subject: Planning Wedding Flowers Tips And Tricks [print this page] When planning your wedding flowers, what you need to do is consider them to be the bride's arrangements, reflecting the spirit of her life's happiest day. There are bouquets, decorations, and wedding reception flowers which is why a lot of 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.
The season is another point to consider due to the fact that most floral varieties are easily found year-round, but seasonal flowers are cheaper and easier to find. 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.
Helping to save money on flowers and yet allow you to select the most appropriate flowers for the big day is having an overall perspective of the flowers that are available throughout the different seasons of the year. Classified into Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter and Anytime categories are the wedding flowers.
When it comes to spring wedding flowers, choices would include 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.
For summer, the seasonal Wedding Flowers are 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.
During the fall, most wedding arrangements 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.
Wedding flowers in autumn would 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.
Wedding Flowers for winter 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.
Aside from the flowers that were already mentioned, there are also those that are 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.
Wedding flowers can take a large portion of the wedding budget if not planned in advance even though they are part of your special day. 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.
