Thursday, August 23, 2012

How To Plan Your Wedding Flowers




What you need to do when you are planning your wedding flowers is consider them to be the bride's arrangements, reflecting the spirit of her life's happiest day. From bouquets to decorations and wedding reception flowers, many brides are clueless about which one of them to select.

When it comes to flowers, they should be chosen according to the bride and groom preferences, color of the bride and bridesmaids' dresses, church and reception places, and sticking to the decoration theme.

Because most floral varieties are easily found year-round, but seasonal flowers are cheaper and easier to find, the season is yet another point to consider. A few brides prefer dried flowers or artificial ones made of silk even though fresh flowers are the most viable option when it comes to planning the wedding day.

Having an overall perspective of the flowers available throughout the different seasons of the year may help to save money on flowers and yet allow you to select the most appropriate flowers for the big day. Classified into Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter and Anytime categories are the wedding flowers.

Spring Wedding Flowers to choose from are tulips, violets, greenery, fern, pansies, peonies, ivy, daffodils, lilacs, lilies and lily of the valley, dogwoods, irises, forsythia branches, hyacinth, larkspur, sweet peas, apple or cherry blossoms.

Daisies, roses, dahlias, zinnias, asters, iris, larkspur, Shasta, stock, calla lilies, delphinium, geraniums, hydrangeas, sunflower, sweet William, greenery, beech leaves, ferns, meadowsweet, stock, goldenrod, Jacobs ladder and Queen Anne's Lace are the seasonal wedding flowers for summer.

The most wedding arrangements during the fall include both flowers and foliage but not necessary. The mix of these elements is always a decision of the bride who can choose from a single flower theme to combined floral arrangements with or without specific foliage any time of the year.

In Autumn, Wedding flowers include asters, dried hydrangeas, roses, zinnias, statice, marigolds, chrysanthemums and gerbera daisies while the most commonly used foliage are autumn leaves, yarrow, rosemary and rosehip.

For winter, wedding flowers include the classic poinsettias, as well as orchids, amaryllis, camellias, jasmine and forget-me-nots in addition to accents of pine, ivy, fem, spruce and rhododendron leaves, so there is no need for dried or artificial flowers as many brides still believe.

There are others available anytime when brides seek fresh flowers, including a variety of carnations and roses, besides of gardenias, baby's breath, snapdragons, stephanotis and ivy mainly used in wedding bouquets aside from the flowers that were already mentioned.

Part of your special day are wedding flowers but it can also take a large portion of the wedding budget if not planned in advance. But because they are symbol of joyful celebration, prosperity and fertility contributing to the atmosphere of love joining the bride and groom's lives together, their importance should not be underestimated.

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