dianab68•3mo agoOG Member

Watching a bride at a vineyard wedding in Napa just toss her bouquet into a rose bush made me rethink how I pack them.

Now I always add a few extra inches of sturdy, flexible wire to the stems so they can survive an unexpected toss, and I'd love to hear if anyone has a specific gauge they recommend for that kind of hidden support.

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wyatt_green3mo ago

Remember my friend's bouquet that got thrown into a koi pond, not a fountain like @dylan_patel mentioned. Total disaster, the stems just snapped. Now I swear by wrapping each stem with that green floral tape over a 16-gauge wire, it gives them a little spine without looking weird. You can bend the whole thing into a pretzel and the flowers still sit right. That extra wire length you add is smart, lets you really bury it in the foam so it doesn't poke out after a wild toss.

dylan_patel3mo agoOG Member

My cousin's bouquet in Sonoma needed 18-gauge wire after a toss into a fountain.

julia2862mo ago

Oh come on, it's a bouquet toss not a dunk contest. Are people really putting this much thought into surviving a 10 foot lob? If it snaps it snaps, that's what backup flowers are for.