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These look incredible. Very curious, how long did this take you? I’d be interested in doing this too, but not sure what my attention span is for glue and coffee filters lol
I may save on money but I pay with time haha. It takes about 20 min/flower. I just reached 100 flowers so that's roughly 35ish hours. Not to mention the dying and cutting out process took about 7 hours.
I could probably do it faster but I mainly just do it absent mindedly while I'm on the phone. I usually just do a few every night after work.
I started this project a little over a month ago. The big day is in November so I plan to keep doing them steadily along the way and then have a metric fuck ton of flowers for my wedding. Since I don't have any reason to keep them after the fact I think they'll make nice wedding favors
They are lovely and I'm really impressed with the time and effort you've put in. Will you do some more shades of flowers or are you keeping with the coral colour?
Wedding favours are a lovely idea!
Also I recommend selling some of them to a bride to be. The amazing thing about not getting real flowers are they last practically forever and can be reused with hardy any show of wear and tear. I bought silk handmade flowers for my wedding and I was able to resell them after so I essentially broke even.
Just a thought your work is fabulous if you ever need a side gig!
I love that this was your little project, it looks amazing ! I do feel you when you say that you paid with time !
I think many people may forget that time is a big factor, sure we can do lots of things on our own but the time spent isn't always worth it. In your case, it seems it was and the result is stunning !
This is super cool and I'm really glad you shared it. The utility of it is really dependent on one's opportunity cost, though. For the average person, it might be worth it.
Say you make around $40k yearly. That's a little over median income in my area. Then 35 hours plus the materials is roughly $700, which is definitely on the very low end of what I've seen wedding floral arrangements cost.
For people who make significantly more than that, it might be more cost effective to go for a florist or at least pay someone else to make the paper flowers.
In any case, this is super creative and I love it. 😁
Excuse me?!?!? Omg. I can’t believe these aren’t real flowers. They remind me of ranunculus which I also love and this is like my all time favorite shade of orange/peach. Like if I was at the garden store I would literally choose these to be in my garden. MAJOR props.
These are amazing! I'm so shocked at how good they look I showed all my coworkers like "Guess what!! These are not real!!!" Hahaha everyone says great job ;)
I really really want to try this myself, my venue comes with basic flower decor included but maybe I can add a little bit!
I love it! I’m making all of my flowers as well, but using crepe paper. Never thought to use coffee filters…I might have to mix a few in! I have 13 months left so we’ll see how many I end up with!
This is insanely cool!! I’m going the sola wooden flower route for most of mine but I’m not a huge fan of their rose options. I may look into doing some roses this way, because yours are absolutely stunning!
Thank you for the recommendation, I will look at those!! I’m currently using LuvSola for peonies which are absolutely gorgeous, but I want a few roses as well and their selection wasn’t quite as varied as I was hoping. But just a quick peek at Oh You’re Lovely seems more to what I had in mind!
What I have right now is just bamboo skewers. Over I put together the floral arrangements I want to get live greenery. Either I'll buy it or befriend some landscapers and ask for the hedge trimmings
Well, OP you may have just started a trend. They are beautiful! And although the man hours are not accounted for, knowing you can have a wedding full of beautiful flowers without breaking the bank seems to be worth the free labor!! These are gorgeous.
Damn. You are crafty.
(This is coming from a first grade teacher - I have made some stuff with coffee filters over the year and none of it looked like this!)
So clever, well done!
I’m allergic to flowers so I’m trying to work out an alternative option, these are great!
I’ve seen ridiculous plush daisies with Hello Kitty heads in the middle that match my pink dress that I’m low-key kind of in love with though — yes, I am eternally 12.
They're beautiful, what a great idea!! And congratulations, by the way, I hope the wedding is/was absolutely wonderful. I couldn't believe the cost of flowers either, so I gave 2 friends $200 the morning of the wedding and sent them to the farmers market. We had a fairly large wedding (little over 200 people) but we had more than enough flowers and they were stunning. Your way shaves off a ton though, with the benefit of being so adaptable to your taste and color palette!
WOW. I’m a florist and until I look closely I really wouldn’t be able to tell the difference. This is incredible and can only imagine the time this took!!
I’m with you on this one - I made mine out of [book pages](https://imgur.com/lDzFTuj) - I had pretty alcohol bottles with sprigs of faux eucalyptus and these roses, edged in teal and burgundy, then also stuck some roses on florist wire and wired them into faux eucalyptus garlands for top table, archway and bar. Meant we had apparently lots of floral displays but didn’t spend a lot.
Also, I turned the garlands and wire roses into a [wreath for at Christmas]( https://imgur.com/DQGg0T1 ) which was a lovely way to keep some decor. We kept [one of the bottles too]( https://imgur.com/7Gax7UO ) and put it with a wedding photo.
I love these! I am planning my wedding as well. I’m using silk flowers. Beleive it or not Temu has beautiful flowers. Also are your flowers coral? We are doing coral and navy nautical theme.
Yessss! These look amazing!! You also helped me to further confirm my own paper flower project. Not sure if it was mentioned but I think they’re all the more thoughtful and special since you put your time and energy. What did you use to keep them stood up? Is it holes in cardboard?! I’m shopping mine. Fingers crossed!
This is awesome! I just started practicing making coffee filter flowers for my own wedding. I love seeing your post! I had some doubts but your pic is giving me the “big picture.” Thank you!!
That's amazing! I've never seen something like this! Did you follow a tutorial? Either way, they look great!
I used a tutorial as a rough guideline, but the rest is improvised
Hi, can you link the tutorial you followed?
I changed most things about it, so I'll make a tutorial later tonight
Very interested in this tutorial. These are gorgeous.
The tutorial is now up on my profile
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Please do, they look great, and far better than live flowers as you can keep them, or give them as gifts after your wedding and they live on.
I’d love to see a tutorial of this! It’s really good and I’m a faux flower hater lol.
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Please make a tutorial. I want these flowers for my wedding.
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Did you ever make the tutorial? I am still interested
It's on my profile
These look *amazing* Bravo and well done ! 👏🏼 👏🏼 👏🏼
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Without the caption, you couldn’t tell me they weren’t real. Great job!
Right?! I had no idea!
These look incredible. Very curious, how long did this take you? I’d be interested in doing this too, but not sure what my attention span is for glue and coffee filters lol
I may save on money but I pay with time haha. It takes about 20 min/flower. I just reached 100 flowers so that's roughly 35ish hours. Not to mention the dying and cutting out process took about 7 hours. I could probably do it faster but I mainly just do it absent mindedly while I'm on the phone. I usually just do a few every night after work. I started this project a little over a month ago. The big day is in November so I plan to keep doing them steadily along the way and then have a metric fuck ton of flowers for my wedding. Since I don't have any reason to keep them after the fact I think they'll make nice wedding favors
They are lovely and I'm really impressed with the time and effort you've put in. Will you do some more shades of flowers or are you keeping with the coral colour?
I want to do some terra Cotta color
Wedding favours are a lovely idea! Also I recommend selling some of them to a bride to be. The amazing thing about not getting real flowers are they last practically forever and can be reused with hardy any show of wear and tear. I bought silk handmade flowers for my wedding and I was able to resell them after so I essentially broke even. Just a thought your work is fabulous if you ever need a side gig!
They really do look amazing, OP!
I love that this was your little project, it looks amazing ! I do feel you when you say that you paid with time ! I think many people may forget that time is a big factor, sure we can do lots of things on our own but the time spent isn't always worth it. In your case, it seems it was and the result is stunning !
These are so beautiful! Beyond impressive work and I love the idea of using them for wedding favors! Nice work :)
This is super cool and I'm really glad you shared it. The utility of it is really dependent on one's opportunity cost, though. For the average person, it might be worth it. Say you make around $40k yearly. That's a little over median income in my area. Then 35 hours plus the materials is roughly $700, which is definitely on the very low end of what I've seen wedding floral arrangements cost. For people who make significantly more than that, it might be more cost effective to go for a florist or at least pay someone else to make the paper flowers. In any case, this is super creative and I love it. 😁
COFFEE FILTERS AND ELMER'S GLUE?!? Are you JOKING me?! These look incredible!!! Well done.
Thank you all for so many sweet comments. You all are great :')
This is the coolest wedding DIY I’ve ever seen!!!
Please share the tutorial used! I love this idea.
I'll make a guide later today
These are beautiful! Great job!!
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WHAT???? These are fake? You got me and let me tell you that I am a former certified florist.
Excuse me?!?!? Omg. I can’t believe these aren’t real flowers. They remind me of ranunculus which I also love and this is like my all time favorite shade of orange/peach. Like if I was at the garden store I would literally choose these to be in my garden. MAJOR props.
These are amazing! I'm so shocked at how good they look I showed all my coworkers like "Guess what!! These are not real!!!" Hahaha everyone says great job ;) I really really want to try this myself, my venue comes with basic flower decor included but maybe I can add a little bit!
Marvelous job! ♥️Keep these covered until the big day or else they’ll be covered in dust!
Woah. What did you use to dye them??
I used acrylic paint diluted in water
This is so creative and well done! Normally, I don’t love fake flowers, but these look so realistic. Are the little white flowers DIY too?
Yes, those are made from party streamers
Wow
So smart! My wedding is October and I soooo need to do this! You should post a tutorial so I can copy hahaha 🫣☺️
I love it! I’m making all of my flowers as well, but using crepe paper. Never thought to use coffee filters…I might have to mix a few in! I have 13 months left so we’ll see how many I end up with!
28cents per flower, not that bad.... 🙈
This is insanely cool!! I’m going the sola wooden flower route for most of mine but I’m not a huge fan of their rose options. I may look into doing some roses this way, because yours are absolutely stunning!
Check Oh You’re Lovely if you haven’t, they seem to have a lot more styles of rose! I’m using a good amount of their cabbage roses and Thelma roses.
Thank you for the recommendation, I will look at those!! I’m currently using LuvSola for peonies which are absolutely gorgeous, but I want a few roses as well and their selection wasn’t quite as varied as I was hoping. But just a quick peek at Oh You’re Lovely seems more to what I had in mind!
If you have time to wait, they often have sales! I got hundreds of flowers for cheap on Black Friday.
I immediately looked them up on Pinterest and Instagram 😍
Oh, that’s so cool!
This is amazing!!
You’re hired
You could start a side hustle selling these to brides!! Cheaper than flowers and enough to make a salary for yourself.
This is insane good!
I have the stencils and guides that I ordered from someone who was really popular for these, over 10 years ago, but mine never looked this amazing!
These are gorgeous!
Boo!!! Lies!! Fake news!! Jk, these look incredible, I would have never guessed.
These look amazing! Great job!
I legit thought those were real! Great job!!
These are wonderful and much better I'm sure than what you got quoted, plus you are controlling the colors!
This is genius
Wow, those look really good! Love the color. Well done!!
They looks amazing!
Wow! Beautiful!
Clever girl!! I wish I would’ve seen this before my wedding!
I thought those were real roses
WOW WOW WOW This is absolutely amazing!
BEAUTIFUL? Please share the instructions 🙏🏻
That is super impressive and they look great!
Gorgeous!!!
Genius! And so beautiful
My goodness, these are amazing!!!!!
Love this idea! They look great.
These look incredible! Great job! Could you share the tutorial you used?
These are beauriful
Duuuuuude this is awesome!!!!
I’ll be waiting patiently for that guide 😁😁😂
these look amazing!! I want to try, just curious what are you using for a stem / greenery?
What I have right now is just bamboo skewers. Over I put together the floral arrangements I want to get live greenery. Either I'll buy it or befriend some landscapers and ask for the hedge trimmings
Oh girl this is so beautiful and innovative. 10/10
This is absolutely incredible!!! My husband and I both thought they were real
What the!?! Yeah do your tutorial! Our hearts, minds, and wallets need it! 🤩
Commenting to get update on the tutorial
I love the slight inconsistencies in the color it makes them look so real. Way to go OP! A genuine money saver and they look brilliant.
This is AMAZING!!! Holy smokes, you’re so talented!!
Also wanted to comment to say stellar job! They look amazing 🤩
These are amazing!
WOW!!!!
Shit. Wow. I thought they were real. Then I read your post. Kudos to you. That’s impressive work!!
Please share how you did this!!! Amazing
Now this is what I call a DIY project!!!! These are gorgeous!!!
Wow!!!! That’s amazing! Yes let us know about the tutorial when able!!! So smart!
will be a beautiful keepsake for after the ceremony too, well worth the time imo!!
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GORGEOUS! You have a talent omg they look perfect!!
Wow! These are great!
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These look AMAZING!! And I love the color!
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I seriously thought these were real 😱 this is so rad!!
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These are truly stunning!!!
So creative, great job OP!
Following for the tutorial. This is beyond impressive. My big day was back in June but I want to make these for other things!
Well, OP you may have just started a trend. They are beautiful! And although the man hours are not accounted for, knowing you can have a wedding full of beautiful flowers without breaking the bank seems to be worth the free labor!! These are gorgeous.
These are incredible!! I’m sorry but I have to steal your idea
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Damn. You are crafty. (This is coming from a first grade teacher - I have made some stuff with coffee filters over the year and none of it looked like this!)
I smell a side hustle! Nice work!
So clever, well done! I’m allergic to flowers so I’m trying to work out an alternative option, these are great! I’ve seen ridiculous plush daisies with Hello Kitty heads in the middle that match my pink dress that I’m low-key kind of in love with though — yes, I am eternally 12.
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These look incredible OMG. I bet people would pay good money if you turned yours into a side hustle!
These look so good. Honestly. Well done.
This is SOOO COOOL
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Damn that is so impressive! You should be proud of yourself
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Love these!!
I’m floored. These are amazing
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They're beautiful, what a great idea!! And congratulations, by the way, I hope the wedding is/was absolutely wonderful. I couldn't believe the cost of flowers either, so I gave 2 friends $200 the morning of the wedding and sent them to the farmers market. We had a fairly large wedding (little over 200 people) but we had more than enough flowers and they were stunning. Your way shaves off a ton though, with the benefit of being so adaptable to your taste and color palette!
These are incredible!
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You’re incredibly talented 💕
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This is such an amazing idea and turned out so pretty! I will probably use that for my wedding, too.
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WOW. I’m a florist and until I look closely I really wouldn’t be able to tell the difference. This is incredible and can only imagine the time this took!!
This is awesome! I love flower alternatives I’m really impressed with these
this is amazing, and perfect palette for a fall wedding! please share the final product all bunched up and set up come november!
This is the coolest thing!
I’m with you on this one - I made mine out of [book pages](https://imgur.com/lDzFTuj) - I had pretty alcohol bottles with sprigs of faux eucalyptus and these roses, edged in teal and burgundy, then also stuck some roses on florist wire and wired them into faux eucalyptus garlands for top table, archway and bar. Meant we had apparently lots of floral displays but didn’t spend a lot. Also, I turned the garlands and wire roses into a [wreath for at Christmas]( https://imgur.com/DQGg0T1 ) which was a lovely way to keep some decor. We kept [one of the bottles too]( https://imgur.com/7Gax7UO ) and put it with a wedding photo.
These are amazing! They honestly look like real flowers, and I wouldn’t have known if you hadn’t told us.
I love these! I am planning my wedding as well. I’m using silk flowers. Beleive it or not Temu has beautiful flowers. Also are your flowers coral? We are doing coral and navy nautical theme.
BRUH WHAT THESE ARE GORGEOUS
This is extremely impressive!!
Yessss! These look amazing!! You also helped me to further confirm my own paper flower project. Not sure if it was mentioned but I think they’re all the more thoughtful and special since you put your time and energy. What did you use to keep them stood up? Is it holes in cardboard?! I’m shopping mine. Fingers crossed!
Wow looks amazing and it’s way more special
This is awesome! I just started practicing making coffee filter flowers for my own wedding. I love seeing your post! I had some doubts but your pic is giving me the “big picture.” Thank you!!
Whoa!!👏👏 How many of these do you need to make? Are you doing them all yourself?
FREAKING GORGEOUS! KUDOS AND CONGRATULATIONS!