Thursday, April 3, 2014

Wedding Flower Colors and Their Meanings

With the change in seasons, we are thinking of all the beautiful flower options.  The color of wedding bouquets and reception centerpieces has a history of traditional meanings.  What do the colors of your wedding day colors represent?
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Blue.  Whether pale and delicate or bold and deep, blue wedding flowers traditionally represent peace, serenity and new beginnings.  Popular choices for blue bouquets often include delphiniums, hydrangea, roses, orchids, and statice.
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Pink.  Pink wedding blooms are thought to represent happiness and grace.  Pale blooms can be used to convey youth and innocence while bolder tones invoke fun and energy.  Think pink and you think of grace, gentility, and happiness.  If you think pink, consider garden roses, carnations, tulips, lilies, gerber daisies, peony and orchids.
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Purple.  Long associated with royalty, purple weddings represents dignity, creativity and success.  It has also been the most popular choice for wedding colors for several years.  Some popular purple blooms include hydrangeas, roses, carnations, tulips, orchids, lisianthus, and iris.
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Red.  Is there any color more associated with love?  Red weddings represents passion, desire and long lasting love.  While red roses are traditional you can also use mums, orchids, peruvian lilies, daisies and calla lilies.
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White.  White wedding flowers offer the simple beauty associated with innocence and reverence for the occasion.  Some popular blooms include lily of the valley, roses, lilies, phlox, amaryllis, carnations, dahlias and hydrangeas.  
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Yellow.  Yellow wedding flowers are the color of happiness and sunshine.  Often used to create a feeling of joy, popular choices for wedding bouquets include daffodils, roses, tulips, orchids, lilies, dahlia and sunflowers.
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Orange.  Orange wedding flowers symbolize confidence, enthusiasm and optimism in life.  Roses, alstroemeria, daisies, craspedia, peruvian, asiatic and calla lilies, and tulips are popular choices for the bouquet or centerpieces.
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Green.  Symbolizing good fortune, harmony and health, green wedding bouquets are growing in popularity.  Consider blooms of carnations, roses, dahlia, hydrangea, lisianthus or pom flowers.


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