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New Fashion Rose

New Fashion Rose is loved for its color combination of deep red inside and rich cream/ivory on the outside. It has lots of petals and a large head. A contrasting bi-coloured rose. With a medium size bud that is bright red on the inside of the petal and beige reverse side, giving this variety an unusual colour tone and its appeal. The New Fashion rose is a perfect example of how stunning and beautiful, the perfect complement to any bouquet.

Phalaenopsis Orchid Wedding Flowers

Orchids are a romantic choice for weddings. One of the most popular orchid varieties, Phalaenopsis Orchids set a romantic mood and are frequently used to create and carry the wedding theme from ceremony through reception, as table decorations at the reception, such as Kate and Andrew’s wedding in Uluwatu's clifftop – Bali.

Phalaenopsis orchids make startling wedding flowers. They look wonderful just by themselves...! Commonly known as Moth Orchids, Phalaenopsis come in a variety of colors including white and purple. 

Lighting for your wedding

Wedding Lights are becoming more popular for adding that sparkle to your special day. Hanging Lantern and Curtain light effects over head will allow you to construct the perfect lighting of color and variations allowing you to create that perfect look.

Wedding Lights are an essential part of every wedding, from small weddings to large weddings. Decorate both the interior and exterior of the wedding halls and reception rooms, string mini lights over wedding arbors and trellises, create ambient lighting in backdrops, and wrap flower lights over bushes.

Lantern and Fairy lights are a timeless magical effect.  That can be used almost anywhere to highlight features, dress areas or make a magical backdrop. 

Choosing Your Wedding Colors

Choosing your wedding colors can be a nerve wrecking experience. A few simple tips can take much of the angst out of this decision. Starting with your fall wedding flowers is one way to make it simpler.

This article from Nina Callaway at About.com provides some useful tips to assist in choosing your wedding colors:

Having specific wedding colors can help give a visual unity, and help your wedding seem more elegant, and even more expensive than it really is. Choosing your wedding colors may seem a bit daunting, especially if you aren’t particularly visually oriented or your partner is color-blind and absolutely no help. Yet it’s really quite easy.

Most people base their wedding colors on a favorite shade or favorite flower. You’ll want to choose one primary and one or two accents. Start off by seeing if there are any predetermined factors.

• Does either the reception or ceremony site have strong colors?
• Are you set on having a particular flower?
• Have you already chosen your bridesmaid dresses?

If so, you’re halfway to finding your wedding colors. If not, start by thinking about the season when your ceremony will take place. If you’re planning beach wedding...usually pastels or brights  are good selection.

What to avoid:

• Too much black - while sophisticated, it can end up looking like a funeral, rather than a celebration. If you love black, balance it out with a bright color, or lots of crisp white.
• Losing your personality - Don’t just do pastels because I’ve suggested it above. Think about what you wear normally in your clothing and the shades you’ve used to decorate your home. These are probably colors you are comfortable around already.
• Picking too many wedding colors - two are perfect, and three will still work, but any more than three wedding colors will end up looking ununified and strange. The purpose of wedding colors are to tie everything together, and the best way to do this is to have everything in one of two shades.. 

• Consider going monochromatic; many shades of one color. A bride I worked with used blue for her ceremony by the sea. Each bridesmaid had a different shade of blue for her dress, and the bouquets.
• Consider having related tones; ones adjacent to each other on the color wheel. A bride I’m assisting now has green bridesmaid dresses with blue sashes. You might also consider green and yellow, or red, purple and blue.
• Consider having complementary shades- located opposite each other on the color wheel. For example, lavender and pale yellow, or forest green and burgundy.
• If you really love one hue in particular, you might want to highlight it among neutrals. So, bridesmaid dresses might be cream with purple sashes, groomsmen might wear off-white tuxedos with purple boutonnieres, and bouquets might be stephanotis, white roses, and lavender sweet pea.

Once you have some idea of your wedding colors, try out this handy web tool to see how they will look together.

The Meaning of Flowers

The beauty and fragrance of wedding flowers symbolize promises of undying love and commitment between the couples. This may be the reason why flowers are so vital in a wedding. There are varieties of wedding flowers. It can be somewhat difficult if someone is asked to choose the right wedding flower that can perfectly convey a particular emotion to perfection. The reason is most of the wedding flowers are associated with some aspects of human feelings.

Here we look at the meanings behind the most popular varieties of wedding blooms.

Peony

The history of the peony dates back thousands of years – legend has it that the peony is named after Paeon, a physician to the gods, who received the flower on Mount Olympus from the mother of Apollo. 

Peonies are the traditional flower of China and the American state of Indiana; and are known as the flower of riches and honor. With their lush, full, rounded bloom, peonies embody romance and prosperity and are regarded as an omen of good fortune and a happy marriage.

Rose

Long and associated with the goddesses of love – Aphrodite and Venus, the rose is a symbol of love. 

Each color has a distinct meaning: red – enduring passion; white – humility and innocence; yellow – friendship and joy; pink – gratitude, appreciation and admiration; orange – enthusiasm and desire; while white lilac and purple roses represent enchantment and love at first sight.

Protea

Among the oldest families of flowers on earth, dating back 300 million years, Greek legend says the protea was named after the sea-god Proteus, son of Poseidon. It has more than 1,400 varieties and symbolises diversity and courage.

Tulip

Originally from Persia and Turkey, tulips were brought to Europe in the 16th century, where they got their common name from the Turkish word for gauze. By the 17th century they were most commonly associated with the Netherlands. 

Yellow tulips symbolise cheerful thoughts and forgiveness while red tulips symbolise perfect love. It is said that the tulip’s black center represents a lover’s heart, darkened by the heat of passion, but the flower can also represents elegance and grace.

Lily

Lilies are majestic flowers that have long held a role in ancient mythology. Derived from the Greek word “leiron,” the lily was so revered by the Greeks that they believed it sprouted from the milk of Hera, the queen of the gods. 

While white lilies symbolise chastity and virtue, while Peruvian lilies, or alstroemeria, represent friendship and devotion, white stargazer lilies express sympathy and pink stargazer lilies represent wealth and prosperity.

Sunflower

It is said that the natives of the Inca Empire worshipped a giant sunflower, and that Incan priestesses wore large sunflower disks made of gold on their garments. Images of sunflowers were found in the temples of the Andes Mountains, and Native American Indians placed bowls of sunflower seeds on the graves of their dead. 

The Impressionist period of art is famous for its fascination with the sunflower, and this striking flower remains today a commonly photographed and painted icon of uncommon beauty. The sunflower’s open face symbolises the sun itself, conveying warmth and happiness, adoration and longevity.

Lisianthus

With a host of names – from Texas Bluebell to Prairie Gentian to Lira de San Pedro – lisianthus symbolise an outgoing nature. Native to North America, some varieties of lisianthus resemble tulips or poppies, while others can take on the appearance of roses or peonies. 

With wide ruffled, delicate petals and oval leaves, in colors ranging from white to pink, lavender to purple and bicolors such as blue-violet, it’s said that lisianthus also symbolise appreciation.

Orchids

Orchids are an elegant flower with a graceful appearance that draws immediate attention. 

They have a reputation as exotic and unusual, evoking a sense of refinement and innocence, while also symbolising happiness and gratitude. Of the many orchid varieties, the phalaenopsis, cymbidium, and dendrobium orchids are the most popular types, and the vanilla orchid is the most highly produced variety.

Frangipani

The frangipani gets its name from the surname of 16th-century Italian aristocrat Marquis Muzio Frangipane, believed to have invented the perfume of the same name. The frangipani flower’s scientific name of plumeria comes from French explorer and botanist Charles Plumier, who studied the blossom and made its presence known throughout Europe.

The frangipani flower represents perfection, blossoming into five-petal pinwheel shapes in white, vibrant shades of crimson, rosy-pink, yellow and diverse color combinations. Frangipani flowers summon subliminal feelings of peace and tranquility, shelter and protection.

Now that you know the special meanings behind some of the wedding flowers, you can easily convey a tender message to your loved one.