Choosing Your Wedding Flowers

I’ve always wondered how brides choose their wedding flowers. With hundreds of flower options to choose from and not to mention all the possible arrangements available, I think you’d be surprised yourself that one can settle on one thing to use for her wedding.

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Following the usual way that brides narrow down their choices and how I made mine, of course, I’ll try to list down the main things considered as one makes her decision:

• Favorite flowers
• Color selection
• Wedding dress design
• Available flower arrangements
• Florist style
• Ornaments

These are listed in random. It will depend on how one will find each as important.

The reasons remain simple. A bride will always want to use her favorite flowers especially if we’re talking about the bride’s bouquet. She’ll be opting for to get them in the color theme of her wedding or perhaps make the color of the flowers as the wedding color theme. Arrangement and florist style will have to match or complement the wedding dress and decide on the ornaments soon after that, i.e. natural ornaments in the form of leaves and such or precious (or semi) stones or ribbons, etc.

Take for example how this lady decided on her wedding flowers:

Mine will be bigger but will combine these flowers: hyacinth, gloriosa lilies, hypericum berries, ranunculus, open tulips, anemones. All the guys will have really simple boutonnières with chartreuse hypericum berries and greenery, except for Jimmy, who will have red hypericum berries and a few hyacinth blooms to match my flowers.

If you’ve got your own special way of choosing your wedding flowers, let us know!