Trends Abloom

Follow these current cues to to make sure your floral selections are en vogue

By CTW Features

Distinctive Boutonnieres

Today’s boutonnieres make bold statements, incorporating both highly stylized floral touches and nonfloral components.

Cascades

Trumped in the last decade by compact, round designs, cascade bouquets have made a comeback, including extra long versions with flowers and foliages that trail to the hems of the brides’ gowns.

Bling for Blooms

Bridal couples are bringing on the bling stronger than ever, both in their personal flowers and in their centerpiece designs. A dazzling array of jeweled pins, picks, garlands and corsage bracelets are being offered by today’s floral supply manufacturers.

Feathers

Offering a bit of whimsy and fashion-forward flair, floral designers are incorporating feathers into bouquets, hairpieces, bridal accessories, boutonnieres, centerpieces, cake décor and more.

Pomanders

Spherical floral compositions remain popular as bouquet styles for brides and bridesmaids, aisle décor, atop tall centerpiece vases and suspended from ceilings.

Petal Paths

Many of today’s aisles feature flower petals – both fresh and fabric – on a grand scale, from petal-lined aisle runners indoors to pathways entirely paved with flower petals outdoors.

Fair and Square

For centerpieces or even bases on which to place wedding cakes, short, square and rectangular glass vases, filled with pavéd roses, submerged blooms or floating candles, prove that it’s hip to be square. These floral creations coordinate perfectly with square wedding cakes.

Double Duty

Budgets are top of mind for many couples, so one florist trick that has increased in popularity is creating floral designs that can transition from ceremony to reception décor. It is not uncommon, even, for bridal and bridesmaids’ bouquets and aisle décor to serve in a double-duty capacity, most often transitioning into table centerpieces.

Creative Cards

Today’s place cards can be small floral favors for guests to take as they leave.

Source: David L. Coake/Florists’ Review, Topeka, Kan.

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