The wedding your grandkids will thank you for. $2,000 cheaper.
Real flowers carved from renewable sola fiber. No floral foam, no refrigerated air freight, no trash bag on Sunday.
Same aisle. Lighter footprint, lighter invoice.
What fresh flowers actually cost the planet, laid out next to what a sola bouquet costs it. The gap is bigger than the price gap.
The typical bride keeps $2,000+. And the bouquet. And a lighter footprint.
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Weddings that stayed. Not weddings that shipped.
Every photo below is a bouquet a bride sent us. Years after her wedding day. Still on the mantel, on the dresser, in the shadow box.
8 yrs · Mantel
3 yrs · Dresser
6 yrs · Shadow box
10 yrs · Entryway
2 yrs · Nightstand
5 yrs · Dresser
What's actually in a fresh floral supply chain.
Most of the fresh blooms at an American wedding were cut on a farm in Ecuador or Colombia. They were graded, bundled in plastic sleeves, and put on a refrigerated jet to Miami. Then a refrigerated truck. Then a refrigerated wholesaler. Then a florist's cooler.
The arrangements you walk down the aisle to are usually built on floral foam. Floral foam is a single-use petroleum plastic. It does not biodegrade in any human timeframe. It is thrown out with the stems on Sunday morning.
The dyed water in the vases goes down the drain. The plastic sleeves and the foam bricks go to the landfill. The flowers themselves go to the trash by Monday.
Your sola bouquet skips every one of those steps. Real plant fiber, hand-shaped and hand-dyed by our team. Shipped once. Kept for years.
Build the bouquet yourself, backed by the DIY Guarantee, or pick Ship Finished Product and we build it for you. Priced so you don't have to choose between the flowers you want and half your venue budget.
We spent two years planning a low-waste wedding and the flowers were the last thing I could not figure out. Sola solved it. Three years later my bouquet is still on the bookshelf and I did not put a single stem in a landfill.
Four reasons the planet gets a lighter wedding.
Fresh flowers were built to be tossed within a week. Sola was built to hold up. Here is the difference.
Real plant fiber, renewable and fast-growing
Sola is the pith of the sola plant, a fast-growing aquatic species harvested a lot like bamboo. The plant regrows. Nothing is drilled, refined, or synthesized to make your petals.
No long-haul air freight
Fresh wedding flowers usually fly refrigerated from Ecuador or Colombia and change hands in three coolers before your reception. Yours ships by ground, once, and sits on a shelf.
No floral foam. Ever.
Most centerpieces and arch installs are built on floral foam, a single-use petroleum plastic. Sola stems do not need it. The foam problem is skipped entirely.
Kept for years, not thrown out Sunday
Brides put them on the mantel, in a shadow box, in a bell jar over the fireplace. Backed by our Everlasting Guarantee. The only "single-use" thing about your wedding is the cake.
Nobody at the wedding could tell.
Guests do not notice the sustainability choice. They notice the flowers. Three brides on the same reaction.
"My photographer asked what florist I used. I told her they were wood and she made me repeat it three times. She wanted the link."
"My mother-in-law leaned in to smell my bouquet during first look. She figured it out at brunch the next day when it was still sitting on the sideboard, perfect."
"In every photo they look just like fresh. Six years later they still do. My niece just used my bridesmaid bouquets in her own wedding."
This is Sola
This is Sola
Palettes hand-dyed to yours.
Four of the 20+ wedding themes. Hand-dyed, made in your party size. Free shipping on orders $149+. Free gift on orders $199+.
I handed my bouquet to my niece at her rehearsal dinner last month. She is walking down the aisle with the same flowers I did in 2018. That is not something you get to do with a florist bouquet.
Everything the eco bride wants to know first.
Is the sola plant renewable? How is it harvested?
Yes. Sola is the fibrous pith of a fast-growing aquatic plant. It is harvested a lot like bamboo: the plant is cut, the pith is peeled out and dried, and the plant regrows. No trees are felled. No irreplaceable resource is used up.
Are the dyes eco-safe?
We use water-based dyes, dipped through the petal rather than sprayed onto it. There is no solvent runoff. Nothing goes down a florist's drain at the end of your wedding, because there is nothing to pour out.
What's the carbon footprint compared to fresh flowers?
We do not publish a carbon-tonnage number because the honest answer depends on your specific wedding. What we can say: your bouquet skips refrigerated air freight from South America, skips floral foam entirely, and is kept for years instead of thrown out on Sunday. Those are the three biggest ledger items in a fresh floral supply chain.
Where are they made?
Hand-shaped and hand-dyed to your palette by our team. Shipped once, by ground, to your door. You are ordering from a real workshop, not from a truck at a wholesale market.
What if I don't want to keep them after the wedding?
Gift them. Each bridesmaid keeps the bouquet she carried. Frame the bridal bouquet in a shadow box, gift the centerpieces to your mother, or hand yours down for a wedding twenty years from now. Heirloom-worthy is the point.
Are these fake flowers?
No. Sola is real wood from a real plant (the sola or shola plant), hand-shaped into petals and hand-dyed to your palette. They look just like fresh flowers in photos and in person. Order the free sampler and hold one.
What if something goes wrong before the wedding?
Five guarantees have your back: the Everlasting Guarantee, On Time or It's Free, the Satisfaction Guarantee, the DIY Guarantee, and the Fast Service Guarantee. If anything is off when your box arrives, message us and we make it right.
The wedding you'll be proud of. Forever.
Join 400,000+ brides who chose flowers that stay. On the mantel. On the nightstand. In the shadow box. And out of the landfill.
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