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Fresh or Faux? 11 Reasons to Choose Faux Flowers For Your Wedding

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FRESH OR FAUX? Wondering what flower option is right for your wedding? In this blog, we'll explore some of the reasons why faux flowers make a great choice. But first, let's look at why you might be reluctant to use faux... The "What Will Granny Think?" Factor Sadly, today's faux flowers still carry with them the stigma of yesterday's tacky plastic-looking fake flowers. You may be worrying about what guests will think if you use faux. All I can say is that faux flowers have come a long way! Don't judge them on the sad selection you might still find at a bargain-basement store. Quality faux flowers are now so realistic and gorgeous, guests frequently go up to them for a sniff. In photographs it's almost impossible to tell apart faux from fresh. Believe it or not, all the photos in this blog are of faux flowers. Are Faux Flowers 'Special' Enough? A compelling argument for using fresh florals is that they are a luxury which help make a celebrati

A Taoist-Inspired Wedding Ceremony

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Hi there. I'm Lyndal, founder of the Little Lace Flower Company. Check out my About page to learn a little more about me and my team. I'm very excited to be writing my first blog post for Little Lace Flower Company! My Own Wedding I thought I'd start with what was efffectively the start of my wedding styling journey - my own wedding. As hubby and I both practice Tai Chi, we wanted a very unique, deeply personal wedding that included a lot of the beautiful symbolism from Taoist Philosophy. I spent many months researching Taoist-inspired weddings and then putting together a ceremony plan that included many of the very meaningful and beautiful parts of a Taoist ceremony. I avoided the more heavily religious parts because, whilst Hubby and I are both quite spiritual, neither of us are religious. With help from our celebrant, Don Manning, we used the plan to create our gorgeous ceremony. As the ceremony was so different, Don very wisely suggested we write a detailed Order of Se