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.

A friend took mine and pressed them and presented me with them in a frame, presented on a piece of the fabric that my wedding dress was made from.

Close up of my bouquet on the day so you can see how the colours have changed - they look sort of tea stained, especially the roses. Apparently colourful flowers look closer to the original colour when preserved

I donated them to the Church, the same with funeral flowers.

Any others go to local care homes.

A couple of days after our wedding, my DH and I took mine and put them on his grandfathers grave. He’d killed himself when my husband was 16 and meant the world to him. I got a bit tearful and I never even met him!
I did see that you can have them preserved in resin, which looks pretty cool, might be worth a look.

I absolutely fell in love with my flowers, but I wasn’t a flower person. So I didn’t expect to! My parents tried to dry them out for me as we went on honeymoon straight away but they didn’t turn out very well.
In our first anniversary my husband got the florist to make a replica bunch and I LOVED them! Loved that I got to enjoy them a little longer! But sadly didn’t preserve them either...
I’ll have the photos as memories for a lifetime 💖

I threw mine for the single ladies at the end of the reception. Was flying off in honeymoon early next day so I couldn't have kept them to enjoy. They were caught by one of my bridesmaids (who actually did get married on the same date 7 years later!) But she gave them to another bridesmaid (my cousin) who was getting married the next year. Cousin dried some of the flowers for my memory box which was really thoughtful.

I caught the bouquet at a friend's wedding, and the groom's mother cornered me afterwards and told me she'd wanted to catch it for his grandmother's grave. She kept following me around, and I tried to give it to her but she kept refusing but talking about it all the same.

I made Christmas decorations out of the decorative elements and gave them to the couple - you could do that with some?

I had my flowers made out of paper (from book passages/music/maps), and kept my bouquet.

I had a bouquet of brooches rather than flowers. It was heavy but beautiful and now sits inside a bell jar in the front room.

Mine were artificial so they’re on the sideboard in the dining room in a pretty little vase that MIL found in a charity shop. If they’d been real I think I’d have had some individual flowers preserved in resin. I did think about putting the flowers on my dads grave (he died a few weeks before the wedding) but decided in the end to have him a buttonhole made instead and put that there the day before.

Mine were artificial and are in a vase on a shelf. My little girl likes to get them down and play weddings sometimes

The best pic I have of them without details!

@SinkGirl love your preserved flowers in the frame, how lovely.

@Milkshake54 beautiful flowers and a such a thoughtful anniversary gift from your dh. If I don’t get round to sorting something out I could ask dh for the same next year

@zigzagbetty they are beautiful

I had pink roses. Had 2 made into paperweights (one for me one for my grandmother) and put the rest on my mums grave. When my grandmother died and we cleared the house out I gave her paperweight to DD.

My mum told me that it was traditional to put them on a grave of a loved one and I didn't really seem to have much choice over the matter. She took them and just did it! I didn't have strong feelings one way or the other, I just accepted it and it made her happy. I was on a plane to LA by then anyway

@IfIHadAHeart do you have a photo of a bouquet of brooches? I can't picture that!

@IfIHadAHeart I would have loved to have had the time to think of something different and I imagine your broach bouquet was (and still is) beautiful and @thecatsthecats yours sounds wonderful and unique.

My Nan lent me a brooch to put in mine. I have a 3" sq close up photo of the brooch and a few of the surrounding blooms in an antique frame next to my bed.
And I inherited the brooch when my darling Nan died a few years later.

I’m not really a fan of dried or pressed flowers, so wouldn’t have wanted to keep them, even though the bouquet was gorgeous. My bouquet went on my husband’s dad’s grave, we went up there the next day with his mum. I get a bunch of the same roses each anniversary.

I took them to a local graveyard that we frequent (don’t ask) I found a grave that looked really sad and unloved and put it on there to cheer it up.

I’ve got some wonderful photos of them so if all else fails I will buy a unique frame for the photo.

I gave mine to our local old people’s home.

Oh and I pressed some of the flowers which are kept with the other wedding memory stuff.

We had our wedding photos taken in a beautiful spot by the sea. The lovely lady on the national Trust car park let us park for free so I gave her my bouquet as we left!