Bouquet

I have talked about wedding flowers in one of the older post.  In that post, I was mostly discussing the flowers to be used for decoration.  Wedding bouquet is probably the most important part in the entire wedding flower arrangement.  If you google anything wedding related, most of the articles will tell you "xxx is the one of the most important thing in your wedding".  So if  you really believe everything you read online, then essentially nothing will going into the "not important" category in a wedding, how overwhelming.  Although, the good news is I will just never run out of wedding related things to write and keep you entertained until our wedding day!!

Ok, a little off topic here.  Let's get back to the search of bouquet. 

Here are a list of questions I found that would help me choose a bouquet:

-What colors do you want?
I want a bouquet contains dark purple to match our theme and white to soften the darkness of purple.

-What flowers do you want? 
As some of you may be aware already, I love roses.  So I would like to (I actually mean must) have roses as main flower, maybe some mini calla lilies or hydrangeas. 

-What shape do you want?
There are 7 main types of bouquet shapes (see first picture), Pageant, Round, Nosegay, Cascade, Posey, Pomander, and Hand Tied.  When I first started looking, I saw a classic round bouquet that I really like (see picture 2).  I don't think I necessary like the shape, it's the flowers (roses and calla lilies) and colour that caught my attention.  One day, I saw on magazine, a fancy huge cascade bouquet and I secretly love it, but I can't even admit that to myself.  Because I know it would a big rediculous for a small wedding.  So I have totally forgot about it ever since.  Today, I receive an email from Kike, she thinks my princess like wedding gown would go really well with a more elaborated long form bouquet, such as cascade :).  Yay, all my secret princess dreams now all lined up together.  So I think I will have a cascade shape bouquet.  I have posted an example of cascade (see picutre 3). 

-What size bouquet do you want?

I think cascade bouquet can go quite big, but I am very short (5'3, would be 5'6 wearing heels), so I told Kike that I don't supposed that I should have a bouquet that's too big.  I will leave the professional to decide on a good size for me.  Although, some website does say small bride should have a long cascade to create the illusion of height, I don't know if I would buy that though.

-What type of greenery do you want?
This I really have no idea!!  So I will continue to bug Kike about it.

Also I want something that's not super complicated, by that I mean not too many types of different flowers and colours. 

Anyway, I am looking forward to get more feedback and suggestions from Kike and hopefully decide on a bouquet soon.