The Fall Wedding Flowers Blog

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!

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This video shows how to make lovely rustic looking fall wedding flowers bouquets.  The colors are straight from nature, creating a beautiful warm look.  Don’t miss the special tip to give the bouquet some extra pop - so simple to do.

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This is just a quick heads up to an interesting article in the American Chronicle today.  It details the important steps to follow to ensure you are hiring a great florist for your wedding.  Don’t get caught out with extra costs or a florist who isn’t on the “same page” as you.

In my article Florist or DIY Fall Wedding Flowers I mentioned that talking with a florist is a good idea, even if you plan to do your own flowers and that is reiterated again in this article.  An expert florist has a wealth of knowledge and experience that can help make all the difference with your fall wedding flowers.

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Although it’s difficult to think about things not going to plan, it pays to be prepared.  As brides, we put an enormous amount of time and effort into planning our weddings.  We have a vision of our perfect day.  We write lists, we check things off, we review and check them again.

This article from 7 Online in conjunction with The Knot, covers some of the “unforseeable problems” that might rear their ugly heads to spoil the special day - keeping children happy at the reception, dealing with rain, wilting flowers (aaargh!!) and reception venue problems.

It’s well worth the read.  Even if everything goes exactly as planned, it doesn’t hurt to be prepared.  Right?

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