5 Simple flowers for table arrangements

If you have a tight budget, and if you want to DIY your own flower table centrepieces, here are a few ideas.

1- A single bright her era Ina glass bowl. So easy. So quick. Gives a splash of colour, match or clash with your wedding colour scheme.

2- A simple green plant as a cool modern touch.

3- a simple arrangement of white amaryllis with  few green leaves. Classic and elegant but still won't break the budget.

4-  one single rose  in a glass bowl.

5-  a massed arrangement of roses. Cost a bit more, but makes a huge impact.

Flower petal confetti

I love real flower petal confetti.

In summer it is possible to use fresh rose petals, or indeed any other flower petals. Larkspur and delphinium work very well. It depends on your colour scheme. Anything from pretty pastels to dramatic deeper colours and of course not forgetting the classic vibrant red rose petals.

Here I used just fresh red rose petals

I am drying rose petals for,use all,year round. It is quite easy to do at home for DIY real flower confetti.

Why not have a go for your own wedding, or to take to a friends wedding?

Pick flower petals on a dry morning, then lay in a single layer on kitchen paper.

Leave for a few days in a warm place, and your confetti is ready.

I have experimented with different roses. Just remember that your petals will deepen in colour as they dry out, and will shrink in size.

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August -sunflowers

A simple tied bunch of sunflowers with additional foliage makes the perfect bouquet for a country style wedding in high summer.

Naked wedding cakes

The latest trend is for simple unadorned wedding cakes. All that is needed is some fresh flowers. 

Simple. Less calories. Delicious. 

Summer Roses

It is that time of year again. Summer. Weddings. Roses. 

Beautiful pink roses. 

Gatsby Style Wedding

How to style a 20's theme 

 

Elegant table arrangements in tall Cocktail glasses.

Cymbidium orchid corsage.

A white rose buttonhole.

Matching dendrobium orchid corsage and buttonhole. 

Spring summer colour trends for weddings 2014

Looking for a colour theme for your spring/ summer wedding?

How about one of the tones of Blues? Pastel pale blue? Violet blue? Or. Bright Royal blue?

 

Downtown Abbey Wedding style

All you fans of Downton Abbey, let's take inspiration from the wedding flowers. An elegant yet simple bouquet of white arum Lillies. Simple to recreate and inexpensive too! 

A quantity of 7 white Zantadescia Arum Lilies, bear grass or fern foliage. White satin ribbon. 

Beautiful. Elegant and Stylish. 

Winter white

The church entrance covered in gypsophila. 

Ethereal. Yet surprisingly inexpensive and stunning used en mass 

White weddings in winter.

 The perfect time for a winter white theme. The snow queen in a fairytale fantasy setting of white flowers, sparkling silver twigs and ice crystals.

Simple bouquets of white flowers, roses and hypericum with ivy.

Cobalt blue flowers for weddings

Bright cobalt blue is one of the colours for 2013, but for wedding flowers blue is not always an easy colour to use.

These bright blue orchids floating in water in glass vases would make simple and elegant centrepieces.

I saw these trees with blue painted trucks in London, and thought of using branches painted blue for a themed wedding. 

And for the bridal bouquet?

And these blue shoes would be cute.

With the bridesmaids blue dresses.

Hydrangeas for weddings

Hydrangeas are a perfect wedding flower for late summer/autumn.

Lime green hydrangeas in a low glass vase. Simple.

A simple white hydrangea pew end with satin ribbon.

Beautiful blue hydrangea bouquet. Blue isn't an easy colour to find, but  

                                                 If your colour scheme is blue, this would work really well.

Lime green hydrangea bouquet.

Lime green and pale blue hydrangea bouquet

Lime hydrangea buttonhole /boutonnière 

Stunning white hydrangea bouquet. Elegant and stylish.