Beautiful. I used it with the white ones for my wedding centerpices and the results were amazing. I love it. With 100 flowers(50 purple and 50 white I was able to do 15 centerpices and one more for the table with the Guest Book. I used 6 flowers for the centerpices and the last 8 for the other one)

I ordered these in red for my wedding because I am working with a limited budget. The red looks great, especially for the price. I need white as well, but they're currently not listed. I hope they are listed again soon because I really don't want to try another vendor's flowers as I am very satisfied with the quality of these.
Update: I've finally finished my toss bouquet & it looks great! I'll post pic later of the bridesmaids bouquets which I'm doing in white. The white flowers look great!

Update: The white flowers look great in my bridesmaids bouquets! I'm overjoyed!

I was absolutely thrilled with the quality of these flowers! even up close, you would think that they were real! I assumed that they would have been of a lesser quality, since they were inexpensive, but that's not the case at all. I was able to make almost all of my wedding flowers with 3 packages. I purchased 2 of the Ivory color, and 1 of the Peach (Blush), and they are so gorgeous! My wedding colors are Blush and Ivory, and these will fit perfectly! They are so easy to work with, and very forgiving. They come packaged in plastic, but I really didn't need to tug on the petals very much, just squeeze the base of the flower, to loosen it up. I have now recommended these flowers to anyone that I know getting married, and I will definitely be purchasing additional flowers from this company to finish all of my wedding decorating! Thank you for such a great quality flower at an affordable price!

I shop for fresh ivory roses every 3-4 weeks.

I spend just shy of $30 for 2 doses fresh ivory Cottage Roses that just die🥀

So, I've tried 2 brands on Amazon in hopes of saving approximately $400 annually.

The 2nd brand that is usually priced $16.99 in the listing comparisons line up next to Ling's , well, been there done that. They are far too small, no stem or green. Made two kissing balls with them and it looks like waded up tissues. Use a glue gun for hours.

Ordered 50 of Ling's ivory roses and they are the best! Far superior to the other batch I ordered.

My favorite things about these roses are that they look exactly like what I have been buying for years (maybe a tad bit smaller)

I just love the center bud of the bloom giving it such a realistic effect!

They smell a bit like latex but that is subsiding. Update: They now spray with rose sent.

I was able to make a bouquet and 2 kissing balls with 50 using two 4" foam balls and they turned out massive.
I highly suggest using 3" porous Styrofoam balls for a nice 5" kissing ball as seen in my photos. It will take 23-25 roses.

If you want to create custom kissing balls, this is a bad product, but you want to get styrofoam balls, that are very porous. You can order them on Amazon, cheap at Walmart, or Joann's. The other benefit is that you can rearrange the roses at any time and easily add crystal pins etc. and update the look style and switch out colors.

IF it says "SMOOTH" those the stem has an extremely tough time penetrating.

Smooth foam, the result is typically going to break the stem right off and it will be time to break out the glue gun, which is extremely time consuming and stringy glue gets all over the flowers, you, everything. Unless you are a straight shot, stay away from the smooth sphere.

My favorite sizes of are 3" and 4", remember you adding quite a lot of volume one the roses are one. 6" and up those would a rather "Giant Kiss"💋🌹

I found the thin stem a bit hard to cut but beats using a glue gun as the stem easily pushes through foam. Bend the stem where you'd like to cut first this makes it much easier.

Use gentle force or stem will come completely off when pulling back, yes which a little above medium force you may pull stem off and I set those aside for floaters in small glasses cubes. If you want to float for one than one night remove green (leaf).

Using a blow dryer quickly works wonders opening the bloom or simp;y pulling the outer petals with medium force. My package did not arrived smushed, but applying heat expanded the bloom beautifully!

Okay, now I understand the smashed, smushed, deformed flowers now that other reviewers unfortunately, experienced, now that around a thousand or more have been ordered for a Rose Wall... The "First Brick" are from previous orders for kissing balls a took apart. Ling, please don't let all that hard work get smashed up from tiny boxes.

I'm obsessed! Going to save hundreds this year by making this purchase (Update 8/2017) or spend thousands).

Ivory is most realistic in comparison to white.

Buy these now! No regrets!

All in all I am giving a GLOWING 5 star review

Update15-AUG-2017
These are still amazing.
If you were wondering about floating these in water I floated some for months and the did not fall apart.
I recommend taking off the green first.

🌹 🌹 🌹 🌹 🌹 🌹 🌹 🌹 🌹 🌹 THE GREAT WALL OF LING'S ROSES 🌹 🌹 🌹 🌹 🌹 🌹 🌹 🌹 🌹 🌹 🌹 🌹
The first 2 panels are done and took approximately 250-300 roses. The 3rd panel (last picture) tried a more full layering technique by stack roses in select spots all over and adding Rose leafs, Initially an attempt to cover disformed roses. After experimenting with 3 panels the last picture of my 3rd panel is my preference and will build the wall like this and will esasily update the first two and continue to build. I have the right amount of panels, but this project looks like I'll require 2k more roses. Expesive project that I am making portable. I may be able to recoup my investment by renting it out for weddings and parties. This project is not easy for 1 person, possible and you need a lot of time set aside. 3 people or more would be ideal you may be able to finish in an 8 hour day possibly 2 days. I work 20 hours so it's tough and you will be surprised buy the 200 roses per panel. When completed I will list instructions with everything needed to replicate my Rose 🌹 wall if you love it. Have done A LOT of experimenting and have made rose "wallpaper" and now that I know several techniques will be building a portable wall.

So, I ordered over a 1,000 plus of Ling's roses to build a wall. Amazon center packaged many in boxes that are too small, Ling's is kindly working with me to help get me the proper roses and will be alerting the fulfillment center about the packaging, so this does not have to be an issue new orders. So, you shouldn't have to worry and if the same thing happens just contact Ling's first before posting a review and they will help sort everything out, and now hopefully new orders will never have the "crushed roses" like a have, which the right thing to do. Good job, Ling's.

I love mixing these roses with Real Touch Callie Lillies:
Luyue Calla Lily Bridal Wedding Bouquet Head Lataex Real Touch Flower Bouquets Pack of 20 (Pure white)

I bought these flowers to make centerpieces for a wedding and to really experiment with. I wasn't disappointed when they came. The flower arrived in a timely fashion and packaged well. While they weren't jammed into the box, some of the flowers were smooshed. As I mentioned, I really wanted to see what I could do with them. I recommend this flower for arrangements that hide the back because neither the stem nor leaves are eye catching. The leaves are simple construction paper glued to the bottom of the blossom. If you look at the ad, you'll see that they do not hide this, but they don't really disclose it either. Again, for kissing balls or bouquets, this isn't really a problem. If you're looking to expose the stems, you may want to look at other options. The flowers are made of a very nice foam and are pleasant to the touch - however, because they are made of foam they float. If you're thinking of getting them to submerge, don't. The are very buoyant and float to the top unless you have a heavy anchor. I used 10 glass beads as an anchor for one rose and it still floated to the top. While submerging I did find that they perk up and the smooshed petals ironed themselves out after drying. This is up to your discretion. The red didn't run after being fully submerged, but I didn't do it for an extended length of time. I've added pictures and hope this helps some. Overall for my intended use, they are fine.