The Latest Wedding Flower Trends - Fresh Details For Bridal Bouquets

The Latest Wedding Flower Trends - Fresh Details For Bridal Bouquets

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Bridal bouquets have been the mainstay of wedding flowers from the time of antiquity. Brides have carried bouquets since the times of the ancient Greeks when wedding bouquets of herbs were carried to ward off bad spirits. Wedding bouquets continued to evolve through the Victorian age when many flowers were placed in bridal bouquets because of their meaning. These days, the bridal bouquet is still the focal point of wedding flowers and it is undoubtedly every bride's best accessory.

Just as the use of herbs and flowers in wedding bouquets has evolved, so have other details of the bridal bouquet. With fresh new designs for wedding flowers, bridal bouquets are becoming more and more unique and personalized. Wedding flowers are an excellent way to show your style and put some distinctive touches on your wedding ceremony and reception décor.

So, how do you make your bridal bouquet stand out? Read on and discover the most inventive new ideas for bridal bouquets and decide which fresh trend is right for your wedding flowers.

Here's what's new in bridal bouquets:

Monogramming

Monograms are becoming very popular for all aspects of weddings including wedding flowers. The monogram is generally of the groom's last name, but can be a combination of the groom's initials and the bride's initials.

Monograms can be featured with wedding flowers in a few different ways. Bridal bouquets wrapped with ribbon and fabric can display monograms embroidered onto the fabric or sewn onto the fabric with beads or rhinestones. Bouquets can also feature monograms created with wire or piping. Monograms are a great way for brides and grooms to show pride in their family names and add personalization to their wedding flowers.

Different Textures

Today's wedding flowers feature a variety of different blooms and other items that combine together to create exquisite textures that add a bit of the unexpected to bridal bouquets. The simplest way to add varying textures to your wedding flowers is to use several different types and shapes of flowers mixed together. Keeping in mind which wedding flowers are in season for your wedding, choose flowers that compliment each other with different textures. Flowers with varying textures like carnations and roses or spider mums and calla lilies lend contrast to bridal bouquets.

Another way to add a bit of texture to your wedding flowers is to use some non-traditional items in your bouquet. Shells, fruit, pinecones, feathers, leaves and berries are some unconventional items that you can use to add texture to your wedding flowers.

Breakaway Bouquets

A fresh and clever idea in wedding flowers, breakaway bouquets are gaining in popularity for creative brides. Made up of any type of flower, breakaway bouquets appear to be one large bouquet, but are actually composed of three separate bouquets. The bride will carry the large combined bouquet down the aisle and then she'll break the three bouquets apart and they'll be used as other wedding flowers.

Of the three bouquets, one is usually used for the bouquet toss, another is for the bride to keep and the third is for the bride to give as a special gift to a friend or loved one. Breakaway bouquets add a unique touch to traditional wedding flowers.

Bright Colors

Another sweeping trend for wedding flowers is the use of bright colors in bridal bouquets. Though many brides still stick with traditional shades of white and cream for their bouquets, the freshest wedding flowers feature vivid hues like bright orange, hot pink, electric purple and magenta.

Bright colors can easily be used in combination together to make up a bouquet with citrus hues or bold purples and pinks. These colors can also be used alone as a single color bouquet or can be part of a monochromatic bouquet mixed with more muted shades.

As the focal point of the wedding flowers, your bridal bouquet can set the theme for your wedding with the details that you select. Monogramming, funky textures, a creative breakaway option or a splash of vibrant color will give your bridal bouquet just what it needs to be a unique and special part of your wedding.

Thryptomene

Thryptomene

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Thryptomene is a beautiful Australian native shrub that we grow here at Swallows Nest.  This variety is Grampians Thryptomene, found as the name suggests in the Grampians region in Victoria.  It is extensively picked in the wild there, for the cut flower trade.  We only have a small number of bushes here, but they are well established and very productive. 

In mid to late winter,  the tiny bright pink buds begin to burst into dainty little flowers that erupt between the leaves and cover the length of the branches.  They continue to flower for the next few months.  I think they have the look of snow laden branches at this time of the year.

One of the features of Thryptomene is it's beautiful aromatic smell.  Fresh, clean and foresty, it really lingers.  I love it!  

Thryptomene is long lasting as a cut flower.  It looks great as a filler in a bouquet and adds a fresh scent and a touch of authentic Australian winter.  Look out for it in florists during the cooler months!

Sjaak Hullekes

Sjaak Hullekes

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Lelaki seharusnya menjadi lelaki. I hate people who push boundary with the androgynous cart and try to sell things like skirt and some baju bunga-bunga because as long as you are biologically born with a proper set of zakar and testikel, one should dress and behave like a man. With that say,  Sjaak Hullekes for me defines the modern men so precisely, I just want to wear this.

To all fashionista. (Yes! you slut, and you too whore)

To all fashionista. (Yes! you slut, and you too whore)

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Bila cuti semester macam ni, dan menggangur mulalah pelbagai aktiviti membuang masa dilakukan. I think I have khatam the entire videos on youtube, including those makeup tutorials videos, I would probably able to smear some blusher and say things like, "Oh god, this is well pigmented on skin" sambil garu-garu perut.

Anyhow lets talk about fashion here, I am not fashion mastermind, or fashion gila khinzir enthusiast. I enjoy fashion as much as I enjoy sipping a cup of hot bubbly teh tarik over a piece of roti canai while secretly calculating the peratusan kegedangan upon every munch. OK, terjauh mengarut. Macamanapun I find that some people take fashion so seriously, it like a battle on twitter and any form of social media, where you can find people posting silly things like,

"Oh god, biatch, bergaduh dengan perempuan juling over my baju raya by rizalman at Tesco. God, I want all the ropol in the world for raya, feeling-feeling bunga manggar on the first day of raya"

"God! LV bag and jubah by Jovian mendagu for Hari Raya, god can't wait to show people at Felda Sendayan I'm malaysian Kris Dayanti"

Chill out people, you don't have to push fashion, or try so much to look super upscale.  Be skinny and just dress as you like.

With that say, I am defining myself, selipar jamban, and my vintage Lanvin shirt with skinny from Tesco. I should pretend like I'm Alex Pettyfer for the day.

By the way, awesome people like me, would find this song reminds alot of fashion week in paris, or maybe parisian in general.



While you are at it, this runway show by Cavalli never fail to give me erection for some weird reason. I want every pieces in this collection. Sil vous plait.

YSL

YSL

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The worst job for me has got to be cleaning up my room, not that I am bersepah gila, tapi bila semua benda kucar kacir i.e baju dan buku-buku yang melambak-lambak dari firm, to fit these items into limited storage I have is just insane. Walaubagaimana pun berjaya. I like my room, kurang bersepah and everything is in place.

As for now, after having a light buka puasa, I stuck here on my writing table, tak tahu nak buat apa. To tell you the truth, I have so many things to say, but sometimes being the chirpy me, the actually conversation would usually lead to no where. For me, the past  few months have been the best and the worst moments in my life. You know the feeling when you expect so much, and at the end of the day, you get nothing. Rasa kecewa yang tak terhingga, and these few months I actually learned how to deal with it. 

One thing for sure, I must learn to put myself as priority. Satu benda yang dipelajari, kita manusia dilahirkan pelbagai rupa dan bentuk, oleh itu kita manusia tidak berkongsi perasaan yang sama. This is not an emotion post, kelakar bila kena ingatkan selalu, it is just me sharing my new found principle of life. 

On lighter note, I am quite happy with the new logo for YSL, well SLP, Saint Laurent Paris. Minimalist and quite modern. Will Hedi Slimane make YSL as boring as Dior Homme? I hope he wouldn't 

The Black Fringe

The Black Fringe

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There are hundreds of species of Protea - and so many more when you add the lovely hybrids.  One of the most well-known traits of a Protea flower is the fringing.  At Swallows Nest Farm, we grow a small number of bushes of this lovely Protea Neriifolia, which as you can see, has a spectacular black fringe.  This pink variety reminds me of a 1950s party dress, with its bright colouring and black trim.  The Neriifolia flowers over a long period of the year, and at the moment is producing some beautiful flowers on lovely long stems.  I have had fun photographing these beauties, trying to capture their shape, colour and texture.

This is a close up of an immature flower, showing the "hairy" fringe beginning to turn black.

This photo captures a whole flower bud.  You can see that the fringing is white at this stage.  The black develops as the flower reaches maturity.

In this picture, you can see the difference between the Protea Neriifolia, and the hybrid that is the staple of the cut flower industry, the Protea Pink Ice.  The shape, arrangement of petals and black fringing are immediately apparent.  The centre mound of flower spikes differ in colour too.  

At this time of year, the pink of the proteas looks spectacular with the yellow Inca Gold Leucadendrons, and the dainty pink and white Thryptomene.  

The Protea Neriifolia are a stunning addition to a bouquet.  I really love them!