The Fall Wedding Flowers Blog

Here’s a quick little video showing the most gorgeous topiary arrangements being made.  They look so lovely and fresh in the color scheme shown, but could be customised to your own wedding palette quite easily.

They’d make fantastic ceremony or reception arrangements.  The topiary shape is quite formal and classic, so they are a great substitute to large arrangements.  By playing with the color and type of flowers used, the mood can be altered to suit any type of wedding.

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Destination weddings are becoming more and more popular.  For some, cheap travel enables them to have a dream wedding in a tropical location, or perhaps a live a fairy tale for a day in a romantic castle.  Depending on where you live, a destination wedding can sometimes be a more economical option than holding your wedding locally.  Whatever your reasons for choosing a destination wedding, there are ways to save.

examiner.com recently published 12 steps to having a destination wedding for under $12,000.  My favorite tip was to find a local venue that looks like it’s somewhere else.  In this case it was a gorgeous Italian villa 45 minutes from Austin, TX (below).  Now, if you didn’t know any better, you’d swear that was in Italy!

Many of the savings tips that relate to local weddings will apply to a destination wedding as well.  For some more ideas check out my previous posts:

• Save when you buy wedding flowers (and more)!
• 7 ways to save when you buy wedding flowers
• The effect of the economy on weddings

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Planning a color scheme for your fall wedding flowers can be a pretty daunting task.  Some of the things you need to consider are:

The style of your wedding

• Formal - tend towards monochrome or pastel arrangements
• Tropical - bright, lush colors.
• Casual - bright or pastel, really it’s the style of arrangement that conveys the feel here.
• Rustic or country - the colors of fall work especially well

The atmosphere you’re trying to create

• This goes hand in hand with the style of your wedding (above).  Think about what sort of feel you’re going for.  Fun and playful, serious, relaxed and casual…

The colors your wedding party will be wearing

• The colors of your wedding flowers also need to complement the attire of your wedding party.  Again you need to consider the look and feel of your wedding - do you want contrasts, monochromes, or complements?

What colors suit you, the bride

• It pays to know what colors make the most of your own natural beauty.  For example, some people look great against orange others will look dreadful.  If you’re not sure, hold up some fabric swatches near your face and see which ones really make you glow.

You might have noticed I haven’t included the season of your wedding.  While many color combinations lend themselves to a particular season, I don’t think this should be a restricting factor particularly if you are having your ceremony and reception indoors.  The vast variety of fall wedding flowers available means you really can have any color combination you choose.

Some people just know what they want and it looks great.  Others, (like me) need a bit of help along the way.  Again, your florist can be of great assistance.  Don’t forget they work with color for a living.

But if you’re still having problems visualizing color combinations or coming up with ideas, I’ve found a great website for you called ColorSchemer.  It has heaps of color schemes on it (as the name suggests), all searchable by color or keywords.  Here’s a link to the search results for fall color schemes - all 86 of them!  Now if that doesn’t give you some ideas, well…

You can create a user account and save your favorite schemes.  Looks like great fun and certainly a worthwhile place to visit if you’re after some ideas.

I’d love to know your favorite color combinations for fall wedding flowers.  What colors did you have, or are you planning to have?  Leave a comment below.

Image from Wikipedia

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Here’s a little reading to help inspire your wedding flowers planning.

• Our wedding: The flowers | Sense to Save - Join me on my journey to live a more frugal lifestyle. Here, you’ll find common sense and not-so-common sense on ways you can save money. 

• Fall Wedding Flowers & Winter Wedding Flowers - Fall Wedding Flowers: Autumn is such a beautiful season, full of rich colors and amazing textures. The best bet for fall brides is to use these fall attributes to create a gorgoues wedding that reflects not only the season, …

• Fall Wedding Flowers - When you think of fall wedding flowers, surely the first few things that pop into your brain are red, orange, yellow. Maybe a little brown, rust, or burnt orange. These colors are definitely beautiful, individually or together, …

• Wedding Flowers Questions » Wedding Flowers Navy and Ivory - You could certainly introduce another colour if you wanted to, perhaps a pink, lemon or orange, or you could easily stick to blue and ivory flowers. The additional colour could be introduced into the wedding party flowers, or maybe just into the table decorations. There are many blue flowers available in May, and ivory certainly won’t be a problem.

• Top 5 Wedding Flowers - The beauty and fragnance of wedding flowers symbolize promises of undying love and commitment between the couples. This may be the reason why flowers are so vital in a wedding. There are varieties of wedding flowers. …

• Wedding flowers to remember - I was recently asked by Wedding Flowers Magazine to write about why I am sourcing local and sustainable flowers for my wedding in 2009. IThe article is published today – so do look out for it. In case you can’t get hold of a copy, …

• “My US$3000 budget wedding” #1: Do-it-yourself - Unless you’re too busy to even have weekends for yourself, there are a lot of things for your wedding that you can do on your own. A little patience, research and creativity can go a long way—especially when it comes to cost. …

What do you find the most difficult part of organsing your wedding flowers?  What about the most enjoyable?  I’d love to hear your comments - leave them below!

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Stately fall wedding flowers, the delphinium is also a versatile choice.  Up to twenty star shaped blooms open along a tall stem which can be used to add height to arrangements.

Delphiniums are available in white, shades of pink, lilac and many nuances of that elusive flower color:  blue.

Most often seen as a vertical accent, delphiniums also may be used in cascading bouquets.  They combine beautifully with other fall wedding flowers such as roses, hydrangeas and calla lilies where they can offer a lovely contrast in color and form.

A lovely meadow style bouquet can be made using delphiniums in a pageant bouquet carried across the arm.

Typically arrangements with delphiniums will be reasonably relaxed looking as they have that real cottage garden appeal.

Another cute idea is to use the individual delphinium flowers in a more formal, rounded bouquet.  The blues especially will give a real pop to a pale or pastel colored bouquet of roses for instance.

Centerpieces and reception flowers can be given a very dramatic look with the added height of delphiniums.  Remember though to keep the bulk of your centerpieces above your guests’ heads when they are seated so they can still see and talk with each other!

Images:  delphinium copy, IMG_1530

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