Wedding Flower Alternatives
Posted by in Wedding Flowers on September 26, 2011
Wedding Flower Alternatives
Weddings are remembered because of the beautiful decorations that are displayed around the venue. Flowers, which are the easiest elements for decoration, are used to decorate the church altar, pews, wedding arches, reception
venue walls, table centerpieces, and of course the bride’s bouquet. Because of their versatility and designs, wedding flowers are used to make the wedding look bright and colorful. But they are perishable and often have to be discarded after the ceremony is over. Many a times, people also are allergic to flowers and are afraid to use them as decorations for weddings.
Therefore, spending a wholesome amount of money on flower decorations is not a very sensible choice. If you are having a personal wedding ceremony in a small venue with limited guests, using wedding flower alternatives could surely be an inexpensive and attractive option. There are many alternatives such as ribbons, paper decorations, lights and greens, that can be used instead of flowers to add color to your wedding. These are explained more elaborately in the paragraphs below, take a look.
Wedding Flower Alternative Ideas
Even though wedding flowers are always a part of wedding, it isn’t necessary that they are the only decorations to be used! Using alternatives to wedding flowers as decorations for the church and reception venue would surely fetch you many complements. Items such as; fruits, leaves, potpourri, ribbons, tulle bows, ceramic pots, etc., can be used for centerpieces and pews at weddings to give the interiors a unique touch. If having flowers is a must, you can try artificial or handmade flowers, which would add the same elegance to the wedding as real flowers. I am sure you would want to know more about these wedding flower alternatives that are cheap and convenient. Read into the coming up paragraphs and pick your favorites!
Natural Elements
If you are having an outdoor wedding and require natural decorations, the next best thing to flowers are foliage, fruits or plants. There are various artistically made leaves in nature which look brilliant when combined with berries or ribbons. Therefore, if you want to use foliage as flower alternatives, you need to make them look presentable and decorative with various combinations. For centerpieces you can use Lavender leaves in ceramic pots decorated with bows, bonsais or potted table plants, or simply place a bowl of colored stones or pebbles on the tables. Preparing pomanders from leaves and ribbons can be great bouquet and decoration options.
Fabric
Using fabric at weddings is surely a stylish alternative to flowers. Even though they look the best with flowers, they can be used plain as well. If you have to decorate a wedding arch, draping lengthy tulle ribbons around the arch could give it a royal look. Using artificial flowers made from cloth, satin, buttons, and knots, etc., can be perfect alternatives to wedding bouquets. Cloth flowers have the same versatility as real flowers, because the former are imitations of the latter such as; roses, gerberas, carnations, sunflowers, etc. Making simple bows from satin or tulle ribbons and sticking them on pews or chairs, can save you a lot of time and effort. Adding these in decorative vases can make them attractive centerpieces as well.
Handicraft Materials
I am sure you must have seen artificial flowers that are made from paper, crystals, beads, stones, shells, etc., displayed in handicraft stores. Well, imagine these beautiful creations sitting in vases as centerpieces at the wedding! One of my personal favorites are tissue paper flowers, which make delicate and elegant table decorations or bouquets. For outdoor or beach weddings, seashells or pebbles added to simple glass bowls, would make perfect centerpieces. Candles, lanterns, small clay lamps, etc., are also cheap wedding flower alternatives, used as decorations for the wedding.
With these excellent wedding flower alternatives, you can start picking out the decorations for your wedding. So, give your wedding a creative look and save a good sum, that you would spend on flowers otherwise.
Beach Wedding Bouquets
Posted by in Uncategorized on September 26, 2011
Beach Wedding Bouquets
Beach weddings although a clichéd setting are never the kind of set ups that fail to impress or turn out extravagant an affair. Being picturesque and quite the spot to have a wedding, the beach serves as a great backdrop for any couple when tying the knot. My sister is soon going to go down that road, and if all works out in our favor, we have a close-to-the-beach wedding coming up soon during the holidays! There’s really nothing like it – you have the sound of the waves crashing against the shore, you have the cry of far off seagulls, the smell of wet sand and salt speckled winds in the air. For those planning a wedding at the beach, for starters – you couldn’t have gone with a more perfect venue. For brides fretting about what kind of bouquet would best work with her dress and with the theme, these ideas I’ve put together for you should help I hope in some way.
Beach Wedding Bouquets and Boutonnières
These bridal bouquet ideas and suggestions for boutonnières will give you great insight on how to put flowers together to make the most of their colors compliment the theme of your wedding. There are a tonne of tropical flowers that you can mix and match your arrangements with, since the colors are vibrant and won’t clash with one another. You can even mix it up with colors of the same kind of flower, to make it even prettier.
❀White and Violet Roses When arranging a bouquet, have an even set of 6 flowers placed together in the bouquet. Have medium sized white and violet roses mixed together to form a subtle and strong colored array of this. You can have a golden mesh like material hold the base of the flowers intact, with a champagne colored ribbon to finish the look. Throw on some sprinkled shine on the roses, and you have quite a stunning rose arrangement. The boutonnière can have a single violet/white rose tucked into the groom’s/groomsmen’s breast pocket.
❀Orchids A flower that has such a huge variety in colors is worth including in a beach bouquet. From shades of white, blue and violet, these flowers are quite a catch. Choose orchids in either white, or one kind that I recently came across with mixed hues of violet and blue, with specks of white all merged into one. Not only is it a beautiful flower to arrange in a bouquet, but you can add little seashell highlights that you can glue to the bouquet’s ribbon holding the flowers together. Have little tear drop stick-ons placed here and there around the petals, to make these look like water droplets. It adds an element of quiet grandeur to it. You can have the groom/groomsmen pin a white simple orchid to their boutonnières.
❀Bird of Paradise This flower bursts with colors of bright orange and blue, making it a colorful arrangement that will look spectacular in the sunlight. It makes the colors jump out at you, making it a simple arrangement to put together, where you can use a bejeweled mesh to wrap the bottom of the flowers to form your bouquet. You can have small versions of this flower tucked into a boutonnière, trimming off the stems of course.
❀Sunflowers Nothing like a douse of sunshine yellow to brighten up your overall white look. It adds great color to an arrangement, making the yellow face of the sunflower burst with pride and open-faced beauty. Teddy bear sunflowers will make you melt when you take a look at their chubby sunflower faces. The boutonnières of the groom/groomsmen can have instead a regular sunflower, peeking through.
❀Hot Pink Dahlias Vibrant and full of life, these flowers are the epitome of style and class. It adds a touch of elegance to your bouquet, making it a one of a kind arrangement. The boutonnières of the groom’s/groomsmen of course will have a small dahlia pinned to it.
These beach wedding bouquets will serve your purpose well, being colorful arrangements that would make any flower ensemble look breathtaking. In stark contrast to your white dress, it would make it even more noticeable and pleasing to those who see you walking down the aisle holding such a beautiful bouquet.