When planning your wedding flowers you must consider them to be the bride's arrangements, reflecting the spirit of her life's happiest day. There are many brides that are clueless about which one of them to select as there are bouquets and decorations and wedding reception flowers.
When choosing flowers, it should be based 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. Fresh flowers are the most viable option when it comes to planning the wedding day, but a few brides prefer dried flowers or artificial ones made of silk.
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. Wedding Flowers can be classified into Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter and Anytime categories.
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.
The most wedding arrangements during the fall include both flowers and foliage but not necessary. The bride can choose from a single flower theme to combined floral arrangements with or without specific foliage any time of the year because she gets to decide the mix of these elements.
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.
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 are part of your special day, but can take a large portion of the wedding budget if not planned in advance. Their importance, however, should not be underestimated because they are symbol of joyful celebration, prosperity and fertility contributing to the atmosphere of love joining the bride and groom's lives together.
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