Flower options for your wedding, Bar Mitzvah, Bat Mitzvah, quinceniera or sweet 16, event and - or special celebration
Congratulations! You are engaged!
You are now on your wonderful yet often frustrating journey from engagement to wedding.
It is a journey that will take you through many avenues and some forks in the road where you'll have to stop, consider and choose a path.
The road we'll take together is the one leading to the "fork in the road" to wedding flowers selection.
Like most brides and grooms, Bar-Bat Mitzvah parents, the parents of a quinceniera or sweet 16, event organizers for a work place or for a special occasion you are probably not a flowers mavens. Yet, all of a sudden you need to consider not only what flowers to use at your wedding, special celebration or event, but also what arrangements, for which designations and whether to use fresh or silk - satin flowers. This is quite a feat.
Hopefully this article will shed some light and help you decide how to proceed.
Today, you can select to proceed to the Fresh Flower road or you may opt for the Silk Flowers road.
Before you decide, however you must weigh the benefits and drawbacks you will encounter on either road traveled.
About Fresh Flowers
Traditionally, fresh flowers dominated the wedding and celebration receptions because the scent of fresh flowers fill the air with sweetness and empower the emotions.
However, fresh flowers are extremely expensive yet fade and wilt after just a few days.
Before you decide, you may wish to consider the following
You may host guests who are allergic to fresh flowers. They may spend your wedding sneezing and with red, itchy eyes.
You must order fresh flowers long before the wedding date. Yet, by their nature, you cannot see them until the florist brings them to your wedding site. Once done, with no time to spare, whether you like them or not, you are stuck with the bouquets, flower arrangements, and other floral accessories as created by the florist.
Fresh flowers do not last long. They fade and wilt. If you want them to become keepsakes, you must have them preserved. Preserving them necessitates getting them to a reliable flower preserver and this is often a costly process.
Fresh flowers are seasonal. So, if you are willing to go with flowers that are available at the season of your wedding you may pay less than if you opt for more exotic flowers that are out of season.
Many flowers that grow in greenhouses or imported from other parts of the world can be available to you out of season. However, they are often very expensive.
Brides and grooms like to know the meanings of the flowers they choose. So we added the ones we know. Additionally the need to know which flowers are seasonal for their wedding date.
