Fall Bridal Bouquets: Chrysanthemum

Fall Wedding Bouquets - Mums & Roses

When you ask someone to name a flower for Fall Wedding Bouquets, many of them will choose Mums or Chrysanthemum. Mums are quintessential fall wedding flowers. Chrysanthemum comes in variety of shapes, sizes and almost in every imaginable color. It can be used to strengthen the arrangements, mass, interesting shape, or texture.

Fall Wedding Bouquets - Yellow Chrysanthemum

The Chrysanthemum flower has a long and distinguished history. Cultivate it first by the Chinese over2000 years ago! Westerners love this flower and keep developing it to the stage that we now have different forms and sizes, from small button and simple daisy like to large pom-pom blooms. This diversity is one of the reasons for its popularity in wedding arrangements and Fall Wedding Bouquets.

Fall Wedding Bouquets - Color of the Mums

As expected from a flower with such a long history, every color from the Chrysanthemum has a very special meaning. For example: The white mums represent truth, and red symbolizes love, both of them are integral parts for a wedding. They are the birth flower for November too.

Chrysanthemum combines beautifully with other flowers like lilies, roses and gerberas. Mums are one of the more cost effective fall flowers for wedding making them an ideal choice for full bouquets or to fill out an arrangement than the expensive flowers.

Chrysanthemum also is one of the longest lives fresh cut flowers. They can withstand hours without water, show no signs of fatigue and the blossoms can last up to 3 weeks if the stems are in water. That’s why they always be a favorite choice for DIY Fall Wedding Bouquets!

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Gerbera Daisy in Fall Weddings

Gerbera Daisy - Red Wedding Bouquets

Fall Wedding Bouquets can be a visual spectacle for the eyes with vibrant colors of gerbera daisy. The colors range from yellow, soft to hot pink, red, white and other paler shades. For someone who loves hot colors, this is what a gerbera daisy bouquet can give!

Once clustered or sorted together they are dynamic and dramatic. The color range provides you unlimited creative flair. Among the hottest colors is yellow (sun), radiate warmth wherever they are. More of yellows are referred to shades of gold. It can add s depth and richness to Fall Wedding Bouquets.

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Gerbera Daisy – Popular Choice for Fall Weddings

Gerberas are the second most popular wedding flowers for bouquets after roses. Classical beauty, simple yet colorful, the gerbera daisy symbolizes purity and innocence. The growing season is from March to May just like other spring flowers, but can be grown throughout the year, so it is affordable option for bridal bouquet.

Ideal for DIY Bouquets

Gerberas daisies are also ideal for DIY bridal bouquets, because they are easy to handle and not wilt easily like other delicate flowers. Go with simple design, such as a cute posy style and make sure that the flowers be cut at an angle under water to keep freshness for as long as we can.

A bouquet of 3 gerberas and organza bow can make a simple but very beautiful bridal bouquet and there is something that you can do by yourself. Gerberas can be used as a simple clutch posy or in combination with other flowers. Bring drama feel to your bouquets and other arrangements, combine orange, steel blue and yellow in your wedding flowers.

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Choose Gerberas for Your Fall Wedding Bouquets!

Gerbera daisy wedding bouquets are ideal bouquets for brides who looking for a flower that symbolize innocence and purity and bring joy to one of the important days in their life. Available all year round, gerberas won’t break the bank and DIY brides can save even more by opting to make their own Fall Wedding Bouquets!

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Fall Wedding Bouquets: Orchids

Orchids are of various shapes and colors, making them a versatile option for Fall Wedding Bouquets. The orchid wedding bouquet is beautiful with exotic shape of the flowers. It carries a hint of magic for any occasion. It is a long cut flower, suitable for any wedding decorations or bridal bouquet.

Fact

Commercially grown varieties of orchids can be taking 6 years more before they start flowering and then only produce about 4 stems in one year. Orchids are the largest plant families in the world with over 20,000 species. The different types or colors of orchid also have some different representations. Example: For example, pink orchids are a symbol of pure love and that great symbol to represent your wedding. You can find orchids in color variations from white, purple, orange, red, yellow, green, and pink.

If you plan to create your own wedding bouquet, orchid is a beautiful option. Even so, you can mix other flowers or different colors in combination with orchids as well. You can also use silk orchids and other artificial flowers or vines if you need to make your bouquet beforehand.

Bridal Wedding Flowers: Orchids

How to make Beautiful Cymbidium Orchid Wedding Bouquet

Tools and Materials:

• 25 stem of green cymbidium orchids
• 7-8 bunches of green Hypericum berries
• Floral shears
• Floral wire (24-gauge)
• Green floral tape
• Satin wired ribbon (12-15 inches)
• Pan Melt floral glue and electric skillet (or a hot glue gun)

Next:

• Clip the orchid blooms from the largest stem, and then cut an additional inch of the stem.
• Thread the wire through the center of the stem, toward the base of the flower. When the floral wire is halfway through, use your thumb and forefinger to bend the wire to straight down.
• Add some floral tape around the base of flowers. While holding the tape with your forefinger, gently pull the tape while you rotating flower stem till the wire and flower stem is fully covered three quarters of the way down the wire.
• Remove the leaves of the berry stems. Take out any brown or discolored berries and leaves. Clean-cut the berry stems between 9″ long.
• Arrange 2 or 3 stems back to back and then slowly set more berries and flowers around the outside of the bunch, till your bouquet full.
• Around the bunch of stems (below the base of the flowers), wrap with floral tape. Slowly pull the tape and rotate the flower bunch, covered all of the stems 8 inches down the wire.
• Melt pan melt adhesive in electric skillet. To apply a strip of glue on top of the flower stems, use a wooden stick. Alternately, use hot glue gun.
• Start from the top (below the base of the flowers), run satin ribbon over the glue and lay the ribbon to flat across the bottom. Tuck the sides of the satin ribbon inside and wrap the stems from bottom to top with ribbon. Store the finished bouquets in a refrigerator to keep them fresh.

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Flower Choice for Fall Bridal Bouquets: Roses

According of Society of American Florists, there are more than 120 varieties of roses commercially available. Style may vary from small blooms to large with sturdy or soft leaves, delicate petals. Roses are everywhere accessible and can be reasonably priced (although rare breeds can be increased from $ 4 to $ 10 per stem).

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There are three main types of roses those most likely candidates for the wedding flowers: hybrid tea rose, spray rose and garden rose. Here is a quick overview of what makes each unique:

Hybrid Tea Roses

In its classic form, a hybrid tea rose is valued for its unity, stability (it will be all day without wilting!) and availability. The most popular types include deep red rose, known as Black Magic, the gold-tone roses known as Leonidas and the creamy white ones known as Vendela.

Pink Roses Bridal Bouquet

Spray Roses

This smaller rose have 5 to 10 small heads per stem and thus fills the bouquets more than one stem – to make them important. They come in single hues or bicolor, like hybrid tea rose. Due to differences in size, they are ideally suited to give the texture and visual interest to arrangement.

Garden Roses

These roses are much larger and lush more than other varieties. They are often very open, and they are more natural and complex – like something you can find in your garden. Due to fragility, they are rare and expensive.