Bridal Flowers
Making and designing bridal flowers
The flowers are supposed to be the main focal point of a wedding. With the bride dressed in white and wearing a long and well-fitting dress, it is hard to see how she would not already be a point of interest for everybody in the room, but the use of flower bouquets started so long ago and nobody really understands why it is tradition for the bride to carry one. Many believe that it is so she can toss the bouquet at the end of the ceremony and pass on good luck to the female who catches it so that she may one day be married.
Often the bridal flowers are outsourced to a floral company who can put together a wide array of products for the wedding using the colors and flowers at the bride has requested. This is a wise choice for those who have little or no creativity, and the company can produce very good bouquets by only knowing one of the wedding colors and nothing else, but it helps to give the company more information. Sometimes people choose not to use floral companies at all for their wedding flowers as these can be costly, and especially during times of recession, brides are often looking at new ways to save money.
Putting together a bouquet can be as easy or as hard as you make it. Normally this process requires fresh flowers, any extra parts that need to be placed into the flower arrangement, leaves or greenery to be used as a contrast and wire and a glue gun as well as something to hold the bouquet in. Mastering putting together a bouquet can take quite a few attempts, but there are online tutorials that are designed to help and can talk breakthrough even the hardest parts of designing a beautiful wedding bouquet. Even more money can be saved on the flowers if the bride decides to buy her florals from a wholesaler. Unlike other wholesalers that might have very expensive minimum order limits, most floral wholesalers have limits that fit nicely with the amount of flowers applied will be buying if she is decorating the reception room herself. Normally this is around 25 flowers, and the price for 25 roses at a wholesale market is little over $20 and can be even less depending on where they are bought from. Other types of flowers may cost less or even more depending on how rare they are, but wholesalers generally reflect the price it cost to grow flowers in the final selling price to the buyer. If the bride wants to design her whole wedding herself, or even just the flowers, a wholesaler is definitely the best place to go in order to get the best deal possible. Brides who save a lot of money during the planning process often end up in the groom’s good books for being frugal and not spending too much money on a day that will be made special by the couple.