Oooh! Do you have pictures, BraveMaroon?

This is not one of the "professional" ones, but it should give you a good idea.


http://i1095.photobucket.com/albums/...cakeflower.jpg

BraveMaroon, I love the bright colors!

Mine were pretty simple.

I wore ivory and carried red calla lilies with irises as fillers.

My bridesmaids wore red and carried ivory calla lilies.

My bouquet was a breakaway- it broke into three pieces, each with a couple of irises. What I didn't expect was that they had put an extra iris in the center to balance it out, so when it broke apart it was actually four pieces, not three! But I made the woman who caught the iris join the rest in the caught-the-bouquet photo :D

As as aside, I had all women (married or not) line up for the bouquet. I don't like just calling out the single ones, and so if you were married & caught it it just gave you luck in marriage. I saw the idea somewhere and liked that better... But I also had a smaller wedding, I may have made a different decision with more guests.

My wedding flowers were not simple, although now I wish that they were. My tastes have changed alot since I got married. My bouquet was hand-wired because I did not want a plastic holder. It had white roses, stephanoitis, ivy, dendrobium and japhet orchids (the ones with yellow inside). It had tulle and satin ribbons. In one picture you could barely see the dress because the bouquet was so big. In contrast, my younger sister complained that her bouquet was too simple, but it allowed you to focus on the details of her dress.

The bridesmaids had yellow roses and flowers to match the pale yellow satin dresses. My little niece, the flower girl, had a white basket of yellow carnations and greenery and wore a yellow and white floral headband.

I remember mine being "White"....but they were blurred (from the shaking)

:o

I wanted to use purple roses, but I was on a pretty tight budget. So, I used silk flowers and made all the bouquets, boutonnieres, centerpieces, church decorations, etc. myself. Here's a pic of my bouquet and a couple bridesmaids. Not as elegant as they might have been, but not bad for a DIY budget job, I think. :) Mine was purple roses in two shades with white roses.

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b2...9/bouquets.jpg

I had very light blue hydrangeas, white roses, and white violets (for ZTA, of course). My maid and matron of honor had blue hydrangeas (darker than mine, but not dark-dark... apparently darker blue hydrangeas are not native to the US). The flower girls had puff balls (pomades? pom-poms? I forget the real name) of blue hydrangeas. The boutonnieres were all sprigs of hydrangeas as well.

Obviously don't have my flowers yet, lol, but...I originally wanted nothing but bold, purple flowers like this:

http://pinterest.com/pin/286893438731993418/

But then I learned about stephanotis flowers: http://pinterest.com/pin/47147127318584520/ (the white ones)

Apparently it's somewhat a tradition to use stephanotis flowers for just the bride and groom. I thought that was cute and now I'm considering putting them in my bouquet and his boutonniere.

Still don't have any pictures!! All of our bouquets were presentation style, with deep pink and white larkspar-type flowers, blue hydrangas, one large deep pink cabbage rose, and tons of magnolias! The church was ugly with magnolias!

I carried black magic roses hand tied with off white ribbons. My matron of honor carried white roses with cream ribbon. My flower girl carried a nosegay of white roses with a opened black magic rose in the middle.

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net...23863_6180.jpg

^^^I had all roses - dark red, orange, and white. My bridesmaids had dark red & orange roses, no white.