These petals were fantastic - beautiful, extraordinarlity well preserved (until you touch them, they look exactly like fresh ones), and saved me an enormous amount of stress by not having to harvest and then store fresh petals from all of my friends' gardens. Also. . . trust Petal Garden's calculator on how many you need. When the box arrived, it didn't look like near enough so I ordered more. Nope! Once we were setting up, I realized we had way more then we needed - me bad. My brother was laughig at me saying "Well, they are in the business, they probably kow what they are doing!" They do! The 'ivory' was lovely. I also ordered a smaller amount of the 'seashell' for a bit of added color, it was the perfect addition. . . .