6 Flowers To Consider For Your Wedding Bouquet

Your wedding bouquet will probably be the most important flower bouquet in your life. It's sure to be the most-photographed anyway. While some brides choose their bouquets from a florist's portfolio, perhaps you'd like your bouquet to be more personalized. While you're perusing the thousands of flowers available, consider the following for your bouquet.

1. Calla Lily

The calla lily features a trumpet-shaped bloom. It's been prominently featured in both Art Deco and Art Nouveau art, so the calla lily carries both a modern and retro feeling to its profile. According to The Knot, the most common color for calla lilies in a wedding bouquet is creamy ivory, though they come in other colors. Consider calla lilies for a restrained, elegant bouquet.

2. Freesia

Freesia is renowned for its fragrance, which is why you might associate it with perfume more than bouquets. However, the bloom is small and delicate with surprisingly sturdy petals. Freesia also comes in creamy white as well as pink, yellow, red, purple, and orange. Freesia makes a beautiful accent flower. You could choose these blooms if you want a little fragrance in your bouquet.

3. Amaryllis

Amaryllis would serve as statement flowers within the bouquet. They feature a striking bloom with large, trumpet-shaped blossoms in a gentle spiral. They come in white, red, yellow, green, pink, and burgundy. The petals can be solid-colored or white with either stripes or tips in the other color. Amaryllis could provide a beautiful pop of color in a spring or summer wedding bouquet.

4. Delphinium

In nature, delphiniums are architectural flowers that grow tall with the blooms clustered in cones on either side of the stalk. Shades of blue are the most common color range, though they also come in purple, white, mauve, and peach. For bridal bouquets, some florists incorporate the architectural shape, while others weave the flower around other blooms.

5. Anemone

Anemones are small flowers with big centers flanked by delicate petals. Anemones do come in white, which makes a striking profile when combined with their strong, dark centers. However, you also find them in bright shades. Anemones would be a complementary flower around larger blooms. If you're thinking of an all-white bouquet, consider a white anemone with its contrasting center.

6. Coxcomb

An unusual but striking flower for a wedding bouquet is the coxcomb. As the name suggests, it resembles the crest found on a rooster. The most popular color of coxcomb is bright crimson, though you also see yellow, green, pink, and orange. While florists often use coxcomb as an accent flower, you could have it utilized as a central bloom.

Talk to your florist about incorporating some of the above flowers into your wedding bouquet.


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