That's Why You Leave Things To Professionals
It was a destination wedding, but nothing exotic, just Florida for a wedding at my grandparents beach front property. My future MIL insisted on doing my bouquet. She supposedly used to work in a flower shop and was desperate to contribute. So despite my reservations I gave the ok, had my fiance send her a few photos of what I was going for (romantic flowers in cream, salmon, light pink, and yellow, sunset colors but muted) and thought that'd be it. We get to our destination and his mother is having difficulties finding flowers like I wanted. Apparently she had no florist or anything set up, just assumed she'd find something that matched my VERY open ideas. She still promised she'd figure it out.
Day of the wedding my family and friends are putting the other bouquets and center pieces together because I DID set up with a florist who delivers, but we had to assemble them ourselves. Good thing this is how it worked, because MIL still hadn't brought me my bouquet and pre wedding photos were starting. We had to steal flowers from the other arrangements just so I'd have a bouquet for photos. Luckily it turned out BEAUTIFULLY, and matched the other arrangements.
Not only did MIL not arrive early enough to give me my bouquet, but she was an hour LATE!! Everyone was on time for our beach wedding EXCEPT my MIL and FIL! Luckily we had bottles of cold water and wooden fans as favors, because our guests, 1/3 of which were elderly, sat on a hot Florida beach for AN HOUR while we waited. I wanted to start without them using my gorgeous looking franken-bouquet, but DH insisted we wait. This pushed back our entire night, cutting our reception down to just two hours.
When they arrived I was handed my much anticipated bouquet. Guys, it was dark/florescent orange daisies and the cheapest BRIGHT orange roses with like, one sprig of baby's breath. Cheap Publix flowers with lots of stem all tied together with some dollar store ribbon. It took every ounce of my being not to chuck it in the trash and use my superior franken-bouquet. For the sake of my husband I used his mother's.
I only look at the pre-wedding photos to this day.
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