Choosing bouquets for your wedding series. White bridal bouquets

Welcome to our weeklong blog series on choosing the right bouquets for your wedding.  We're starting off with white wedding bouquets.  In the days to come we'll discuss color bouquets,  and bridesmaid bouquets.

Photo by Josh Elliot

Your bouquet is one of the most noticed accessories that you will choose for your wedding day.  Think of all the photos of weddings you've seen....the bouquet is just as noticed as your dress.  You can't even quite see your jewelry, shoes or veil.  It requires some thought, financial investment and trust in your florist.
When we meet for the consultation please bring a photo of your dress.  I feel it is important because there are some dresses that scream for a certain design or careful thought.

Photo by Lane Dittoe

Do you want an all white bouquet?  Many brides grow up dreaming of their wedding day and their flowers.  Did you picture a white dress and white flowers?  Before Pinterest you probably did.  I would say this is the most common request, but then you see the photos of all of the other bouquets and you are confused.  Here are some of our white bouquets.  Looking through all of our photos, I realize that about 50% of our brides wanted white bouquets.

You'll notice that white or neutral bouquets are harder to see because they blend with your dress.  Most of our bouquets incorporate some sort of greenery or texture to break up the look so the flowers are more noticeable in the photos.
I'll start with the ones with less greenery, leading to ones with more.
Is a white bouquet the right one for you?  Take a look and maybe these images will help you to decide.

Photo by Logan Cole

Photo by Logan Cole

Sweet Tea Photography

Sweet Tea Photography

Photo by Lane Dittoe

Orange Owl Photography
I love the pop of ribbon on this one.
The bridesmaids dresses were black.

Orange Owl Photography

Photo by Brett Hickman
This bride provided us ribbons
from her mothers dress that we
added to her bouquet.

Photo by Tyler Branch

Focus Photography

Adrian Jon Photography

Photo by Eric McVey

Photo by Eric McVey

Frenzel Photography

Photo by Josh Elliot

Photo by Troy Grover

Braeden Photography

Vitaly M Photography

Matthew Morgan Photography

A classic wedding for Emily and Jesse

This is another one of our "personal weddings" because we know the bride and groom very well.   Emily and Jesse are responsible for Stacey's daughter Sydnee meeting her husband Sam.  Jesse and Sam are brothers, and now, Emily and Sydnee are sisters.

The wedding took place at a cute little venue called The Hacienda in Santa Ana.  Many thanks to the wonderful Orange Owl Photography for the beautiful photos!  To see the whole fantastic shebang go to the blog post from Orange Owl HERE.

Congratulations you two silly kids!!  Are they stunning or what???

The smaller tables that sat only 6 people required a smaller centerpiece.  Emily wanted something fun, pretty and eclectic.  We decided on gold frames and trays to hold together our arrangements of eclectic pieces.  How fun are those table numbers??  They're vintage locker key chains found at the flee market with Jesse's mom.  Gold dipped feathers, moss, brass and black striped ribbon??  Yes please!!
The trays are from Ikea, spray painted.

The cake topper was the first thing Emily purchased for her wedding, so cute!!

Oh, and their engagement shoot.....to DIE for, right here in good ole San Juan Capistrano!  Go see it HERE