Light and Dark Pink Wedding Bouquet | Floret.ca

I thought I’d continue from last week on the topic of colours for wedding flowers and revisit a colour that ever enduring and regardless of the never ending options that seem appear will always be a popular choice.

Pink as a colour for wedding flowers is timelessing enduring as the ultimate colour of romantic, it can be displayed in its classic soft pastel form or for those looking for a little more pop can incorporate the brighter shades it comes in along with bright green accent to give it that modern twist.

It’s been one of the most requested colours this season. Purple.

Always referred to as the colour associated with royalty, it’s a beautiful choice whether mixed with combination of its lighter mauve or lavendar counterpart or combined with other colours that are equally as dramatic as a rich purple can be.

Cream and Purple Wedding Bouquet | Floret.ca

I have a prediction.

After peonies, the next flower to garner the favour of brides will be … the dahlia.

For those of you who have yet to be introduced to this seasonal gem, they are to be found in the early summer to the middle of fall and they are absolutely gorgeous.

A few weeks I had the pleasure of using this beautiful bloom as the focal flower for Erin and Kevin’s wedding at the stunning Vaughan Estate at the Estates of Sunnbrook.

This glorious combination of stunning orange dahlias and lime green spider mums, poms and berries was carried thoughout the entire wedding from bouquets, to ceremony arrangements. 

The look was completed with matching centerpieces and a stunning candlescape for their sweetheart table which I’ll share in next week’s post.

Bouquet of Burnt Orange Dahlias And Roses | Floret.ca

Ceremony Flowers At Vaughan Estates | Sunnybrook Estates | Floret.ca

 

Working with all the flowers in all the colours, shades and hues that nature makes available is one of the  things that I love most about what I do.

While the neutrals and creams will never go out of style, those with a bolder sensibility for colour are now taking the vibrant colour combinations available to them by storm.

I loved making this bouquet. Richness of colour brought together into one bouquet.

Finished with a satin ribbon in chartreuse green.

Wedding Bouquet In Jewelled Tones | Floret.ca

Wedding Bouquet Of Creamy Yellow Roses, Gerberas and Orchids

“Classic” and “elegant” are the two descriptors that I hear most when I ask my clients how they want the wedding to look and feel.

There are numerous ways to go about beginning the process of creating a vision that conveys the feel that you want to share on the day and one tried and true way is with colour.

Classic and elegant always brings to mind mixes of neutral white and creams and the addition of pale yellows is a way to take things up a notch without feeling like your potentially on colour overload.

It’s the next closest choice of colour after cream and it’s inclusion creates and beautiful and soft warmth.

Roses mixed together in these colours are the ultimate in elegance. Using more contemporary flowers like gerberas and orchids this mix creates a modern twist.

With the peony season coming rapidly to an end, I thought I would tease all you late spring early summer brides of the following year of what you have to look forward to.

Whether tied together on their own or mixed with roses or any other flower that might suit your fancy, the peony is perfect.

Pink Peony Wedding Bouquet | Floret.ca

There are so many places that inspire ideas for a wedding and the venues of choice for the festivities ranks very close to the top.

Panorama on the 51^st floor of the Manulife Centre in the heart of downtown Toronto was the setting for the wedding reception of Aya and Carlos.

With a perfect view of the city from every vantage point, this floor to ceiling windows room filled with cool black leather lounge furnishings and brushed steel copa tables.

From orchid bouquet in two different shades of pink to lime accented containers filled with white hydrangea, pink gerberas and green berries, this wedding was certainly not your traditional pretty in pink.

Wedding Bouquet of Deep Pink Orchids

Modern Pink Centerpiece Accented With Limes at Panorama 51st

I must be on a roll from my last post and I spoke too soon about all spring weddings being colourful.

I had the pleasure of creating the wedding flowers for Kimberly and Derek who got married a few weeks ago at Deer Creek Golf and Banquet Facility.

Their vision was to have white spring flowers to complete a black and white colour theme.

One of the neat feature of the flowers were the monofloral bouquet that each of the three bridesmaids carried.  Here’s is my favourite of the three.

Wedding Bouquet of White Tulips

In the few months since my weddings for this year began, I have had the chance to design for some very special weddings and I’m hoping to be able to share some of these weddings in my blog more regularly.

The choice of colours and flowers in weddings these days are anything, but ordinary and white weddings in the spring is a rarity because after a long and dreary winter everyone is ready for some colour which is one of the many things that made this wedding so special.

Spring flowers in white was the theme for Sheena and Perrin’s nuptials. White tulips and French lilac accented with the fullness of white hydrangea and sweet roses to complete the palette of flowers used.

Bouquet of Dutch Tulips, French Lilac and White Callas

Centerpiece of Classic White Spring Flowers

While the weather might be trying to play havoc with the full arrival of spring. The flowers know that the time has come.

The emergence of Sweet Peas and Hyacinths signal the beginning of season full of wonderful and lovely blooms.

True to their names, they are beautifully delicate and possess a fragrance so sweet and light that you’d think that Mother Nature must have had a ball creating these flowers.  

Flowers that only could be described as exquisitely divine, they come in a whole range of colours from creams and white, to the pale and bright pinks. They are also available in the rare shades of natural light blue that can be such a challenge to find with other flowers.

Only available for a few short weeks of the year, they are a real treat for any bride getting married in the early months of spring. Not only because they are so beautiful, but because they cannot be acquired at any time of the year.

Delicate Posies of Sweet Peas (Right) and Hyacinths (Left)