| The wedding flowers that decorate the church | | | | design your wedding flowers around. In short, |
| will go a long way toward setting the mood | | | | have a pretty clear idea of what you want in |
| for your wedding. Done right, a selection of | | | | your wedding flowers before you ever start |
| well placed wedding flowers can give your | | | | visiting florists and bring the pictures with |
| event the sense of joy, expectation, | | | | you. This will help them understand your |
| solemnity, or pageantry you and your intended | | | | vision for your floral arrangement. |
| anticipate for your wedding. Done poorly... | | | | |
| well, your wedding flowers will set the wrong | | | | The second step is like the first: Don't even |
| mood for your wedding at best. At worst, your | | | | think of going to a florist without swatches |
| wedding flowers will make it appear that your | | | | of the material from your dress, the |
| wedding happened in a tacky looking facility | | | | bridesmaid's dresses, and any other fabric |
| or several decades earlier (actually, it can | | | | that might affect the wedding color scheme |
| get worse, but we won't talk about that. The | | | | (this is true of your cake decorator too). |
| point is to make sure we stay on the top of | | | | This is most especially true of your dress. |
| the scale with our wedding flowers, not the | | | | White wedding dresses come in a wide variety |
| bottom). | | | | of shades of white, so to ensure that the |
| | | | wedding flowers will properly accent your |
| The success of your wedding flower | | | | dress bring a swatch. A professional florist |
| arrangements and decorations depends on your | | | | will know how to set it off so that the |
| florist's attention to detail, sense of | | | | wedding flowers draw the attention to you in |
| style, flair, expertise, and the connection | | | | just the right way. |
| that the two of you achieve. Don't assume | | | | |
| that because a particular florist is highly | | | | Once you have done your homework it is time |
| respected you will get the wedding flower | | | | to start actually looking for a florist to |
| arrangement of your dreams. If there is no | | | | provide your wedding flowers. As in every |
| meeting of your minds, if you don't feel like | | | | other discipline, your first move should be |
| they are grasping what you are trying to | | | | to talk to people who have recently gotten |
| communicate about your wedding flowers, | | | | married and get referrals from them. There is |
| theme, or both, keep looking. In most cases | | | | no shame in learning from the success and |
| your wedding flowers will be more to your | | | | failures of others and doing so will |
| liking with your second choice that fully | | | | generally save you a lot of grief. In the |
| understands the theme and mood you are trying | | | | process, no doubt, you will discover that |
| to set than with the reputed best florist in | | | | while most any florist can provide wedding |
| the city who isn't listening or just isn't | | | | flowers, some are more skilled, gifted, and |
| managing to understand what you want from | | | | experienced than others. Your goal is to |
| your wedding flowers. | | | | identify these people and choose one of them |
| | | | to take the stress of your wedding flower |
| Finding the right wedding flower specialist | | | | needs off your hands. |
| is easy if you begin your search prepared and | | | | |
| know what to look for and what to stay away | | | | Remember, wedding flowers work or don't work |
| from: Being prepared means doing some | | | | on the florist's attention to detail, |
| dreaming about your wedding flowers. Doodle. | | | | creativity, and their ability to match your |
| Search bridal magazines. Look at wedding | | | | style. But part of their ability to perform |
| flower schemes in books and dream. Go to | | | | depends on you communicating what you want |
| bridal shows. Go to weddings, if you can get | | | | and providing pictures and swatches. It's |
| an invitation, and dream. Collect pictures of | | | | your wedding; make sure it goes right by |
| wedding flower arrangements that you think | | | | taking the time to prepare before you go |
| will fit into the theme that you want to | | | | shopping for those wedding flowers. |