Autumn bridal bouquet: design ideas and subtleties of choice

A wonderful time of the year, enchanting and bewitching with its colors - autumn - is fertile for 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 rowan bunches. Consider a few ideas and options for wedding bouquets in the fall style.

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

• An autumn bridal 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 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 the bouquet, because they will become a bright highlight of the wedding evening.
• A rule for the bride: the richer and more luxurious 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. The best and easiest way to make a spherical bouquet. It is ideal for a fluffy dress of a fragile, short bridesmaid. It is better to choose a bouquet in the form of a cascade for a slender, tall bride in a dress according to the silhouette. It is easy to create an asymmetrical bouquet that will attract attention with its large and small components of flowers, cones, berries.
• Having chosen the shape, you need to decide on the components of the composition - flowers, leaves, berries. It is better to select them according to the season.At the beginning of autumn, it can be a bouquet with a predominance of yellow flowers, and in the middle and at the end, the colors can become brighter - from orange to burgundy red and crimson purple. It is better to reduce the greens in such a bouquet 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 spouses.

• Flowers should not have a pungent scent, otherwise the bride, who will hold it for the whole holiday, will become uncomfortable, her head may ache and her mood will be ruined. 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 is in the fall, and there is plenty to choose from! Cute chrysanthemums give all the color gamut that can only be imagined, retaining their beauty for a very long time. Asters, personifying tenderness, fidelity, can be either bright red shades or pale pink, lilac, snow-white, they are perfectly combined with other colors.

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

• Without the queen of flowers - roses a classic wedding is rarely bypassed, many brides prefer them for their delicate scent and beauty, which means that there is no need to deviate from traditions! A wedding bouquet with roses may well be presented in the autumn style, if it is skillfully decorated with maple leaves, viburnum berries, rowan berries, spruce cones or wheat spikelets.
• Sunflowers symbolize wealth, fertility, a full cup in the home of the young. Mini-sunflowers in the decorative version can make a mono-bouquet or be combined with white and yellow chrysanthemums, asters, chamomiles.

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

• Zinnia. The bright balls of this autumn flower are monochromatic and variegated, it is convenient to combine them with other flowers and fit into a flower arrangement for the bride.
• Lush hydrangea blooms for a long time, right up to the autumn cold, its varied color palette will suit the most demanding bride. The snow-white hydrangea itself looks like a bride, symbolizes devotion, respect, purity of thoughts. The only negative is the bright scent of hydrangea flowers, which must be taken into account when choosing it.

Of the unusual autumn colors suitable for a wedding arrangement, one can name protea, ranunculus, crocosmia, celosia, amaranth. Crocosmia, amaranth and celosia have a palette of orange-red and burgundy shades. All these flowers can be combined well in complex compositions. Crocosmia usually has warm red shades, 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 an 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 a bouquet as a decoration, or as the main characters of a bouquet. So, from berries very beautiful and unusual look wedding bouquets with mountain ash, viburnum, rose hips, complemented by roses and other flowers from white to burgundy shades.

You should not miss the opportunity to bring the beauty of the yellowing foliage of trees to the bouquet, using maple leaves, oak twigs with acorns. Physalis twigs, chestnut leaves with its large fruits will emphasize the autumn celebration, will be remembered by young people and guests for a long time. Spruce, pine cones are an excellent 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 for many nations, they will perfectly fit into the autumn theme of the wedding, they are combined with gerberas, sunflowers, and noble roses.

It is not necessary to use expensive services of a florist to embody the bride's autumn bouquet. You can make it yourself by choosing flowers and additional decor in advance. All the little things should be thought out. 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 the flowers should be cleaned of excess foliage. It is better to choose flowers on a long stem, because it is never too late to cut it. This is followed by the most crucial moment of styling. For a ball bouquet, as well as for a fan bouquet, 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, 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 binding 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, 2 or 3 days in advance, in order to have time in reserve. The finished bouquet is put into a porter's bouquets filled with nutritious liquid for flowers, and stored in a cool place for up to X-hour.

For information on how to make an autumn bridal bouquet with your own hands, see the next video.