Flowers can account for up to 10 percent of the wedding budget.
They are a pretty and powerful component that express your own personality.
Your bouquet
- Personalize your bouquet. Wrap the stems with lace or faux fur or add feathers, crystals or pearls. For a personal touch, add a piece of your mother’s jewellery. Emphasize back-to-nature with wildflowers such as daisies, poppies, sunflowers, lilies and baby’s breath. For a vintage look, use garden roses, peonies, stephanotis and Brasilia berries.
- If your gown is simple, have a simple bouquet. You might have a monochromatic bouquet with varying shades of a single colour.
- Larger, cascading formal bouquets are ideal with ballgowns. Smaller bouquets, such as the nosegay, coordinate with less formal dresses.
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Your centrepieces
- For an unusual centrepiece, combine fruit and flowers. Fill a glass bowl with lemons or limes and tuck in a few flowers and some greenery.
- Use cherry blossoms, orchids and bamboo stalks in glass vases anchored with stones for an Asian fusion floral arrangement,
- Consider using clusters of small vases with different blooms in each.
- Keep your centrepieces low so guests don’t have to compete with them to have a conversation.
Elaine Pitsikalis, owner of N’Dezine in Toronto, says, “The choice of flowers depends on the season, the personality of the bride and the formality of the wedding.”
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Originally published in Today’s Bride magazine, Spring/Summer 2013.
