24 November 2011
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WEDDING IDEAS
The Christmas wedding can truly create a few issues to brides to be. A dress, shoes, and flowers... Probably those will be most difficult to find, seeing that winter is not exactly a season for flowers in many countries.However, all florist will tell you so: the key to the success for winter wedding bridal bouquet in a narrow color palette, for winter wedding floral compositions often feature only one colour. All the same, even if not so colourful as for example fall bouquets, the one for winter bride can be even more creative, elegant and innovative, exactly for the fact of being mono colour.
But now, let us just answer one important question: which ones are the Christmassy colours? Well, that depends on the theme of your wedding. For if you decide on Christmassy Christmas wedding the most appropriated will be burgundy, dark greens, and gold. If instead your wedding is to be a snow queen fairy tale like reception silver, blues and white will be just perfect! And so here is the list of flowers which will be appropriate for every, not only winter themed wedding!
Burgundy: a rich colour, decisively associated by everyone with Christmas. In winter this colour looks gorgeous, especially if combined with snowy white elements. In this wonderful colour you can find not only flowers, but a foliage as well, here are some examples: Burgundy Cockscomb, Lemon Leaves, Leucadendron, mini callas, such as Black Star or Shwartz.
Red
Using this colour will be the simplest way to give to your flowers a truly festive look. Make it all in red, including the wrap, and just admire the effect! You can even add some red coloured berries. The most populare red flowers for winter themed weddings are: roses, such as Grand Prix, Red Berlin, Gigolo; Red Amarylis, Red Carnations, Red Gerber Dasies, Red Hypericum berries or Winterberries.
White
The most stylish colour forever, being as well the perfect colour for winter wedding bouquet. For such a kind of flower arrangement you can mix all flowers you like as long as they are white (eventually you can mix different cream coloured blossoms). This palette will look just perfect if you add some sparkle, like faux crystals and weave in dark green foliage for the contrast. Just wonderful. Flowers you can
Roses, such as Bianca, Ariana; Hybernia and Swan wing tulips; mini callas: Crystal Blush; white Fresias and many others.
Green
