Wedding Corsages

By convention: both mothers, both grandmothers, stepmothers honored as mothers, godmothers, and anyone with a ceremony role — readers, singers, officiant assistants. The men's equivalents (fathers, grandfathers, groomsmen, ring bearer) wear boutonnieres; parent couples are covered by the matched pairs on this page in one listing. A working count for most weddings: 4-6 corsage pieces plus one spare — sets are packed in that shape, with the photo showing the exact count in the box.

Wrist for dresses that can't take a pin — silk, satin, lace, anything a hole would ruin — and for honorees who fidget with lapels; the elastic band adjusts and stays put through hugging. Pin-on for sturdier fabrics and the classic formal look, worn at the lapel or shoulder strap on a sturdy pin back. Neither is 'better' — most weddings split by dress fabric rather than style. Both carry the same blooms, builds and colorways on this page, so the split costs nothing in palette consistency.

At the lapel seam or the shoulder strap where fabric doubles: pin through from the inside out, catch a bit of the garment, then back through the corsage's backing so the pin rides locked. Two pins for heavier builds, crossed in an X. Wrist styles need nothing but the band. Every pin-on listing here carries a 60-second attachment demo, and the spare pin in each box is listed on the contents card.

At least two weeks before the wedding — the standing delivery policy for wedding orders, with the buffer built into checkout. Faux keeps indefinitely, so the real timing is dress finalization: order the honoree set when the palette locks (with the bouquets, same batch), and use the two-week window to verify colors against the mothers' actual dresses in daylight and check wrist bands against fit. Same-order boutonnieres and corsages ship from the same dye batch — that's the match that shows in parent photos.

Same order, same batch, same colorway names — the palette rule across the wedding collection. The matched pairs (father's boutonniere + mother's corsage in one listing) are built on that rule; ordering the honoree set alongside the bouquets in one checkout is what keeps parent photos on one palette. For verification before a large order, the sample box or a single stem of the colorway checked against dress fabric in daylight is the recommended move.

Size, placement and wearer: a boutonniere is a single bloom or small cluster worn on a man's lapel; a corsage is the larger arrangement worn on a woman's wrist or pinned at the lapel/shoulder. They're built on the same palette — which is why the pairs exist as one listing — but they are separate pieces; a boutonniere won't read as a corsage on a mother's wrist. Both sides of the wearable palette live one click apart.