The bridal bouquet is one of the more important flower arrangements in a wedding. The wedding flower bouquet design should complement the bride’s dress and not clash with it. Many people believe that a simple wedding dress warrants a lavish wedding flower bouquet while an ornate wedding dress should have a simple bouquet. Most people want perfect match of both ornate and lavish designs of the dress and the wedding flower bouquet so the bride attracts one and all. Contemporary wedding flower bouquets are the most recent addition to bouquets and these are random designs that can be of any shape and flower.

Cascade Wedding Flower Bouquet

This wedding flower bouquet design has been around for centuries. Its quite outdated and are not considered popular these days. This design consists of a rounded bunch of flowers at the hand of the bride with a cascade of similar flowers and leaves falling off the main bunch. The trail that falls off the main bouquet of blooms may be made up of trailing ribbons, smaller blooms of the original flowers at the top and other foliage that are similar to ivy. This kind of wedding flower bouquet design can actually help to make a bride look slimmer and taller. This design is suitable for a formal wedding which is usually held indoors or in a church.

Round Bouquet

This wedding flower bouquet design consists of a bunch of flower created to look like a ball. A wedding bouquet consists of a similar flowers that are tightly packed. Roses and tulips are great for this wedding flower bouquet design. There may be additions of complementing flowers but these are usually kept to a minimum as well as foliage which are used to fill out the bouquet. This kind of wedding flower bouquet may not be so complimentary on brides with rounded body features since the roundness of the bouquet may also emphasize the rounded hips of the bride as well as her other rounded features.

The Posy

The posy wedding flower bouquet design is probably the closest to informal that a wedding bouquet can get. This is a hand tied bouquet that has the look of the flowers being just picked from the garden and then put together. The wedding flower bouquet may look disorganized and random but florists who make these are sure to have a certain style in mind when making them. Different types of flowers can be used for this bouquet and fillers and foliage an also be abundant.

The wedding cake is something that may take some deciding to choose. Many brides and grooms believe that this aspect of a wedding reception needs to be chosen carefully in order to achieve the right kind of classiness. Mostly couples love using real wedding cake flowers to decorate their cake. On the other hand, fake wedding cake flowers can also be used as wedding cake flowers for certain reason such as allergies, sanitation and the likes. 

Wedding Cake Flowers, Made With Fresh Flowers

Wedding cake flowers can really be made with fresh live flowers with the right way of cleaning and meticulous attention to its storage. Wedding cake makers will readily agree to the use fresh flowers for the wedding cake as long as the flowers are available. Fresh wedding cake flowers will look doubly nice on the cake as well as coordinate well with the reception flower arrangements and may be even with the wedding flower bouquet of the bride.

Some great suggestions for wedding cake flowersare chrysanthemums, lily of the valley, gerberas, roses and tulips. The chrysanthemums, roses and gerbera can individually be used to mark the separation between each tier of the wedding cake. An example of this would be red roses in between each layer of cake for a three tier cake. The wedding cake flowers can also be used not as a separator for each tier but also as a decoration for the cake. Lilies of the valley do well as a focal point for each tier of the cake. The flower can be placed on the topmost tier of a three or more layer cake and then subsequent flowers can be attached to each other with a fondant vine design. The colors of the wedding cake flowers should coordinate with the motif of the wedding as well as complement the colors used in the wedding cake.

Fresh wedding cake flowerssuch as gerberas or hyacinths can also be individually attached to the cake sides in a polka dot pattern. It is usually the smaller varieties of flowers that suit this kind of wedding cake flower arrangement. Bunches of small flowers such as hyacinths, cornflowers and smaller varieties of mums can also be placed in strategic places of the wedding cake. Using different colors that complement each other or colors that are similar to each other will help to bring out the best of a plain off white wedding cake.

Wedding cake flowers are not limited to those suggested above. The wedding cake can also be decorated by many other type of flowers. It is best to take one’s time in choosing whichever flower is to be used as wedding cake flowers to avoid continually changing one’s mind even when the cake decision is already finished.