Wedding Flowers

Scottish Wedding Flowers

Wedding flowers whatever you see them, have to be somehow connected to each other, either being part of a bridal bouquet or buttonhole decoration or table arrangements. Some couples choose also the option of traditional flowers that are known to bear special symbols for the occasion, therefore flowers to reflect love, stability, commitment, trustfulness, and spirit of everlasting youth are counted for instance among the Scottish wedding flowers. In the floral decorations, Scottish tradition has inserted small details such as accessories in the form of pearls, ribbons, tartan fabrics or glitters to make the flower shine through a distinctive note that make them be more special than other wedding flowers.

Details belonging to traditional wedding outfit are brought into the floral arrangements next to rose and thistle to decorate the buttonholes of the family members; a recurrent element as it will be shown in the following paragraphs is the thistle (known to be the national symbol of Scotland) which carries the ancient Celtic symbol of birth and nobility of character.

Scottish wedding flowers come in a diversity of options displayed for bridal bouquets, bridesmaids posies, buttonhole flowers and corsage decorations. A nice arangement in conferred by the Scottish bouquet consisting of bloomed large ivory roses with thistles, near grass berries backed with monstera leaves and being all together wrapped in satin fabric tied with a tartan ribbon. Another style to depict the spirit of Scotland itself is a combination of roses and thistles with greenery tied together in different options of colored satin, the same combination being found in best men buttonhole and bridesmaids bouquets as well.

To display the misty Scottish tartan, is the Scottish Pride bouquet containing blue heather, blue wild urchin, red Victorian roses backed by greenery and ended up with a satin or tartan wrapped handle. The Highland Beauty is a bouquet that gathers ivory rose and heather and is mostly used as a posy or cake decoration, because of its lightness and decorative style.

The Scottish Giant Thistle bouquet that uses giant thistles next to an abundance of greenery, bear grass that are lightened by the appearance of ivory freesias that have decorative giant pearls. The handle is rendered by the wrapped hunter green satin with pale green pearls on it; it has an effect that one rarely meet in another bridal bouquets. When freesias are used in a floral arrangement it is sure that they bring an air of freshness and delicacy; the same happens with the Scottish bouquet that comprises freesia with large pearls, bear grass and assorted ivy leaves to obtain a bouquet suitable for brides and bridesmaids as well.  The wrapping of the handle can be done with a satin color that matches the freesia’s color and the effect is ensured.

A choice that draws itself somehow apart from the rest of floral decorations is the lily buds, tiger lilies, thistle ivory fillers arrangement. The lightness of this floral bouquet makes it easy to be carried throughout the whole day of the wedding celebration without any strains.