What Sort of Flowers for Your Wedding?
There are so many choices to be made about a wedding, and choosing the flowers is one of them. What kinds of bouquets of flowers will the bride and her bridesmaids carry? What flower arrangements should there be? Will they be the showy cascade bouquets? Arm bouquets, those elegant sprays of flowers that can be carried against the arm? Will they be compact and pretty nosegays? The bride will also have to decide what kind of flowers she’ll want in those bouquets, or on those pew decorations or on the altar. Roses? Lilies? Carnations?
The bride will have to consider the budget and how formal the wedding will be. Carrying a nosegay of Shasta daisies for a big, formal wedding is probably out of place, but so would be a cascade of cabbage roses, ivy, violets and other flowers for an informal ceremony. Does she want flowers for their color? Their length? Their fragrance? Their meaning? Their low coast? Maybe she won’t want real flowers at all and will settle for silk flowers. Well made silk flowers can look surprisingly realistic and don’t wilt! A good rule of thumb is the bride chooses the wedding bouquet depending upon the gown she’ll be wearing.
Whatever the bride does, she should chose a talented florist who’s an expert at wedding flowers. She should interview a few of them, check out a portfolio of their work, compare prices. But she should make sure she does this months in advance of her big day!