Your Wedding Day - Heirloom Bouquets

Heirloom Bouquets

Romantic Details from Days Gone By

written by Corinne Smith, Panacea Event Floral Design
photographs by STEPHANIE HOGUE Photography

A woman dreams and plans for their wedding day from the time they are a litlle girl. The wedding is an event of a lifetime, and whether it's the dress or the bouquet, it is often the small personal touches that your guests notice. Adding something personal allows you to share a little of who you are with your friends and family.

To find your special touch, you won't need to look far—look into your own history...and in your attic. There is a growing trend of incorporating vintage elements in flowers, not only for their beauty but as a tribute to the bride’s heritage. The broaches, pearls, and baubles of a bygone era will add the sweet sentiment of remembrance to your wedding and will conjure up warm memories of your cherished family members.
The choker your Mom wore to her high school prom, the cameo your Grandmother received at her graduation, the pocket watch that belonged to your Grandfather…they can all bring a wonderfully personal touch to your flowers. And a touch of hip—for the style of yesterday is often the hippest style around.
Your Wedding Day has assembled a group of style-savvy floral designers to create vintage bouquets illustrating the unlimited possibilities of fusion between heirloom jewelry and floral design. We hope you will be inspired to rummage through Grandma’s jewelry box and your Mom’s hat boxes to find a few memorable and beautiful accents for your bouquet. Whatever you find will be uniquely yours.
Happy hunting!

	The muted burgundy tones of the cymbidium orchids integrated with deep brown chocolate cosmos are a throwback to Grandma’s silk flowers and broaches. The fern curls add to the highly-stylized motives of the era, conjuring up the ever-popular music of swing bands while the silver-gilded leaves nod to the popularity of chrome in the mid-40s. A finishing detail of soft feathers around the face of the bouquet calls to mind the flapper girls’ dresses but is made contemporary by the brightness of the magenta pink Kiko roses. Panacea Event Floral Design , panaceaflowers.com
This romantic vintage-style bouquet is made up of old-fashioned garden roses, blush-colored mini calla lilies, delicate white Lily of the Valley, with a base of Sedum, and burgundy hanging amaranths with tufts of lily grass for movement. The stems are covered in bisque-colored silk Dupioni fabric attached with pearl studs. The complementing boutonniere is a blush-colored mini calla lily with Lilly of the Valley hanging amaranths and lily grass. Jenny McNiece Flowers, jennymcnieceflowers.com
	A bouquet in the Biedermeier style featuring fragrant miniature gardenias and collared with imported antiqued hydrangeas. Fronds of delicate plumose fern and lush hydrangeas with loops of lily grass provide striking visuals, and the bouquet handle is finished off with sage-green decorative piping with accents of pink pearls. The boutonniere is created from a single, fragrant star-shaped stephanotis floret with a green pearl center, embraced with antiqued hydrangea floret and accented with Italian ruscus foliage, lily grass and delicate plumose fern fronds. Kaleidoscope Flowers , kaleidoscopeflowers.com
Something old becomes something new . . .
Gardenias with vintage-colored Sahara roses are collared with an antique lace handkerchief. This detail adds the element of “something old” to this fragrant garden bouquet. You can explore your mother’s or grandmother’s hope chest for different heirloom lace or find various other textiles at any fabric store. Floral Designs by Roni
	Beautifully textured and Tea-dyed ostrich feathers create a unique fan-shaped bouquet for the bride who likes flair. Coxcomb, Allium thistle, hand curled feathers, vintage broach and buttons, all add to the design. Mindy Rice Floral Design, mindyrice.com
With the use of vintage pearls, prelude roses, peacock feathers, and flowering plum branches, this bouquet has an understated elegance. To add to its beauty, an heirloom cameo with buttons are attached to the handle. The rich plum leaf backed with a single helleborus bloom creates a delicate frame for a vintage pearl boutonniere. Mindy Rice Floral Design, mindyrice.com
Details from yesterday bring grace and personal style to the bouquets of today.
	This petite, unstructured bouquet is filled with various elements in natural hues, including coffee hellebore, chocolate cosmos, pearl hypericum, rose hips, and burgundy Ladyslipper orchids. Vintage buttons add depth and whimsy. The bouquet is tied off with chocolate and copper ribbon. To compliment the textures of the bouquet, the boutonniere features fern curls and rose hips, accented with a vintage button and copper ribbon. Nico Designs , nicosb.com
Simple elements like this added broach offer contrast and a romantic touch to the floral composition, enhancing the dusty roses in pale pink, the purple cymbidium mini orchids and mini callas with burgundy tones, fern curls, and dusty foliage. Elegant Details Floral and Event Design, elegant-details.com

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