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The Best Bets for Fall Flowers

Keep it simple – and seasonally colorful –

when it comes to your blooms for your fall wedding

By Anna Sachse, CTW Features

The monochromatic look of using one color

for one flower looks stunning. Both red and

white roses are favorite floral choices for

when the mercury begins to dip. Flowers

can just make a statement by themselves.

Here are a few go-to flowers for off-season

weddings.

CALLA LILIES

For bridal flowers themselves, use the small

crystal blush ivory calla lily. It holds up like

iron.

While a few big, tall callas make a simple

dramatic arrangement – hand-tied as a

bouquet or in a tall cylindrical vase on the

table – an all-time favorite bouquets is a

tight, hand-tied bouquet of around 35 mini

calla lilies – no fillers, just the callas lilies.

It’s a very classic and very clean look.

HYDRANGEAS

Hydrangea is very wintry, big and full and

lush. Try to use hydrangeas with no greens

showing – as very tight and as large as can

be. On the table, place a ball of hydrangeas

atop a vase.

BERRIES

Use berries (burr-eez) as accent pieces in

bouquets. Use a light or whitish hyperi-

can berry or winter berry placed at cer-

tain points in the bouquet as highlights. It

breaks up – in certain people’s mind – the

monotony of one flower or very few colors.

Hydrangeas, mini calla lilies and ivory roses

are his go-to flowers for berry accents.

FALL FLOWERS

Choose florals in the colors of the season –

rust mums and orange gerbera daisies, roses

and orchids. Gords can add fall flavor to a

table arrangement.

With wedding

flowers, sometimes

keeping it simple

is the way to go.