The Bridal Bouquet - Go Big or Go Home!

I cannot do better than the post I found on Once Wed yesterday. I've visited the site about 30 times now because it is so funny. I've decided to "represent" here too. The humor should not take away from the fact that Sarah from Saipua in Brooklyn, New York has mad skills in creating amazing floral arrangements. In the wedding industry often times, humor is lacking. We love to take ourselves so damn seriously! I agree with her...How many times in your life do you have an opportunity to carry a bouquet of flowers around all day?

Lets be clear; your bridal bouquet is the most important piece of this whole wedding puzzle. Forget the thousand dollar louboutins, your canape’s, your meyer-lemon-drop signature cocktail, when i show up to a wedding I better see a bad-a** bridal bouquet. And that sh** better be BIG.

Today I hear lots of ladies try to play it modest.“Oh…I’ll just take a little old bouquet, something petite.”As a florist this is like hearing a death knell. My head starts to hurt, my hands get clammy. Ladies plan your weddings big and small. Some of you have budgets of $1000, some may have 1,000,000. But regardless, please get yourself a proper wedding bouquet. It’s likely to be the one time in your life you get to carry extraordinary flowers. And of course I’m going to tell you that flowers are important.

*I made this big-un this morning with dinnerplate dahlias, sedum, snowberry, chocolate cosmos, tuberose, astrantia, dusty miller, roses and hydrangea.

Ladies-of-old knew how to roll with a big bodacious bouquet. Boom! There they are; giant sprays of gladiolus, ivy dripping to the floor…spray roses by the hundreds. Sometimes they were fancy, wired bouquets made by florists. Other times they were made at home from whatever seemed to be around. Point is they look dramatic, romantic and above all appropriate for a wedding; a momentous event no matter whether you have 4 guests or 400.

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