Choosing Flowers for a wedding can be the most stressful choice like the wedding dress. Flowers for a wedding would be very country specific like the wedding dress.
Flowers for India and an Indian wedding are so varied including the styles and types of flowers available in India. Flowers for a wedding in India can be categorized into two types of flowers for the Indian wedding, the main marriage ceremony and the reception ceremony. Once again the flowers for the wedding reception will be based on the theme, either an Indian theme wedding or any of the fancier themes which will then be based on the wedding planner.
Flowers for an India marriage ceremony can be simple and yet very elegant using the local flowers in India and the town or city you chooses to have the marriage ceremony. For a temple wedding in India the flowers for the marriage can be simple garlands of flowers hanging down from the temple walls to give it an effect of a movie set. You can alternate with the pink aster flowers garland and the yellow Shewanti flowers garland against a typical white washed temple wall for a day marriage ceremony. The same theme can be used further for the “Wedding Mandap” where the holy fire will be lighted for the actual Indian wedding ceremony.
Remember that lots of weddings are also held in the evening depending on the auspicious time. When there is an evening or night wedding then using dark pink or purple is not such a good idea as dark colors do not stand out in the harsh electrical lighting. If you have a colors theme that includes the above dark colors then what you can do is try and change the background of the flowers and the garlands by using a background Shamiana cloth in shades that bring out your chosen flower colors. This will help a lot in making your wedding flowers look stunning.
The reception wedding flowers will be based on the theme of the stage that the wedding planner has in mind. If you wish to make this look different from the normal wedding decorations a Monochromatic scheme but with all different types of flowers will look stunning. One suggestion is to add little hanging mirrors all through the flowers, these will glitter like specks of moonbeam with the ambient lighting that the wedding reception usually has. The wedding flowers will look ethereal with those little mirrors tucked between the flower arrangements. Little mirrors are available in any dress material shop that does embroidery as well. Or your town might have a special market for embroidery embellishments.
Wedding flowers can make or break the ambience of the wedding especially in India where the ceremony and reception is a long two or three day’s affair. Remember to also ask your florist for the local fragrant flowers and use these local flowers through your floral decoration theme. This gives a wonderful fragrance and feel of the flowers at the wedding. Most wedding planners and florists simply use exotic flowers to enhance the floral look at a wedding but they tend to forget the essence of the flower, its fragrance! Most of the exotic flowers are grown especially in bulk for weddings and do not have any floral fragrance. This is a reality with wedding flowers as the wedding flowers requirement is bulk flowers and cannot be grown locally. So make sure some local fragrant flowers are added to bring back the fragrance of your wedding flower decorations.
