A wedding in Austin made me rethink how I pack bouquets

I was setting up for a big outdoor wedding last weekend, and the heat was over 100 degrees. I had the bouquets in my usual travel box, but by the time the bride was ready to walk, the peonies were already starting to droop. The photographer actually pulled me aside and said, 'These won't last through the first look.' I ended up wrapping the stems in wet paper towels and then putting them in individual plastic sleeves with a few ice packs at the bottom of the box. What's your go-to method for keeping bouquets crisp in extreme heat?

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grayc276mo ago

Wet paper towels just speed up rot in that heat.

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finleyh896mo ago

Look at the way people treat flowers on TV shows or in movies. They just shove them in a vase with some water and they're fine for the scene. I've left a cheap bouquet on my counter for a week in the summer and it was mostly just sad, not rotten. This feels like solving a problem that doesn't really exist for normal people.

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wade_hayes6mo ago

Grayc27 has a point about rot, but wet towels work if you change them often. I use a cooler with chilled gel packs wrapped in cloth. Keeps stems cold without direct ice contact. The plastic sleeves help hold moisture in without soaking the flowers.

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