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FLORAL TIPS FOR YOUR CEREMONY AND RECEPTION
Depending on your theme or the mood you want to create for your wedding, flowers can also be looked upon essential for the wedding or as only an option. If you're going to have flowers, decide if you want real ones or silk ones (they can be dyed any color). Make sure that no one in your wedding party is allergic to flowers or the greenery you are using. For budget purposes you need to decide whether you will use the local florist or a hired floral designer.

Your may also need flowers at pre-celebration parties, showers, bachelor parties, the rehearsal dinner, the ceremony and reception. Some florists can also provide aisle runners, stanchions, candelabras and other related accessories.

The floral list for your ceremony and reception will include:
Bouquets for the Bride (including the Bridal Toss Away bouquet) and Bridesmaids, petals for the Flower Girl's basket, boutonnières, corsages, arrangements for the ceremony site entrance, altar, arches, aisle carpet or pews; and at the reception venue, for centrepieces, the head table, buffet, cake and gift tables, room decorations, hallways and retiring rooms. Check your kitchen door area so guests won't see the kitchen.

Note your floral requirements and prices clearly in your wedding binder so that you can compare prices ahead of time. To obtain the best prices, choose flowers that are in season. If you are having a holiday wedding, choose flowers that florists have in good supply. Also, your reception may already have decorations that you can either use or add to. You can save money by using more greenery and ribbon as fillers, and by asking your officiant if there is a situation where you can share flower costs with another wedding on the same day.

Go through bridal magazines to find photographs of flowers that you like and place the photos in your binder. Put a color swatch of your wedding dress in your binder to help you select your floral shades. Once you are ready to write a contract, make sure the descriptions of every item you are buying are all written out clearly including the colors, size, shapes, types and any filler or greenery. Ask the florist if they know the venue to which where they are delivering your flowers. The delivery time/place/date, deposit, payment schedules, their guarantees and cancellation policies should all be in the contract.

WHO PAYS
Traditionally, the Groom's family paid for the flowers, with the Groom paying for the Bride's bouquet. Today, however both families often share the cost. When you write your order with the florist, make sure you know to whom the bill is made out - and who will pay the deposit and final invoice.

The Bridal bouquet complements the Bride's dress, but it doesn't hide it. Remember to add your favourite flower to your bouquet. Breakaway bouquets can double as a going away corsage. For a memento, ask your florist if he can preserve your bouquet.

There are four traditional bouquet styles:
• The cascade: a tear-shaped arrangement is anchored in place or in a holder with flowers and greenery overflowing. It is usually worn with a long dress;
• The nosegay: a small, round bouquet of flowers which are either hand-tied with ribbon or in a bouquet holder and is usually worn with a short dress or suit;
• The crescent or arm arrangement: a curved design to lie on the top of the arm;
• The spray: blossoms of one of more kinds of flowers held together in a triangular shape.

Contemporary brides are also wearing a single long-stemmed blossom, or flowers attached to a prayer book, rosary beads, or another object or a wrist corsage. The final choice, of course, is yours. For more styles click here.

Floral arrangements are:
• Pomander - a pretty sphere of flowers featuring ribbon holders, usually worn by junior bridesmaids or on children's wrists. They also make lovely decorations to hang;
• Wired bouquet - the flower stems are supported with wire so they stand upright, then wrapped together to look like one large stem.

A formal wedding's color scheme is usually white and ivory. Flowers can include roses, lilies, orchids, lilies of the valley, lilacs, gardenias, chrysanthemums, peonies, stephanotis

Contemporary weddings use flowers that range from the popular carnations to daffodil, daisies, freesias and sweet peas to any basket or abundance of wildflowers, or types and colors that you like, including potted plants.

If you are getting married in a location other than a religious one, make the most out of the environment the site offers and embellish it as much as you can. Craft books illustrate wonderful ideas that are adaptable for celebrations.

Traditionally, the Maid of Honor carries the same bouquet as the Bridesmaids but usually in different colors or styles. The attendant's bouquets should be in a similar style to that of the Bride. If the attendants are wearing flowers in their hair they should be ordered with the bouquets so that they match. Consider matching silk flowers. The Flower Girl carries either a miniature version of the Bridesmaids flower petals.

The Groom's boutonnière is usually pulled out of the Bride's bouquet, or you can arrange with the florist to have a boutonnière made to match the Bride's bouquet. It is different from the Best Man's or Groomsmen's boutonnières which are usually in the same color as match the Bridesmaids' dress. Ushers, Groomsmen, fathers and grandfathers also wear a boutonnière.

Corsages for the Bride's and Groom's mothers should coordinate with their color and style of dress. Often, the mothers will want their favourite flower and will decide themselves if they want the corsage to be pinned at the shoulder, waist or handbag or to be worn on their wrist.

Floral designers
If you are planning a theme wedding, or in a place where something magic needs to be done to make it happen, a reputable floral designer can make dreams come true by using flowers to create a fabulous setting. Often, floral designers don't have their own shops. However most of them consult for florists and know the flower market and wholesalers.

If you want to handle your own floral requirements there are several craft books that provide instructions, with photos, tips and suggestions for alternative ideas. Check out the Book Section on the Main Menu.