Hydrangea Wedding Bouquets

Flowers are incredible and an inevitable part of wedding decoration! Whether it's an eye-catching wedding table centerpiece or a beautiful bridal bouquet, flowers are wonderful decorative elements that add beauty and romance to the wedding. Deciding the flower arrangements for wedding decoration is indeed a challenging task with so many elements to be considered, like the wedding season, wedding theme, wedding budget, etc. Certain flowers are available in abundant quantity in a particular season, like, fall or spring. Choosing such season based flowers can aid in easy availability and economic price.

If you are planning to get married in spring or autumn, hydrangea are the best flowers that can be used for your wedding decoration. These flowers bloom in the period between early spring and late autumn and hence, are a perfect choice for spring and autumn weddings. These flowers are very simple and have small clustered blooms that look like pom poms. They are versatile and are available in various colors, hence are perfect flowers for making wedding bouquets. Given below are some ideas and suggestions on hydrangea wedding bouquets.

Hydrangea Wedding Bouquet Ideas

As mentioned earlier, hydrangea flowers are available in various colors, that include shades of, purple, pink, blue and white. Due to such a large variety of colors, these flowers can be used in many ways to create elegant wedding bouquets. Hydrangea bridal bouquet can be prepared by mix and match combination of different hydrangeas. Hydrangea and other flowers can be arranged to form a scattered bouquet, where the hydrangeas can be combined with other wedding flowers like, rose, lilies, daisies, etc. Mophead, lacecap, annabelle, oakleaf and panicle are five basic varieties of hydrangea. Each of these varieties comes in different colors, like mophead is available in pink and blue, while annabelle is available only in white color. Flowers that come under panicle, are cone shaped and are quite different from other varieties. Thus, we can say that these flowers are very versatile and are becoming popular due to their simple yet splendid appearance. Now, let us take a look at a simple method of preparing hydrangea wedding bouquet.

Making Hydrangea Wedding Bouquets

To make this hydrangea bouquet you will require, baby breathes, bouquet holder with foam, pink ribbon, polycia leaves and pink-colored hydrangea. Before you start preparing this bouquet, soak the bouquet holder in water and then leave it to absorb maximum amount of water. Once the bouquet holder soaks water, arrange ploycia leaves, so as to form a round collar around the bouquet holder. Next, take the baby breathes and arrange them to form one more collar above the polycia leaves. While arranging these leaves and baby breathes, make sure you leave enough space for hydrangea flowers. After arranging the leaves and baby breathes, insert the pink ribbon through the floral wire on the bouquet holder. Then, cut out small branches of the hydrangeas and then insert them on the bouquet holder to form a ball shape. To ensure the round shape of the bouquet, insert the flowers by holding the bouquet in vertical manner so that it faces you.

Making bridal bouquets using hydrangeas is very easy, since the natural shape of these flowers is like a bouquet. But there are a few drawbacks of using hydrangeas. These flowers are sensitive and dehydrate very soon due to heat. Hence, you need to order the bouquets just before the wedding. The stems of hydrangeas are weak and can cause the flowers to drop. Thus, you should use strong bases for preparing wedding bouquets with hydrangea. But, in spite of all these drawbacks, many brides choose hydrangeas for wedding bouquets, because of their natural exotic beauty. I hope these ideas will help you design your own beautiful hydrangea wedding bouquet.