Wedding bouquet ideas? Nontraditional ideas please! ?

Question

Alright well my cousin is getting married and though I'm only 18, I'm the only one actually helping her plan the wedding because her sister is London for a over seas program and everyone else is either busy or lazy.

So my cousin is a very traditional, yet nontraditional person as am I. She's having a black and white wedding with all the bridesmaids wearing very adorable "little black dresses" with white silk neckscarfs (the 1950s style kind). She needed ideas for bouquets though because it's a winter wedding (December 08) and winter flowers are hard to find.

I was thinking she would have a full-on white rose and white orchid bouquet tied in black ribbon BUT all the bridesmaids wouldn't have bouquets but each holding one single white orchid. Is that a bad idea?

Any cool suggestions for bouquets? Types of flowers, cool color schemes of flowers, nontraditional ways of doing it...anything!

The wedding is in 4 months!

Answer 1

Just wanted to say, lots of people use calla lilies and also day lilies for weddings. The reasons people use lilies for funerals is because they represent resurrection and new life (think Easter lily, for example). A wedding marks an entrance into a new life, so to speak, and can be looked at as, if not a resurrection, at least a transition. Lilies are perfectly appropriate for weddings.

Answer 2

I don't know if it can be done in four months, but there's no harm in writing Princess Lastertron to ask.

I wanted a unique, lasting bouquet alternative, so when I saw this picture in an article, I knew I had found the perfect solution:

http://flickr.com/photos/24604946@N08/26...

She makes them to your specification, and mine will be kiwi, pale pink, white, and silver. She uses wire, felts, and vintage buttons to create the bouquets, so they are completely one-of-a-kind.

You can find her on http://www.etsy.com/

Good luck!

EDIT:

Your idea isn't a bad one, but even a few orchids tied with ribbon would be lovely. Before I decided on the bouquet above, I was going to have a gerbera daisy bouquet. My bridesmaids will carry three ribbon-tied gerbera daisies and it wil look perfectly lovely.

Answer 3

I like the idea of the bridesmaids each holding a single flower. However, I think just going with white might be a little dull. I definitely agree with the person above me who said to add some red. You could have each bridesmaid hold a single red rose, or, depending on how many bridesmaids, have one hold a red one, the next one hold a white one, and so on, or give each bridesmaid two flowers. Maybe that's more colour than you'd want, but I think red on white and black is gorgeous. Think Snow White.

Answer 4

Well you ask for non traditional....what about getting the girls stemmed wine glasses...put colored marbles around the bottom and put a votive candle in the middle...have the florist put some greenery and flowers, maybe some baby's breathe around the stemmed part of the glass for the girls to hold with some pretty ribbon hanging ...just a thought...it would be pretty at an evening wedding....HH

Answer 5

OK if you want something a little Non-Traditional try feathers, or beaded bougets, Martha Stewart Living had a bit on that.(Time consuming but really nice looking) Especially if flowers are hard find, if your not into that; Hobby Lobby has wonderful silk flowers that from the guest view you can't tell are fake. Also I think red would be a good accent color if the bride would go for it.

Answer 6

A bouquet of lavender, handtied with ribbons.

http://www.lavenderfanatic.com/sitebuild...

http://www.lavenderbeefarm.com/images/ba...

A few cala lilies -

http://shop.weddingpath.co.uk/images/ama...

Arum lilies

http://edsphotoblog.com/wp-content/photo...

This is very cool and awesome -

http://www.weddingo.co.uk/2008/03/21/vic...

Answer 7

A color that goes beautifully with black and white is of course scarlet. Yes, roses are traditional, but they can be paired with some very interesting fixings. An non-traditional approach might be a deep purple flower. Purple tulips would be different for a winter wedding. If you want to go way out, try doing something with passion flower. It's a very different flower, but you might have trouble with it in winter.

Answer 8

You could use the white roses, I think that would look really nice, but since it is going to be winter and all how about a hand muff made of white fur that each of the girls hold their hands in instead of flowers. I have seen this done before but the bridesmaids wore pale blue with the white fur muff and it looked so unique it was really pretty.

Answer 9

That is nice.  How about adding red roses in there as well to make it pop with the black and white it is very sophisticated.

Answer 10

OK, just so you know, cut white roses that you get at a florist are not stark white. They are called white roses but are actually off-white. Orchids are very expensive, especially in the winter. Hand-tied bouquets are pretty much what everyone does now instead of a bouquet in a holder. This is gorgeous because the stems show (or can be wrapped with silk ribbon). You might consider white calla lillies but they can be pricey too. She could have white calla lillies and white stock or other white filler flowers with the stems wrapped in sheer black ribbon (maybe two or three together). The the bridesmaids could have just one calla lilly with a shoe-string type bow in smaller black ribbon. Callas naturally have a long, thick stem that makes for a perfect hand-held bouquet. Any good florist can get just about any type of cut flower, even in the winter. Some flowers are harder to get during the cold months, which makes them pricier if they are able to be found.