by Alicia Schwede

Created on: March 01, 2008

It's early in the planning process for many 2008 brides. One of the major decisions is deciding on a color scheme for the wedding. Right now the "hot" color scheme appears to be lime green, bright orange and fuschia pink. This is a great combiniation for an outdoor summer wedding! Flowers to use include: mango callas, fuschia peonies, lime green fuji mums, Kermit mums, rolled ti leaves and flax leaves, roses - they even come in a lime green! Green hypericum berries add a great texture to bouquets, gerber daisies and dahlias. Lime green cymbidiums is also a great flower for this color scheme. A fun addition can be the fern frond, it usually pokes out of the bouquet just a bit and has a very unique rounded shape. I find a lot of people comment on the fern fronds when we are setting up for weddings. Rolled ti leaves can make a great collar around the bouquet.

For the groom's boutonniere a great look is the mango calla with the green Kermit mums around the base and one fern frond for texture.

The lime green cymbidium with berries and fern fronds with bright colored ribbon is a fun choice for the moms' corsages.

Another color choice we are seeing a lot this year is blue and white. Blue is a slightly harder color choice for the florist to work with. Partially due to how few flowers come naturally blue. A few that do: hydrangea, tweedia, delphinium which comes in light and royal blues, agapanthus (slightly purple), dutch iris and scabiosa. I'm a fan of royal blue hydranges with white lisianthus, stephanotis and white spray roses mixed in. It's a lush garden look, especially if mint leaves are mixed in for a bit of greenery and a wonderful fragrance.

For the men's boutonnieres I would suggest using the delphinium if you'd like it to be blue. If white works, then use the roses or stephanotis. Perhaps for the groom one white rose that is framed by the blue delphinium.

For moms' a cluster of white roses with the white stephanotis, a sprig of blue delphinium and blue and white ribbon looks adorable.

I hope this gives brides a few ideas for their flowers, now it is time to google all the flower varieties. Good luck & happy planning!

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