About WeddingDayBloom

My daughter found our wedding album one afternoon. She went through it slowly, the way children do — every dress, every face — and then she stopped at one of the later photographs, pointed at the bouquet in my hands, and asked why the flowers looked so sad.

She was right. They did. They had been beautiful at nine that morning.

We're a mother-and-daughter business in San Jose, California, and we make artificial wedding flowers — bridal bouquets, bridesmaid sets, boutonnieres, corsages, cake flowers, and floral swags for ceremony arches. That photograph is the reason we started.

Why artificial flowers

I got married in winter. It was bitterly cold, the fresh flowers cost a small fortune, and they were finished before the evening was over — which is exactly what my daughter saw, years later, in that album. Artificial flowers existed then too, but they looked like what they were, and I wouldn't have carried one down an aisle.

That's changed completely. What's available now is good enough that people lean in to check, and you can build arrangements with it that fresh flowers won't allow. Silk and foam are light — so you can carry a bouquet twice the size you'd manage with real stems, for four hours of photographs, and your hands won't ache. And when the day is over it doesn't go in the bin. It sits on a shelf, or it goes home with your bridesmaids.

I love working with faux greenery most of all. Honestly, I think you can make a more interesting bouquet with it than with fresh flowers — and it will look the same in the last photograph as it did in the first.

How we got here

This started the way small things start: friends asking. One wedding, then a friend of a friend, then someone we'd never met who had seen the photographs. Back in 2025 it was just that — bouquets made at our kitchen table for people we knew.

Then we opened a shop on Etsy to find out whether strangers would want the same thing. They did. That shop is still open, it has over a hundred orders behind it, a 4.9 rating and Etsy's Star Seller status — you can read what those brides wrote at etsy.com/shop/WeddingDayBloom. We're proud of it, and we'd rather point you there than ask you to take our word for anything.

We opened weddingdaybloom.com so we could hold our own stock, pack orders our way, and answer questions ourselves instead of through a marketplace. This site is young and we're not going to pretend otherwise — but the work behind it is older than the website.

What we make, and what we don't

We'd rather be plain about this than let you guess.

Anything arranged — every bouquet, boutonniere, corsage, cake flower, swag and centerpiece — is put together by hand at our table in San Jose. That's why no two are identical, and why we can change a ribbon color or build a larger set if you ask. The eucalyptus garlands are the one exception: we design them, and a workshop we've worked with for years builds them to our drawings. We keep the finished stock here and ship it from here, like everything else.

The rest of the shop is materials and hardware — arch frames, bud vases, table runners, and the loose stems, bunches and petals we sell by the box. We choose and test those ourselves, but we don't make them, and we're not going to call them handmade.

How we work

Everything ships from our location in San Jose, California. We pack every order ourselves — that's why it takes three business days before a box goes to USPS, and why nothing leaves here that we haven't looked at.

If something arrives wrong, email us and we'll fix it. If you're not sure a color will match your dresses, email us before you order and we'll send you a close-up photograph. We'd rather answer a question than process a return.