Red Wedding Flowers

Posted in: By color | May 22nd 2010 | no comments

When you have to make up your mind on the most suitable colored types of flowers for the big wedding day, waves of overwhelming states of heart start hunting you down. We all have to admit that choosing the best theme and color-scheme for the wedding is one of the most difficult tasks in our lives.

And the process of choosing the most beautiful wedding dress, the most appetizing and stunning wedding cake and the most fragrant and vibrantly elegant wedding flowers is so troubling because the range of possibilities is getting wider and wider each day. Nowadays almost any type of flower and color can be incorporated into a wedding and that is why is so hard to choose.

But what if we just stick to the most passionate, romantic, deep and extravagant colors of all - red, and simply plan a truly unique, assorted, spiritual and warm wedding? This way everything simplifies within a second! Red is the color for romance, passion, intrigue, depth, eternal love, fire and flame, power, positive energy, joy of living, strength, protection, prosperity, good luck, sensuality, femininity and attraction.


If you’ve decided to plan a red wedding, then you’ll be definitely need to start searching for some red wedding flowers to complete the love theme. Whether you’re planning a Valentine’s Day wedding, a Christmas wedding or any other romantic, sleek, adventurous and bold wedding, red is the most suitable color for a dramatic, elegant, sophisticated, original and memorable event.

When choosing the most adequate red wedding flowers for the bouquets, corsages, boutonnieres, table centerpieces, chairs, aisle, altar any for any other wedding décor arrangements, you have to consider the wedding budget, location, style, character, season, amplitude and theme.


To reduce the expenses you can opt for seasonal red wedding flowers: Passion rose, Grand Prix rose, tulips, freesias, carnations, gladiolas, amaryllis, gerbera daises, lily of the valley, foxgloves, asters, petunias, violets, cosmos, marigolds, hollyhocks, calla lilies, tea rose, chrysanthemums, straw flowers, sweet peas, trumpet wine, water lily, honeysuckle, dahlias, poinsettias, morning glory, scarlet rose, primrose, snowdrops, cannas, larkspur, poppies, impatiens, geraniums, jonquils, nasturtium, sweet William, bee balm, cosmos, anemones, cockscombs or snapdragons.

For a more exotic red wedding bouquet, brides can choose anthuriums, heliconia, orchids or star gazer lily. For a more delicate, springy, refined and feminine look, opt for red peonies. You an mix all the above red wedding flowers with complementary or contrasting shades of black, white, cream, pink, beige, ivory, blue, green, violet, coral, yellow, chocolate brown, teal, pearl gray, silver, gold, bronze, magenta, burgundy or maroon for a more sophisticated, extravagant, rich and abundant look.


Finish the looks of a red wedding bouquet with decorative pearls and beadings, feathers, crystals, sequins, ropes, bows or lace appliqués. If you’re not fully satisfied with the existing types of real fresh red wedding flowers opt for artificial silk or other material (such as paper or ribbons) custom made flowers.