Wedding flowers: Bride divides online when people realise she saved flowers from another wedding to use for hers

A debate has kicked off on Reddit over wedding flowers at a recent reception.

A wedding guest who attended the nuptials of a friend “this past winter” explained on the forum’s ‘Wedding Shaming’ thread the bride had “decorated her venue (a small church) with dried florals incorporated within Christmas trees”.

“It actually looked very pretty,” the guest said.

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The plot then thickened when the guest realised where the flowers actually came from.

“Imagine my surprise and a few other guests’ surprise when we found out where they came from,” she said before explaining the bride had been a guest at a wedding earlier that year.

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At the conclusion of that earlier wedding the bride had “asked that at the end of the night her flowers be donated to a local nursing home”.

But it turns out that friend who was – at the time – planning her wedding instead filled her car up with the flowers, took them home, dried them out and repurposed them for her own wedding “WITHOUT ASKING”.

The post, which was titled ‘Stolen or repurposed-depends on your perspective’ kicked off quite a debate in the comments.

One Redditer weighed in, saying it “common” for guests to take a single centrepiece home however taking everything is “absolutely wild!”

“I’ve been to weddings where there is a silly game where someone at each table wins the centrepiece but to grab them all & go against the brides wishes is outrageous,” another replied.

One Redditer was surprised to see guests taking centre pieces home at an event they attended.

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“I had never heard of that tradition until my friend’s grandmother was aggressively handing me a center piece on the way out the door,” they commented.

“Honestly, repurposing flowers this way would be such a beautiful concept between friends if it wasn’t done without permission. Shame,” another wrote.

One Redditer deemed the flowers “stolen” because the bride stated her wishes that they be donated to a nursing home and this wasn’t followed.

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“Wow. Talk about greedy and weird. I’d be livid, and I’d tell everyone where these flowers came from. Friendship ended that moment,” another said.

“The idea of donating them to a nursing home is nice for the bride and groom to feel warm and fuzzy, but the flowers were going to go into their trash pretty much immediately, too,” commented one person.

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