This is the bouquet I showed her for inspiration:
Image from TheKnot.com.I did want to make some changes -- yellow instead of orange, take out the green orchids, add some touches of blue and white. Sue gave it the thumbs up and suggested bouquets of roses, gerbera daisies, freesia, delphinium, and some white stephanotis. (Did I know what freesia, delphinium or stephanotis looked like before our meeting? No. But thankfully there were pictures!) Sue also didn't laugh at my tiny budget for centerpieces and thought it would be no trouble to fill a 4" cylinder vase with a mix of inexpensive flowers and place it on top of a mirror.
This was what I hadin mind for the centerpieces,
only with more colors!
Image from KimballFloral.com.
The rest of the meeting was a total blur. I'd only thought about centerpieces and bouquets. Boutennieres, corsages, ceremony flowers? No clue. But Sue had some wonderful ideas (she's worked at our venue before) and we pulled together a preliminary list of what everything could look like, with the understanding that it can all change between now and the wedding.
So now that I've met with the florist, it appears that the concept of "wedding colors" has more or less gone out the window, at least as far as the flowers are concerned. In the end I wasn't a monochromatic sort of girl. I'm still toying with the idea of using a slightly more muted color scheme inside the mansion -- somehow hot pink daisies feel like a mismatch with the mansion's interior. But we've got lots of time to work that out, and for now, I'm just happy to have one more vendor booked and ready to go!
2 comments:
We have a similar attitude towards colors. We're planning on doing our own flowers, and so we will more or less have what is available at farmers markets etc. in July as our options, so by including a wide array of vivid shades we can not worry about matching things, and it's actually made other things easier too, one less thing to worry about!
Having a lot of colors in an event can make things a lot more lively. It's also unique since most of the wedding pictures you see have people wearing something with one common color. Once the photos come out, this is totally going to be one colorful album!
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