June Wedding Flowers

Posted in: Uncategorized | December 11th 2009 | no comments

When my friend e-mailed me that she will come in her birth town once the wedding date has been fixed for the middle of June I considered immediately the option to lend a helping hand with the details of the wedding planning. Since college days I know her to be a very organized person and I wasn't surprised at all to see her deciding to go for her, how they say, DIY wedding planning, DIY being the acronym for 'Do IT Yourself'. Till now I had no idea what on earth this DIY meant, though I heard plenty of people talking about this DIY planning or projecting something. Anyway, once she has decided to run her own planning for the biggest event of her life I took it as normal in asking if there was something I could do.

Her reply was first a thank you note, she has always been well-mannered, followed by the request to assist with her June wedding flowers, the items meant to colorfully decorate the ambient of her outdoor wedding. Since I was the one still living in our birth town, actually the only one, all of our friends decided to relocate right after college graduation, I thought of this flowers research as being a good thing for me to give a hand in the planning of an event that had no precedent in the circle of our close friends.

But, to tell you for sure, I had no clue what is this all about. I have attended previously to two wedding celebrations, but honestly, I haven't paid too much attention to the flowers. I have presented a bunch of red gerbera daisies to one of the brides and the other one I went for the white roses, but that is as far I can go with the process of remembering about the floral chapter of these weddings. And I said to myself that this thing will not happen with my friend's wedding celebration, as I wanted that this item to be clearly noticed and if possible, admired in both its color and type of blooms.

I e-mailed back my friend and asked her if there was a certain amount of money I had to consider in my June wedding flowers research and beside this I needed the photos of her wedding gown and that of her bridesmaid, as I wanted to have a better picture in regard to the color choices as well as the bloom types. I asked her if she had a preference in the choice of flowers for her bridal bouquet and that of her bridesmaid's. She answered back with the photos I requested, as well with the pretty large amount of money available for the flower chapter, and she said that she will leave the choice up to me.

We agreed on me sending her some photos of the bouquets that were available on our local florist and the floral arrangements for the table centerpieces at her outdoor wedding celebration. Unfortunately this local florist of ours doesn't have a web site to display her services on, as beautiful as they proved to be, but we have managed to come with some options out of which my friend was free to select. My favorite one was the bridal bouquet containing the brilliant white of the Stephanotis blooms combined with the passionate deep red of roses; I was specifically drawn to this bouquet and underlined it to my friend as well since my friend's wedding gown had some red embroidery presented on the bodice and the hemline of the skirt.