Your bridal bouquet presents another classic opportunity to save money. There are a billion styles of bouquets to choose from and your chance to be creative. Some of the styles include contemporary nosegay, hand-tied clutch, cascade, crescent bouquet, arm bouquet, free form bouquet.

The list goes on and on. So why not create your own style.
I'm not an expert. I did a search for those names. After you have distributed the flowers you bought for the entire wedding, your bouquet can be made from the same batch.

What I mean is, try to spread your flowers around to get the most from the one batch that you buy.

Grab a couple of stems from the batch, find someone with the gift of arranging flowers and ask them put a bouquet together for you. You could use artificial flowers but you won't have to if you smartly spread, or stretch one batch of flowers. Most cities have a flower district where you can get flowers at really good discount prices. They want to move those flowers or they wilt and have to be tossed; a bargaining tool.

Get up early one morning and take drive down to the flower district. It's usually next to the garment district. The main reason to use flowers from the same batch is to help keep the same look and feel through out the wedding. It will flow from the church to the reception hall, and even to the wedding cake and bridal bouquet.

It's a basic design principle used by all designers Tie your colors together to keep theme of your wedding together. It works for bar mitzvahs as well. Covering the brides face with the veil was used to fool the evil spirits from thwarting holy matrimony. There was a lot of mysticism during early times. Also, the color of flowers are said to be symbolic. Some colors mean death and some mean life.

All these traditions came from ancient times. Today's Bride probably won't dig that deep to find out what all of those ancient traditions mean. She wants to know how to get the flowers she needs for her wedding. Once your color schemes tie in together with the theme of your wedding, you'll achieve a more cohesive look and feel. Your bridal bouquet, like the wedding veil, helps to complete your wedding ensemble. The florist we used was incredibly inventive and creative.

She was able to include cost and flower distribution with great success. There are many flowers to choose from but the gardenia was the final choice of flower we used. Gardenias not only look great they smell great as well. We've all heard traditional stories of bouquets and how they work with weddings. Supposedly the aromas from herbs or bouquets were given to the bride to ward off evil spirits during ancient times.

Today's Bride is looking to have the bridal bouquet with the flowers of her choice and the man of her dreams. Many traditionally brides toss the bouquet to transfer luck to a friend. Supposedly, the friend that catches the bouquet will be the next to get married. How many times has that really been the case?.
My wife chose not to toss the wedding bouquet and you can do the same.

Many brides want to keep and preserve their bridal bouquet for history sake. Whatever you decide, It is your wedding day. Enjoy it.

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