How To Choose Flowers For An Alternative Wedding Gift

Step 1: Why Flowers?

Flowers are an elegant way of expressing the inexpressible.
Whether the bride was once the love of your life or you just have an abhorrence for wedding lists, flowers are a thoughtful and stylish gift.

Step 2: Make a choice

We recommend that your floral arrangement come properly contained, fed and watered. This saves the happy couple from hunting about for vases when they have other, more important, things to attend to…

Your choice will depend on whether you are aiming for a more contemporary arrangement or a traditional bouquet.

For that modern feel, the key words are 'stylish and neutral'... that means: no bows, ribbons or frilly bits! Minimalism should also influence the choice of container or vase. For this arrangement Kelly has used silk flowers to create a long-lasting sculptural piece to grace the newly-weds home.

For the traditionalists, abundance and colour are to be encouraged. An example of this would be a loose, country-style bouquet with an open design.
It is made up of white hydrangea, cymbidium orchid, lizzyanthus, ruscus, gulder rose, white lilac, oriental lilies, bianca rose and snap dragon.

Step 3: Where to send it?

Find out the couples' plans - your floral wedding present could be sent to their home or wherever they plan to spend the wedding night.

A nice gesture is to have the flowers follow them on their honeymoon. Interflora and other international agencies can send arrangements from their catalogues to almost anywhere in the world.

Step 4: Final Touch

It is common practice to add a small blue ribbon to the back of the wedding bouquet to provide the bride with 'something borrowed, something blue'.

Why not try to come up with your own token of good luck to include in your arrangement- rabbit's foot not recommended!