Wedding flowers are very important on the wedding. It will be used to decorate the wedding ceremony, reception, bridesmaid’s and flower girls’ flowers, and most of all, the bride’s bouquet.

For the bridal bouquet, there are a lot of flowers, designs and colours to choose from. The common styles are contemporary, cascades, cluster, hand-tied garden bouquets.  The customary colours for the bridal bouquet are white such as lilies of the valley, gardenias, stephanotis, orchids, and white roses.

If the bride wants a colourful bouquet, there are a variety of colourful flowers like tulips, peonies, gerbera, stock, and roses. There are also well liked flowers with fragrance such as stephanotis, gardenias, freesia, narcissus, and bouvardia.

Make sure that the wedding flowers that you choose are in season so that it will not be too expensive and the availability will not be a problem. It should match the wedding dress of the bride, colour motif of the wedding, and your wedding style. Some flowers have meanings like white flowers shows innocence, stephanotis is considered as a good luck flower in traditional weddings, pimpernel signifies change, forget-me-nots symbolizes true love, and ivy characterize friendship, fidelity, and matrimony.

It is really up to you if you believe what the flowers symbolize but whatever you decide on, you must plan about how will it be arranged for the ceremony, the reception, and for the wedding bouquet. Make sure that you order your wedding flowers in advance and give time for the delivery.

When you pick out the style for your wedding bouquet, see to it that if you are petite, a small bouquet will look nice. If you are tall, a cascade arrangement is best.

Wedding flowers also include the bouquets for your bridesmaids and maid of honor. The bridesmaid’s bouquet should go with the bride’s bouquet but a little smaller. It should also go with the bridesmaids’ dresses and the wedding theme. The bouquet of the bridesmaids should be the same. On the other hand, the bouquet for the maid of honor is larger than the bridesmaids’ bouquets or you can give additional accents to it so that it will be different from the others.

 For the tossing of the bouquet, the bride may request the florist to prepare another smaller bouquet for the event. The tossing of the bouquet is a done during the reception and is believed that all the single ladies that are present and catches the bouquet will be the next bride.

The wedding flowers will give life to your wedding day. It will enhance and beautify the place for the wedding ceremony, reception, the maid of honor, the bridesmaids, and of course the bride with her wedding bouquet. You can have a simple flower arrangement but what’s important is that the flowers compliment the entire theme of the wedding including the entourage’s dresses and the bride’s wedding dress. Wedding flowers can also stretch up to the guests’ tables used during the reception.

Wedding flowers will give inspiration not only to the guests but also to the bride and groom during the big day!