Wedding Season is truly underway at Fusion Flowers Birmingham...
Along with delivering beautiful wedding flowers to early brides in 2013 we have been meeting new brides for the rest of 2013, brides with weddings planned for 2014 and even been talking to brides who are getting married in 2015!!!
At our wedding consultations, I take on board everything and every specific requirement that our excited brides-to-be say and answer many questions and advise as much as i can. The main question i keep getting asked is who do i buy buttonholes and corsages for?
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| Grooms Buttonhole and Mums Wrist Corsage |
Where to begin?...
So lets break it down and write and list...Lets start with the main Bridal Party-
Groom
Best Man
Ushers
Dads
Grandads
Page Boy
Moms
Nans
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| Grooms Buttonhole |
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| Groom and Dads Buttonhole |
I think its important for the buttonholes to represent and show the bridal party accordingly. Here is how i would recommend buttonholes and show the bridal party of men, through flowers using the very popular Roses...
Grooms Buttonhole...
Choose something to reflect the bridal design. For example you are having a design consisting of Big headed White Avalanche Rose, Beargrass Loops and Diamante Crystal (very elegant!) so i would suggest your groom to have a double rose buttonhole, Beargrass loops and diamante crystal with silver wire binding the stem. Add something a little different like folded skeleton leaves, medalino sticks, pussy willow, twig, twisted wire or berry. The grooms buttonhole is as important as the bridal design!
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| Cymbidium Orchid Buttonhole |
Best Man...
Always good to use the same flower throughout all your buttonholes, so for your best man i would suggest a single rose, with beargrass loops, silver wire binding the stem but leave out the diamante as that touch of bling represents the bride and groom!
Ushers, Dads, Grandads and Page Boys...
Ushers, Dads, Grandads and Pageboys are still very important members of the Bridal Party. Including your bridal flower, in this case the beautiful Avalanche Rose, includes them in your party too. By presenting them with a simple Rose buttonhole with silver wire binding the stem, a small touch of ivy leaf or dark green soft ruscus leaf, but leaving out the beargrass loops and diamante, you are still showing importance but also showing the bridal party structure. This design can be used for all Ushers, Dads and Grandads buttonholes. Using a smaller rose in the same shade of your design but on a safety pin badge brings in your page boys buttonhole, not only making them feel part of the bridal party but also matching your theme and making sure they are safe using a safety pin.
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| Safety Pin Badge |
Mom and Nans Corsage...
Moms and Nans are so important to our bridal party and we need to make sure that their corsages not only match the bridal party but their outfits too! Keeping within the cream shades is always a good idea. Not only will this match your colour scheme, but match their outfits too!!!! Use smaller Spray Roses in their Corsage, or even a double or triple rose corsage using more foliage's so its different to your grooms buttonhole too!
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| Spray Rose Corsage |
Alternatively, a wrist corsage can look so elegant and a nice keepsake of the wedding. Using Ivory or white pearls, diamante crystal or a colour to match your theme!...
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| Pearl Band |
After the Bridal Party, then come the guests!
I always advise my brides-to-be to be careful when ordering for the bridal guest party. Of course we can supply you with hundreds of carnation buttonholes but nobody knows your guests better than you. Ive been to weddings where guests haven't used the buttonholes and i have personally stood with baskets full of buttonholes still at the end of the ceremony. I'll always advise you to think ahead and maybe use your budget more wisely, if you are sure all your guests will wear them they do look fabulous on photographs! then go order for all but then be careful of the wedding politics! its difficult when you buy for one and not another! At Fusion Flowers Birmingham we do discount on big buys on buttonholes to help save and help you with your budget.
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| Carnation Buttonholes ideal for your guests! |
I hope this post has helped you understand buttonholes a little more! For a free no obligation consultation then please contact me, Kris Henderson, at Fusion Flowers Birmingham and ill be happy to advice and assist you as much as i can...
As quoted from Bridal Suite Magazine"west midlands leading floral design company"
Fusion Flowers Birmingham
where floral designs come to life
Kris Henderson
Director
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