Preserving Wedding bouquet and other stuff

I had my bouquet professionally preserved with my invitation.

Thank you, and you're welcome!

I never planned to preserve my bouquet until after my wedding and saw how gorgeous my bouquet was. I didn't even find the preservation place until a week after my wedding and then it took another week before I could get my bouquet to her. It was almost too late. But when I called her to discuss what I wanted that first week and made the appointment for the following week she gave me some great tips for keeping my bouquet as fresh as possible until I could see her. She said cut about a quarter inch off the stems and put in fresh water, put a white trash bag over the entire thing and keep in the fridge. My bouquet consisted of some fragile flowers including peonies and roses but her method worked as you can see that my peonies made it in the display! Don't wait any longer though if you can help it. This way you have a better chance of your flowers looking their best when preserved.

I hung mine upside down (and his boutonniere as well) in the spare bathroom and let the flowers dry and then put it in a shadow box from Hobby Lobby (his flower sits at the bottom of the box). We have it hanging in the guest room. I had peace roses and Gerbera daisies - the daisies didn't do so well, they had to be cut out, but I still have the roses.

We also had fans out for people to use (outdoor wedding, in July, in Alabama) and we kept some leftover ones, and I have them in a vase in our powder room.

I did this too and still waiting for my box... should be in soon!!! This looks awesome!!!!