Personalizing your wedding centerpieces. Think about what you want to represent to your guests on your Wedding Day.
Most couples I work with want to express who they really are and what is important and enjoyable to them as a couple. Of coarse color and flower selection is the very beginning of the process, but then it requires some thought as to what you want placed on your tables.
There is no longer just a standard desire for a vase or low centerpiece of flowers. Very often I find I am designing with multiples of a variety of items, even to include the table numbers as part of the overall table scape. Lets just say for instance the Groom is a Carpenter, well he loves to construct wooden objects and has decided to make custom frames for each table number. The beauty of such custom or collected objects is from the Wedding Day on, they are keepsakes to later display, use and enjoy in your new home together. Say you met in college and indulge yourselves in the lust for books, gather some of your favorites and display them on your tables. They make wonderful props for small gathered vases of fresh stems.My point is really this, it IS your day, you will be entertaining people from near and far, close relations and some meeting maybe for the first time as guests. How did you meet one another ? At a zoo, maybe you collect animal statuary, do the both of you love to travel, think of tent cards of every place you plan to travel from this day forward. Then rely on your wedding florist to bring this vision to life for you and with you. There is something magical in the use of fresh products in all their beauty to incorporate into your selected objects that will guarantee to delight your guests when seated. Your flowers should be a reflection of where you were, where the two of you are on your wedding day and what a glimpse into your future might be.
What I'm seeing and designing is past, present and future themes through out the various places where flowers exist at the venue.
It is also important for your designer to know the acetic of the reception location to work comfortably with the surroundings. This has been a major advantage in my personal experience, from mantle lenght, to ceiling height , lighting, carpeting , chair selection and the like. You want it to fit as though it part of the wonderful decor you chose in the first place, emphasizing the space and original ambiance.
So, let the inspiration begin and choose your wedding florist wisely, they should be able to draw the vision out of you.
