What Flowers Did You Carry in Your Wedding?

[DreamfulSpirit]

Here's mine (I have a pic since I was married 6 1/2 months ago):



I had one yellow rose to represent OphiA and the fact that we got engaged at my sorority's convention.

I also had some hydrangea, lavender roses, among others in my bouquet as well.

Here are the bridesmaids, which were smaller, so although this pic looks like a big bouquet, it's actually about 3 small ones put together in one vase:

[BraveMaroon]

I was really picky about my flowers. I had marigolds, zinnias, delphinium, some celosia (aka cockscomb), lisanthus and varigated greenery. I wanted seasonal, regional stuff - we were married in Georgia in August. The guys wore zinnias in their lapels.

[carnation]

Oooh! Do you have pictures, BraveMaroon?

[BraveMaroon]

Originally Posted by carnation

Oooh! Do you have pictures, BraveMaroon?

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

[KDCat]

BraveMaroon, I love the bright colors!

[thetygerlily]

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

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.

[barbino]

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.