Saturday 19 November 2011

Choosing A Wedding Bouquet That Is Right For You

Most brides will try and avoid it as long as possible, but choosing a wedding bouquet is something that all brides-to-be will have to do eventually.  It's not an easy task though!

You have to pick a wedding bouquet that is right for you, and the rest of the bridal party, and suits the style and theme of your wedding.

And then you have to choose a bouquet that suits your body shape.  Get this wrong, and rather than show off your best features, the bouquet will highlight your worst flaws.  Definitely something you should avoid if you don’t want to be cringing every time you see the wedding photos.

Start by looking through some bridal magazines, and getting a sense of what you like, and what you don't like.

While looking through the magazines and photographs, try and answer these 6 questions in your head:

1. What colours do you want?
2. What flowers do you want?
3. What shape do you want?
4. What size bouquet do you want?
5. What type of greenery do you want?
6. Would you like fresh flowers, or silk flowers?

Other things to consider may be:
• Silk flowers are cheaper than fresh flowers, but look just as good, and can be kept after the wedding without preserving.
• The type of stems you choose (natural or wired), will limit the types of bouquet you can make.
• You should try and keep the flower girl bouquets in a similar style, but try to make them smaller. After all, it's YOU who is the star of the wedding.

Another important thing to consider though is choosing the right style of bouquet for your body shape:

1. Short ladies:
A large teardrop or sheath bouquet, as they need to add height.  These two types of bouquets give the illusion of length, were as a posy would make you look more compact and  potentially shorten you.

2. Tall Ladies:
A large posy or a medium teardrop bouquet.  A large posy will draw the eye down and give people a focal point so that they won't be focusing on your height.  A medium teardrop will also draw the eye down so that your height looks a little more even.

3. Large Ladies:
A large bouquet.  A small bouquet will exaggerate your width, and make you seem larger than you really are. Use a large bouquet, which will make you seem much slimmer.

The trick is to choose a wedding bouquet shape that flatters you, but at the same time, make sure that it doesn't take too much focus away from you.  After all, you want to have a beautiful wedding bouquet, but you want people to be looking at you, not your flowers!