How to Choose Wedding Bouquet Flowers
How to Choose Wedding Bouquet Flowers
Your choice in wedding bouquet flowers is a very important decision. The colors and style is the ultimate statement to your wedding theme. Here are some things to consider when choosing your wedding bouquet flowers.
Flower Type
The first step when choosing your wedding bouquet flowers is deciding between silk or fresh.
On the one hand, fresh flowers are naturally beautiful, but on the other hand, they wilt. Special procedures have to be taken to preserve the bouquet after the wedding to keep it from turning brown. You also have to consider if the fresh flowers you want will be available to you. Certain fresh tropical flowers may have to be shipped to your location, which can be expensive.
Silk flowers, on the other hand are usually available at any local craft store and the flowers for the wedding bouquet can easily be kept for generations if taken care of properly. Silk flowers can also be dusted easily.
The flowers you choose should reflect the theme and color of your wedding exactly. Silk flowers can be sprayed with dye made for silk flowers or you can make your own dye by mixing food coloring in a spray bottle. Some fresh flowers' color can be changed by putting the stems into water mixed with food coloring instead of fresh water.
Also pick the type of flower to go with your theme. Anthuriums, orchids, and are popular choices for tropical weddings. Other tropical choices are ginger flowers, Bird of Paradise, Costus French Kiss, or Heliconia. Cabbage roses, daises, and mums are popular for garden themes. Cherry blossoms, jasmine, and peonies are perfect for oriental weddings. Cowboy themed weddings look nice with wildflower bouquets.
What about Greenery?
You also need to choose greenery to go with your flowers. The greenery you choose is just as important to the flowers as color. For example, ivy will give your flowers a more garden-y theme, while ferns seem woodsier.
You can also choose greenery to go with the season of the wedding. For example, red, yellow, and gold maple leaves would be perfect for a fall wedding. Silver leaf maple or dusty miller would be nice for a winter wedding.
As you can see there are a lot of things to consider when choosing your wedding bouquet flowers. The time it takes to choose the right flowers are worth it though. They will be the wedding flowers that stay with you for the rest of your life.