The Essential Wedding Flowers Guide and Checklist

This handy Wedding Flowers Guide and Checklist will guide you through all the available options and is designed to help you focus and decide which flowers you need from Buttonholes to Venue Arrangements.

Giant Standing Heart in Pastel Shades

The choice is yours, so take a look through the list and make notes of your ideas (such as flowers/colours/theme/style) and the number of each item you need.

This will also help bring into focus the size and style of the wedding, numbers of guests, colours etc, how you want your wedding to be and how it will fit in with your budget.

We have listed all the possible people and places where you may need flowers, but how many or how few of each will depend on the type and size of your wedding, and of course, your budget. This could range from as little as a Bridal Bouquet and Buttonhole for the Groom to everything listed!

Tall Trailing Wedding Table Centrepiece in pastel shades with mixed artificial flowers and foliage on a Gold Stand

WEDDING DATE:

CHURCH/CEREMONY VENUE:

RECEPTION VENUE:

COLOURS:

THEME:

STYLE:

FAVOURITE/PREFERRED FLOWERS:

BRIDE

Flowers - Colours

Embellishments: (Pearls/Crystals/Feathers/Brooches?)

Shower/Round/Overarm? Long or short trail for ribbons?

Hair Accessory or Hair Crown

GROOM

The Groom’s Buttonhole is usually made from one or two of the flowers chosen from the Bridal Bouquet.

Flowers - Colours - Embellishments

Double Buttonhole or Single Buttonhole

BRIDESMAIDS

Generally the Bridesmaids will have a smaller version of the Brides Bouquet, but you could reverse the colours. For instance if the Bridal Bouquet is mainly Blue with touches of White, the Bridesmaids could have White with touches of Blue.

Flowers - Colours - Embellishments

Bouquet or Wrist Corsage - Hair Crowns/Hair Accessories

FLOWER GIRLS

Flower Girls tend to be young children so if they have posies they tend to be a smaller edition of the Bridesmaids Bouquet

Posy - Flower Basket - Wand

Hair Crown - Hair Accessories

Flowers - Colours - Embellishments

BEST MAN

As the Groom’s right hand man, the Best Man usually has the same style of Buttonhole as the Groom, but again you could change the colours, so if the Groom has a Double Buttonhole with a Blue Rose and a White Rose, the Best Man could have Double Blue Roses or Double White Roses.

Flowers - Colours - Embellishment Single or Double Buttonhole

USHERS

Flower - Colour - Embellishment

Single Buttonholes MATRON/MAID OF HONOUR

The Matron/Maid of Honour usually has a smaller version of the Bridal Bouquet, in a round, posy style, but it would be slightly larger than the Bridesmaids. You may wish to have a Wrist Corsage instead, so she would have her free hands to adjust the Brides train or hold her flowers etc.

Bouquet or Wrist Corsage

Flowers - Colours - Embellishment

Hair Crown or Hair Accessory

THROWING BOUQUET

This is a small version of the Bridal Bouquet which the Bride throws over her head to the excited, awaiting group of unmarried female wedding guests! It has become a popular trend, especially with artificial flowers, to have an extra bouquet for this purpose rather than the Bride throwing her own bouquet which she will want to keep.

Flowers - Colours - Embellishment

RING BEARER/PAGE BOY The Pageboy or ring bearer, normally have a smaller version of the Groom’s Buttonhole but they could also have just a single flower buttonhole.

Small Single Buttonhole or Small Groom Buttonhole

Flower - Colour - Embellishment

MOTHER OF THE BRIDE and MOTHER OF THE GROOM

The Corsage is usually equivalent to a large pin on buttonhole with several flowers chosen from the Bridal Bouquet. It might be best discussed with your Mother’s as they may have a personal preference, depending on their outfit etc.

Pin On Corsage or Wrist Corsage

Flowers - Colours - Embellishment FATHER OF THE BRIDE and FATHER OF THE GROOM

Usually similar in size and style to the Best Man Buttonhole

Flowers - Colours - Embellishment

Single or Double Buttonhole

GRANDPARENTS

Single Buttonhole/Double Buttonhole

Pin On Corsage/Wrist Corsage

Flowers - Colours - Embellishment

WEDDING GUESTS

If you choose to give all of your guests a Buttonhole it would normally be a simple, single flower and foliage buttonhole.

Flowers - Colours - Embellishment

Single Artificial Rose Buttonholes

CHURCH/VENUE/RECEPTION FLOWERS

These will normally be a mixture of all the flowers you have used in your Bridal Bouquet, possibly with the addition of extra foliage, but will be very dependent on your wedding theme and style.

Arrangements used at the Ceremony can also be relocated for the Reception. For example, the long, low arrangement you have for the Register Table can be used for the Top Table at the Reception.

CHURCH ALTAR

This is normally a Front Facing Pedestal Arrangement, which would be placed on a stand to display them and give the arrangement height. You will probably find that your Church or Venue has display stands you can use, but check this with them. The arrangement can be taken from the Church/Marriage Venue to be used at your Reception.

CHURCH PEWS

If your aisle has space, you may like Pew Arrangements. These would be similar in style to the Altar Arrangements, also on stands but round in style. They can be placed at the end of each pew, or every few pews. These are also sometimes used in Marriage Venues at the end of each chair row.

6' Hoop Backdrop with artificial roses, hydrangeas and foliage

CHURCH PEW ENDS

Church pew ends could be bunches, sprays or clusters of flowers, usually tied to the pews using ribbon. A modern style, and a more cost effective option, is to use ribbon bows at the end of the pews.

Style - Colours - Flowers - Ribbon Colour

REGISTER TABLE

Long, low style arrangement would be best if you want to use it for your Top Table at the Reception but you could have an arrangement in a vase, or a round arrangement to use later as a Reception Centrepiece. Long and Low/Round/Vase

Flowers - Colours WEDDING CAR Flowers - Colours - Ribbon

Artificial Flowers Wedding Car Decoration

WEDDING CAKE

Wedding cake flowers could be small posy-like clusters, sprays or single flower heads, which can be placed on top of the cake and around the tiers and base.

Flowers - Colours - Embellishments

Cake Topper Arrangement

Sprays, Clusters, Single Stems or some of each for tiers and base

RECEPTION

For the reception tables there is a huge choice of styles and themes to consider, but you will probably have an idea of how you want your venue to look by now. The Top Table would normally be a long, low arrangement so the guests can see the Bride and Groom, but of course you may have your own ideas of what you would like. Remember for Top Table and Guest Tables, the displays shouldn’t be in the way of people seeing each other or talking, so have something lower than head height or above head height. We have listed lots of possibilities for the Guest Tables below.

You may find some venues don’t allow lit candles or tea lights for safety reasons, so it would be best to check with them first if you want to use them.

Top Table

Long, Low Arrangement

Flowers - Colours Guests Table Centrepieces

Flowers - Colours

• Round, low posy style centrepieces.

• Large trailing arrangements which can be placed on tall vases, stands, candelabra etc.

• 2 or 3 flower stems with a foliage stem in a small vase.

• Jugs of mixed flowers and foliage.

  

  Small vase wedding table centrepiece

GARLANDS

If the Church or Venue has pillars or balconies, you may wish to decorate these with foliage, flowers, ribbons or garlands.

Flowers - Colours - Foliage - Ribbon:

Measurements - Length and depth

BACKDROPS including Floral Arches, Flower Walls, Hoops and Frames

These are often used as a focal point for the Wedding Ceremony, or as a backdrop for photos etc at the Reception. You will need to consider the space available for the arch and note the height and width for the space

Size - Shape - Colours - Flowers

If you would like further information or would like to discuss options for your wedding florals Contact Silk Flower House