fake.
Reply:I had silk flowers for my wedding. I found it was cheaper and easier to work with since they didn't have to be refrigerated. Also, I got to keep them forever.
Reply:Silk. You can get them well in advance to prevent any wedding day screw ups, they don't need refrigeration, and you don't have to get your bouquet preserved.
Reply:When I looked at flowers, I found that really nice silk flowers (that I thought looked just as good as real flowers) were more expensive than real ones. Maybe I am just old fashioned, I think it is tacky to use fake flowers.
Reply:Nice silk flowers aren't cheap. Real ones can be affordable if you pick right. Pick one nice flower and use it in a solid monocromatic bouquet. Christmas use evergreen and red berries and a couple flowers, spring use a bouquet of a single color of tulips, summer garber daisies. Sometimes less is more and I think that can appy to flowers. And you can keep real flowers - dry them out in silica, which is found at craft stores.
Reply:It depends on the quality of the silk flowers you're purchasing as PPs mentioned. The more realistic the silk flowers are and the higher quality, the more expensive. Be sure to do a little test to make sure the silk flowers you use don't bleed if they get wet if you do end up using silk. There are commercial dust repellent sprays you can get if your flowers get dusty if you make it up in advance. Some florists will even do custom silk arrangements -- all depends on what you want.
Reply:Probably silk.





See here:


http://www.thebridesbouquet.com/
Reply:silk flowers for sure. I had silk flowers at mine and this way you can keep them forever.
Reply:silk flowers are much cheaper
Reply:Silk flowers are definitely cheaper and so much easier to work with. They won't stain your dress in any way and they can look very real. I got mine from http://www.wedideas.com and they are gorgeous! Another thing is that you can use these flowers and then keep the bouquet and donate the rest to charity and claim them on your taxes. You could also find a young couple in your family perhaps that is also getting married and see if they would want to use your flowers.





No one in my family has ever used real flowers and all of the decorations AND pictures have always been gorgeous.
Reply:I'm making them myself and at Sam's club I found125 white roses for $87 so that was a lot cheaper than anything else I saw and I don't mind making them myself and saving the money.
Reply:Silk are definatly cheaper. But in my opinion nothing compares to real flowers, always there is something about silk flowers that you can tell that they are fake.
Reply:I'm using silk - much cheaper and easier to manage. I was worried they would look tacky, but if you pick the right ones and put them together well.....you can't even tell!


Try www.afloral.com. That's where I got mine. Order one stem each of the ones you like first as a test bunch, to see what they look like in real life, then order the rest later.


I tried Hobby Lobby and Michaels, but the realistic look just wasn't there.


It takes a weight off my shoulders knowing that my arrangements are already done, and they look beautiful!


Have fun!
Reply:I suggest silk flower because that will not die!if you pick the real one the flower can die!
Reply:Silk flowers are definitely much cheaper flowers for a wedding and can look just as beautiful as the real ones. It depends on where you get them and what they look like. So far my fiancee and I paid $35 for all of ours and we plan to get more so it will probably cost us $75 altogether by the time we are done for the flowers for the wedding.