Autumn bouquet of the bride: design ideas and subtleties of choice

A wonderful time of the year, bewitching and bewitching with its colors - autumn - is fertile for holding a wedding celebration. Bright shades of foliage, flowers and berries inspire unusual autumn bouquets for the bride. The choice for imagination is huge: gerberas, chrysanthemums, maple leaves and even clusters of mountain ash. Consider a few ideas and options for wedding bouquets in the autumn style.

The bride’s bouquet and groom’s boutonniere are part of the chosen wedding concept. These important attributes of the celebration should be selected one of the last, when the main details are already thought out, the rules of selection are taken into account.

• The bride’s autumn bouquet should harmoniously fit into the images of the bride and groom. This is important to consider, since in recent years there has been a fashion for theme weddings. Autumn styling is perfect for weddings in the style of "Country", "Provence", "Autumn Carnival", "Halloween" or "Retro". In the classic version of the celebration, it is appropriate to include autumn gifts in a bouquet, because they will become a bright highlight of the wedding evening.
• The rule for the bride: the richer and more elegant her dress, the more modest and simpler the wedding bouquet should be, and vice versa.

• Think over the shape of the future bouquet in the autumn style. It’s best and easiest to make a spherical bouquet. It is ideal for a magnificent dress of a fragile girl-bride of small stature. A bouquet in the form of a cascade is best chosen for a slender, tall bride in a dress in silhouette. It is easy to create an asymmetric bouquet that will attract attention with its large and small components from flowers, cones, berries.
• Having chosen the form, you need to decide on the components of the composition - flowers, leaves, berries. They are best selected according to the season.At the beginning of the autumn season it can be a bouquet with a predominance of yellow flowers, and in the middle and at the end of the paint can become brighter - from orange to burgundy red and purplish-purple. Greens in such a bouquet is best reduced to a minimum. However, it should not be overloaded with too catchy colors, otherwise such a composition will draw attention to itself, and not to the mating couple.

• Flowers should not have a pungent smell, otherwise the bride, who will keep it all the holiday day, will become uncomfortable, her head may hurt and her mood will be spoiled. The bouquet should not be too heavy in weight.
• Including unusual flowers in the composition, it is better to clarify their meaning in advance, sometimes it may not coincide with such a celebration as a wedding.

• Chrysanthemums, asters - The most famous autumn flowers. Their time for flowering falls in the fall, and there is plenty to choose from! The whole range of colors that can be imagined is given by cute chrysanthemums, preserving their beauty for a very long time. Asters personifying tenderness, fidelity, can be both bright red shades, and pale pink, lilac, snow-white, they are perfectly combined with other colors.

• Dahlias bring happiness to their owners and gratitude. In the wedding bouquet, half-opened buds of dahlias of various saturated shades look unusual, in addition, this noble flower is almost odorless. This is not the whole list of flowers, plants, additions that generous autumn can offer for the wedding.
• Gerberas they always look stylish, in a bouquet there can be one or several combining colors. Symbolizing the well-being of family life, wealth and success, they will not cause an allergy to the bride, all the celebration will be guaranteed to last, pleasing the eyes of others.

• Without the flower queen - roses a classic wedding is rarely costed, many brides prefer them for a delicate smell and beauty, which means that you do not need to deviate from tradition! A wedding bouquet with roses may well be presented in the autumn style, if it is skillfully decorated with maple leaves, berries of viburnum, mountain ash, spruce cones or wheat spikelets.
• Sunflowers symbolize wealth, fertility, a full bowl in the home of the young. Mini-sunflowers in the decorative version can be a mono-bouquet or combined with white and yellow chrysanthemums, asters, daisies.

• Marigold, marigold are one of the symbols of autumn and warm sunny days. Let the young people not be embarrassed by their simplicity and naivety, because they symbolize passion, fire in a relationship. Bright lights of marigolds will be the highlight of the autumn wedding in the style of "Boho", "Country", and you can decorate such a bouquet with sprigs of fern.

• Zinnia. Bright balls of this autumn flower are monophonic and colorful, they are convenient to combine with other colors and fit into a floral arrangement for the bride.
• Lush hydrangea blooms for a long time, right up to the autumn colds, her varied color palette will suit the most demanding bride. Snow-white hydrangea itself looks like a bride, symbolizes devotion, respect, purity of thoughts. The only negative is the bright aroma of hydrangea flowers, which must be taken into account when choosing it.

Of the unusual autumn flowers that are suitable for a wedding arrangement can be called protea, ranunculi, crocosmia, celosia, amaranth. Crocosmia, amaranth and celosia have a palette of orange-red and burgundy shades. All these flowers are well combined in complex compositions. Crocosmia usually has warm red hues, noble amaranth descends in a burgundy waterfall, and celosia is varied in color and shape (from fuchsia fans to yellow-red-burgundy cone-shaped flowers).

In addition to flowers in the autumn wedding bouquet, berries, nuts, fruits and even mini vegetables can be used, since autumn and a rich harvest are associated with each other. Autumn fruits can be used in the bouquet as a decor, or as the main characters of the bouquet. So, of the berries, wedding bouquets with rowan, viburnum, rose hips, complemented by roses and other flowers from white to burgundy look very beautiful and unusual.

You should not miss the opportunity to add to the bouquet the beauty of the yellowing foliage of trees using maple leaves, oak twigs with acorns. Sprouts of physalis, chestnut leaves with its large fruits will emphasize the autumn triumph, will be remembered by young people and guests for a long time. Fir, pine cones - a great decor in a bouquet, especially if the celebration takes place in the forest zone of the park. Ripe spikelets of cereals are a symbol of prosperity among many peoples, they will perfectly fit into the autumn theme of the wedding, they are combined with gerberas, sunflowers, noble roses.

To implement the bride’s autumn bouquet, it is not necessary to use expensive florist services. You can make it yourself by pre-selecting flowers and additional decor. All the little things should be considered. Satin ribbons of different widths, beads, rhinestones, the frame of the future bouquet, scissors, twine and other tools may be needed. Remember that the bouquet should not be large. It should be easy to hold with one hand.

After all the components have been prepared, the flower stems should be cleaned of excess foliage. It is better to choose flowers on a long leg, because it is never too late to cut it. Then comes the most crucial moment of installation. For a bouquet-ball, as well as for a bouquet-fan, the stems and branches of the decor are laid radially, tied at the base, the excess length of the stems is adjusted.

It is better to start from the center of the composition, setting in it the largest and most beautiful flower or accent of berries (nuts, cones), then move in a circle, adding new components. The ribbon bandaging the bouquet should also be in harmony with the main shade of the bouquet. Do not be upset if the bouquet does not come out the first time. The main thing is to do it not on the eve of the celebration, but a little earlier, in 2 or 3 days, in order to have time in stock. The finished bouquet is cleaned in a portbasket, filled with nutritious liquid for flowers, and up to an hour “X” is stored in a cool place.

See how to make an autumn bride’s bouquet with your own hands in the next video.