Personally, we love working with real flowers. But it's true that silk definitely comes with some advantages. For starters: - They won't wilt. The last point's important if you're preparing flowers yourself. By their nature, you have to arrange fresh flowers the day before the wedding at the earliest -- and usually the morning of. This doesn't leave you much time to switch gears if you aren't happy with the results. On the other hand, you can experiment with and arrange silk flowers weeks in advance. That leaves you plenty of time to relax and pamper yourself in the run up to your wedding! And yes, you can mix artificial and real flowers with great results. A friend of ours loves ranunculus and wanted them in a mixed bouquet with roses and gerberas. Unfortunately, ranunculus was out of season for her wedding date, and would have cost a lot. So she opted to tuck artificial ranunculus into a fresh bouquet. The results, and the photos, were beautiful. Anything else you want to add? Contrary to popular opinion, don't think that silk flowers are always going to be cheaper than real. Many of the quality ones are as expensive as the real thing -- if not more.
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