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Elizabeth
Dedicated April 2018

Outdoor wedding, real flowers, and bees. What can I do?

Elizabeth, on April 24, 2017 at 6:56 PM Posted in Style and Décor 0 3

My FH is dead set on real flowers. It's really important to him. I always wanted real flowers too. I could not even imagine fake flowers for my wedding until the other day. We are getting married outside and so we went to take pictures of the space exactly one year out to help us plan decorations. There were definitely bees around because they have some kind of lavender or sage plant. No one is allergic or anything, and it was almost all non-aggressive types like bumblebees. But I'm still kind of nervous because I want bee-friendly flowers in all of our arrangements. I'm not scared of bees, but they make me a bit nervous and I definitely don't want them buzzing around me while I'm trying to say my vows or whatever. I'm going to be nervous enough.

Do any of you have some tips or tricks for non-harmful ways of keeping bees away from my wedding flowers? I read online that you can put cloves in a lemon and hide them around, or cucumber peels?? Does that actually work??

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Latest activity by Tamara, on April 24, 2017 at 8:27 PM
  • ambrok
    Master October 2017
    ambrok ·
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    It's great that you were able to scope out the space during the same time of year as your wedding : )

    As for flowers, have you search for life-like bouquets to show your FH? Maybe he doesn't know how life-like some flowers can be?!?

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  • Katie
    Savvy October 2016
    Katie ·
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    I was in a wedding with fake flowers and ended up with a bee in my bouquet

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  • Tamara
    Devoted April 2018
    Tamara ·
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    Oh my gosh!! We went to a venue a few days ago and I saw like 4 HUGE carpenter bees. Like you said, they are the non-aggressive type, but still!! We want our ceremony outside and I KNOW I will scream and run in the middle of the ceremony if they land on me or my bouquet. Unfortunately, it's one of FHs favorite venues... So I'm trying to figure out the same thing just in case we go with it!

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