| Summer Wedding
Bouquets |
December, January,
February
If you choose to be married in the summer, especially in
a hot and dry or even a tropical climate, the flowers
you carry in your wedding bouquet will need to look
fresh all day. For your summer wedding bouquets, your
floral designer can provide a wonderful range of
options. We need to keep in mind that your wedding
bouquet will want to withstand possible summer heat
which can be quite harsh and especially if you are
having an outdoor ceremony.
The wedding flowers you carry need to be chosen
carefully. They must be very fresh and hopefully of a
variety that is more resistant to the heat. Now
remember, there are no fresh flowers that can be left
out in the sun and still be expected to look fresh.
Remember to protect them as you would a baby, keep them
cool and shaded.
Have you considered carrying gorgeous tropical blooms in
your wedding bouquet? How about the fragrant Frangipani?
The vision of these beauties for your wedding flowers
immediately conjures up an image of a romantic, carefree
island paradise; beautiful posies of white blooms with
yellow centres or pink and apricot, with the perfume
tantalizing your senses.
Visualize a beach wedding with your toes in the sand and
the waves lapping at your feet, or at your favourite
getaway destination. Both you and your loved one have a
frangipani tucked behind your ear, and the music is
playing softly in the background.
If a tropical paradise is out of the question don’t be
concerned, carry yellow and white Frangipani blooms
among your wedding flowers anyway.
Tropical orchids
There are tropical orchids available in colours that can
adapt to any style or theme, you may choose for a soft
feminine look, palest pink or white Dendrobium orchids,
teamed with roses, lisianthus, stephanotis and gardenias
for fragrance.
For a vibrant wedding bouquet, create a colourful story
with a wedding bouquet of wild and exotic summer colours
, hot pink, purple, orange, red and yellow Vanda
orchids, lime green, purple or deep pink/purple
dendrobium orchids.
The modern bride may choose an asymmetric style with
fabulous moth Phalaenopsis (moth) orchids in white,
palest mauve to purple and even in shades of pink. And
how about a full voluptuous wedding bouquet of wonderful
Cattleya orchids... in white, purple, mauve with
gorgeous deep pink or burgundy centres?
*Cattleya orchids, are known as the ‘queen of orchids’
these range in size from 5 to 12 cm across and are
available in pink, purple, mauve, white and yellow.
Spider orchids, in spotted red or orange/bronze.
*Dendrobium orchids are also known as Singapore orchids,
are all really wonderful wedding flowers, the colour
range is white, green, lilac, palest pink, pale to
medium mauve/pink, purple and purple/pink.
*Oncidium or 'Dancing lady orchids' are also an
excellent wedding flower choice, these orchids come in
yellow and bronze/yellow and are long stemmed varieties,
wonderful for an armspray style wedding bouquet or also
a trailing bouquet style.
Vanda orchids in yellow, orange, blue and purple.
* Phalaenopsis (Moth Orchids) white with either yellow
or mauve throats, purple, pinks and green yellows.
*Spider orchids ( Arachnis species), with longer stems
that most other cut flower orchids, the flower range is
red, yellow, and bronze/orange.
Although most of these orchids are usually available all
year round they are an excellent, safe choice for summer
wedding bouquets.
*Anthurium species. To create a dramatic modern style
wedding bouquet the Anthurium, also known as the
flamingo flower, with a waxy looking heart or arrow
shaped bloom with a large spadix are available in pink,
red, green, Purple, scarlet and white with many
variables in between.
For Fragrance in your summer wedding bouquet,
frangipani, bouvardia, white Gardenia, spray carnations
or pinks and of course the waxy pure white Stephanotis
cannot be surpassed.
*Bouvardia has clusters of tiny tubular white, pink or
red flowers.
Oriental liliums in white, pale to hot pinks with or
without spotted throat, do be careful though, unless
well handled they may wilt on a hot day in a summer
wedding bouquet.
Consider white November lilies, now also available in
new hybrids with a deep pink/purple throat.
*Lisianthus, are an excellent choice for summer wedding
bouquets, though they are not fragrant , they do have
the appearance of a soft open rose and this is one of
the reasons why they are very popular for summer
weddings, alone or in a mixed bouquet. Colours range
from pure white, palest to rosy pink, lilac to blue
purple, burgundy, cream and lime green. There are also
beautiful bicolours of white with a pink, or lilac blue
edge and purple with a white edge, consider a beautiful
posy style wedding bouquet of all one colour lisianthus,
maybe all white for the bride and pink or purple for the
bridesmaids, or to be different try it in reverse, you
can do anything you like, don’t let old traditions stand
in the way, this is your day so do it your way.
*Curcuma or ‘Siam tulips’, these are a relatively new
introduction and come in pure white, pale to deep pink.
(refer to the
story on Siam tulips.)
*Hydrangea, from late summer, through to mid autumn
Hydrangea plays a strong supporting role in many a
wedding bouquet and bowl arrangement, in shades of
blues, purple, pink, white, green and then the wonderful
autumn hues in the late flowering varieties. Once
considered an old fashioned flower, hydrangea is now
very popular with brides, consider carrying a large
bunch of autumn hued hydrangea, remember this is the
best time to pick and know it will last well, in the
early season it is very prone to wilting on a warm day,
if this happens, dunk the whole flower head in water and
leave overnight to re-hydrate, then hopefully it will
last well.
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