Faux versus Fresh Flowers for your wedding — Wildestyle Faux Florals and Trees

There are no two ways about it – flowers are an essential part of your wedding decor. They make a statement, tie your colour scheme together and add that extra bit of luxury to your perfect venue.

From bouquets and centrepieces to floral columns and garlands, you can use flowers just about anywhere on your big day. But did you know that they don’t have to be real to make an impact?

These days, more and more couples are choosing to deck out their venue in a floral option that cannot only keep up in terms of luxury, but also looks the part too. Faux flowers.

No, we don’t mean those plastic, fake-looking stems that you can get in the pound shop. We’re talking about ultra-realistic, luxurious, faux blooms that really give fresh flowers a run for their money!

Not sure that faux flowers can stand up to the real deal? Take a look at 9 brilliant reasons why you should consider choosing faux over fresh for your big day

Always in season

You’ve spent months, if not years dreaming of your perfect wedding flowers. Ahh, a bouquet bursting with blush peonies, bliss! But there’s a problem. Your wedding is in October and the flowers you’re lusting after just aren’t in season.

Instead of lowering your floral aspirations and settling for only in-season blooms that your Surrey wedding florist can source, why not opt for your favourite flowers in faux?

By choosing to go faux with your wedding florals, you aren’t limited to certain flowers. Want bright summer bouquets in winter or dark, moody autumnal flowers in spring? The choice is yours!

Sustainable

Many couples these days are choosing to get married in a more sustainable way, and faux flowers are perfect if you want to boost your eco credentials.

Unlike real flowers, faux florals can be reused multiple times. If you choose to hire faux wedding flowers, you know that once your day is over your flowers will get a new lease of life and make their way to another happy couple’s wedding day.

Another benefit that faux flowers offer from an environmental standpoint is they have a much lower carbon footprint than fresh. Real flowers are constantly imported in to the UK, but faux only need to be flown in once and can then be used time and time again!

As well as that, choosing faux flowers for your wedding décor means no excessive use of water, and absolutely no wastage. So, if you want all of the style and none of the environmental impact, faux flowers are for you!

Totally authentic

One of the biggest misconceptions with faux flowers is that they simply can’t compete with the real deal in terms of look and feel. But faux blooms have come such a long way in recent years and are now a fantastic alternative to real wedding flowers.

You can forget those fake, cheap looking artificial flowers that have been gathering dust at your Granny’s house for as long as you can remember. These days, faux blooms are so realistic and mimic their fresh counterparts so well that you’d be forgiven for not noticing the difference.

And you won’t even miss the smell of real flowers if you choose faux thanks to specially developed scents. You can ask your faux wedding florist to add aroma to your chosen arrangements, filling the room with sweet smells just like fresh flowers would.

So, think your guests will be able to tell you’ve used faux flowers on your big day? Think again!

Affordable

We get it. Weddings are expensive. But your flowers don’t have to be!

Faux flowers are a more reasonable option when compared like for like to fresh, which could enable you to stretch your wedding budget further. At Wildestyle our blooms are far from cheap but because they are reused they will work out cheaper in the long run.

Or, if you want to go all out, choosing the faux version of your favourite flowers can mean you actually get a lot more for your money. Luxury florals adorning every corner of your venue without breaking the bank? An affordable possibility with faux!

And we hate to use the B word, but with Brexit coming up the future is rather uncertain for fresh flowers. Because many blooms are imported from the EU, they are likely to rise in price thanks to trade tariffs come the New Year. But choose faux wedding flowers and that’s not something you’ll have to worry about.

Created in advance

You may well order your fresh wedding flowers months ahead of your wedding date, but they don’t actually get picked, delivered and made until mere days beforehand.

If you’re decorating your own venue the night before or morning of your wedding like many couples these days do, the last minute nature of fresh flowers can be problematic. Not only might their arrival be cutting it fine, but you may have to direct your florist as to where you want things. Not exactly the peaceful wedding morning you’d imagined!

Faux flowers are beautifully arranged in advance, so they simply need to be popped in their final spot on the morning of your wedding. Then, all that’s left to do is go and get ready for the happiest day of your life!

Perfect keepsake

There’s nothing worse than watching your beautiful flowers going to waste after your big day. Chances are if you don’t take your flowers home, your venue will simply throw them in the bin as they get ready for the next wedding.

But if you choose to have faux blooms at your nuptials, you could opt to purchase them as a lasting reminder of your special moment. Better still, you could gift them to your bridal party or family members as a thank you for being part of the best day of your life. Cute!

Allergy free

Picture this. You’ve got beautiful sprays of Gypsophila lining the aisle and your bouquet is bursting full of colourful Dahlias. Your flower choices are just perfect.

But poor Aunty Jean is allergic to the exact flowers you’ve chosen. She sneezes the entire way through the ceremony and your magical moment is overshadowed. Nightmare!

It doesn’t have to be that way, though. With faux flowers, there are no allergy concerns meaning you could cover your entire venue with floor to ceiling florals and Aunty Jean won’t experience so much as a sniffle!

Versatile

Because faux flowers are so versatile, they can be used to create pretty much anything your heart desires for your special day.

Far from stopping at just your bouquet, faux flowers can be made in to ceremonial or moon gate arches, floral columns, centrepieces, tall arrangements or wonderful staircase displays. You name it, your dreams can be realised in faux flowers.

You can even opt to mix faux blooms with real flowers or foliage for a truly bespoke look at your wedding. Choosing faux flowers make the possibilities endless!

Easy to transport

Flowers are beautiful yet delicate things. One wrong move and that bespoke bouquet you’ve spent months dreaming about could accidently get crushed on its journey to you. You are then left walking down the aisle with a bunch of flowers that look like they’ve been sat on.

The beauty of working with a Surrey wedding florist who specialises in faux flowers is that each arrangement is extremely easy to move from venue to venue without the chance of damage.

And because they’re so easy to transport, faux flowers are also perfect for destination weddings. Rather than spending time searching for a florist locally to your venue where there might be cultural or language barriers, why not take your pre-made faux bouquet out there with you?

The perfect wedding flowers and zero stress?

Have we convinced you that faux flowers are the perfect option for your wedding day? They might not be the conventional choice just yet, but we think more and more couples will be shunning fresh flowers in favour of faux before long.

We have a huge variety of beautiful, realistic wedding flowers and trees here at Wildestyle, so we know you’ll be spoilt for choice! If you choose to hire our stunning faux flowers you will get the same bespoke service as you would with any other Surrey wedding florist. So, what are you waiting for?

Get in touch with us today to turn your luxury wedding floral dreams in to a reality!

sally@wilde.style

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