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If you're preserving flowers from a wedding, funeral, or another meaningful bouquet, you've probably come across two very different ways to do it: a resin bowl or trinket dish, or a full resin table. Both use the same basic idea — real dried flowers suspended in clear resin — but they're built for completely different budgets, timelines, and spaces. Here's how to think about which one is right for you.
What is a resin flower preservation bowl?
A preserved flower resin bowl (sometimes called a catchall, jewelry dish, or trinket dish) is a small, handmade wood or bamboo bowl or tray with real dried flowers cast into a clear resin layer on top. It's sized to actually live somewhere in your home — a nightstand, vanity, entryway table, or bookshelf — and it doubles as a place to catch your rings, keys, or everyday jewelry.
And you don't have to preserve your own bouquet to get one. If you'd rather skip the process of drying and preserving your own flowers, we can create a piece using our own dried flowers instead — you still get a handmade, one-of-a-kind resin keepsake without the extra time or guesswork of preserving flowers yourself. Of course, if your bouquet means something to you, we're glad to work with your own real flowers too.
Because it's smaller in scale, a resin bowl costs a fraction of a full furniture piece, and the pieces already in the shop are ready to ship right away.
What is a resin table?
A resin table is a full piece of furniture — usually a wood slab or tabletop with a much larger resin pour embedding the flowers across the whole surface. It's a beautiful, dramatic way to preserve a large bouquet or an entire wedding's worth of flowers, but it comes with the tradeoffs of any custom furniture: a higher price point, a longer build and cure time, and the practical question of where a new table is actually going to go in your home.
Resin bowl vs. resin table: the real differences
Cost: Ready-made bowls and trays in the shop are priced on each listing. If you'd like us to preserve your own bouquet in a custom piece, it's custom priced based on your flowers and the bowl you choose — still a fraction of the cost of a custom resin table.
Timeline: Ready-made bowls and trinket dishes in the shop ship right away. A custom piece from your own bouquet takes about eight to ten weeks, since the flowers have to dry completely before they're designed and poured.
Space: A bowl fits on any surface you already own. A table is a furniture commitment — it needs a room built around it.
Flower quantity: A resin bowl won't encase your entire bouquet the way a table can — but it doesn't need to. Most people choose the most meaningful stems or blooms from their bouquet to feature in a bowl or dish, rather than preserving the whole arrangement. And if you'd rather not use your own flowers at all, that's an option too.
Durability: A large tabletop sees a lot more everyday wear — it's more exposed to bumps, scratches, and the risk of cracking over years of use. A smaller bowl or dish is easier to protect and keep looking new on a shelf or in a drawer.
Everyday use: A resin catchall isn't just decorative — it's something you actually use every day to hold rings, earrings, or your keys, resting right alongside your preserved flowers. With a table, the resin surface is sealed flat across the whole design, so there's no real spot to set anything down without placing it directly over the flowers themselves.
Which one should you choose?
If you're preserving flowers to keep a memory alive in a way that fits naturally into your home — without a major furniture investment, a long wait, or the worry of everyday damage — a resin bowl or trinket dish is usually the better fit. It gives you the same real-flower, cast-in-resin keepsake, sized for how people actually live, featuring the blooms that matter most — and you can use your own bouquet or ours.
Every one of our preserved flower resin bowls and trinket dishes is made by hand, one at a time. Browse the full collection here, or reach out if you'd like to talk through preserving your own bouquet — or choosing flowers from us instead.
