Bridal Bouquet

Your bridal bouquet presents another classic opportunity to save money. There are a billion styles of bouquets to choose from and a chance for you to be creative. Take a look at some of the You Tube videos to get more ideas like the hand-tied clutch video to the right.

When shopping for your bouquet, visit your local flower district and try to get all of your flowers at the same time – I mean in bulk at a great price. The object is to save as much as you can. Some of the styles include contemporary nosegay, hand-tied clutch (see video), cascade, crescent bouquet, arm bouquet, free form bouquet.

Research the Internet to find even more styles to choose from. While your creative juices are flowing, this is a great time to not go overboard by having too many flowers.

If you just can’t resist be sure the room can be easily aired out and your guests aren’t smoother in flower scents that can be over powering to the nostrils. It comes back to the saying that less is more.

With all of the excitement you could end up over doing your flower task. When shopping for your bouquet, visit your local flower district and get your flowers at the same time. A few bouquet and wedding flower tips.

1. Try to spread your flowers around to get the most from one batch. Be sure to not spread them too thin so you won’t have empty spaces.
2. Look for key focal points to place flowers.
3. Network with friends and find out who has the gift of arranging flowers. Use any networking skills you have to make it happen.
4. You might even ask co-workers to lend a helping hand with arranging.
5. You could use artificial flowers but you won’t have to if you smartly spread or stretch one batch of flowers.
6. Visit your local wedding flower district where you’ll find inexpensive flowers. Most cities have flower districts where you can find discount flowers.

Rests assure flower vendor want to sell as many flowers as they possibly can. If they don’t the flowers will wilt and die.  That’s a good bargaining chip for you.  The flower district is usually next to the garment district in the downtown areas of  most cities.

7. You might try to get flowers that have the same or similar colors so your design won’t be all over the place. Color coordinating can be challenging since you’re trying to negotiate a good deal. You could get lucky and get what you want.

Your colors and design should flow from from the church to the reception hall; the wedding cake and bridal bouquet. Also, the color of flowers are said to be symbolic. some colors relate to life and others to death.

LA Flower District

Most of these traditions came from ancient times. Today’s Bride probably won’t dig that deep to find out what all of those ancient traditions mean.

She just wants to know how to get the flowers she’ll need for her wedding without any slip ups.

Once your color schemes tie in together with the theme of your wedding, you’ll achieve a more cohesive look and feel. Your bridal bouquet, Don’t stop there check out this E Book if you want to get more knowledge to help you plan.

Happy Wedding!