Thursday, February 11, 2010

Giddy over flowers

I've always loved flowers at a wedding and have been picky about them for quite some time. I fell in love with my sisters bouquet when she got married in 2005 and fell in love with stephanotis with the pearl in the center. So when it came to my wedding I knew that was one of the flowers I wanted to incorporate into my bouquet. I browsed probably over a thousand pictures online of wedding bouquets and I started to narrow down my search.



I thought about soft yellow roses with stephanotis but the look wasn't what I expected. Then I thought of white and yellow roses but nothing caught my eye. Blue hydrangeas are gorgeous and I loved the way they looked by themselves in a bouquet and pictured myself holding them. So I contact Pat from Enchanted Memories and told her about my idea of a full bouquet of blue hydrangeas and she got back to me quickly and mentioned that they could create a blue hydrangea bouquet but the quality of real touch flowers for hydrangeas isn't as nice as roses, lillies, or orchids. So that put me back to searching for the perfect bouquet.



I was totally against all white bouquets because I feel like it adds no color and just meshes in with the gown but I kept seeing these gorgeous bouquets of ivory roses and I just couldn't resist it. Then I stumbled upon this amazingly beautiful bouquet from a bride on weddingbee and it was instant love. Without any doubt I knew this was the bouquet I wanted.




Joie de Vie's bouquet was made up of ivory roses, blue hydrangea and coffee berries. It has just enough color to not be entirely all white/ivory and that was perfect for me. I drooled over and over again looking at these photos. Look at how massive her bouquet is in the last picture! So I e-mailed my florist and she assured me that she could recreate the same bouquet with no problem. I also asked her to add the stephanotis with a pearl center since my dress has pearls in the broach. I'm not sure how that will look but i'm confident I will love it no matter what.


I actually love everything about Joie de Vie's wedding from the beautiful flowered arch, her hair, and the bridesmaid dresses! Kudos to her for having such a gorgeous wedding!!!

I'm extremely excited that I found a bouquet and quite surprised that I went with something I said I wouldn't want (i.e. white bouquet). Now it's a matter of what to do for the BM bouquets.
Dun Dun Dun! Stay tuned!

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