Mixing real and silk flowers?

I posted this in the wrong place the first time lol.





I decided to do silk bouquets and bouts, since I found really pretty flowers on a great sale. They turned out nicely!





But I think I would struggle a lot more with making corsages. The nice looking silk corsages that I have found seem to be the same price as it would be to have them made by my local florist. If I have silk bouquets but real corsages will I really even notice a difference between the real and fake flowers in pictures? Thanks :)

Mixing real and silk flowers?
At my best friend's wedding, her bouquet was real and mine and the other bridesmaids had silk bouquets. You can't tell the difference at all in the pictures, plus it made a really cool keepsake for the wedding party!
Reply:Truly, in my photos, you cannot tell which were the fake and which were the real flowers. Nobody had anything to say about the real vs the fake flowers.
Reply:I'm doing the flowers for our daughter's wedding, and the corsages are not hard at all. You can google it and find video's on corsages, bouttonierres, and bouquets too. They might show fresh flowers, but you can apply the same techniques to silk, with slight modifications.





Why not try doing a couple of corsages and see how they turn out. You don't need that many and a little practice will probably be all you need. Just use Google image to find lots of pictures of corsages and see what you like. Then simplify it and give it a try.





PS. I'm not a florist and had no experience with it at all. My daughter says they turned out so well that I should be doing it to make some money at home. Just try it, I think you'll find that you can do it!





Fresh flowers do wilt and anything that is white or cream or a pale colour will wilt and go brown even faster. If you stick with silk, you'll have a more consistent look to your wedding and the photos will look better. Brown or wilting "fresh" flowers next to fresh looking silk would not be good!
Reply:It depends on the lighting and aperture setting of the photography. From a distance, most people won't be able to tell real from silk flowers, even in naked eyes. They are so well made.





Close-up pictures are a different matter. One thing that even the best "silk" flowers can't achieve is to hide their distinctive refractions (most "silk" flowers are made of polyester fabrics).





So you might want to ask your photographer to make sure that your silk bouquet would look real in the picture. Proper ambient light and a slightly larger aperture setting (to slightly blur the bouquet) shoud do the trick. And of course a lot of photoshop editting.
Reply:not if your silks are nice, we did alot of silks for my wedding and a few things fresh and many of our guest thought that everything was fresh.
Reply:silk will last longer