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Non-Flower Wedding Bouquets: 10 Unique DIY Wedding Bouquet Ideas

Wedding flowers can be expensive — especially when they’re arranged for a floral wedding bouquet.

If you want to save some money, or just do something different for your wedding bouquet, consider these fun options that don’t involve real flowers.

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Choosing Your Wedding Bouquet

The idea is to match the colors and items used in your bridal bouquet with the colors and items used elsewhere in your wedding — such as your wedding cake, your wedding theme, and your wedding colors.

Some examples:

  • beachy
  • rustic
  • playful
  • carnival

Fun Wedding Themes To Base Your Colors & Decorations Around

 

10 Unique Wedding Bouquet Ideas

The following items can be used to make a fun wedding bouquet that everyone will be talking about:

#1 – Lollipops – for a super fun wedding bouquet, bunch together a specific type of lollipop, a variety of different ones, or a fun array of lollipops in your wedding colors.
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#2 – Buttons – strung together (on wires or string) or sewn onto layers of fabric patches in your wedding colors, buttons are a fun accent piece due to the variety of shapes and colors.
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#3 – Shells – group a bunch of different-sized seashells together into a beachy bridal bouquet.

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#4 – Butterflies – colorful faux butterflies on wire stems look whimsical, yet realistic, when bunched together.

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#5 – Fruit & Vegetables – colorful fruit like grapes, cranberries, and blueberries are easy to group (or string) together in a bouquet. Large veggies like cabbage and dainty herbs make great accents for edible wedding bouquets.

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#6 – Brooches– group together fashion jewelry, brooches, and dainty antique pieces and hold them all together with a string of pearls.

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#7 – Dried flowers – it’s the next best thing to using real flowers, and dried flowers can be dyed to match your wedding colors.

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#8 – Lace – bunched up lace looks great with an antique wedding dress or vintage wedding theme.

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#9 – Fabric – bouquet flowers can be crocheted, or knitted, or sewn from a variety of different fabrics.

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#10 – Paper – find pages from a book, maps, sheet music, etc. that mean something to the couple and roll those pages into flower-shaped buds. Wah-laa… a bouquet of paper roses!

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