If you have been engaged for sometime, no doubt you've come across countless glossaries of options for bouquet styles with their shapes and descriptions available to you on Pinterest and wedding blogs. There are numerous styles of wedding bouquets for brides and bridesmaids to choose from, probably 10 or more!
The classic round bouquet (or the smaller nosegay or posy version for bridesmaids and flower girls) has always been a favorite. The classic round can be tight and compact with one or two feature blooms, or it can be designed loosely with more foliage and a variety of different blooms. The more traditional cascade or shower bouquet, where flowers gracefully flow down over the bride's hands, was popular in the 1970s & 1980s and is starting to come back into style.
The newest trend in bridal bouquets and corresponding maid's bouquets is the oversized free-form or unstructured bouquet. This bouquet is hand tied and is somewhat a hybrid between the round bouquet and the cascade bouquet. The free-form bouquet is larger than all of the other bouquet styles and is loosely arranged for an airy, whimsical feel. It is round but not completely, and instead of cascading downward over the bride's hands, it can cascade upward, downward and/or out to the sides of the bouquet. Thus, it gets the free-form; hence the combination of both the classic round and the cascade style of bouquet.
The free-form bouquet trend started in early 2015 and has been gaining momentum in 2016. It will likely carry on into 2017 and 2018 as well. A key element to this type of bouquet is its "picked from the garden" look and feel. These bouquets are often quite expensive because of the size and amount of flowers and foliage required for the design. They need an assortment of different varieties of flowers (think 5-10+ types of flowers) and foliage (3-5+ types of foliages) to make it look like it was picked from the garden. It is also possible to create these bouquets using only foliage for a more avant-garde type of free-form bouquet!
If you are a bride who absolutely adores flowers and wants to make a statement with them at her wedding, this could be the perfect bouquet for you! Below you can find a few images of oversized free-form bouquets our team at Flowers by Janie has created along with a couple of infographics that describe other bouquet styles.
Please visit our website bouquets galleries to view more images of bridal bouquets or contact us today to inquire about booking us for your upcoming wedding! Flowers by Janie is a boutique floral studio located in Calgary, Alberta serving Calgary and the Canadian Rocky Mountains.
An oversized, free-form, english garden style bouquet designed with anemones, ranunculus, peonies, garden roses, lilacs, lisianthus, flowering scabiosa, sweet peas, hellebores and thlaspi with mixed foliage and vines. The colour palette included soft pastels in pink and lavender shades with a touch of deep purple. The trailing silk ribbons added a beautiful touch!
Another english garden style, oversized, free-form bouquet with mostly British grown blooms. Created during the Chapel Designers floral conference in London, England; I (Janie) used Romantic Antike garden roses, lilacs, french tulips, hellebores, sweet peas, eucharis lily, tuberose, flowering scabiosa, spray roses, flowering jasmine vine and fountain grasses to achieve the shape and design of this hand tied bridal bouquet!
Photo: Modern Vintage Weddings
Bouquet charts sourced from Pinterest
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