How quickly time passes

Rick & Amy's wedding is just two weeks from tomarrow. How quickly the time goes by. Richard & I will be doing all the flowers. This is a big deal. We love flowers. But just procuring the raw materials is proving to be a challenge. No one in our circles is what you could call well off and the flowers of choice are expensive, 3 dollars a stem. Sometimes life calls for innovation and compromise. We have plenty of experience with both. The primary goal is to not dissapoint the bride. She is a lovely and flexable woman. What more can I say? She deserves the best we can come up with. We will try very hard to please her.


Does anyone have any other ideas? We do not want to use silk flowers. The colors are citrus and hot pink. We would like to use big Gerba Daisy type flowers. Again, they are really high priced from the florist. I will look at the Farmer's market and I know they have them at Trader Joes, but these are bundles of mixed colors, primarily red and yellow. These and blue are the specific colors the bride does not want. So in order to get the colors we do want, we would have to purchase many more flowers than we actually need.

I have some ideas. We are soaking white flowers in red dye to see how they come out. If we don't like the results, I will order enough truly pink callas for the bridal bouquet and improvise everything else. This is compromise. Another request is for green queen Anne's lace. There is plenty of that along the roadside right now, but in 2 weeks it will all be in full bloom and white. My thought is that "maybe" if I pick some green and dry it upside down, it may hold it's color and look good. It is worth a try. If it works, great. If not, we haven't lost anything.

Help. Any and all thoughts are welcome. Maybe we can use them, maybe not. But they may stimulate other trains of thought. Thank you.