If you are lucky enough to live in a place like Los Angeles where the climate is mild in winter, you might even consider planning an outdoor wedding. But more than anything, it means your flowers can become a major focal point in your overall wedding theme, and the design that your florist and wedding planners create for the whole event.
What is Your Color Scheme?
One thing about planning a winter wedding in California is that no color is going to look as out of place as a palette like pastels might look in a place where the ground is covered with a heavy blanket of snow, and the skies are consistently cloudy.
The Bridal Bouquet
The fact that you're in California shouldn't stop you from creating a wedding based on winter whites. A gorgeous bouquet, and one that's well-suited to a winter wedding is this bouquet of all white flowers, combined with white feathers, silvery leaves, and tiny splashes of silver bling and silver bows throughout the arrangement.
Whether you're planning a winter wedding in December, or in February, you can't go wrong with a bouquet of different shades of red roses with accents of greenery, crystals, and stems that are wrapped in red ribbon.
F
lowers for the Ceremony
Choosing flowers for the ceremony may sound very simple, but figuring out what's appropriate isn't just a matter of picking flower varieties or flower colors. The type of flowers and how they're arranged for the ceremony will depend as much on where the ceremony is being held as it does to the style of the ceremony.
If you're having a black tie affair, you won't want to have casual flower arrangements. But European Garden Arrangements are just formal enough to be elegant and sophisticated.
On the other hand, if you're having an outdoor wedding and want something a bit more unusual for your ceremony flowers, consider hanging glass bowls filled with flowers from shepherd's hooks.
Unusual Ideas for Reception Flowers
A phenomenally appropriate, but unusual reception centerpiece idea is this breathtaking white wedding tree. It combines greenery, white flowers, branches, moss, with crystals and other bling to create the illusion of glistening snow. Instead of using the same floral arrangements that you use on the guest tables on the head or sweetheart tables, you may want to consider something that drapes over the edge so the flowers don't obscure the view of the wedding party.
If you are having cocktails outside by the pool, a white floral float brings puts an unusual spin on the glam factor ' in a refreshingly whimsical way. Fresh flowers add sophistication to a cake, and if you are going with a traditional white cake, the addition of fresh flowers can add color without ruining the elegance of a white wedding cake.
