Seasonal Wedding Flower Tips

Video Transcript

"One of the important things when you're picking flowers is the season that the wedding will actually be in. If you're going into a summer or a spring season, you need to stick with tulips and lighter flowers that are more bulbs, irises, lilacs, anything that will be blooming that time of the year. If you try to get them off season, you have to worry about availability, the quality of the flower, as well as the price is extremely high if you go off season. So it's better to stay on season. If you go into a summer wedding, things like roses are very popular and hold up pretty well, and there's also lilies that will hold up and work well in the summer weddings. And the lilies can come in almost any color that want and any style and size, same with the roses. The other safe bet is a tropical wedding, where the tropical flowers like this protea or orchid cold be used. That's something that holds up very well. They are a little bit more expensive simply because they are tropical flowers but they draw attention to the bouquet, so you could still do a nice quality bouquet using tropical flowers so they still keep your attention and carry the theme out of your wedding. Same thing, we'll go down through, you should carry that same flowers and styles down through the groom, the mother and the father, on the bridesmaids as well. This is also a way of, tropical flowers are a little bit more textured and they get to be a little bit more contemporary looking. You can carry one single calily and that would be nice, or you could carry a whole bouquet of just wild tropical flowers. It would be totally up to you and usually, if you are going into a tropical wedding, you can do it with, it's a lot more colorful and brighter. And you have to watch that because against the white dress. That's basically how you can choose your flowers. The bride will usually know whether she wants, what kind of flowers she actually likes. If she wants a very wild flower, Victorian look, or if she wants a more contemporary look, which is what you go towards, the tropicals. We could do these or all in silk, we could do them in fresh as well. The silk seems to last a little bit longer and you have a memento to keep forever and ever, where the fresh flowers, all you have is a photograph, and it's usually portraits from the photographer that will do them for you. And that's basically how you pick the flowers for your wedding. You've got to look at the season and see the availability and the cost and budget of your wedding."