Question
My girlfriend wants to use fresh tulips as a wedding bouquet.  Can we keep the tulips looking fresh all day?  

Answer
Hi there,

Fresh tulips are wonderful in a wedding bouquet. If you have them assembled as a hand tied,you can place the stems in water until you need to use them (make sure you dry the ends well)and they should be alright for a few hours out of water. Then you could have a small vase ready, maybe on the cake table, that you can place the tulips for the rest of the day. This will only really work with a posy style hand tied and if the flowers are quite tightly packed and firmly tied, they should behave themselves.

Best wishes

Sue