We asked our friend Leigh Karsch and the staff of La Petite Fleur to share some tips and advice with us regarding flowers and flower choices for weddings. For more information on La Petite Fleur and to see some of their beautiful work, check out their blog.
1. Go for Inner-Beauty
Particularly when doing tall centerpieces, what’s going on inside the vase or cylinder is just as important as what’s coming out of it. Ask your florist about filling containers with colored water, loops of tall grasses, a strand of suspended blooms, or a layer of natural rocks (just fill the bottom quarter of the vase).
1. Go for Inner-Beauty
Particularly when doing tall centerpieces, what’s going on inside the vase or cylinder is just as important as what’s coming out of it. Ask your florist about filling containers with colored water, loops of tall grasses, a strand of suspended blooms, or a layer of natural rocks (just fill the bottom quarter of the vase).
2. Design a Doppelganger
Love the look of hydrangea, but can’t invest in this pricey bloom for 20 centerpieces? Talk with your florist about designing a doppelganger. Carnations are lovely, accessible, inexpensive flowers that, when bundled, can mimic the ethereal, garden look of a hydrangea.
3. Turn Over a New Leaf
Take a page out of the La Petite Fleur idea book, and grow with a wishing tree in lieu of a standard guest book. Rather than a series of autographs, give your guests the opportunity to offer sage sentiments and advice with a Wishing Tree. This interactive element engages guests, makes things more personal, and results in a sentimental keepsake. Guests hang hand-written notes on a tabletop tree, and at the end of the affair, leaves are plucked from the tree and placed in a scrapbook.
4. Draw from your Relationship, or Just Draw
Love the look of hydrangea, but can’t invest in this pricey bloom for 20 centerpieces? Talk with your florist about designing a doppelganger. Carnations are lovely, accessible, inexpensive flowers that, when bundled, can mimic the ethereal, garden look of a hydrangea.
3. Turn Over a New Leaf
Take a page out of the La Petite Fleur idea book, and grow with a wishing tree in lieu of a standard guest book. Rather than a series of autographs, give your guests the opportunity to offer sage sentiments and advice with a Wishing Tree. This interactive element engages guests, makes things more personal, and results in a sentimental keepsake. Guests hang hand-written notes on a tabletop tree, and at the end of the affair, leaves are plucked from the tree and placed in a scrapbook.
4. Draw from your Relationship, or Just Draw
Accessories provide opportunity to personalize and further engage your guests in the festivities. Consider wine bottles as table numbers, embellished with custom labels designed by you. Or, get personal, and name your tables after members of your bridal party, and offer fun, "did you know" facts on each card.
5. Put on the PrettyConsider accessorizing the containers in your centerpieces - the right accessory can “finish” the pretty, unique look you're envisioning - ao ask your florist about embellishing the outside of a clear vase or cube with leaves, branches, or even paper that’s secured with long strips of grass, ribbon, or depending upon your event’s style, colored coils.
Thanks so much to Leigh and the staff at La Petite Fleur for sharing those tips with us!
-Becky
5. Put on the PrettyConsider accessorizing the containers in your centerpieces - the right accessory can “finish” the pretty, unique look you're envisioning - ao ask your florist about embellishing the outside of a clear vase or cube with leaves, branches, or even paper that’s secured with long strips of grass, ribbon, or depending upon your event’s style, colored coils.
Thanks so much to Leigh and the staff at La Petite Fleur for sharing those tips with us!
-Becky
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