Colour is the thread that will tie all the visual parts of your wedding together.

You can start thinking about colour combinations for your wedding flowers once you have chosen your main colour.  This colour is very often seen in the colours of the bridesmaids’ dresses and the colour scheme or colour combination can be seen in their bouquets.

Your choice of colours and how to choose to combine them in your wedding flowers and in the other wedding decor aspects will depend largely on your own comfort level with it.

For example, if you are a bride who isn’t comfortable with the idea of strong colour, but don’t necessarily want to carry white, then perhaps warm creams or muted or pale pastels might be something to consider.

On the other hand, if you are a bride who enjoys bolder, richer colours and wanted your wedding day to reflect that, then you might opt for brighter strong colours, such as oranges fuschias, or reds.

Gone are the days of rules, the wedding and the wedding flowers should be first and foremost about conveying your personal taste and style.

The single most important question you’ll want to answer before planning for your wedding flowers is:

What is the style and feeling that you want to convey on your wedding day?

Do you want your wedding flowers to convey romance and elegance? Or is it whimsy and fun? Maybe it’s down to earth and understated?

The answer to this first question will lay the groundwork for the rest of your wedding flower and decor choice…colours, flowers and arrangement styles.

Keeping in mind those descriptors, start a collection of pictures of flowers, bouquets and colour combinations that appeal to you. This will help you with your wedding planning and your selection of wedding flowers.

Starting a blog is one of those things that I had been thinking about for a long while, so to be finally writing on it feels a bit surreal, but great!

There have been more times that I can count where I saw a beautiful flower in an unusual colour, or came across a really neat wedding idea, and I’d always find myself thinking how great it would be to share this with someone who might think it was neat too.

Or it might have been an answer to a question that I’m asked frequently by my clients and I could post so that it could be helpful to you too.

I am looking forward to sharing with you in the weeks, months and years ahead about all things flowers and weddings!