Green Wedding Bouquets

July 27, 2011

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Hand-Wired Fan Bouquet

Credit: Formula z/s

This assembly of flowers in shades of green attains its fanlike silhouette through the use of wired gladioli and santini mums.

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Green and White Laced Bouquet

Credit: Dana Gallagher

From a distance, this bouquet of viburnum and a Queen Anne's lace look-alike appears to be a bunch of soft, puffed snowballs; a close look reveals tiny blooms.

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Creamy Gardenia Bouquet

Credit: Victoria Pearson

Lemony-green ribbon ties a loose, off-white arrangement of branches of gardenia blossoms, lilies of the valley, and sweet peas, with bright greens to freshen the whites.

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Alabaster Tea Rose Bouquet

Credit: Victoria Pearson

This early-summer nosegay of alabaster tea roses and spiky astilbe wears our latter-day version of a frill of ferns -- a cuff of dark-green satin ''leaves'' made of folded ribbon.

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Sparkling Bouquet

In a gilded cascade, beaded florets, strung by hand, glint like tiny holiday lights amid cymbidium orchids, bupleurum, gloriosa lilies, and lady's mantle; velvety gold-tipped cockscomb lend their own luster. The stems are wrapped in a wide gold band of satin ribbon and adorned with ''something old'': a starlike rhinestone brooch.

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Handkerchief Wrap Bouquet

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Ribbon isn't the only way to dress a bouquet. A handkerchief embroidered with your wedding date makes a lovely and sentimental decoration.

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Lucky Bouquet

Credit: Charles Schiller
Lucky Bouquet How-To

The leaves of a four-leaf clover are said to stand for hope, faith, love, and luck -- a fitting sentiment for a wedding.

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Exotic Beauty

Credit: Dana Gallagher

Dramatic chartreuse flowers and variegated greenery share the spotlight in this explosion of cymbidium orchids, gloriosa lilies, leucodendron, and hosta leaves.

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Fresh Green Frills

Think about going green (and we don't mean with an all-bamboo bouquet). This fresh-as-cut-grass combo of lady's slipper orchids, hellebores, viburnum, gladiolus, and parrot tulips has a decidedly sophisticated vibe. Try attaching a tiny handmade fan to the handle with a hatpin; its pleats echo the blooms' frilly petals.

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Herbal Bouquet

Credit: Christopher Baker

This bouquet has a variety of textures, colors, and scents, thanks to the mix of muscari (grape hyacinth), lamb's ear, lily of the valley, andromeda, helleborus, thyme, rosemary, sage, and scented-geranium foliage.

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Island Romance

Sunny chartreuse and fiery red evoke the tropics in this exotic display of vivid philodendron and croton leaves, ruby peonies, tightly clustered euphorbias, and winding passionflower vine.

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Flowers and Foliage

In this surprising mix, bell-like fritillaria and wide-mouthed Green Goddess' calla lily blooms masquerade as foliage among yellow-edged hosta, Solomon's seal, and spotted calla lily leaves. Delicately petaled tree peonies seem to float on top. An olive-colored satin band and crimped satin streamers complement the stems.

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Handheld Wreath

The blue-gray of juniper boughs and deep green of arborvitae boldly replicate the cool colors of winter; the branches themselves determine the dramatic shape of the bouquet. Delicate, graceful snowdrops are tied onto the branches, tiny blossoms cascading as they would in nature.

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Orchids

Eleanor and Rodney's Wedding

For this bride's bouquet, Antony Todd made an unusual sculptural arrangement of chartreuse lady slipper orchids.

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Gregg's Bouquet

Gregg and Mark's Wedding

This bride's bouquet of white tulips, dendrobium orchids, freesia, ranunculus, and pale-green Dutch roses studded with green eucalyptus seeds embodies the wedding's subdued color scheme.

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Fraser's Bouquet

Fraser and Matthew's Wedding

This bride's bouquet is a fragrant mix of white majolica roses, Scabiosa, sage, basil, rosemary, and lily of the valley. The bridesmaid bouquets are miniature versions.

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