So, if you haven’t already noticed, here’s a little tidbit about me: I have champagne tastes on a beer budget. And I don’t even mean to, but it seems like it always happens that way.

That means when it comes to my bouquet flowers, of course everything I seem to like is super-exclusive, out of season, or just plain expensive. It doesn’t help that we live in Michigan. For flowers to really thrive and grow in this crazy weather, they have to be pretty resilient and few make the cut.

Sure, I could order flowers from across the country and have them flown in, but in the grand scheme of things, it just feels a little silly. The flowers will be way overpriced and will undoubtedly die the next day anyway. And while I’m not the greenest girl out there, I do know that’s a lot of unnecessary stress on the environment in transportation just for some flowers.

So, what if I mixed in some not-so-real flowers with my real in-season, readily available flowers?

[side note: If I were witty enough, this would be the point where I make a hilarious analogy regarding those chicken cutlet booby things everyone seems to like so much and how its essentially the same thing because you're mixing the real ones with the fake ones. That's if I were witty enough.]

My real flowers could be:

• dahlias
• poppy
• zinnia

I could mix in fake stems of:

• peonies
• anemone
• tulips
• gardenia

Anemone. Source: fleurs nyc

Gardenia. Source: The Knot

Peonies. Source: Vogue Flowers and Gifts

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