Realistically speaking (typing?), I should be working on my graduate project or possibly reviewing videos of me doing therapy with my clients. Instead, I’ve decided to talk to you about flowers!
I knew from the very beginning that flowers weren’t something I was super attached to as wedding decorations. When it comes to Sparky, his described interest is “As little as you care, I’m about 5% of that.” So it’s not something we’ve been too hung up on.
That being said, I knew that we would have some flowers. I couldn’t imagine walking down the aisle without a bouquet, and I think a tux without a boutonniere wouldn’t look quite right at a wedding.
Being a researcher by trade, I put a lot of time into reading reviews and looking at portfolios of various florists. Having done that, I decided on the florist I was most interested in and then promptly set it aside. (This was done last February, probably.) Fast forward past the year mark and my Knot checklist suggests “set up appointments with florists to discuss options.” Uh, yeah. I should do that.
Before I got in touch with the florist I had found, I asked BM Apple Pie who did the flowers at her wedding. Lo and behold, she used the same florist. Sold.
We went to the meeting with Wendy of Ravenna Bloom with iPhones in hand. Sparky didn’t have any strong opinions, so I used my inspiration board to talk about what I was thinking. Basically what I said: Anemones, pops of blue, edible components, texture, and a smallish bouquet (no hiding behind flowers for me!).
So…my inspiration? Click through!
I love that this bouquet has anemones. They are my favorite, and really the only flower that jumped out when I was looking at bridal bouquets. I love the different white/white colors and textures, too. Plus, the gray brunia berries are really rocking my world. If this is what my bouquet ends up looking like I would be very happy.
This one has those brunia berries again and the added texture/color of the gray dusty miller leaves. I also really like the pine cones, though I think those are more for a winter wedding than a summer/fall wedding like ours.
This bouquet has all kinds of things that I love—the anemones, the berries, and some hydrangeas. I don’t particularly like the green hydrangeas here, but the white ones are A-OK in my book. (Also, can we talk for a minute about that dress/necklace combination? So cute!)
I love the textural contrasts in this bouquet—white on white, gray dusty miller, gray brunia berries, and evergreen boughs! The evergreen makes me think immediately of winter, but Washington is known as the Evergreen State, so I could probably get away with it…
Speaking of texture…this bouquet has it. I love the edible component (the fiddlehead fern) and the pop of blue.
This bout has more edible components (rosemary) and simple pops of blue. Ideally if anemones are available, we’d have one of those, plus some blue, some brunia berries, and a touch of an edible component (an herb) in the boutonnieres, with those components also in the bouquets.
I was honestly surprised that I had such specific preferences for something I said I didn’t really care about. I’m going to attribute that to caring about the wedding in general. Have you found yourselves in a similar situation?
