to ask if you did anything special with your wedding bouquet afterwards. I love my flowers and seems such a shame to just throw them away.

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They’re currently languishing in a vase of water and still going strong.

Any wonderful ideas?

I know about the parchment pressing but is there anything else you could share.

Not sure how the the actual flowers- but I hit an artist to paint a picture of the key flowers in my bouquet and gave it to my mum.

My mum put them on my grandmothers grave. I was quite annoyed as I was in no way close to my grandmother, it was a meaningless gesture to me and she never asked my permission. If she had asked, I would have said no.

@QuintusEstInHorto what a beautiful idea! I’m not sure I’d currently have the funds to do this but I could always ask around for costs.

@Lolalovesmarmite oh no, sorry to hear that

I had my preserved and put in a box frame.

My bouquet went home with my mum. I'm not entirely sure what happened after... Probably enjoyed until they died.

I had artificial table centrepieces, and have one on my dining table still. 10years old now (minus a few days)

You’ve got me thinking! I have no idea what happened to my flowers. I went off on honeymoon, I assume my mum kept them and then binned them. I might give her a call and see if she remembers!

I'm thinking of having some of mine preserved in doorknobs! You can get various things, will go hunting for a link now!

My florist preserved some of mine in a box frame. I have the actual bouquet completely dried. It’s not really displayable but it means a lot to me.

Every August DH buys me a bunch of Sunflowers (the main flower in the bouquet)

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My wedding bouquet went on my Granny's headstone. We were married at the church where her ashes are buried, and my mum placed it there the day after our wedding. I thought it was a lovely idea.

I tried drying mine but it went manky and had to be thrown out. Did manage to dry dh's buttonhole though, it's in a box with some other wedding bits as a keepsake. In hindsight it's better as the bouquet would have been too big to store really.

I divided mine in half and put each half on my grandmothers' graves.

However I was close to both my grandmothers and was sad that they didn't live to see my happy day.

I wish I'd taken a photo in close up first though - it's on the wedding photos of course but I would have like a big close up.

I got married abroad. Coincidentally my grandad’s best friend is buried in a war cemetery close by. So he got a wedding bouquet on his grave, even though he died too young for his own wedding.

@ShennaIsAPrawnCracker this is a great idea!

I asked my great aunt to take my bouquet and place it on my grandmother's grave. We were very close and I would have loved her to have been there.

The two bridesmaids flowers went on mine and dh mums graves and my flowers I hung upside down in airing cupboard for two months and then put them in a dry vase and 7 years on and 4 house moves they still smell beautiful and look fab! Just have them high out the way of the Tasmanian devil 2 year old

Lovely aren't they

So special those of you who put your bouquets on loved ones graves.

@SFHJ is there anything special you have to do after they’ve completely dried?

I hated my bouquet, it was not at all what we had agreed.
However - and here is the irony - I presented it to my best friend from school, who happened to be a fairly senior trading standards officer.
She took it home, undid it and enjoyed the blooms for about another 10 days.

@ShennaIsAPrawnCracker they really are! I might look on YouTube to see how easy (or hard) this is to do myself

I had mine preserved and framed - hadn’t planned to but they were so beautiful I didn’t want to throw them away. I found a place about three days after the wedding and they told me to put them in the fridge and then I sent them off the next day. They preserved each stem and then reconstructed it - it doesn’t actually look anything like my bouquet did but I still love looking at them. Just had our ten year anniversary and they look aged. Sorry for awful photo but gives you an idea

The place I used no longer operates but i know a few friends have used this one after seeing mine. I’ve bought gift vouchers as wedding gifts for a few people I know who’ve liked mine.

www.theflowerpreservationstudio.co.uk/

They’re in my bedroom so no one else sees them apart from DH - i know some would think it’s cheesy but they make me happy :)

If you look on Etsy too there are various flower preservation things available (paperweights, doorknobs, acrylic letters etc) depending on your taste :)

I put mine on my grand father's grave. We got married on my grandparents wedding anniversary so it was a lovely thing to do. My top table flowers went on the grave of my other grandparents