Wedding Decorations
Wedding Decorations
Can you give me more floral décor ideas?
At your home and the wedding venue (subject to suitability), line the sides of the driveway with loose marigold and/or rose petals for an Indian look. If you have a large portico, place a large brass vessel in the center, filled with water.
How to achieve a floral look without real flowers?
Crepe paper is a clever way of making flowers. Take a white crepe paper strip and sew through it. Pull the string and let the paper twirl like flowers. You can even sew in translucent beads. Colored polythene paper or crisply starched silk are good materials too.
How to Dress up with flowers?
You may want to carry a bouquet on your wedding day or accessorize your hair with flowers.
Do you have any ideas for Wedding garlands?
Every Indian community uses different types of garlands, from lilies to tuberoses (rajnigandha), jasmine and roses. For the wedding ceremony, one goes strictly by tradition. If you’re having a reception where you’ll be seated on a stage, you could think of something offbeat.
Flower Power - 1: How should you choose your wedding bouquet?
- Choosing a flower bouquet is both art and science. The shape of your bouquet can enhance your overall appearance and detract attention from problem areas.
Flower Power – 2: How should you choose your wedding bouquet?
You’re enviably tall with the model girl look – wide shoulders, narrow hips and long legs. Splash out and get yourself a large, colorful bouquet with plenty of large blooms and ferns arranged to radiate outwards. This will add softness to your outline, especially if you’re wearing a gown with a tapered structure.
Flower Power – 3: How should you choose your wedding bouquet?
Pear shaped and despairing? Not to worry, most of us are this way only! Draw away attention from the extra curvature below the waist with a bouquet of long stemmed blooms that you can hold in the crook of your elbow. Ideal flowers for this style are long-stemmed roses, calla lilies and dahlias with appropriate ferns.
Can you suggest some flower arrangement ideas for Wedding Centerpiece?
You can float some flowers in brass vessels at the tables and scatter petals around the arrangement. Fish bowls hold large flowers like orchids and lotus within them elegantly. You can even light a candle lit inside. For the mandap, string leaves along with flowers into long braids or create a floral curtain.
What's the significance of flowers? (Hindu Wedding Ceremony)
Marigolds are considered extremely auspicious for weddings. Their ochre color is the color of renunciation or surrender to the gods.
Should I start thinking about Wedding floral arrangements?
Indian weddings use flowers for puja, for garlanding, decorating the mandap, as hair accessories and rangoli or colorful floral motifs. The best way to order your supply of flowers is to outline every purpose and plan each section of the wedding venue. Long stemmed flowers are not needed for the puja, garlands or hair.
Can you suggest floral decorations for outdoor weddings?
If the seating is completely al fresco, ensure that the table placement and flower arrangements are sturdy enough to withstand sudden gusts of wind. Depending on your theme, exotic fruits, spices, sea shells and beads would make attractive centerpieces. You could tie Chinese lanterns and place scented candles for added charm.
Tradition with a difference- What's a good decor theme?
An orange and green color scheme makes for a lovely, Indian decor theme. Get your mandap decorated with marigold (or equivalent) and dark green leaf strands Add touches of white (if you’re wearing a sari, even this can be color coordinated with the decor – Think shades of yellow or mango in Kanjeevaram silks).
How do decorate Centerpieces?
The centerpieces of the guest tables adds quite a bit of elegance to the appearance of the reception. Having candles or flowers as part of the centerpiece is fairly common and offers quite a bit of leeway for creatively. If using flowers, the centerpieces need to be created within 24 hours of the event to insure they remain fresh.
