Wedding color themes are more varied now than ever before. Brides are choosing more unique colors. With advances in growing of flowers, couples have a huge assortment of color tints and hues to choose from. Pastel colors are still popular but brides are choosing deeper jeweled colors, assorted shades within a color group and contrasting colors also.
If a bride chooses the color blue for her wedding color, she has traditionally been quite limited, however. Blue, although a primary color is not frequently chosen for weddings, simply because of the difficulty of finding blue flowers. Some flowers like daisies and carnations can be dyed blue, but there are fewer flowers that are naturally blue. It can be difficult to find naturally true blue flowers, also; brides have usually been forced to work with teal blue or purple blue.
Blue flowers, in the language of flowers, are perfect wedding flowers. Blue is the central symbol of Romanticism . It stands for desire, love, and the metaphysical striving for the infinite and unreachable. If you’d like to plan a wedding color scheme in blue, here are some ideas for flowers that you may not have considered before. Many of these floral options are relatively inexpensive in comparison to other wedding flowers. Some of the blue flowers are native to woodlands or are cultivated in flower or herbaceous borders and hedges.
Hydrangeas: This blossoming shrub grows well in eastern and Midwest regions and produces large, multi-flowered globular blossoms in pure powder blue. The hydrangea was popular in Victorian times. It is often displayed on vintage greeting cards and decor. for a summer wedding, hydrangeas grow so prolifically that they could comprise the entire wedding floral arrangements. If you purchase hydrangeas for your wedding, I recommend purchasing them as plants, not just cut flowers. Place them in decorative planters or aluminum watering cans. The bridal couple will then have plants for their yard and garden. hydrangea plants can also be given as gifts to the wedding party, wedding planner, parents or assistants.
Morning Glories: These climbing vine flowers grow quickly and produce larger bell-shaped blossoms. A vine of morning glories will decorate the ends of pews in the aisle of the church and also make lovely reception table runners. You could actually use them in the church and then bring them to the reception. To keep morning glory fresh, wrap the ends in a moist cloth towel and cover with floral tape.
Cornflowers or Bachelor Buttons have been grown for their blue pigment. Cornflowers originally grew as weeds, but are endangered in some areas. They have a smaller delicate blossom.
Periwinkle, Indigo/Violet or Myrtle This delicate, tiny blossomed flower has also grown wild. Periwinkles fall into the lavender blue family of colors. As with the cornflower, periwinkles make lovely accent flowers for corsages, bridal bouquets and accents for hair.
Flag Iris: These exotic looking blossoms are a relative of the lady slipper and orchid and grow wild in wetlands and north-eastern marshlands. This rhizome or bulb plant grows perennially in many yards and gardens. The large blossom grows on a long slender stem. Iris make great buttoneers or corsages.
