Andrew's Wiki
Flowers Flowers

First Ideas

• Color: shades of white, from white to cream to champagne; shades of green, from grass green to sage green to mint green
• Three Approaches
  • Southern: dogwood, magnolia, iris, mountain laurel, gardenia
  • Fragrant: lilac, freesia, and herbs (lavender, mint, rosemary, lemon verbena)
  • Frilly and frothy: peonies, sweet pea, cafe au lait dahlias, clematis, garden roses, waxflowers, spider mums
• Lots of greenery (mixed in w/flowers, not just around edges) and visible stems; tied with wide satin champagne or sage ribbon
• Romantic and gracious Southern feel, but restrained and refined; elegant woodsy, upscale garden; lush, but not overpowering; warm but not disorganized
• Boutonnieres: one single anemone or gardenia or clematis, set on a leaf so as to contrast w/Andrew’s jacket; no extra greenery or flowers above this; simple
• None of this:
  • No chiffon
  • Nothing trendy or sparkly
  • No “towering” huge arrangements (try to make room cozy)
  • No clear vases
  • No orchids, roses, gerbera daisies, or lilies
• Try to remain local or at least native w/flowers
• Shape: free form and organic, NOT spherical, presentation, or trailing
  • Not too packed in: more like a “just picked from the garden” feel (of course, not just any garden, but a fabulous elegant garden)
• Size: not too big, more of a posy; esp. don’t have huge boutonniere

To Tell Lisa

• I gave up on the dahlias, peonies, and gardenias.
• Look: frilly, garden fresh, elegant, romantic, lush; and great smelling!
• Creamy garden rose bout
  • For groom: a large and petal-filled-to-the-max bloom on a very simple greenery background: a few large dark green waxy leaves (geranium, perhaps)
  • If not possible, substitute pink ranunculus w/green center
  • Other boutonnieres and corsages: mix of (smallish) white ranunculus and freesia
• No dahlias, spider mum, or lisianthus.
• All white hydrangeas or viburnum in the julep vases; viburnum preferred, and use rest as centerpiece filler to make more cost-effective. By all means put seeded eucalyptus and pretty, lacey kinds of fern in the centerpieces.
• Rose petals for Audrey’s basket; wreath for Audrey
• Wreath for door; garland for Andrew and Shawna’s chairs
• Sweet pea, ranunculus, freesia, and waxflower. Plus sage, rosemary, mint, geranium leaf, and greenery. And big, blowsy garden roses in shades of cream, champagne/taupe, apricot/peach, blush/pink.
  • Roses: must be garden roses that are packed with petals and look almost like peonies. English roses.
    • David Austin English rose stuff! Look here http://www.davidaustinroses.com/american/Advanced.asp?Page Id?=2025 (like the Evelyn and Jude the Obscure roses)
    • Sample varieties, taken from Fifty Flowers dot com: Peach Juliet peony rose; Cream Classic Woman peony rose; Pink Metropole peony rose; Miranda garden rose; Cymbeline garden rose; Aquarell pink and yellow garden rose; Cream Mythos garden rose; Caramel Antique creamy garden rose; Jeanne Moreau garden rose
  • Camellias would be an interesting alternative to the garden roses
  • For the bridal bouquet: focus on getting a wide range of white, cream, champagne, blush, light pink, and peach colors to get great depth. Please don’t minimize cost for my bouquet: make it as lush as possible, but still not huge.
    • Interaction of round flowers and frilly ones designed to mimic the look of lace
    • I love the look of white and pink spray stock (the shorter stock). Maybe use that in place of freesia in my bouquet because freesia is too tailored and strong, not frilly enough for me!
  • For bridesmaid’s bouquets, have more of a pink presence than my bouquet and use more greenery (to cut costs and to differentiate from mine). Don’t do any creamy or champagne or peach for them, just pink, white, and green.
    • Of course the pink color should never reach a fuchsia or a dark pink look! All the pinks should be very pastel.
• Centerpieces should be made of whatever is left over from the bride and bridesmaid flower mix, plus have more filler (hydrangea, seeded eucalyptus, ferns, lady’s mantle, geranium leaves, ruscus, cocculus, salal) and be more free form; and very very green; with whites, greens, and light pinks

Summary

• Style: loose, free-form, organic, fresh, romantic
• Primary Flowers: Garden roses in cream, peach/apricot, and pale pink, supplemented by champagne spray roses
• Secondary Flowers: White/cream/greenish ranunculus, white sweet pea, and white freesia
• Filler: Waxflower, stock/larkspur, and rosemary
• Greenery: Hydrangea, seeded eucalyptus, geranium leaves, salal (a mixture of light and dark greens)
• Bride’s bouquet: be generous with the fluffy roses and downplay the pink; no hydrangea
• Bridesmaid’s bouquets: just as big as bride’s, more of the pink, downplay the champagne; no hydrangea
• Centerpieces: more emphasis on the greenery and filler
• Andrew’s boutonniere: Pink garden rose
• Boutonnieres and corsages: White freesia
• Altar: clear vases of freesia stems
• Bar and patio tables: mint julep vases of hydrangea