Experience w/ Gerbera Daisies?

I am thinking about having our wedding flowers be multicolored Gerbera Daisies, and to save costs, I am going to be making the bouquets myself. Does anyone have experience with these flowers? If so, how do they hold up and how easy are they to work with?





We would be picking up the flowers the day before the wedding, and hopefully will be able to keep them in a fridge until when the wedding starts midmorning the next day.

Experience w/ Gerbera Daisies?
I think you are going to be fine. Daisies are very hardy flowers in general.





If you are worried about it do a trial run of one of the boquets with store-bought flowers and see how it goes.
Reply:My best friends sister in law got married 2 weeks ago and used gerbera daisies and my friend was a bridesmaid and her bouquet still looks like it was made yesterday so yes they hold up extremely well and are very beautiful, I'm definitely using them in my wedding.
Reply:gerber daiseys are not a good choice. even though they are so cute and fun looking, if you are making the bouquets yourself and have no floral experience you are in over your head. they grow in all directions and have weak stems. they are not strong enough to hold up in a bouquet. you would have to individually wire wrap every single stem which could take hours. if you have your heart set on having them it is do-able but i would suggest having them professionally made
Reply:They're lovely flowers and last really well. However, as others have said, their stems are strange. Anytime I've gotten them, the stems have been enclosed in a light green plastic tube (like a straw I guess), so they have some form. For a bouquet, you probably have to wire the stem somehow.
Reply:i had them in my bouquet. they lasted all day, but that's as long as i had them.


they are a lovely flower. sorry i've never worked w/ flowers though, but i imagine they're pretty easy to work with as far as flowers go. Do you have help with them? you may want to delegate this responsibility to someone else, if you trust anyone else's skills... as you'll be super busy.
Reply:They are fairly easy to work with. Keeping them in the fridge is a GREAT idea. I suggest simple hand-tied bouquets with this flower. Keep them cool until you have to take them out, they'll hold up better.
Reply:Gerberas have very tough stems and they grow crooked. They are hard to work with. I used Shasta Daisies, baby's breath and a few roses.
Reply:Gerberas are also my favourite! Great choice.





I suggest asking the flower shop to show you how to create a bouquet. They can be difficult and very time consuming to make. My friend tried to do this and ended up giving up and just went back to the flower shop to get them done. It's better to have the practice and professional advice (if you don't already know how to make bouquets, that is) than to be frustrated the day before your wedding.
Reply:These are my favorite flowers! I think that would be very pretty for a weddding!





They should hold up pretty well, they have a hollow stem, so stick a wire slighty underneath the head of the bloom, and wrap down the stem, afterwards go back and cover that with floral tape.





They'll do good in the fridge, they won't bruise easily, which is great, and they have a fairly good life span...








Congrats and Good Luck!

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