Flower Help Please!?

Our wedding is in late August, and I'm looking for an inexpensive or alternative way to do my bouquets. I'm not having centerpieces made of flowers so I don't need any help with that, just the bridesmaids and my bouquet. I'm also having some trouble deciding the flowers to use, my color theme is a light purple like a lilac shade and silver. I was thinking of going with white roses or some other color, but I don't want just a rose bouquet, I would like some other flower to accent it, No Lilies though, although they are beautiful I can't stand the smell of them, it gives me a headache. I'm so lost and I'm running out of time! Any ideas would be greatly appreciated and Thank You ALL in advance : )
Flower Help Please!?
A good way to keep cost down is to be sure to pick flowers that are in bloom at that time of year. Late August would be a great time for chrysanthemums. They come in a creamy white and several shades of purple including a lavendar shade and would make lovely bridesmaids bouquets. Baby's breath is also coming into bloom at that time. For the bride's bouquet you could add stephanotis which is a small (inch to inch and a half) white waxy flower and white baby's breath to your rose bouquet.


Congratulations and best of luck! P.S. Irises are spring flowers and would be expensive if they were available at all.
Reply:Carnations are beautiful - gerbera daisies or alstromeria. Check with your local florist for ideas.
Reply:Gerbera daisies. COme in all colors. Calla Lillies.
Reply:Irises are a good flower. The come in several colors including white and different shades of purple. Also they are in season later in the year so they might be cheaper. You could take a few lilac irises and tie them with a silver ribbon for your bridesmaids to carry.
Reply:I am making my own. I am going with a single rose for the girls. You might try roses and irises. I saw it in a magizine and it looked beautiful. I would suggest you get a mag and see what you like. Buy a few fake flowers and just see what looks good to you.
Reply:Hydrangeas are a beautiful flower that comes in many colors. They even come in beautiful shades of lavender. They also come in white. You could have a white bouquet of white hydrangeas and roses and have white roses and lavender hydrangeas in the bridesmaids bouquets. These websites have pretty affordable wholesale options for flowers. Good luck with all your planning!
Reply:You could go to your local craft store and have them make the bouquets out of silk flowers. They are a lost less expensive and you have them as a keepsakes. My colors are lilac and yellow. I found a beautiful bouquet online with nosegays and white roses. If you dont like this particular bouquet then the craft store or florist will have a book with pictures of bouquets for you to look at. http://www.thebridesbouquet.com/sweetLav...
Reply:Anything in the blue/purple/pink range should look pretty, and most flowers look at least pretty good combined with white roses. If you've got a good flower market or open-to-the-public florist's supply, go take a look at what's there and think about how they would look together. Talk to someone who works there about what flowers are easy to work with in your color range, and in season at the time you're getting married.





Some flowers in the color range you might want to take a look at include: heather, lilacs, lavendar, iris. There are also roses that are slightly cool shades of lavendar as opposed to the more common pinks, reds, and whites. You could always mix some of those with the white for a striking and elegant look.





Or, the way I did my flowers was simple. I went to that open-to-the-public florist's supply the day before my wedding, bought some of everything that was long-stemmed and inexpensive that day that seemed to go reasonably together, added in one sheaf of long-stemmed red roses, and tied up sheaf bouquets with red ribbon. Since I didn't need a lot of flowers for table decorations or any other real floral displays (I was getting married in a redwood grove and felt a lot of floral arrangements would be a case of coals to Newcastle!), I was able to get all the flowers I needed for about $35.





That was fourteen years ago in a fairly small town, but that route should still save you a bundle if it's something you think you'd like to do. What's more it was really easy.
Reply:I would go with small baskets of African violets or orchids. I am not sure what color orchids come in but they are a more summer flower.
Reply:I would go to the flower market and browse for things that look good to you.





If there isn't a flower market you can go to the "flower market" at Hobby Lobby or Garden Ridge. Pull whichever ones look good and play with them until you get the look you want. Even if you aren't doing fakes it will give you a shopping list so you will know you want 5 roses, 3 iris, 6 lavendar...whatever.
Reply:If you use hydrangeas make sure you give them lots of water. They tend to wilt in a bouquet. Look into calla lillies. I don't think they smell as much (or at all) as the white or the stargazer variety.nanny