Seasonal Ideas for DIY Wedding Flowers

If you’d really like to take ownership of your wedding, DIYing your wedding flowers is a lovely way to do it. Arranging flowers is a very relaxing pursuit … sitting along with nature's best, deciding whether to create a speckled design or a graduated one. There aren't many worldly cares that penetrate when you’re arranging flowers! Here we have some great ideas for flower themes for your wedding that you can arrange yourself. Utilize your florist to help you pick the flowers you can put together, and source your flowers through your florist also. This is no time to be skulking around people's front yards! Once you've decided to DIY, here are some gorgeous ideas for buying fresh flowers and putting them together.

1. All the same color

This creates a surprisingly dramatic look. Many people anticipate that it will be boring or somewhat overwhelming… not so! Remember that you have the complimentary colors of napkins, tablecloths and other decorations to help break up any monotony. Keeping your flowers all the one color, but varying the species, is a lovely way to make a statement at your wedding.

2. Match them to the season

That is, match them to the time of year that you’re getting married, not what the designers are doing on the catwalks! You want your wedding to be timeless. Creating a theme for your fresh flowers that is in harmony with nature is a great way to do that. For summer, think about bright, vibrant colors like orange, yellow and red. Spring weddings look lovely with green, yellow and white bouquets, while the winter choice is obvious … white all the way! Fall weddings have so much opportunity for rich colors, even venturing into purples and blues.

3. Long stems

The stem can actually become a large part of your bouquet, not something to be hidden under ribbons or twined around a basket. Many flowers have stems that are green and lush -- and buying from your florist ensures that you'll get the longest, healthiest stems possible!

4. Using Cascades

Check out some of the pictures of bridal bouquets -- there are thousands available on the net! You'll see that many use vines or long, feathery plants as cascades throughout the bouquet. This look is easy to replicate yourself. Make sure you choose a species that matches your mainwedding flowers, and pop it around the edges of the bouquet, rather than in the center.

4 Reasons to Buy Your Man Flowers

Poor guys … I think they often feel that they do a lot of the giving, and not much receiving. I know a lot of women that feel the same way, and coincidentally the two are linked! I'll get into that a little later -- but flowers for men are gaining ground, just as moisturizers for men and facials for men are. They're realizing that the gals have been keeping all these good things to themselves for too long! They're not so used to the concept that they don't need an excuse, though. Here are four great reasons to share the love and buy your man some fresh flowers!

1. His birthday

Sure, he'll probably want something manly, like a football or a racing car for his actual birthday gift. But why not enlist the help of your florist and deliver it along with a bunch of flowers? This can be a great way to ease a guy into the idea of getting flowers as a special sort of thank-you.

2. A pick-me-up at work

Stick to more conservative, manly sorts of flowers for work. You don't want other people's preconceptions to make life hard for him eight hours a day, after all. Your florist can recommend plenty of hardy, masculine plants with flower accents that you can send to help brighten his day at the office.

3. After your honeymoon

Yes, there is a limited window of opportunity for this one! But after a honeymoon is the perfect time to set a gorgeous, fresh flower, gift-giving trend. If you honeymooned in the tropics, choose big, bright luscious flowers. If you had a city honeymoon, choose something a little more trimmed and refined, to bring the spirit of the times back.

4. Whenever you want flowers!

If you've been tapping your mental fingers, counting the days since he last bought you home a beautiful bouquet of roses or had the flower delivery service send you a surprise at work, there is an almost sure-fire way to get yourself in floral heaven again. Buy him some flowers! It's guaranteed to jog his memory. Remember the saying, "What goes around, comes around"? It is never more true than when you're in a romantic relationship with someone and you're busy spreading the fresh-flower love.