Flowers for weddings can sometimes cost a bomb. And it also feels like a waste to be tossing so many flowers after the ceremony if no one wants to take them home.

I’ve been quite keen on making paper flowers for our wedding but we’ll see how many I can whip up in time. I had thoughts of mixing paper flowers with real flowers but wasn’t really sure how they’d look.

And then I came across these!

{Amy Merrick with West Elm paper flowers}

The mixture of color and texture is just divine. Perhaps I’ll work on having a combination of paper and real flowers if I can’t finish all of the paper ones in time. Love?