Wedding Floral Arrangements
A wedding is truly a memorable occasion for both the newly weds and guests. The food, the wine, the celebration itself and the flowers make a wedding unique and special. It is true that flowers cheer you up and make you smile, and when you use vibrantly colored flowers in season in your wedding floral arrangements, you are sure to cheer everyone.
The choice of flowers is one of the most important aspects when planning a wedding. You can hire a florist to design an appropriate wedding floral arrangement for you or you can do it yourself if you have time and the experience. Whichever way you choose, it is important how you plan and choose your color scheme.
When choosing the flowers for your wedding floral arrangement, you need to know the types of flowers that are appropriate for the occasion. Choose flowers that are in season and make sure to buy by the dozens. Make sure the colors of the flowers are appropriate and have proper color coordination with your motif. Don’t use clashing colors; make sure they compliment the arrangement, the motif, the ambiance and the season. Your florist knows these and it’s no doubt that a professionally-made wedding floral arrangement will make a lasting impression on everyone.
Using complimenting wedding floral arrangements for the venue is one great way to take the outdoors indoors. If your choice of flowers are in season and come in vibrant colors, the ceremony’s ambiance will be more joyful. Use different materials like tulle and silk fabrics in accenting your floral arrangements.
You can ask the florist to create beautiful wedding floral arrangements that can be used both for the ceremony and the reception. This helps if you are cutting on the cost of the wedding floral arrangements. Florists know how to create versatile floral arrangements. Flowers arranged in vases or pots are great for the ceremony when placed on top of pedestals alongside of the aisle. These can be taken to the reception and can be used as decoration for the venue and smaller arrangements can be used as table centerpieces.
If you have a big budget for the wedding floral arrangements on both the ceremony and reception venues, then you can always ask your florist to create a spectacular floral arrangement. You and your guests will surely enjoy the celebration and the ambiance, and of course the sight and smell of flowers.
Centerpieces and candles are quite common in wedding receptions, but why not make them extra special. You can tell you florist to arrange a unique wedding floral arrangement design for every table to make the table more inviting and elegant.
Floral decorations for the reception are also important. Floral arrangements on pedestals, garlands of flowers on the aisle or on the railings of staircases add life and color to the reception.
The bridal car is always part of the wedding floral arrangement. Your florist should make sure that the bridal car’s floral arrangement will compliment the color scheme and theme of the wedding. This truly adds to elegance and appearance of the bridal car.
For the bride’s bouquet and her entourage, the choice of flowers and arrangement are also very important. The most popular arrangements to choose from are:
Biedermeier is a European-inspired bouquet arrangement where different colors and types of flowers are arranged in a definite circular pattern.
Basket is an arrangement normally carried by the flower girls. Colorful flowers are placed in a basket and arranged like they were hand-picked from a garden.
Cascade is also referred to as Waterfall or Teardrop bouquet, and flowers are arranged in a flowing fashion.
Heart bouquets have also been popular. Flowers are arranged to form a heart shape and bows are also sometimes tied on the stems as accents.
Nosegay is an arrangement made up of a cluster of blossoms. This arrangement is almost similar to the Round bouquet arrangement for the bride. Greens and bows are often used as accents for this type of arrangement.
Round is the most common bouquet arrangement for the bride. The flowers are arranged to form a round share and the stems are tied tight. Round bouquet arrangement is also sometimes referred to as Colonial bouquet arrangement.
Single-stem flowers have also gained popularity these days for its simplicity and elegance. You may notice in some weddings that bridesmaids and even sponsors have single-stemmed flowers that compliment their attire when they walk down the aisle.