Bridal Party Flowers

The bridal party flowers should compliment the bridal bouquet design . Choose a focal flower for your bouquet and this will establish an overall theme for the wedding party. 

Choose your bridal party flowers so that the flowers will look good in photos.

The maid or matron of honor bouquet is usually similar to the bride’s bouquet, but a different color.

These distinctions help the guests to identify the members of the wedding party. 

Make sure that the bridesmaids bouquets, coordinate with the brides and don’t blend in with the dresses. 

When selecting the arrangements for the flower girl, make sure that it is easy and light enough for her to carry down the aisle. 

If choosing wedding hair flowers they must look delicate, but be sturdy enough to remain fresh and intact throughout the wedding. 

Boutonnières (buttonholes) for the men, usually consist of a single flower. It could be a rosebud or carnation and are often white, but there is no rule to this, so just choose or have the groom choose the flower and color. Make sure it matches the theme of the wedding and the bridal flowers. 

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Listed below are various arrangements suitable to use for your bridal party flowers.

• Tossing bouquet

• Teardrop bouquet

• Round posies

• Cascading trail bouquet

• Hand Picked bouquets - A mixture of garden flowers

• A few long tall stemmed flowers with greenery e.g. gerberas or tulips

• Corsages

• Ball of flowers

• Baskets

• Parasols

• Hairpieces

• Halo and sash

• Pomander

• Flowers on ring bearer pillow

• Other options:
  Small bible, a satin purse or a fan with flowers pinned to it.

• Also see Wedding Bouquet Styles for pictures of various bouquet styles.

What the Colors Symbolize

White Purity and innocence (hence the traditional white flowers for brides).

Red Love, passion. A positive, stimulation color.

Yellow The sun, light. A positive, cheerful color.

Orange Has great warmth and decorative value. Not as bright as yellow or as aggressive as red.

Blue Dignity. A quiet, cool color. Not a good night color and should be used carefully.

Green Has both the cheerfulness of yellow and the coolness of blue. A restful color and also the color of spring, of new life.

Violet Sorrow and penitence. May be either warm or cool depending on the amount of red or blue in it.

Grey Humility.

Black Mourning and sickness. However, black with white symbolizes humanity and purity of life.