Having trouble picking your flowers from the hundreds of varieties available? In order to ease your choice for the right flowers we prepared the following summary of the most favoured flowers for you:
What flowers would you choose for your wedding? Rather multi coloured or rather more seldom ones? Those you smell? You will have a good deal of trouble with the right choice of your flowers because there are thousands of different kinds!
Those are the nine most popular wedding flowers that you should know before you go to the florist.
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Roses
The rose still is the top wedding blossom. It exists in many different colours or bicoloured too and it can be coloured if you want it. Roses have been the symbol of love and beauty since decades. Many poets and writers of stories from former days have chosen the rose as a metaphor for feeling, beauty, affection and love. Most of the roses come from the Netherlands nowadays or are imported in a minor amount from Italy, Ecuador or Kenya. There are three main kinds that are most often used for weddings: tea roses (are roses with especially precious formed blossoms), bed roses (blossom the whole summer long and create about 10 to 12 blossoms on the peduncle) and the garden rose.
Meaning: love, happiness and beauty
Appropriate to: everything
Odour: slight to strong well odorant depending on the amount of roses
Ripe: the whole year
Price: € - €€€
Tulips
Even though the tulip is often connected with the Netherlands the primary tulip came from Middle and Central Asia. Tulips are available in a multiplicity of colours e.g. white, crème, pink, yellow, peach or red. Tulips are actually affordable but the more rare ones can be very expensive.
Tulips are miscellaneous and can be used everywhere at a wedding as a bridal bouquet, table decoration or room decoration. In general three kinds of tulips are used: the Dutch tulips (you find then in your neighbourhood and at the florist), the French tulip (expensive and elegant with an especially long peduncle and a bigger rejuvenating blossom) and parrot tulips (the flower bud has the form of a parrot pecker, notched blossom leaves and intensive colours).
Meaning: love and affection
Appropriate to: everything
Odour: none
Ripe: late spring
Price: € - €€€
Callas
Callas are the beloved wedding flowers in the moment and belong to the plant family of the aron-rod-plants (araceae). The botanic name is Zantedeschia which it got in honour of the Italian doctor and botanic Giovanni Zantedeschi. There are eight kinds of calla four of the eight kinds are mostly called calla or more seldom calla lily. All kinds of calla are domestic in Africa. Callas are to be found in many colours from yellow via red via salmon to rose. Right now the most popular colours are violet and crème.
Meaning: beauty
Appropriate to: bunches of flowers and decoration
Odour: slightly well smelling
Ripe: spring till summer
Price: €€€
Gerberas
The gerbera today belongs to the worldwide most popular cut flower. There are about 45 different kinds. From a small single coloured head to a big tri-coloured, everything is included.
Meaning: happiness
Appropriate to: bunches of flowers and decoration
Odour: none
Ripe: April till September
Price: €
Easter-Lilies
It is as a cut flower the most meaningful kind of lily and is used over the whole year. Since 1929 an independent perfume is made out of the Easter lily on the Bermudas, an honour that no other lily has gotten so far. If your bridal bouquet or the decorations of your wedding are supposed to smell wonderfully the lily is definitely the right one. Lilies are available in many colours the most popular ones are white and pink coloured lilies.
Meaning: majesty, truth & honour
Appropriate for: bunches of flowers & decoration
Odour: fragrant
Ripe: summer, in other seasons only available through import
Price: €€€
Hydrangeas
The hydrangea has got a big and dumose head and intensive shades of colour from pink to blue to white and red. It is odour neutral and is used for a lot of bridal bouquets. In Victorian times the hydrangea stood for conceitedness. The colour of the blossoms always depends on the acid content of the earth.
Meaning: appreciation
Appropriate for: bunches of flowers & decoration
Odour: none
Ripe: spring and the beginning of summer
Price: €€ - €€€
Peonys
The peony is marked by a compound, full and slightly fragrant flowers. Its name goes back to the Greek word „paionia“ which stands for the doctor of the Goddesses Paian. In China the peony is regarded as a symbol for noblesse and wealth and is cultivated as an ornamental plant for more than thousand years. There are two kinds of peony: the common peony and the California Peony. A bridal bouquet that is only bound with peonies comes across as lovely and fresh. Furthermore, peonies are especially proper for decoration purposes.
Meaning: healing
Appropriate for: bunches of flowers & decoration
Odour: slightly fragrant
Ripe: late spring
Price: €€
Chrysanthemums
The chrysanthemum also called gold- blossom comes originally from China was already cultivated there about 1500 before Christ and then came to Japan. It is the symbolic flower of the Japanese imperial family and owns the rank of a national flower. There are Chrysanthemums in the most different red – yellow- or white shades. A white chrysanthemum always belongs to a cut.
Meaning: truth & a long life
Appropriate for: bunches of flowers & decoration
Odour: none
Ripe: the whole year
Price: €
Orchids
Orchids are called „the queen of the flowers“ and belong to the class of the one germinating plants. There are about 1000 species with about 15.000 to 30.000 kinds. They grow, except for the Antarctica, on every continent. The wide range of colours goes from a slight white, via green and blue shades to intense red and yellow shades. A multitude of orchids´ blossoms are multicoloured. Orchids are used as agricultural crop but as cut flower as well. Ask your florist for orchids- cut- flowers!
Meaning: love & beauty
Appropriate for: bunches of flowers & decoration
Odour: none
Ripe: the whole year
Price: €€€
