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Options and Styles


Your wedding flowers can be designed in any style to suit your individual tastes, budget and unique wedding theme. Here are some of the many options and styles you can choose from:

Bridal and Bridesmaid's Bouquets - Bouquet Alternatives - Bridal Party
Flowergirls and Attendants
- Floral Accessories - Ceremony Flowers - Reception



Bridal and Bridesmaid's Bouquets

Your wedding bouquets play a very important role on your wedding day. They will feature in the majority of your wedding photos and will serve to beautify your wedding. Bridal bouquets take centre stage by accessorising the bride and her gown. Bridesmaid’s bouquets should also accessorise the bride and her flowers and are often in smaller complementary styles.

Hand-tied Style Bouquet -

Blossom Wedding Flowers - Auckland - Hand-tied Style BouquetHand-tied bouquets can be as petite and manicured or as full and abundant as you desire. You can let your imagination run free with your choice of stunning blooms and foliage. From simple and elegant, to flamboyant and exotic, the possibilities are endless. Consider finishing touches such as Swarovski crystals or delicate glass beads to add a unique aspect to your design. Bouquets are bound in materials to suit your theme; this can range from natural and simple with visible stems or with a French cuff of ribbon and pearl pinning. Think about using interesting ribbon fabrics and finishing the binding with a beautiful brooch, beads, gems or even a small picture of a loved one.

Wired Posy Style Bouquet -
Blossom Wedding Flowers - Auckland - Wired Posy Style BouquetWired bouquets are created from delicate blooms such as tuberose, gardenia, orchids, frangipani or stephanotis. These flowers are individually wired to create exquisite visual delicacy. This style of bouquet is more labour intensive due to the individual wiring of blooms; however the finished effect is well worth it. Flowers can be collared with foliage or ribbon and detailed with pearls or crystals as you desire.


Wired Trailing Bouquet -
Blossom Wedding Flowers - Auckland - Wired Trailing BouquetWired trailing bouquets can be created from blooms and foliage of your choice, including; orchids, roses, calla lilies, oriental lilies and peonies. The effect is a stunning waterfall of delicate blooms to complement a classic wedding style. This bouquet style can be intricately manicured to suit a minimalist and feminine style; or have a wild, abundant waterfall of foliage and flowers for those wanting a more exotic look. Trailing bouquets can be finished with ribbon in a fabric of your choice and detailed to suit with crystals, beads, peals, brooches, shells etc.

Sheaf Style Bouquet -
Blossom Wedding Flowers - Auckland - Sheaf Style BouquetFor a natural look the sheaf style bouquet is a beautiful option. Created with your choice or blooms and foliage this bouquet lays across the arms and can be created with a trail or in more of a round posy style. This bouquet style can be as manicured and dainty or wild and flamboyant as you desire. It is usually finished with a half binding for the more natural open stemmed look. Sheaf bouquets can be detailed to suit with crystals, beads, peals, brooches, shells etc. back to the top Top



Bouquet Alternatives

The modern bride is not tied to traditional floral styles and can be creative with her choice of flowers. There are many alternatives to the traditional bouquet and if seeking something different she can look at concepts such as floral handbags, reconstructed giant blooms or pomanders.

Floral Handbags -

Blossom Wedding Flowers - Auckland - Floral HandbagsA modern alternative to a bouquet these handbags are crafted almost entirely from flowers. The base of the bag is individually pinned with leaves and the top is decorated with your choice of blooms. The handle is created from exquisite glass beads, pearls, complementary ribbon, or flax. The overall effect is a unique and stunning creation that will complement the bride who is looking for something different yet beautiful.

Reconstructed Giant Single Blooms -
Blossom Wedding Flowers - Auckland - Reconstructed Giant Single BloomsA modern alternative to a bouquet the giant single flower is created using a single flower such as a rose, lily, or orchid and constructed by layering petals around the base of the bloom to create a larger than life single flower. The bloom is then finished with ribbon. This is a sleek alternative for a modern bride who does not want to be overwhelmed with lots of flowers.




Pomanders -

Blossom Wedding Flowers - Auckland - PomandersA gorgeous alternative to a bouquet the pomander is a stunning hanging sphere of blooms constructed with your choice of flowers. The sphere hangs on a ribbon and is carried in the hand as a gorgeous floral accessory.

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Bridal Party

Essential to gorgeous and memorable wedding party shots are floral accessories for grooms, groomsmen, fathers, mothers and family members. These are typically decorative buttonholes and corsages to complement the bridal flowers. Try adding touches of interest to buttonholes and corsages with interesting foliages, succulents, flax weaving, grass loops, crystals, berries or beads for example.

Buttonholes -

Blossom Wedding Flowers - Auckland - ButtonholesCreated to match bridal flowers with complementary blooms. Buttonholes are usually worn by male members of the bridal party, ie. grooms, groomsmen, fathers, and grandfathers.









Corsages -

Blossom Wedding Flowers - Auckland - CorsagesCreated to match bridal flowers with complementary blooms. Corsages are larger and more detailed than buttonholes and usually worn by female members of the bridal party, ie. mothers and grandmothers.









Wrist Corsages -

Blossom Wedding Flowers - Auckland - Wrist CorsagesComplementary blooms, created on a ribbon wrist band to match the bridal party. The wrist corsage is worn as an alternative to the dress corsage by females in the bridal party.

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Flowergirls and Attendants

When deciding on whether to have flowers for attendants and flowers girls, remember that the more you can tie the look of your wedding party together, the more stunning your photos will be when your wedding party appears in group photos. All it takes is for your attendants to carry something as simple as a single bloom and this result is easily achieved.

Petal Flower Basket -
A delicate decorated basket filled with petals or flower heads that can be scattered by attendants.

Posy Bouquet -
A small posy bouquet of blooms created to complement and tie in with the bridal and bridesmaids bouquets. Bound with complementary ribbon and detailed with pearl or beaded pins.

Wristlet Corsage -
A small ribbon wrist band with floral touches to match bridal flowers.

Head Band -
A head band detailed with floral touches to match bridal flowers. back to the top Top



Floral Accessories

Consider these floral details in order to add more interest and beauty to your wedding day.

Hair flowers -

Individually wired blooms for your hair, created to complement the chosen style. Hair flowers are specially wired in accordance with the needs of your hair stylist.

Rose Petals -
To be scattered where desired, along entrance ways, tables, aisles etc.

Rose Petal Cones -
Small paper cones filled with rose petals for guests to throw. back to the top Top



Ceremony Flowers

The venue where you will take your vows may be the most special and memorable part of your wedding day. Consider decorating this venue with flowers to match your bridal party. Flowers on pews, vases of blooms at the altar and petals on the ground can all add ambiance to your ceremony.

Ceremony arrangements -

Large floral arrangements in complementary blooms and your choice of vases, to be placed at the ceremony venue, often on either side of the altar.

Pews -
Ribbon details, hanging baskets or nosegays of blooms are some of the ways to decorate your seating at the ceremony venue..

Aisle petals or flower heads -
Scatter petals or flower heads down the aisle for impact. back to the top Top



Reception

Your reception venue may be the place where you and your guests spend the majority of your wedding day. This is often the venue where couples spend the most amount of effort on flowers. Tie your entire wedding theme together using complementing vessels for arrangements on tables. Use interesting textures, shapes and details on tables as your guests will be close enough to admire them. Use candles for ambience and consider small details such as dressing napkins with ribbons and blooms.

Table arrangements -

Created uniquely to complement your style and venue. These can range from scattered petals on tables, to single blooms sunken in vases, to large full arrangements on beds of rock salt crystals and surrounded by tea light candles. Tables are designed to suit your budget and look.

Napkin detailing -
Add a single bloom, foliage or ribbon touch to each napkin to accentuate and tie in with your table styling theme. back to the top Top




Blossom Wedding Flowers can assist with all of your floral and decorative needs, from venue dressing and house flowers to 'Thank You' bouquets. The costs of these services are decided in consultation with you, depending on your requirements.

Set-up and clearing costs plus mileage can be agreed to in consultation with you.

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