Autumn bridal bouquet: design ideas and subtleties of choice

A great time of the year, enchanting and fascinating 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 fantasy is huge: gerberas, chrysanthemums, maple leaves and even bunches of rowan. Consider a few ideas and options for wedding bouquets in the autumn style.

Bridal bouquet and groom's boutonniere are part of the chosen wedding concept. These important attributes of the celebration should be selected among the latter, when the main details have been thought out, the selection rules have been taken into account.

• Autumn bridal bouquet should harmoniously fit into the images of the bride and groom. This is important to take into account, since in recent years there has appeared a fashion for themed weddings. Autumn style is perfect for a wedding in the style of "Country", "Provence", "Autumn Carnival", "Halloween" or "Retro." With the classic version of the celebration it is appropriate to include autumn gifts in a bouquet, because they will be 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.

• Consider the shape of the future bouquet in the autumn style. It is best and easier 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 better to choose for a slim, tall bride in a dress according to silhouette. Just create and asymmetrical bouquet, which will attract the attention of its large and small components of flowers, cones, berries.
• Choosing a form, you need to decide on the components of the composition - flowers, leaves, berries. They are better to pick up for the season. At the beginning of the autumn, 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 maroon-red and purple-purple. Greens in this bouquet is better to reduce to a minimum. However, it should not be overloaded with too flashy colors, otherwise such a composition will over-focus attention on itself, and not on the married couple.

• Flowers should not have a pungent smell, otherwise the bride, who will hold him throughout the holiday, will become uncomfortable, her head can ache 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 flowering time comes in the fall, and there is plenty to choose from! All the colors that can only be imagined give cute chrysanthemums, while maintaining their beauty for a very long time. Asters, personifying tenderness, loyalty, can be both bright red hues, and soft pink, lilac, white, they are perfectly combined with other colors.

• Dahlias bring happiness to their owners and gratitude. In the bridal bouquet, the half-opened buds of dahlias of various saturated colors look unusual, and this noble flower has almost no smell. This is not the whole list of flowers, plants, and additions that generous autumn can offer for a wedding.
• Gerberas always look stylish, in a bouquet can be one or more matching colors.Symbolizing the well-being of family life, wealth and success, they will not cause allergies to the bride, they are guaranteed to hold out the whole celebration, pleasing the eyes of others.

• Without a queen of flowers - roses A classic wedding is rarely costing; many brides prefer them for their delicate scent and beauty, which means you don’t need to deviate from the traditions! A wedding bouquet with roses may well be represented in the autumn style if it is skillfully decorated with maple leaves, viburnum berries, mountain ash, fir cones or wheat spikelets.
• Sunflowers symbolize wealth, fertility, a full bowl to the house of the young. Mini sunflowers in the decorative version can be a monobuket or be combined with white and yellow chrysanthemums, asters, daisies.

• Calendula, 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 relationships. 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 fern twigs.

• Zinnia. Bright balls of this flower in autumn are monotonous and variegated, it is convenient to combine them with other colors and enter them into the floral arrangement for the bride.
• Lush hydrangea It blooms for a long time, right up to the autumn cold, its diverse color palette will suit the most demanding bride. The snow-white hydrangea itself resembles a bride, symbolizing devotion, respect, and cleanliness of thoughts. The only minus is the bright aroma of hydrangea flowers, which must be taken into account when choosing it.

Of the unusual autumn colors suitable for a wedding composition can be called proteus, ranunculus, 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 shades, a noble amaranth goes down a burgundy waterfall, and celosia is diverse 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, as autumn and rich harvest are associated with each other. Autumn fruits can be used in a bouquet as a decor, or as the main characters of a bouquet. So, from the berries, wedding bouquets with rowan, viburnum, rosehips are very beautiful and unusual, complemented by roses and other flowers from white to burgundy shades.

We must not miss the opportunity to bring into the bouquet the beauty of the yellowing foliage of the trees, using the leaves of the maple, oak twigs with acorns. Physalis sprigs, chestnut leaves with its large fruits will underscore the autumn triumph, will be remembered by young people and guests for a long time. Spruce, pine cones - an excellent decor in a bouquet, especially if the celebration takes place in the forest zone of the park. Ripe cereal spikelets - a symbol of well-being of many nations, perfectly fit into the autumn theme of the wedding, they are combined with gerberas, sunflowers, noble roses.

For the embodiment of the autumn bouquet of the bride does not necessarily use the expensive services of a florist. You can make it yourself by pre-selecting flowers and additional decor. It should consider all the details.You may need satin ribbons of different widths, beads, rhinestones, the frame of the future bouquet, scissors, twine and other tools. Remember that the bouquet should not be large. It should be easy to hold with one hand.

After all the components are prepared, the stems of flowers should be removed from excessive foliage. It is better to choose flowers on a long leg, because it's never too late to cut it. Then follows the most crucial moment of installation. For a bouquet of a ball, as for a bouquet of a fan, the stems and branches of the decor are laid radially, tied at the base, the excess length of the stems is corrected.

It is better to start from the center of the composition by setting the largest and most beautiful flower or accent of berries (nuts, cones) into it, then move in a circle, adding new components. The bandage band also has to 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 reserve. The finished bouquet is cleaned in a portbook, filled with a nourishing liquid for flowers, and up to an hour "X" is stored in a cool place.

How to make an autumn bridal bouquet with your own hands, see the next video.