Flower Arrangement Guide

If you’re planning to have elaborate flower arrangements in your wedding, you needn’t spend a fortune. Not only will they look decorative, but will add a touch of elegance to your big day and will express your personality as well.

You could have a simple round bouquet either for yourself or for your bridesmaid. To choose your wedding flowers, take a sample of your wedding dress along to match the flowers with. Your attendants’ dresses should be well coordinated and blend with your dress and you should choose light shades of pink for them while you wear traditional white.

For your main flowers, choose roses, rosebuds, carnations, and lilies and buy them in bulk. If you have extra flowers, use them in corsages, boutonnieres, and your throw bouquet. Greenery such as ivy and filler flowers like lily of the valley are ideal and will serve as a background to your main flowers. Make your bouquet with bouquet holders, a bouquet stand, flowers, greens, scissors, floral tape and wire, wire cutters, and trimmings.

Choose from these bouquet styles including a drop shower, which has a wide trail with the flowers flowing out from a posy top set on wires; a teardrop arrangement that has a wide trail with a posy top held together by a central wire; a shower that has a posy top that flows down to end in a long trail of flowers, attached to a central wire; a trailing, which is a delicate bouquet but without a posy top that is just right for bridesmaids; a formal posy that comes in a rounded shape with greens, lace or net as distinctive trimmings; or an informal posy that need not be strictly round in shape.

Your and your bridesmaids’ bouquets should be color coordinated to give the event a warm and harmonious look.

Flower arrangement is an art that first originated centuries ago and traveled all over the world, taking different forms in different countries is now a part of our lives. Flower arrangements first appeared in Classical Greek and Roman times and went on to be defined as an art in Europe from the 14th –17th centuries before turning east to America, China, and Japan.

The principles of traditional flower arrangements are balance, harmony, proportion, and color. All flower arrangements, if done in the traditional style, must embody these principles. These designs are inherited from an earlier time and are said to be decorative and appealing to our senses of touch, smell, and color in their form, texture, and fragrance.

If you have a garden that you would like to use for arranging flowers, find a vase you would like to use and support it with a base to stick flowers into. Cut flowers from your garden early in the morning, as the stems contain more water in them than later in the day and won’t wilt as quickly, then synchronize the color of your flowers with your environment. Of course, with practice, you can do much more inventing as you go along.

Since flower arranging is an art, how your arrangement looks finally depends on its creator. You can custom design your flower arrangements to suit a variety of occasions such as a wedding, corporate event, anniversary, or birthday. You can also make flower arrangements from all kinds of materials such as fresh flowers, dried flowers, silk flowers, and paper flowers. You can dress up your life with well designed flower arrangements. Choose, innovate, and create the magic of flower arrangements for fun and style.