So in an effort to try and truly blog consistently, as I venture forth in this new gear of my business life, I thought I would start with something I started a few years ago, and thought this is the perfect place to chat bridal bouquets. I could wax on about design in general, but for the sake of this post, I'm going to concentrate on bridal bouquets. I love creating these "Anatomy of a Bouquet" graphics and hope you find them helpful.
To me the bride's bouquet is, simply put, the focal point of the entire wedding design! I love picking the perfect color palette for each bouquet and possibly suggesting some other color palettes to my brides. (Look for my post later on just this, elevating color palettes). Then sourcing exquisite stems, foliages, ribbons, man it makes me giddy, I swear! So usually, like most of you, the bride will send me several Pinterest photos, and I always tell them not to overthink it, just send me a few that appeal to you in color and style. I then tell them, I'm only going to glance at those photos and to trust me to create a beautiful bouquet designed for THEM!
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Next, I hit my computer and start creating using the best software on the market, Details Flowers Software. This software allows me to pull flowers into a design board and make sure they work together not just in my head, but on paper and then IRL.
Step 1: Choose your focal flowers. I usually start with roses, as they tend to be the core of most of my bouquets. Other focal flowers would be peonies, tulips, hydrangeas etc.
Step 2: Choose your line flowers next, I'm always looking for flowers that have a beautiful undulating movement to them. Think, dogwood branches, fritallarria, butterfly ranunculus,astilbe, and lisianthus, just to name a few.
Step 3: Next I choose my foliage, now, you need to know I'm a HUGE geek when it comes to foliages and texture. They can sometimes completely drive my design. And sometimes I never know what it's really going to look like until I get my hands on the product itself. I love using different shades of foliage, from burgundy to orange, light green to deep green and pale silvery blue to intense eucalyptus blues.
Step 4: Last step for me are the filler flowers, or SPRINKLES, as I like to call them. To me this is where the magic can happen, along with the line flowers, these flowers are usually more delicate and dainty and just create that pixie dust that I like to give my bouquets. They don't call me #ParieGodmother for no reason!!
I hope this gives you some great inspiration to think about how you truly pick the elements of your next bridal bouquet.
Ciao!