The Most Favorite Wedding Flowers

You can make a bridal bouquets as simple as cut several flowers & tie them. But not every flower is suitable for bridal bouquet. Knowing what are the most popular flowers is very useful for you. If you know what are the best and most favorite, it is easy for you to make a good wedding flower. You can make it as single flower arrangement or combine several popular flowers to make it unique. So, what are the most beloved flowers for brides? Here is a list of the most popular flowers (in ascending order):

1. Hydrangea
   Hydrangea is native to southern and eastern Asia. White is the most species color. Other species can be pink, blue, purple, and red. Hydrangea has a unique shape. Its shape is suitable for making a nosegay bouquet.


2. Carnation
   Carnation is the flower of love. Carnations usually are used for showing love and fascination. But cultivars of many colors can bring different symbol from each color. For example, white carnation may symbolize the purity of Mother's Day. Actually, the carnation is a species of Dianthus. Colors include pink (natural color), red, white, yellow and green.


3. Stephanotis
   Stephanotis can make a simple cake become elegant. The flower has white petals, star-shaped flower, and dark green leaves. The best known stephanotis species is Stephanotis floribunda whose are popular component of wedding bouquets.


4. Tulips
   Many people think that tulips are flowers from the Dutch. Actually, tulips are native to Central Asia & Persian Empire. The vast majority of tulips are being exported from Holland to all over the world. These cut flowers come with hundreds varieties with typically have one flower per stem and are available year-round.


5. Gerbera
   The name was taken from the last name of the German naturalist Traugott Gerber. Gerbera is a genus of sunflower family. The flowers grow with less water, so they are suitable for home gardening. Gerbera is popular for wedding bouquet because it is vary greatly in shape, color, and size. The capitulum is composed of hundreds of individual flowers.


6. Calla Lilies
   Calla lilies are elegant flower. The flowers are very popular choices for bridal bouquets, flower arrangements, & home decoration because of its range of colors available with unique shapes. Calla lilies are poisonous plants, so if you want to arrange a bouquet made with calla lilies, consider to keep it far from children & pet.


7. Roses
   Roses is one of the most favorite flowers in the world. It symbolize love with various color (white, pink, & red), beautiful shape, and more than a hundred species. Its beautiful shape with good smell can touch the heart of many people. Rose is also a durable flower. The characteristics of a good rose are: long stemmed, bold petals, & has minimum five petals.

By: Adi Marsudi

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Adi Marsudi provides a large selection of artificial wedding flowers. You can browse the gallery & find the bouquet arrangement fits you on his blog, BizarreWeddingFlowers.blogspot.com.

Resolved Question: Bridal Bouquets? (Answers: 14) (Comments: 0)

I'm going to have four Bridesmaids in my wedding and I was wondering if I'm supposed to pay for their bouquets myself? My first thought would be that, yeah, the bride pays for all the flowers, but I just wanted to hear it from someone else. This is probably a stupid question, so please bear with me. :-) Thanks!

Resolved Question: Are hydrangeas delicate flowers to work with for bridal bouquets? (Answers: 3) (Comments: 0)

I am wanting to use hydrangeas for my bouquet and the florist told me that they were hard to work with because they are so delicate. Odd since I have seen them all over the bride books recently. Any comments or suggestions?

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I am thinking of doing silk red rose bouquests for my bridesmaids and I would have real roses for mine. Would that look tacky or would people not notice? I just don't want to pay $100 each for each of theirs. But I want it to look very formal and nice. What would you do?