Arranging silk flowers for the wedding
With an event as important as a wedding, it’s essential to have a harmonious relationship among all the flower arrangements. There are three key elements in a typical wedding ensemble: the bride’s bouquet, the wedding vase and the caketop posy. Let’s not forget the bridesmaids’ bouquets, the men’s boutonnières, the women’s corsages, the tabletop centerpieces and the garlands. Here are some tips to guide you.
Dear bride-to-be,
Unless you’re an expert floral designer with lots of time, don’t make your own preparations. Wedding flowers forever take more time than you expect. Bestow the job on someone who is doing nothing else for your wedding but your flowers, a trusted friend with proven silk flower experience.
Dear wedding silk flower creator and designer,
Meet with the bride well in advance of the wedding date to discuss all her needs. Work with color swatches of the wedding colors to choose flower colors. When scheming your displays, remember to reflect the season in which the wedding takes place and the time of day, as well as the wedding style (formal or informal).
Be sure to include flowers that have personal significance for the new couple.
Make a list of all the desired arrangements: for the bride, the bridal party, the wedding itself, and the reception afterwards. Visit the site of the wedding so you know your compositions will be suitable to the surroundings.
Keep to the budgets with both the brides’ money and your time.
All the time keep additional supplies on hand. Have helpers to assist you in transporting the flowers and displaying them in plenty of time.
Since the bride will want to keep her bouquet, it would be a lovely idea to make another one just like it and set it aside. When it comes time to throw the bouquet, she can flip the duplicate.
Coordinate the bridesmaids’ bouquets with the colors of their dresses, and differentiate them from the bride’s bouquet by using other ribbon colors.
Design tips
You can easily modify the ingredients for the wedding vase project. Keep the rose since they are the most traditional flowers in wedding arrangements, and make substitutions for the other flowers. Here are a few recommendations:
- Small peonies instead of hydrangeas
- Bachelor buttons instead of echinops
- Cornflowers instead of balloon flowers
- White spray orchids instead of spirea
- Russian sage instead of lavender
- Heather or stock or sweet William instead of sweetpeas
Have fun at the wedding! The joy of silk flowers is that you can arrange them for everyone at the wedding to enjoy—and then you don’t have to fuss with them for another minute.
