From the rings to the shoes, from the food to the flowers, weddings come at
no small cost. It only makes sense that current brides and grooms-to-be are
choosing to penny-pinch wherever possible. Wedding flowers often become the
first casualty of a budget-minded couple's matrimonial plans.
Wedding flowers
can be very expensive, but they don't have to be! You can have the wedding
flowers chosen by royalty without breaking the bank.
Spring Wedding Flower Choices
For a spring wedding, there are many colorful and inexpensive flowers to
choose from. Sweet pea with its delicate pink hue is a beautiful accent for
wedding flower bouquets and centerpieces and is reasonably priced. It was once
used as altar decorations for weddings by Italian royalty and is still perfect
for spring weddings.
Purple wedding flowers such as irises and lilacs when arranged with delicate
pink sweet peas and some traditional white wedding flowers like lilies scream of
springtime. Irises come in a variety of colors and are very fragrant, relatively
inexpensive, and are a traditional wedding flower favorite.
According to legend, a blue iris and a white iris in a vase were placed at a
bride's table signifying that marriage would have its bright times as well as
its dull ones, and this was the beginning of the "for better or worse" phrase
found in the traditional wedding vows.
Chrysanthemums have always been popular choices for wedding flower bouquets
and centerpieces. They come in many colors and are inexpensive. A wedding flower
bouquet of peonies, sweet pea, irises, chrysanthemums, lilacs, and lilies can be
absolutely breathtaking and easy on your budget at the same time.
For the Summer Wedding
If a summer wedding is in the works, you have some really nice but
inexpensive flower choices available to you. Yellow wedding flowers like yellow
chrysanthemums combined with blue or purple hued accents such as irises or
wisteria are great for spring and summer weddings and are particularly pretty
when combined with orange tiger lilies.
Alstromeria has blooms that look very much like orchids and they have many
blossoms per stem, making them a more economical choice. Alstromeria comes in
several different colors and keeps fresh for a long time.
Dahlias are another great but economical choice, particularly if the wedding
is taking place in late summer. Consider a wedding flower bouquet and
centerpieces made with alstromeria, dahlias, daisies, irises, tiger lilies and
chrysanthemums for sophisticated color, style, and savings.
Colorful Flowers For Your Autumn Wedding
Fresh wedding flowers of choice for fall are anemones. Their deep hues of red
and blue bring rich vibrancy without major expense. Many brides in Italy wear
crowns made of them at their weddings. Asters many years ago were almost like
family heirlooms, passed from one generation to another.
Where better to use asters than in fall wedding flowers, since weddings are
often the prelude to the next generation? Delphinium, with its strong stems and
delicate purple blossoms is the symbol of strength, particularly with regard to
the marital bond.
Wedding flower bouquets and centerpieces containing anemones, asters,
delphinium, gerbera daisies, gladiolas, and chrysanthemums not only add
spectacular color but are easy on the budget, too.
Wonderful Flowers for a Winter Wedding
Winter wedding flowers can be absolutely elegant and budget friendly, too.
Red, the color of love, is simply dashing with white, which symbolizes joy. Star
of Bethlehem with its delicate white blossoms resembling stars is absolutely
gorgeous combined with amaryllis or poinsettias.
Adding Euchalyptus to the greenery in your winter wedding flower bouquets and
centerpieces enhances the natural beauty of your flowers.